CACAO CEREMONIES

With WAKE COLLECTIVE

We invite you to gather around the altar with us.
In ceremonial circle we will drink the sacred Cacao.
Asking her to help us open our hearts. To have compassion with ourselves and each other.

Through songs and sounds, through meditation and movement, we will give thanks and prayers for the healing of our world. Inviting the medicine of the circle to assist in our healing.
We celebrate that we are still alive in turbulent times, releasing tensions, melting into the now and creating more space inside to be all that we came here to be.

See the Event calendar or our Facebook page for upcoming gatherings.

FOOD OF THE GODS

A CULTURAL HISTORY OF THE MEDICINAL &

RITUAL USE OF CHOCOLATE.

Cacao is a potent medicine that carries the ability to open our hearts to the subtle energies that surround us. When served with love and devotion, it may bring great healing and establish a connection to Mother Nature and the divine within.

Western culture has fallen in love with this most amazing substance. Yet, for most of us, it has been a blind date all along. After all, what is chocolate? Where does it come from? The key to chocolate’s super qualities seems to be eating it in its raw, natural state as a cacao bean! When cacao beans are excessively heated, melted, processed, chemicalised and added to dairy products, they lose key nutrient qualities of texture, psychoactive properties, brain nutrition & more. Other properties of the cacao bean are still present yet diminished by cooking, such as dark chocolate flavours, antioxidants, aphrodisiac qualities, mood elevation and others.

Raw cacao has special "heart-opening" properties (Modern research shows theobromine is a vasodilator - blood vessel widener - and stimulant for the heart specifically), and like many other plant medicines, it is to be served with intention and respect for ancient wisdom and practice.

The earliest traces of the cacao is rooted in the Mayan empire of Meso-America, almost 2000 years B.C. where it was considered a great healer and became wide spread as a sacred medicine as well as special form of payment in central and South America.
According to Mayan tradition, the term for cacao is literally translated as “heart blood” and theobromine (the psychoactive ingredient in cacao) translates as “food of the Gods”.

COSMOLOGICAL WORLD TREE

In the Aztec culture Cacao was depicted as one of the major World Trees, watching the South, representing death, blood, and ancestors in the colour red. Death becomes an integral part of rebirth, the sun and the moon exist in an ever circling dance.