Cacao Alchemy Level One

Cultivate Self-Love & Cacao Connection

Join now to enjoy in your own natural time

Would you like to connect to the spirit of Mama Cacao and explore how to work with her within your own life?

Do you wish to go deeper by cultivating an authentic relationship with Mama Cacao as a Powerful Plant Teacher?

Are you a practitioner or therapist who would like to explore working with plant medicine alongside your existing practice?

Mama Cacao is a “Love Medicine” and also a powerful bridge between the spirit world and physical world through which we can open deeper into the heart. She can help us to “soften the edges” of our ego mind and connect to deeper listening through our own heart, body & soul. This course will help you to develop authentic relationship with and way of working with Cacao that is uniquely yours, within the context of integrating into everyday life. With purity of heart, intention and relation she can bring beautiful healing, insights and transformation into our lives and those that we share it with.

Coming into the heart(h) is a metaphor for coming home into our heart fire, our home and so it is a great privilege to be able to connect with Mama Cacao in this way from our own homes. Working within our own rhythm and schedule as well as the unique design of this course to include self-care at the heart of it. This is the perfect container to drop in with the inner and outer landscapes, moving away from a very “outdated” way of I must learn or do a course/training into the “new” way of exploring and deepening, opening and receiving for the wisdom to come through.

You will remember how to connect with this sacred plant medicine in your own unique way, opening to your gifts & creativity. You will weave with Mama Cacao into your own practice and daily life. As you open up to tending to the soil, laying the foundations from your own practice and seeds to be sown for a blossoming of a beautiful relationship with this ancient medicine.

This course is available for you to explore in your own time which is a key to entering into authentic communion with Mama Cacao. This way if you do decide that you wish to work with ceremonial cacao sacrament in ceremonies, part of existing offerings or a helpful guide into new offerings you will be ready for the next level of guidance to come through and can join Cacao Alchemy Practitioner Level.

What you will receive

• 6 Video teaching sessions available to access in your own time

• An online community portal to include all participants for sharing & community

• A Guided Meditation for each module for you to absorb in your own time

• Additional Written, audio & video resources

• Music playlists to assist in exploring journeying, sound & movement

• Sacred transmissions shared by Tara

COURSE CONTENT & STRUCTURE

You can choose to take the course in 6 weeks, or in your own natural time. Working with this alignment is a potent container for receiving transmissions, connecting to our own internal rhythms as well as the cycles of time & natural law.

• Setting Intention & Opening Space to connect with the Spirit of IxCacao

• Mythology of Cacao in Ancient Mayan, Aztec & Incan Cultures

• Understanding the Nutritional Properties & Benefits of Ceremonial Cacao

• Preparation of Ceremonial Cacao, Ritual Space & honouring natural law

• Cultivating the Heart Fire & Personal Practice rooted in Self-Love

• Coming home into the body space, nurturing & honouring the feeling sense

• Opening to our own intuitive flow & nature, trusting ourselves & the guidance of Mama Cacao

• Sacred Alchemy through owning the shadow, opening to bliss & working with other plant allies

• Receiving the transmission of our unique gifts, way of working with Mama Cacao

• Honouring Gratitude as a pathway to receiving the gifts of life

• Guidance for sharing with others (friends & family only)

• Closing the Space & the practice of Integration into Modern Life

Exchange:

£88

Your exchange is your commitment to the course, so it is non-refundable. For those whose current financial situation is extenuating, please get in touch as there are limited sponsored spaces available.

Cacao Alchemy Practitioner Training

Would you like to go deeper into your practice or facilitate ceremonies, workshops, events with Mama Cacao? Cacao Alchemy Practitioner includes Cacao Alchemy Level One and offers a deeper dive into relationship with, facilitation & space holding with Cacao.

Your exchange is your commitment to the course, so it is non-refundable. For those whose current financial situation is extenuating, please get in touch as there are limited sponsored spaces available.

Contraindications

Please note that Ceremonial Cacao is contraindicated for those who are taking anti-depressants or anti-psychotics.

If you are pregnant or breastfeeding, it is safe, but we suggest working with half the suggested dose (20g or less).


What you will need

• 1 x block Ceremonial Cacao (around 500g is 12 full doses)

• Basic Ingredients: Chilli, Cinnamon, Coconut Palm Sugar, Coconut Nectar or Panela

• Earth Offerings: Cacao beans, rose petals, tobacco, sage, mugwort, herbs, oats

• Journal for writing notes, insights & dreams throughout the course

• Altar space (This can be as elaborate as you like, or simple & portable for travel or small spaces)

• Dedicated time of 3-4 hours per week, to digest the resources, time for ritual & personal practice. Allow more time if you wish to go deeper. Allow 2 hours per week if you wish to take it slower.

