Career
After her training in education in Germany and Switzerland, where she was inspired by Rudolf Steiner, Sesselja returned to Iceland with the plan of establishing a self-sustaining community based on the anthroposophist philosophy. At the age of 28, she acquire some land in a remote valley with its own hot spring and with the help of her family and friends built a farmhouse and named it Sólheimar - home of the sun. She has been recognised with a postage stamp issued in 2002 by Íslandspóstur.
The stamp has a portrait of Sesselja and a picture of Sólheimar (Value 45 00 Scott 965).(An image of the stamp).