Cacao Ceremony
What is a Cacao Ceremony and what can it do for you?
A Cacao ceremony is a sacred meditation space that will help you get out of your head and into your heart; opening the doors to your magic, talents and gifts. Cacao’s number one job is to open your heart and help you love yourself exactly where you’re at.
A ceremony is a place of self love, acceptance and healing; allowing you to connect to your light and let go of what's standing in the way of that.
These ceremonies can help you gain more clarity about what is showing up in your life and why, so that you can release any resistance and open to see what life is inviting you to embody and what’s next. You can come to work on a specific physical/emotional/spiritual issue, or simply let whatever is ready to be worked with to reveal itself in the course of the ceremony.
Cacao helps you to drop past the mind and into the heart, relaxes the nervous system, and helps you to access the subconscious mind from a place of deep focus and relaxation. From this state of being you have access to the parts of yourself that are ready to be seen, loved, and worked with.
Cacao will help gently bring these aspects to the surface so that we can work with them together. This can mean either experiencing beautiful openings and more of your light; or it can give you access to stored emotions, beliefs or energetic blocks that are ready to leave your system.
I will guide you through to the other side so that you leave with greater understanding and a lot more lightness. After these ceremonies you'll feel a sense of release, openness, and a lot more self love.
These ceremonies can help you begin to shift the way you relate to your life through understanding the lesson behind ‘problems’ in your life. You can begin to move from seeing life as happening ‘to’ you, to seeing life as happening ‘for’ you and your expansion.
How does a ceremony go?
We will gather together, enjoy a delicious cup of the best quality ceremonial Cacao, directly sourced from the ‘Chocolate Shaman’ Keith Wilson in Guatemala.
After that I will explain a little about how and why we work with Cacao and a bit about the background of Cacao, of Keith, and of my journey with Cacao.
Once you feel her calling you inward, I will guide a meditation to connect to your light, drum a little to help draw you further inward, and then you will have some space to journey with Cacao while I support you (and the group) with individual work, which can include processing work, meditations, journeying techniques and reiki. Usually we end the ceremony with a guided meditation on a particular topic that feels appropriate for the day. This can be anything from manifestation; connecting with your higher Self or inner child; to a balancing of the masculine and feminine aspects of yourself to bring more integration and harmony within you.
Things to know before a ceremony
Ceremonial doses of Cacao can have adverse side effects for some people. If any of the below applies to you, know that it is still perfectly safe for you, but we would need to start you with a slightly lower dose.
ANTI-DEPRESSANTS
The MAOIs in cacao can interact with some anti-depressant medication so ask your doctor if it’s ok for you. It's not dangerous, just unpleasant as it can create a migraine. Let me know if you're taking any mood altering medication as I may need to alter your dose, but you can absolutely still join. In general it will only effect those on a high dose or mixture of medications, and all should be fine on a slightly lowered dose of Cacao.
PREGNANCY/BREASTFEEDING
Cacao is safe and really good for developing babies but your dose may need to be lowered, depending on the stage so let me know if that applies to you.
HEART CONDITIONS
Cacao increases your heart rate 20-30% so if this would be a problem for you let me know and I will alter your dose. It's an amazing heart medicine but you may need to start slower with it.
Testimonials
“It’s difficult to put into words the impact Cacao has had on my life. Not only Cacao but Paula as well. The passion she has passed down to me for her love of the healing power of Cacao has been incredible. I’ve been to many Cacao Ceremonies now and I can’t stop sharing my experiences of deep & beautiful heart healing to everyone I meet! I have cleared so much energy blocks and old pains and old patterns from this beautiful heart medicine. Not to mention it’s tasty!!?
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“I have been guided to work with Cacao and Paula from HeartTribe since January. It has been an incredible experience. The transformation in me has been wonderful!
Cacao has allowed me to access healing that I didn’t even know how to access in such a gentle way.
After the last ceremony I felt clarity like no other. I felt completely free and clear. I felt light and energised.
My favourite part was at one point during the ceremony I was working through something and couldn’t quite clear it myself and intuitively Paula came over and put her hands on and lightened the energy - it was fab!
I didn’t find any of it challenging - I felt it was a safe space and Paula’s experience with all different modalities of healing is reassuring. I will definitely be back! I am actually going to further my training with Cacao shortly because of Paula’s guidance.”
“Before the session, I wanted to work on building a better relationship with myself and opening my heart space to self-compassion and love. I had used cacao before but I really found that the structure of the ceremony really helped me get in touch with this in a way that I couldn’t have achieved on my own. Going to a ceremony also allows the opportunity to hear to what other people have experienced by means of the sharing circle at the end. I found that listening to others and sharing my own experience was really powerful, bearing witness to the ups and downs that come with being human, and feeling held and supported. After the ceremony, I felt uplifted, relieved and more grounded within myself. I would definitely recommend cacao ceremonies with Paula as she is a very skilled and experienced facilitator and I personally found it very beneficial, even in the days after and beyond.
Thanks again for the ceremony, I’ll definitely be attending in the future!”
““I come to ceremonies with Paula to work on healing, manifesting, and interpersonal relationships and I always leave feeling calm and positive. In ceremony, I have clear, simple, encouraging images of my own life, and of the world, with optimism and clarity. This clarity doesn’t last beyond the ceremony, but the main points and spirit, I think, remain, and in working with Paula I am strengthening this by exposing myself to the atmosphere as regularly as I can. As a result of our work together I feel significantly more self-love. ”
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“I went to my first cacao ceremony earlier in the year. I was drawn to try a group meditation for a change and of course I love chocolate so a cacao ceremony made complete sense! I have been to a few now and each has a totally different but lovely vibe. I’m always surprised at what comes up or what I learn through the meditations. Most of all, after each ceremony I feel as if I’ve received the best hug ever for a whole week after.
I would urge anyone to try this, whether new to meditation or not, as Paula creates a gentle, welcoming, friendly space. I now end the year a lot lighter. ”