
Ecstatic Dance and Cacao Ceremony
Suggested Intentions
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Creative inspiration, honoring self needs and self-care, improve self-love, acceptance and inner healing, trust of self and others, wisdom and guidance, insight and clarity, connection to ancestors.
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What is a Cacao Ceremony and Why should I do it?
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Cacao is a daily practice with deep historical roots, bringing focus, enlightenment and deepened spiritual healing journey.
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Cacao is a creativity partner, spiritual guide, inner work facilitator, and performance enhancer.
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Your experience with cacao will be deep and personal.
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Processing will last 30 days or longer.
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Share with a trusted partner, friend or trained practitioner.
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Cacao can also call you to share with others; if so inspired, please talk with Kortnee about purchasing cacao from a reputable source or choosing her online training certification program. Like any plant medicine, there’s a world of misinformation to navigate.
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Cacao is a beautiful tool to build and hold sacred space for yourself and others.
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It is a beautiful addition to your daily energy practices.
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Each ceremony will be different and unique. Set an intention for your time to build relationship with this beautiful and gentle plant medicine.
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Allow Mamma Cacao to guide you. Detach from a desired outcome or expectation. Cacao will bring you what you most need in the moment.
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Trust her gifts and her medicine.
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Through cacao ceremony, your mind will be activated by the active compounds and
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energetic properties.
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The experience is subtle and somatic allowing you to access your energetic and intuitive body of feeling and sensing.
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Cacao invites you to integrate emotions,
become more aligned,
and step into embodied focus.
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You may experience physical or emotional release.
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This spiritual detox can be powerful as cacao helps you release exactly what is needed to travel deeper within.
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You may receive spirit guide messages or simply feel relaxed. Notice your body during your journey as twinges, aches, discomfort, tears, and bliss state are all informative messages.
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You may feel a sense of deep relaxation, heart centered openness and a fully grounded state.
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Increased heart rate and greater awareness of heart center and heart chakra along with a sustained boost of energy and mental focus without the caffeine crash are just some of the benefits.
​​​Cacao brings a grounded state of euphoria
making everything seem brighter more joyful and easier.
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Greater ease of identifying your self-created limiting beliefs and releasing of personal blocks moving beyond emotional limitations.
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Deeper enhanced spiritual and creative practice through yoga, dance, writing and music.
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Cacao is a mild diuretic similar to tea or coffee but contains only 25% of the caffeine. The active ingredient is theobromine which is recognized as one of the world's greatest superfoods.
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Cacao is a super food and is the best-known source for magnesium... (and tastes way better than kale!)
Benefits include:
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Boosted immune system functioning,
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reduce blood pressure,
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reduce stress hormones,
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improved mood,
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increase focus,
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accelerate recovery,
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increase energy,
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improve sleep,
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clear intuition,
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increase nature connection,
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communicate,
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increase flow of eros/life force,
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deepen relationships,
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increase happiness.
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​​​The science and health benefits of cacao:
*More resources available upon request
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https://begoodorganics.com/cacao-5-little-known-benefits-of-this-amazonian-superfood/
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3820066/
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Order your own cacao:
Keith's Cacao offers some of the finest cacao known to Mother Earth.
https://www.keithscacao.com/?ref=704
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“Mamma cacao is the therapist; your guide will open the door…”
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Your friend on the journey,
Kortnee Whitehawk, MS, Ed​​​
