Monthly Cacao Ceremony

Welcome 🌼🌺🌷💐🌻

We come together in celebration, sharing and deep relaxation to welcome the heart medicine of Cacao. Cacao has been used in ceremony and rituals for over 4000 years.

It is full of incredible qualities that release feel good hormones into our bodies, opens our hearts, brings more oxygen into our beings and allows us to melt like velvety chocolate into our inner worlds, exploring with gentle curiosity.

This medicine assists in opening our dream mind or Shamanic State of Consciousness, re-membering our abilities to listen and trust our inner worlds, intuition and connection to Source.

Maria uses shamanic journeying, somatic practices and psychotherapeutic techniques to create a safe container and sacred ceremonial space so we may let go into the softness of the medicine of cacao.

Each month we will be working with a specific theme depending on the season, moon phase and collective experience.

🌹Working with the nurturing plant of Cacao, we will cook the medicine together in song and prayer before offering our gifts and flowers to the altar, get comfortable and ready to speak our intentions and create our container together

❤️There will be time to enjoy and savour the warm, rich, nutritious silkiness of Cacao and gently drop in to relaxation. The drum will lull us in to theta brain wave and deep rest to lead us into a journey with our hearts. 

🦅We will be working with Spirit animals and guides to gain insights to any queries that arise for us at this time  

📖After our journey, there will be a time to write down any insights you receive and you will be offered a space to share anything you feel would benefit yourself and the group. 

🙏We will close the space together before sharing some snacks to ground us before we journey home.

🔥We  journey in candle light accompanied by the sweet aromas of rose and mugwort, sage and cedar  (please let us know if any allergies) 

Please bring :

🌺a blanket and cushion (we do have some here but please feel free if you prefer your own)

🌺a notebook and pen

🌺a bottle of water

🌺a sacred or precious object to place on the altar. 

24 hours before the ceremony please do not consume alcohol, recreational drugs, meat or a lot of sugars and processed food.

To receive a deeper experience of the medicine, we invite you to eat a good, protein heavy breakfast on the morning of the ceremony and then either fast until we gather or have juice or soup for lunch only. Please read all information below and use your own discretion

**If you haven't worked with cacao before, are pregnant or on medications  please contact me, Maria 07734 901249,  before booking and refer to the contraindications at the bottom of this page. By booking a place you are agreeing that you can safely receive a ceremonial dose of cacao.

Venue -
The Hive 🍯.Avalennek. Ivy Lane. Penzance. TR184TP 

The Hive is a wooden clad building  if you walk down Ivy Lane, you will see 3 terraced houses on your left  The Hive is the next house, Walk up the path, come in the door, remove shoes and up the stairs and turn right  

**please park on Alverton Road  or in the car park next to The Pirate Inn  There is NO PARKING on Ivy Lane  

☕️Cacao has been used in ceremony for over 4,000 years. Nutritionally high in potassium, proteins, iron, magnesium antioxidants and healthy fats, cacao has mood enhancing compounds such as Anandamide (from the Sanskrit word Ananda meaning bliss) -a neurotransmitter that effects levels of both dopamine and serotonin- feel good hormones.

🌹María is a trained psychotherapist and TRE practitioner with 15 years of experience working with trauma  Also a trained yoga teacher, Maria works with a somatic, trauma-informed approach and is a qualified Shamanic Practitioner 

⭐️Ceremonial Cacao Precautions

You should speak with your doctor before consuming ceremonial cacao if you are;

• Taking antidepressants - Cacao contains tryptophan and MAO inhibitors that may cause a synergistic intensification when combined with antidepressants.
• Taking hypertension medication
• Have a Heart Condition
• If you are Pregnant
• The theobromine in cacao is a vasodilator: it increases the heart rate and lowers blood pressure. Ceremony Cacao doses can increase blood flow to the brain & heart by at least 40%.
• * if you are taking 5-htp (5-Hydroxytryptophan) it's advisable to have a smaller dose of cacao.
  * If you are taking St John's Wort, please refrain from taking it for a few days before & after the cacao circle
• If you take antipsychotic medication, (for any reason)

If you have a heart condition or are pregnant it is likely still safe to consume ceremonial cacao but at lower doses of around 15-20g - let me know if you need a smaller dose.

*Maria is a qualified Psychotherapist, Yoga Teacher and Shamanic Practitioner.

She has worked with Cacao since since 2015, running ceremonies since 2019. 

If you would like further information or want to request a private ceremony please contact her on whatsapp

07734901249 

or on her website -

www.goldenthreadatthehive.co.uk

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