Who I am?
My name is Claudia Morales
and I am a lay celebrant and also a yoga teacher. My surname has a lovely Spanish origin, but it is of a distant origin.
I was born in Rome to an Italian father and a Belgian mother, this meant that in addition to Italian I learned French since I was born. And not only!
I have traveled a lot in Europe, and realized that I have many Mediterranean characteristics, but also others more typical of northern European countries, like pragmatism, secularism and mental openness
Why Celebrant?
I believe who is lay or secular, have the right to have secular ceremonies that satisfy their wishes.
I have an empathic nature, and I have always liked to enter into fruitful and profound relationships with people, listen to them carefully, understand their needs, their emotions, and meet their expectations.
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For me, being a celebrant means listening to people with respect, and then write their stories, telling about his life, the feelings, wishes and hopes, to thus create a ceremony that excites the protagonists, and that it is really special for them and for all the participants; that highlights that important moment in life in a positive way.
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Being a celebrant is a way for me to support the universal and human rights I believe in, such as the right of same-sex couples to marry, currently in Italy recognized as a "civil union", or of divorced people, or atheist, agnostic or who follow different religions within the couple.
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Being a celebrant for me is promoting the right, for those who are laymen or women, to choose for himself to have a solemn and dignified funeral, even if not religious, instead of a simple burial.
Major life events deserve to be celebrated?
Yes, right! ❤️
Every important stage in life deserves to be celebrated in a special way, to underline its importance, to fully enjoy the event or to elaborate a special moment.
Most often these are happy events, indeed very happy, such as a marriage or civil partnership, a symbolic wedding, a wedding anniversary in which the bride and groom wish to renew their vows, a welcoming ceremony for a new born or newly adopted child.
Why not? Even other special events in our lives deserve to be celebrated in a personalized way with a unique and unforgettable ceremony: a degree, a particularly significant birthday, a promotion, a goal, a healing, a retirement. Even the moment of divorce can be celebrated with an ad hoc ceremony through which the former spouses move to close an era of their life and open another, also helping any children, relatives and friends to understand the new situation.
Sometimes life events are not happy, and this is the case of a farewell or a memorial service. The secular ceremony, officiated by a professional celebrant, it allows those who remain to praise the life of the person who is no longer there, even for those who have chosen secularism, and to remember the important moments in a personalized way, respectful, empathetic and sensitive, thus facilitating the mourning process for loved ones.
Elo yoga?
Yoga influences many of my attitudes and habits in life.
With the teaching of Yoga, I love contributing to the improvement of the quality of life of people of all ages, in all respects, from the psychological to the physical.
