Cacao & Kanna Ceremony | Day Retreat

This is a powerful ceremony of life and death, where we can feel and experience the joy and happiness, sadness, pain and grief, anger and confusion, and anything in between. We may connect with our guides from other realms, or perhaps just experience a simple, present, clear and spacious mind.

🌟 Elements of the ceremony:

– Drinking a cup of 100% pure, ceremonial-grade cacao, education/history around this heart-medicine of a plant, and diving into a meditation with her spirit

– Yoga/Movement/Breathwork for awakening the 10 bodies and your most primal nature

– Empathic Communication work, together in community, to authentically relate and uncover aspects of ourselves, best seen with a clear mirror

– Transformational Breathwork and Shamanic Drum Journey to bring messages of the subconscious mind to the surface of awareness

– Sound Healing Journey and Yoga Nidra meditation

– Medicine Music and community song-share by Seminole Tribes people and our collective ceremony holders.

– Sharing circles throughout the time and space, to grow and coalesce in the sacred container of this Ceremony.

When: Sunday December 14th, 2024 | 10:00am-5:00pm EST

Where: Lokahi Sanctuary, Plantation FL

Reservation: Please RSVP soon. We have limited capacity and the ceremony will* fill up

🌟 To prepare, please bring:

· Your favorite mug

· Pen & notebook

· A container with water

· Small amount of fresh organic* fruit to share at the end of the ceremony

Your Guides:

Mat Chandler: We will be guided by a long-time practitioner and space-holder to work with the Spirit of Cacao in a beautiful way. The creative visionary and journeyman of the Holy Wow Cacao project, Mat Chandler, has worked with cacao for 9+ years and moved to Guatemala 5 years ago to work with Cacao directly at the source. The cacao we will work with is Cacao he will be bringing that’s been formed within their Mayan Cacao Collective, called Las Manos de la Tierra (which means The Hands of the Earth).

Krysten Rodriguez: Krysten Rodriguez is a healing guide, and wayshower of both ancient, and new age spiritual practices, and healing modalities of several different lineages. Her teachings include traditional yogic practices, Hatha, Vinyasa, Yin, Nidra and Kundalini yoga, Qi Gong, and Somatic emotional healing therapies. Krysten is an Inner Alignment coach, and the founder of Botanic Body Yoga- A heart-based healing movement birthed from her own personal healing journey, which was catalyzed by her desire to seek healthier ways of enhancing mental health, and overall quality of life. Her life path and passion are devoted to helping others restore and strengthen the blissful nature of their soul, bringing people together in sacred spaces, and carrying the message that we all have the power to heal from within.

Alexander "Bush Ninja" Howe: is an intrepid adventurer, captivating storyteller, flamboyant performer, and enthusiastic educator of practical herbalism. Throughout the last thirteen years, his journeys have taken him all over Southern Africa, having spent more than seven years “boots on the ground.” It was during these adventures that he earned the moniker "Bush Ninja," and began specializing in Southern African medicinal plants.

Bush Ninja learned about Kanna (sceletium tortuosum) early in his African adventures. He launched Mamma Kanna because he believes that the time has come for the people to rediscover this ancient medicine plant. As a serotonin reuptake inhibitor, Kanna has massive potential to help modern societies struggle with anxiety, depression, and addictions, all while generously supporting the indigenous people who have carried this ancestral knowledge forward through time. As such, Mamma Kanna is honored to donate 11% of our proceeds directly to Indigenous peoples education, outreach, and activism projects in Southern Africa.

Eat only lightly* 2-3 hours before the ceremony begins and please avoid drinking caffeine on the day of the ceremony.

The week prior to ceremony it is best to be free of alcohol, cannabis and other things that could be considered an intoxicant.

Please be aware that we open and close this container together – arriving late or leaving early is not accepted as a part of creating the trust in this container that is needed for such a deep dive.

Please arrive 15 minutes early to get settled in to the space.

Energy Exchange:

$88 (If this is not accessible to you and you are clear you are meant to be in this ceremony, please write to us to work out an exchange that is within your means.)

Thank you and we are looking forward to co-creating this journey into the heart!

**The following are indications to be aware of, and if you’d like, talk to us further about. You may also simply attend the ceremony knowing that it may just be best to have only a light amount of cacao or none at all. Again, it does not rule you out from coming and experiencing and benefitting.

Contraindications: If you are taking SSRIs or MAOIs, or have any of the following Heart disorders like high blood pressure, severe anxiety or depression, are pregnant, have diabetes or bleeding disorders, have Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease, Glaucoma, Osteoporosis, or Irritable bowel syndrome, experience migraine headaches, recently had surgery, or have any other mental or physical conditions that you feel may cause concern for your health, this medicine may not be for you. Please speak to us in advance if you have any of these conditions or other concerns. YOU KNOW YOUR BODY BEST.

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