Ceremonial Cacao
Cacao acts as a natural heart-opener. It assists in creativity, clear thinking, and idea flow.
Cacao is used to release barriers that are normally present, allowing more healing to be done in ceremony than on our own.
Cacao is gentle plant medicine. You will not hallucinate or receive any conscious-altering effects. Rather, you will feel your heart open, concentrated, and happy. Sometimes you even feel euphoric!
When we say "cacao," we refer to the unprocessed cocoa bean commonly used to make chocolate.
What is Cacao?
Artisan Ceremonial Cacao is made by taking the cacao beans, in their whole form, lightly toasting and peeling them, and grinding them into a paste. This preparation method maintains the fat content of cacao and a higher nutrition and flavanol profile.
Not to be confused with coco powder, which is the remains of the cacao bean after the fats have been extracted/burnt out through a roasting process and then ground into powder.
Benefits
Internally, cacao has many health benefits. It is a natural superfood with loads of magnesium, amino acids, and antioxidants! This plant provides us with so much natural magnesium to fill in all the gaps we have in our diet. This nutrient benefits us in so many ways, one of which helps us to sleep. But the biggest benefits are energetic. Cacao opens your heart and mind allowing you to access deep parts of yourself. It accelerates healing, creativity, focus, and idea flow.
The biggest benefits of cacao come from drinking it daily. It is a natural replacement for coffee, giving you sustained energy and start to your day, without the jitters and crash.
We drink chocolate!
In Ceremony, we drink a hot cacao drink to open your heart and hold space for healing, insights, and transformation.
Raw cacao assists us in whatever healing we want to experience.
Receive Healing and Insights.
Activate your energy to new levels of joy and abundance.
Through guided meditation and breathwork, combined with sound and plant therapy, you get to unwind and allow a new version of you to shine!
As you bring your Healing Intentions with you, I will walk along-side you as your guide, assisting you to shift into who and what you want next.
Cacao allows you to focus for several hours at a time and enhances your creativity, so deep transformation can take place
Each Healing is designed specifically for each group.
Cacao amplifies the experience!
How to Enjoy
Cacao is typically enjoyed as a warm drink, but can be drunk cold or nibble on raw chocolate itself!
By dissolving the raw cacao pieces into hot water, you are invited to infuse your intentions or prayers into your drink as you immerse your milk frother or immersion blender.
As you hold the drink, the vibrations connect through the chakras in the palms of your hands and infuse into your being. As you drink it, the energetic and physical benefits absorb internally.
To receive the most energetic benefit from your cacao it is recommended to only use plant products to enhance your drink.
Recommended Sweeteners:
Maple syrup
Honey
Monk fruit
Stevia
Coconut Sugar
Recommended Creamers:
Almond milk
Coconut milk
Oat milk
Want Quicker absorption? Try adding a pinch of cayenne pepper
Check out MY VIDEO to see cacao paste transformed into a drink!
Recipes
My favorite way to prepare the cacao for daily drinking is by placing in the blender, bullet, or using a milk frother:
1-2 tsp Cacao
1 cup hot water
Spices of choice
Sweetener
Cayenne pepper may also be added for quicker absorption.
Guatemala blend
1-2 tsp raw cacao
2-3 whole green cardamom pods floated on top as a gentle infusion or 1/2 tsp cardamom dried
1 tsp vanilla
Abundance
1-2 tsp raw cacao
2 drops food grade orange or tangerine essential oil
1 tsp vanilla
Warming Elixir
1-2 tsp raw cacao
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/4 tsp nutmeg
Pinch of clove
Holiday Blend
1-2 tsp raw cacao
Pinch of Clove
1-2 drops food safe orange essential oil
¼ tsp cinnamon
Because I love Star Anise :)
1-2 tsp raw cacao
1tsp vanilla
1 whole star anise floated on top
Heart Opener with Vit C
1-2 tsp raw cacao
1 tsp vanilla
½ tsp dried rose petals
So much more than peppermint hot chocolate
1-2 tsp raw cacao
1-2 drops food grade peppermint essential oil
½ C almond milk, oat milk, or coconut milk (optional)
Inflammation Buster
1-2 tsp raw cacao
1 C matcha tea
1-2 drops monkfruit
almond milk, oat milk, or coconut milk (optional)
Smoothie Time!
Make ahead and refrigerate
4 tsp raw cacao
4 cups water
1-2 T monkfruit or 3-4 drops of liquid stevia or 2 T maple syrup
Add ½ c to chocolate banana smoothie
Immunity, energy, and healing, oh my!
1 tsp raw cacao
¼ tsp mushroom blend
Chai Cacao
1-2 tsp raw cacao
1 tsp cinnamon
½ tsp cardamom
¼ tsp ginger
Pinch of clove
Dash of black pepper
