Jessica Premsangha Prakasha
About your Celebrant
I am a Certified Life-Cycle Celebrant, and a natural ritualizer. I come to this work with extensive experience as a yoga teacher, massage therapist, birth worker, somatic educator and community builder. I am the mother of two children who were both born at home in 2009 and 2014. I have always been a seeker-looking for traditional, authentic wisdom and cultivating meaning and depth in all places.
My full name is Jessica Premsangha Prakasha and I go by Prem for short. Sometimes people ask me about my name; Jessica is the name my parents gave me; Premsangha is my Dharma name, given to me by a dedicated yoga teacher who was given permission to teach traditional hatha yoga in the US by his Indian teachers.
The name is made up of two Sanskrit words;
Prem = Love, and Sangha= Community, and means something like
"the confluence of love in this world".
I am honored to speak with you about bringing meaning, depth, love and community to your ceremony
What is a Celebrant?
Life-Cycle Celebrants® are masterfully trained in the art of ritual and ceremony. They are skilled ceremony officiants who co-create and officiate customized ceremonies for weddings and other life events that reflect the needs, beliefs and values of the people they are honoring. As professionals, Life-Cycle Celebrants® abide by a code of ethics, a nondiscrimination policy, and many become Celebrant Alumni Association Members committed to continually improving their knowledge and skill.
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Leading research indicates the need for celebrants is on the rise. A growing number of people aren't connected to a specific religion and many are not religious at all, but still may consider themselves spiritual. Life-Cycle Celebrants® offer an alternative, giving people of all backgrounds, traditions, cultures and faiths the opportunity to create ceremonies that best reflect their beliefs and ideals.
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Life-Cycle Celebrants® create ceremonies that are a genuine expression of the honoree celebrated. Each ceremony is a unique reflection of personal rites of passage, transitions or celebrations. They are empowering testimonies of life that become treasured legacies to be passed down from one generation to the next.
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Celebrancy originated in Australia and New Zealand more than 50 years ago and was instituted into the Australian law. Today, celebrants are part of the very fabric of society in that region with the majority of weddings, funerals and family ceremonies being performed by Civil Celebrants. In 2001, philanthropists Gaile and Pat Sarma founded the Celebrant Foundation & Institute in New Jersey.
