Within Wild Light

Bianca Awyn is a celebrant of life, death and transitions who works under the name Within Wild Light and offers ceremonies through Awyn Ceremonies in Vermont, New Hampshire and beyond. She holds a Master's in Social Work and a B.S. in Expressive Arts Therapy, along with certifications as a death doula, funeral and memorial celebrant, and yoga instructor. Her background also includes death midwifery and therapeutic support for people in transition. She continues to train in ethical and creative practices, including trauma-informed mindfulness and yoga, process-oriented arts, grief, dreamwork and sandplay.

She describes her work as an integration of arts, presence and love for our essential nature. She is a ceremonial celebrant, expressive arts facilitator, nature therapy guide, grief companion, artist and intuitive practitioner. Her ceremonies are built around three core human experiences: Becoming, Belonging and Farewells. Each one is made with the people involved, drawing on old traditions, new ideas and things invented on the spot. They cover elopements and microweddings, baby blessings and rites of passage, celebrations of life and memorials, and other threshold moments. They are interactive and personal, and they mix reverence with play.

Whether in a group gathering or an individual session, Bianca's offerings are meant to help people build a trusting relationship with their own inner wisdom. Her Insight Timer profile adds a background in mental health, with a specialty in grief, estrangement and trauma in early childhood and beyond. She aims to help people trust themselves through self-awareness and action rooted in presence, creativity, magic and reality.

Away from her work, she describes chasing ferns at sunrise, collecting branches for artistic projects, and dancing by the light of the stars.