Reverend Veronika Robinson
Welcome to my website: a portal into the compelling and beautiful body of work I create on a daily basis as a celebrant, ordained minister, celebrant trainer and author.
Celebrant in Cumbria
I’ve created, written and led all manner of ceremonies, across all rites of passage, since 1995 when I officiated my first wedding that sunny day in New Zealand.
Heart-led Ministry
In addition to my work as a Heart-led Celebrant, my Heart-led Ministry offers:
- ceremonies across all rites of passage
- client-led counselling
- peripatetic sermons
- community outreach
My practice is based on maintaining openness of heart and mind, embracing others with awareness, care and respect no matter their spiritual background.
I’m blessed to be part of an international, inclusive and interfaith community, and as an ordained minister offer support and ceremonies to people from all walks of life and spiritual traditions, religious faiths, as well as to those who are Agnostic or Atheist.
My own life-long spiritual path has been a melting pot of Metaphysics, Theosophy, Unity Church, New Thought Ministries, A Course in Miracles, Law of Assumption, Eastern Religions, Mysticism, Plant Medicine, Spiritualism, Zen, Evolutionary Astrology, Unshaped Meditation and Psychic Mediumship. I’m grateful to the mentors and teachers on my way, including working closely alongside Rev. Graeme Johnson of New Thought Ministries, NZ.
I’ve been officiating ceremonies since 1995 and over that time have garnered extensive experience and have a sixth sense about what is right for my clients. Each ceremony is bespoke (no templates, no outsourcing, no AI) and comes from heart.
As Khalil Gibran, Lebanese poet and author of The Prophet, once wrote: “work is love made visible.”
Ceremonies Offered
Ceremonies across all rites of passage, including but not limited to:
- Conscious Conception
- Blessingways
- Baby Blessings
- Namings: All ages and genders
- Adoption
- Aspersion baptism (for all ages)
- Anointing with Holy Oil
- House Blessings
- Little Free Library Opening
- Career Change
- New Business
- Menarche (new to the Moon)
- Teenage coming-of-age ceremonies
- Loving Bonds: Blessings, Weddings, Handfastings, Vow Renewals, Civil Partnership
- Parting of the Ways
- Divorce Healing
- Leaving Prison
- Leaving Rehabilitation
- Living with Illness (entering into or recovery from)
- Bereavement: Mandala Funerals, Pregnancy and Infant Loss, Living Funerals, Advanced Funeral Planning, Cremation, Burial, Eco-burial, Interment or Scattering of Ashes.
- Sagesse (wisdom/wise elder)
- Conscious Parting From The Earth Plane
- Last Rites
My Desiderata
Living from the heart, and with my whole being, I offer a path of grace between those of faith and no faith. We meet in the place of love. This practice is rooted in my experiences of ecstatic union with the Divine, Mother Earth and the Greater Cosmos; and embedded in stillness, silence and awareness. The road I walk is one of fearlessness, empathy, delight, reverence, inner harmony, peace, creativity and recognising the interconnectedness between all living beings.
I also express my ministry through humanitarian care and global projects such as:
www.lendwithcare.org (microfinance loans, grants and donations to people in low-income countries)
www.habitforhumanity.co.uk (fighting global poverty and homelessness)
www.trussel.org.uk (food banks in the UK)
www.treesisters.org (a reforestation charity that places tropical forest restoration into everyone’s hands)
Yours, Rev. Veronika x
“Every thought is a prayer, and every word a spell”
Celebrant Training in Cumbria
It has been my pleasure to officiate ceremonies internationally, and because of my vast and extensive experience over almost three decades, I offer one-to-one celebrant training (alongside my husband Paul) here in Cumbria. I love teaching others the wonderful vocation of celebrancy!
My passion for best-practice celebrancy is highlighted by the prolific contribution I’ve made to the industry with books I’ve written for the Celebrant Collection.
Author and Novelist
My novels explore sacred space and moments, and the beauty and bruises of relationships. They are deliberately rooted in the power of family, and the characters are often on a journey of discovering their life purpose by encountering the shimmer of their soul.
My non-fiction books include parenting, education, health, birth, celebrancy and recipe books.
Contact Me
Email:
veronikarobinson@hotmail.com
Phone:
01768 898 748
07717 222695