Rhythms of Cacao - Ecstatic Dance
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Rhythms of Cacao is an ecstatic dance movement & music medicine journey.
We will weave a deep-dive cacao activation into an epic free-form dance, with a curated evening soundtrack of music from genres across time and space, all while riding the waves of experience in a joyfully-present, community-held sacred groove.
The Flow:
• Opening circle & cacao ceremony
• Guided movement & warm-up
• 90-minutes of 5-Rhythms style ecstatic dance (with a set designed for the evening yet not performed live)
• 15-min. Yoga Nidra & Sound Healing
• Closing circle
Please be on-time and present for the entire experience (it’s great to open and close together*.) Cacao will only be served in the opening.
Facilitator: Mat Chandler is based out of Tzununá, Guatemala where he lives and serves as the founder and visionary of Holy Wow Cacao, a land-made and hand-crafted ceremonial cacao project helping to steward and guardian this epic medicine of the heart. He has been studying the art of cacao ceremony for 10+ years, since originally founding Aurora Healing Arts in Gainesville, FL in 2015 where he held monthly cacao ceremonies for many years. He also hosted weekly ecstatic dances at Aurora from 2015-2019 and thus it is always a sweet home-coming to host these dances here in Gainesville once again.
Date: Saturday August 15, 2026
Time: 6pm-9pm
Exchange: $30 presale / $36 door (limited space available so please rsvp sooner than later.)
Location: Heartwood Soundstage
619 S. Main St., Gainesville, FL
We will weave a deep-dive cacao activation into an epic free-form dance, with a curated evening soundtrack of music from genres across time and space, all while riding the waves of experience in a joyfully-present, community-held sacred groove.
The Flow:
• Opening circle & cacao ceremony
• Guided movement & warm-up
• 90-minutes of 5-Rhythms style ecstatic dance (with a set designed for the evening yet not performed live)
• 15-min. Yoga Nidra & Sound Healing
• Closing circle
Please be on-time and present for the entire experience (it’s great to open and close together*.) Cacao will only be served in the opening.
Facilitator: Mat Chandler is based out of Tzununá, Guatemala where he lives and serves as the founder and visionary of Holy Wow Cacao, a land-made and hand-crafted ceremonial cacao project helping to steward and guardian this epic medicine of the heart. He has been studying the art of cacao ceremony for 10+ years, since originally founding Aurora Healing Arts in Gainesville, FL in 2015 where he held monthly cacao ceremonies for many years. He also hosted weekly ecstatic dances at Aurora from 2015-2019 and thus it is always a sweet home-coming to host these dances here in Gainesville once again.
Date: Saturday August 15, 2026
Time: 6pm-9pm
Exchange: $30 presale / $36 door (limited space available so please rsvp sooner than later.)
Location: Heartwood Soundstage
619 S. Main St., Gainesville, FL
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Heartwood Soundstage, 619 South Main Street,Gainesville, Florida, United States
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