Chanting, cacao & community

Do you want to feel more connected to the power of your heart?

In this intimate gathering, we will raise our vibration by bringing together 3 beautiful elements of mantra & sound, sacred cacao and social connection.

We will join together in ceremony for heart opening sacred cacao before chanting together in community.

You will experience the powerful benefits of cacao, matched with raising our vibration with sacred chants and mantras.

Learning to open our hearts is the most important thing we can do as humans. This allows us to express our true potential and embrace our authentic selves, while loving ourselves and others more deeply.

YOU WILL EXPERIENCE:

• more connection within and heart opening
• unlock feel good euphoric states
• connection with your higher self
• enhanced and deeper meditation
• relief stress
• a pathway to creativity
• mental clarity
• re-balance your inner male & female energies
• more inner peace as you silence the mind
• access the wisdom and spirit within you
• healing
• FUN!

HOW IT WORKS

• join together in a safe and sacred circle
• opening cacao ceremony
• 100% ceremonial grade cacao from Guatemala
• create our intentions, connect within
• chant various sacred chants and mantras (words, music and instructions provided)
• feel the energy transform from within, activate your heart space and enter into deeper meditation, joy, contemplation, insight
• optional sharing and closing

WHAT IS CACAO?

Cacao has been used in ancient ceremonies for thousands of years by the Mayans and South Americans to heal the mental, physical, and spiritual body.

It is a natural and ancient medicinal plant with an active ingredient called theobromine - which can be translated to “food of gods”. It was enjoyed in communal ceremonies by the Maya with their Gods.

The word cacao actually came from the Maya word Ka’kau, and the Maya word Chokola’j — which means to drink chocolate together (as it comes from the cacao bean — which is also used to make chocolate).

It is consumed as a warm liquid drink which has a very bitter taste (but we have a special recipe that includes some spices to make it enjoyable to drink!).

HEALTH BENEFITS OF CACAO

Cacao is naturally high in iron, magnesium, and B complex vitamins which gives it’s a number of physical benefits as well as the spiritual benefits it has long being connected with.

It also:

• releases dopamine, oxytocin, serotonin and endorphins, which can help to boost our mood
• balances blood sugar levels and create more blood flow to the brain, which strengthens our awareness and focus
• contains anandamide which is known as the bliss molecule - the same thing produced in your body when you workout and you feel a rush of good energy.

CEREMONY

Cacao ceremonies are a type of shamanic healing, but they don’t have the hallucinogenic or ‘out of body’ effects that some other shamanic practices involve.

Shamanic healing is one of the oldest holistic healing practices, which has been used by ancient cultures worldwide for centuries.

Pure cacao is used as a heart opening medicine and with its sacred status is enjoyed in communal ceremonies for the purposes of people safely experiencing inner awakening, creative guidance and healing.

Cacao ceremonies and are rooted in helping to rebalance the energies within us and restore good health and enable us to look deeper within.

Cacao is used in a sacred medicinal ritual, where intentions are set and once consumed, euphoric states are unlocked, negative emotions released and we are able to connect to ourselves and the loving energy in our body.

Through opening the heart, cacao enables us to hear our true self, work through blockages, dissolve any pent up negative energy, and help us align with who we truly are.

CHANTING & MANTRA

Mantra is not a song but a repeated word or phrase, a sacred message. Sacred shapes and sounds that connect us with the vital life force that rides on the Prana.

When special words are repeated over and over again until they begin to gather a certain vibration and “emptiness”. This is not “emptiness” in the traditional sense where we imagine an experience of nothing…rather it is experiencing ourselves in the moment without the usual attachment of ego. We become free or “empty” of everything but an inner awareness.

JOIN US

Let’s switch off, retreat inwards and celebrate your heart of light as you allow yourself to surrender to this powerful and inspiring energy on offer.

No previous chanting or ceremony experience required!

Suitable for anyone looking to explore chanting, sound, ceremony and deepen their connection within. Come with an open mind and heart.

EVENT DETAILS:

Friday 4 December 2020 @ 7:00 PM

$42 pp (plus transaction fee) includes ceremonial grade cacao serving

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WHAT TO BRING

Due to current restrictions, we are unable to supply equipment. Please bring your own:

• blankets
• pillows or cushions
• towel for covering
• wear comfortable clothes