Cacao Ceremony allows time and space for us to step outside of our hectic lives and to return to the sacred. It is an opportunity to journey into the silence within, to reflect upon who we are, how we love, what's happening in our life and allows us to see the opportunities available to us. Cacao is the medicine and the sacred ceremonial space held by the facilitator allows the healing to take place.

A Cacao Ceremony is always done in sacred space with a facilitator who has taken the time to cultivate a relationship with the Cacao medicine, holding space, with reverence and awareness, allowing the Cacao to do her work.

When you sit in ceremony with an open and receptive mind, you are able to receive the beauty and the bitter-sweet Cacao medicine that opens your heart and connects you to nature.

Whether you’re looking for help in shifting an emotional blockage, releasing the past and finding your way, or if you simply want to lift your spirits and feel the love, these ceremonies can provide the insight and focus you need to re-align and get back on track.

WHY DRINK CACAO AND HOW CAN IT HELP ME?:

As we try to keep up with modern day living and all of its demands, Our fight or flight systems are always turned on.

We are living in a constant state of stress, forever on alert, ready to fight or to flee from the next 'attack' at work, in our relationships or in our finances. We do not sleep well and when we finally do, we do not rest.

We can no longer think clearly, are overwhelmed and have forgotten how to relax long enough to solve our problems effectively.

When used with intention and as a Plant Medicine in ceremony, Cacao helps us to reduces stress and anxiety, calms our busy mind, nourishes our body and draws our attention into the heart space, where insight, self love, clarity and connection to ourselves and to nature takes place.​

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Cacao is a nutritional powerhouse, with over 300 compounds that help to positively alter a person's mood and boosts the natural production of serotonin and ability to fend off stress.

Cacao also contains Dopamine and Anandamide - known as the Bliss Molecule and Phenethylamine (PEA) that we naturally produce in our bodies when we fall in love. This is likely one of the main reasons why love and Chocolate have such a deep connection. It is the highest source of Magnesium and contains 40 times the amount of antioxidants than blueberries. It increases the blood flow to the heart and is known to support cardiovascular health and psychological well-being.

​Cacao helps us to access the part of the brain known as the neocortex, aka the ‘New Brain’ it is the center of creativity, innovation, inspiration and intuition. The brain of Einstein, Bach, Music and Mathematics. This part of the brain awakens through meditation, ceremony, rites of passage and moments of awakening. It feeds on healthy fats such as those present in Cacao.

In Shamanism this part of the brain is related to the archetype of the Eagle that helps us to see our life from a higher perspective, where only possibility and transformation exist. Drinking Ceremonial Grade Cacao can help us to find meaning, direction and helps us to have the courage to see our lives in a whole new way.

WHAT IT DOES:

Cacao is a powerful Plant Medicine that helps us release emotional blockages that no longer serve us. It helps us to find forgiveness in ourselves and others, and shows us the way forward if we are stuck or afraid of making the necessary life changes in order to move on. It also enables us to access and release conditioning, patterns of behavior and addictions that are buried deep in the unconscious.

Working with the Cacao in ceremony, you will be clearing away all the excess baggage, negativity, and stale energy that you have been holding onto, enabling you to fully align with your heart. By being connected and in tune with your own heart, you can hold a pure space that amplifies the healing energy.

BENEFITS

*Clear emotional blocks

*Opens the possibility for forgiveness and self love

*Let go of past relationships

*Understand ourselves better

*Connect with your creativity

*Enhance focus and provide mental agility in the workplace

*Enhance therapeutic work, coaching and team building with individuals and groups *Enable a deeper practice in yoga and meditation

*Become a daily ritual in which you honor yourself and a spiritual or religious practice

*Cacao has can help to reset the fight or flight system as it works on the heart center. Ver menos

Rapé Ceremony

Rapé (pronounced hah-peh) is a powerful and cleansing shamanic snuff, made from a blend of Amazonian plants. The base of most rapé powders is an Amazonian tobacco, also known as Mapacho. Mapacho is often used by a shaman during healing ceremonies, to help smudge and clear a space energetically, protecting participants from bad spirits.

To ancient ancestors and traditional shamans, this sacred tobacco is considered one of the earths most healing plants of all. The energy of this tobacco helps to ground and stimulate the body so one can obtain clarity and connection through challenging times.

Blended with the alkaline ashes of sacred trees and medicinal herbs, rapé is created through a ritualistic grinding process which helps to invoke the spirits of the plants within it.

What is Rapé used for?

Rapé can be used to cleanse yourself of negative energy, assist with pain relief and stimulate detoxification, helping to clear excess mucus, toxins, and bacteria. Many find that it cuts through thoughts like a knife and allows one to find stillness and clarity within during meditation. Many Shamans suggest that rapé helps to decalcify the pineal gland (third-eye), where DMT (the ‘spirit molecule’) is produced.

The ceremony actually involves two breaths, each of which shoots tobacco-based snuff deep into the two nasal cavities. Each breath is symbolic—the first breath through the left nostril symbolizes death, and the second breath through the right nostril represents rebirth. For the person receiving the rapé, each of these breaths is followed by an immediate sharp blow to the sinuses and head that clears the nasal cavity, purges the bowels, and ultimately leaves the person feeling calmer, grounded, and revitalized.

BENEFITS

There are several benefits. Some are specific, for example, to work on menstrual cramps, headaches, joint pain, runny nose, high cholesterol, insomnia.

Others have more potential for spiritual connection or focus on emotional issues, such as anxiety and depression.

EFFECTS

The effects vary according to the emotional state of the receiver, the type of snuff applied and the person applying it. The duration can vary from a few minutes to a longer time. It is not possible to know how it will reverberate in each person. The process can bring from an instant sense of well-being and anxiety relief, to vomiting, in cases where a physical cleanse is required.