Meet the Wedding Officiants
Sarah Nakatsuka
When I was a little girl, I would spend hours creating magical worlds in the forest that was our backyard, in the rural interior of BC. I built fairey homes, flower mandalas, altars, and sand-paintings. At the time I had no framework for the importance of ceremony. Rather, it was like an innate force inside me was constantly seeking – and then finding – opportunities to play in ritual time.
My little internal “ritual seeker” led me to my first love: the theatre. Looking back on the essays I wrote along the way to my university degree in theatre, I noticed one after the other mentioning ritual as an art form, and suggesting the blurred line in ancient times between theatre and ritual. Ritual for the ancients was afterall just part of life. And so was art.
When my husband and I were on the precipice of marriage, I began to reclaim the ceremonialist in me in a deeper way. The process of building our own personalized wedding and moving through the threshold from “single” to “married” was a big one. Co-creating a ceremony that truly fed my soul re-awakened that love for ritual time. Giving the attention to such an important threshold gave way to a gnawing sense in me that it was time to pursue ritual further.
I entered an intense period of study in Transpersonal Psychology and Professional Celebrant training. I became a mother. And through it, my relationship to ceremony has become more intimate and real. For me, marking passages in a meaningful way, and supporting others to do the same, is now a non-negotiable, essential part of my life!
I love what I do. I have so much gratitude for the journey that has led me here, for the incredible community I am a part of, and for all of you who allow me to do my life’s work with you. In the process, my heart feels wide open and I feel in alignment with my life’s purpose. What a gift.
My Training
I am a Certified Life-Cycle Celebrant with the highly regarded Celebrant Foundation & Institute and legally ordained Reverend & Minister.
I also draw on my varied history in the healing, creative and academic realms – I am a Registered Therapeutic Counsellor with the Association of Cooperative Counselling Therapists of Canada, and I hold degrees in Theatre as well as Metaphysical Science.
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Zoë Eakle
I have vivid memories of the rituals and celebrations that infused my early years on our family homestead: The annual ritual of my July birthday cake being loaded with homegrown fresh strawberries and seasonal flowers; The seasonal rituals of the earth with planning, sowing seeds, tending them and then reaping, storing and celebrating the harvest. I am reminded how I felt a part of the innate sense of the cycle of all things, in which my individual self felt intimately and profoundly woven into the larger fabric of life.
Even then I had some sense that what held all this practical magic together was ritual, often existing as a quiet and inherent part of the daily routine, occasionally raised to the level of celebration and ceremony. Those times connected us, and left us with something more, a shared memory, an imprint, a reference point for the road ahead, the rhythm and feel of it like a treasured stone in time’s pocket.
After graduating high school I headed to Theatre school in Toronto. It fed a deep need in me for lifting life up out of its everydayness, and celebrating it with creativity and joy.
Eventually this desire to understand more about life and human connection led me to an in depth study of Transpersonal Psychology as well as yoga and meditation. These studies brought a greater depth and simplicity to the many ways and forms in which I facilitate and practice ritual with my clients and in my community.
Sarah and I have walked much of this path together. In joining our creative energies, I am thrilled to be able to bring our collective resources, passion and experience together to help make your precious moments reflect what is most important to you. I am grateful for our collaboration and for those of you who allow us to share such a joyful and meaningful ceremony with you. I couldn’t imagine a happier occupation.
My Training ~
I hold a degree in Metaphysical Science & am a legally ordained Reverend & Minister. As well, I draw upon a wide background of experience to inform my work. I attended York University’s Theatre Arts Studio BFA program. I have designed and taught Psychology Courses at the college level and I am a certified therapist with the Association of Cooperative Counselling Therapists of Canada.
