Cacao Ceremony: Return to Body and Heart

A sensory cacao ceremony with breath, movement, scent, sound, and ritual to return to your body and heart.

You spend so much time in your head.

Thinking. Planning. Overthinking. Holding everything together.

Return to Body & Heart is a 90-minute cacao ceremony at Anima Mundi’s Brooklyn Apothecary designed to help you slow down, soften your nervous system, and reconnect with your body, your senses, and your heart.

This guided sensory experience weaves ceremonial cacao, breath, gentle movement, scent, sound, touch, taste, and visualization to support nervous system regulation, heart connection, and embodied presence.

This ceremony is for you if you’ve been feeling disconnected from your body, always “on,” caught in overthinking, or craving a deeper sense of ease, aliveness, and connection.

Come as you are. Leave more grounded, open, and connected to yourself and the people around you.

What’s included:

• Ceremonial cacao elixir by Soul & Spirit, featuring Soul — an air-roasted cacao with gentle, feminine energy
• A sensory immersion through essential oils, sound, breath, touch, taste, and guided visualization
• Gentle somatic movement and nervous system regulation
• Heart-centered connection practices
• House-blend herbal tea

Good to know:

Please come dressed comfortably.

To best receive the cacao, we recommend avoiding caffeine for a few hours before the ceremony and leaving 90 minutes to 2 hours between your last meal and the event.

If you have any medical concerns, please reach out privately before attending.

Space is limited and advance tickets are required.

Your hosts:

Sasha Sakhar is the founder of SUGARHAUS and Soul & Spirit Cacao. She has served ceremonial cacao for 7 years, bringing this ancient heart-opening tradition into modern, urban spaces across New York City. She is also a certified Authentic Relating facilitator, blending somatic presence, heart-centered connection, and embodied practice.

Petra Hanson is the founder of Aerapy Method. For the past 8 years, she has developed a restorative movement practice that calms the nervous system, releases stored tension, and brings the body back into ease.