SOME SUGGESTIONS FOR MAKING SPACE:

• The focus of this course is the dedication to self-care in order to open to receiving, working within your schedule so no need to stress how to manage time!

• If you are a Mother, Parent, or live a busy life, you can balance this integrating as part of your daily personal practice and listen to resources as you commute, walk the dog or wash the dishes.

• Make sure you dedicate time for the rituals/ceremonies as a “date with yourself and Mama Cacao”

• At the weekend you can dedicate one day or part of the day for digesting materials & taking time for ritual.

• Sunday is often an excellent day for fasting &/or “switch-off” from communications

• One or two weekday evenings could also be another way to work with this

Your Facilitators

Ix Cacao is known as the "food of the gods" and has been used by Mayan, Aztec and Inca tribes for thousands of years for ceremonial purposes. As a potent healer, this medicine helps us to open our hearts, connect with our inner wisdom and creativity so that we can dissolve our blockages and create new pathways into being. Ix Cacao brings us grounding into our bodies and can help us open up to feeling and sensing more deeply. Mama Cacao is a very feminine and creative medicine so she will help us to explore in a soft yet powerful way.

IxCacao is a medicine that is experiencing a surge in popularity and for good reason, as in this modern world she can help us to become more grounded, centred, living more fully from our hearts and being. However, she is also a powerful healer and teacher for working through our shadow and trauma, as she works in the belly and unconscious patterns. Therefore, it is very important to honour her and develop right relationship prior to holding space for ourselves or with groups.

Tara is an Irish Woman, Alchemist, Facilitator, Mystic & Somatic Bodyworker. Working in devotion with nature, plants and spirit to guide the return to source, truth & wholeness. Reclaiming the Rites of Passage through Birth, Life and Death that assist in our navigation as a human being with our soul’s evolution. Harnessing a deep connection to ancient wisdom through meditation, sound, movement & ritual, she brings this to the present, living in our busy modern world.

Tara has a very special connection with Mama Cacao that she is passionate about sharing, and continues to be humbled by this loving, gentle yet powerful plant teacher.

Tara’s Cacao Story

My journey with Mama Cacao began in 2015 by being introduced in a Cacao ceremony with Annu Tara, followed by a Dieta and training in early 2016. Mama Cacao was a great healer and teacher for me that created a loving container while I was transitioning from a corporate career to the full time calling in being of service. I had been in Shamanic training for many years, however I was connecting with Cacao for my own healing. She naturally flowed through my personal practice, rituals and ceremonies. I am eternally grateful for the healing and teachings she has brought and a catalyst for me stepping forward in serving my life’s purpose.

I had not anticipated that I would be called to co-create with her as a Cacaoista! she naturally flowed through my personal practice, rituals and ceremonies. I am eternally grateful for the healing and teachings she has brought and a catalyst for me stepping forward in serving my life’s purpose. I have since facilitated many ceremonies across the world in many different contexts from yoga studios to conscious festivals, roof terraces to lakeside, retreats to homes. I deepened my relationship with her by connecting to the Mayan, Aztec and Incan lands. In Guatemala I received guidance from a Mayan Shaman and Keith, The Cacao Shaman with one of the most potent & vibrational ceremonial cacao in the world.

My work with other plant medicines through training, initiations and dieta has only strengthened the path to allowing her teachings to come through me. It is through deep love, gratitude and passion for the Cacao Deva for what she has brought to my life that I wish to share this with others. It is with great honour that I am able to offer this container in a lovingly held and supported way, through a time of difficult transition in humanity from old ways into the new way.

A NOTE ABOUT TIME:

• The focus of this course is the dedication to self-care in order to open to receiving, working within your schedule so no need to stress how to manage time!

• If you are a Mother, Parent, or live a busy life, you can balance this integrating as part of your daily personal practice and listen to resources as you commute, walk the dog or wash the dishes.

• Make sure you dedicate time for the rituals/ceremonies as a “date with yourself and Mama Cacao”

• At the weekend you can dedicate one day or part of the day for digesting materials & taking time for ritual.

• Sunday is often an excellent day for fasting &/or “switch-off” from communications

• One or two weekday evenings could also be another way to work with this

Contraindications

Please note that Ceremonial Cacao is contraindicated for those who are taking anti-depressants or anti-psychotics.

If you are pregnant or breastfeeding, it is safe, but we suggest working with half the suggested dose (20g or less).

Would you like to facilitate ceremonies, workshops, events with Mama Cacao? Check out the Cacao Alchemy Practitioner Training

Any Questions, please do get in touch at firetreealchemy@gmail.com