Veronica Stanwell
Nature connection, ceremony, imagination, somatics, voice-play and creativity
As a multidisciplinary healing and creative arts practitioner, Veronica weaves soma, psyche, ceremony and song into intimate gatherings for connection, healing and growth.
She is the founder of Rooted Healing, which helps heal and connect inner and outer landscapes through transformational gatherings in nature, cross-cultural wisdom exchange, somatic and transpersonal workshops, and integrative online study. Veronica also hosts the Rooted Healing podcast, bringing together expansive minds, topics and ideas that help heal, re-imagine and co-create a thriving world.
An ever-emerging animist, Veronica’s explorations into expanded states of consciousness within indigenous traditions of the Americas, and her own deep enquiry into Mother Europe’s native ways, guide her fascination with the fabric of life. Her MSc in Consciousness, Spirituality and Transpersonal Psychology with the Alef Trust, alongside her work with Rooted Healing, is driven by a longing for a collective shift towards nature-awe, eco-imagination and rekindled interconnectedness.
Veronica’s background in professional theatre continues to guide her work, where she carries deep reverence for the power of story, music, expression, catharsis and playfulness. She is a movement teacher with roots in dance, yoga and somatics, currently developing a modality based on animistic ideas, that invokes playful enquiry into the inspirited interdependent body-mind.
With Rooted Healing, Veronica co-hosts legal and unique ceremonial Psilocybin retreats in the Netherlands, ancestral immersions in her homeland of Wales and many other gatherings that re-indigenise and re-root people back into the land. She is on a mission to cultivate the kind of profound belonging that ends habits and systems of harm and instils an embodied remembrance of what it means to be alive, human and creative.
With gratitude
Veronica honours the Earth, her more-than-human kin, dream language and all her relations for the teachings that continue to guide her. Below are some of the namable teachers, experiences and certifications that enrich Veronica’s work.
3 Yr MSc (current) in Consciousness + Transpersonal Psychology with the Alef Trust. Nervous System + Somatics with Anja Bergh. Co-leadership of Psilocybin retreats in Mexico in collaboration with local medicine keepers. Sacred time with Salvador + fellow wisdom keepers at Hayulima, Ecuador (Protectors of Ayahuasca, Wachuma, Peyote and Red Road Traditions). 1 Yr of weekly Sweatlodge ceremonies with Gustavo, Mexico. 3 seasons of ceremonial support + workshop management + facilitation at Gaia Sagrada, Ecuador. Dreamwalking with Toko-pa Turner. 200 Hr Baptiste Yoga and 50 Hr Advanced Assisting YTT – Lumi. 100 Hr Non-Dual Tantra with Satu + Authentic Flow Tribe. 50 Hr Yoga Nidra – Santosha Yoga Institute. 50 Hr Voice Medicine – Yoga Forest. Jungian Mythos – Applied Jung Institute. 6 week Womb Sciences with Usha Unandi. 3 month Grief Tending apprenticeship with Nici Harrison at The Grief Space. The Deep Feminine Soul Journey (learning with indigenous female elders) – Soul Seed House. BA Hons Professional Musical Theatre – Cambridge Performing Arts.
An apprenticeship with chronic illness (and symptoms of a failing medical system) lead Veronica to indigenous approaches to healing and living. Particularly fascinated by the healing and transportive potential of native song, she is studying the role of song throughout cultures, especially in relationship with expanded states of consciousness or in partnership with plant and fungi allies. She is also currently in the incubation stage of creating her first EP.
Veronica’s spoken-word piece ‘Cancer’, in partnership with Young Lives vs Cancer, went viral on Facebook and was performed across the UK to help raise funds for the charity as an act of reciprocity after they had supported her during her cancer recovery in 2013.