Jónína Kristín Berg

Jónína Kristín Berg (born 3 September 1962) is an Icelandic art teacher, aromatherapist and religious leader. She is the regional gothi of the Western Region for Icelandic religious organization Ásatrúarfélagið since 1996 and acted as interim allsherjargoði in 2002-2003.
Biography
Jónína Kristín Berg was born in Akranes on the west coast of Iceland, and grew up in Giljahlíð in Flókadal, Borgarfjörður. She was educated at the Reykjavík School of Visual Arts, from 1985 at the Icelandic Academy of Fine Arts and Crafts where she completed her degree in 1989, then studied at the school's graphic department until 1990, after which she studied at the Reykjavík University where she completed her teaching degree. Berg has also studied massage and essential oil therapy at Lífsskólann - Aromatherapyskóla Íslands from which she graduated in 2002. She has worked with individual training for disabled people in Kópavogur, but since 2004 lives in Borgarnes where she works as a primary school art teacher. Berg has also participated in group exhibitions with her art. She performs aromatherapy and has served on the Board of Icelandic Healers. In 1993 she was elected as a board member. Since 1994 she is responsible for annual blóts in Snæfellsnes and Borgarfjörður and since 1996 she is the regional gothi of the Western Region.
She has legal rights to perform marriages.

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