In a world where we can feel powerless against the ruling ‘elite’ or idiot men bombing each other’s countries and displacing millions of people, we might wonder what we can do when the ground beneath our feet feels so unsteady. Someone posed the question recently about what do you do when all around the world […]
Today’s the one-year anniversary since my beautiful mother slipped from this earthly life. A year that feels like a day while also feeling like a hundred years have passed. How is that? What delusion does grief spin? I’ve just been on a video call with two of my brothers, and shared the disbelief that a […]
Celebrant Retreat Celebrant-Retreat Theme The theme of our Spring retreat is The Creative Fire. Our celebrant retreat offers love, luxury, gentleness, and time to relax. A heart-filled healing haven where you have the space to return to your creative self. This gorgeous getaway, in a creative environment designed for celebrants, will give you the space […]
Do you have to train to be a celebrant? By Veronika Sophia Robinson This is probably one of the first questions someone asks when they’re playing with the idea of a career in celebrancy. The short answer is: in the UK, no. Celebrancy, like the wedding and funeral industries, is (at the time […]
© Veronika Sophia Robinson Here in the heart of rural Cumbria, my husband Paul Robinson and I offer bespoke celebrant training through our boutique celebrant-training school Heart-led Celebrants. What our celebrant training website (a portal into our world) deliberately lacks is the ‘slick, corporate look’. Why? Because there is nothing about the look or the […]
“It’s Mercury retrograde!” Even in mainstream circles, it’s not unusual to hear those words bandied about as the reason for communication calamities or technical trickery. A little earlier this evening Mercury retrograded, and I did chuckle to myself that both our printers ‘played up’ today, and my email app wouldn’t work due to a ‘bug’. […]
At this time of the year, shops are filled with fake spider webs, witches’ costumes, cauldrons, rubber frogs and an assortment of ghoulish items from jelly eyeballs to skeletons, and the ever-essential candy. For many children, Halloween is associated with knocking on the doors of strangers and receiving sugary sweets. This ancient festival has become […]
Although funeral celebrants and funeral directors both work in the same field of bereavement, their roles are distinctly different. A funeral director oversees the logistics and legalities of the funeral process. They receive the body and prepare it both for viewings and for the time of committal. They manage the logistics required by law to […]
In my role as a celebrant trainer, I also offer not-for-profit retreats for celebrants and celebrants-in-training. Why? Because primarily we work in solitude. Coming together with others in our professional field offers a wonderful opportunity to share enriching experiences, forge friendships, live and learn together for a few days. Celebrant Retreat: 5pm […]
by Veronika Sophia Robinson From the moment I became aware of mortality (I was about four when my first cat got run over), I’ve lived with the dread of my beautiful mother dying. And now, at the grand old age of three-months-shy of 86, she has left the shackles of Earthly life; and, in the […]