Are you feeling the call to welcome cacao into your life? This book guides you step-by-step through deepening your relationship with cacao, creating moving rituals, and weaving history, health, and heart-opening practices into transformative ceremonies. Learn how to create sacred space, set intentions and guide meditations to connect heart-to-heart with the people you care most about in your life. From solo practice to ethical sourcing and honouring indigenous wisdom, this book serves both beginners and experienced practitioners of plant spirit medicine alike. Discover how cacao can ignite…mehr
Are you feeling the call to welcome cacao into your life? This book guides you step-by-step through deepening your relationship with cacao, creating moving rituals, and weaving history, health, and heart-opening practices into transformative ceremonies. Learn how to create sacred space, set intentions and guide meditations to connect heart-to-heart with the people you care most about in your life. From solo practice to ethical sourcing and honouring indigenous wisdom, this book serves both beginners and experienced practitioners of plant spirit medicine alike. Discover how cacao can ignite creativity, deepen spiritual practice, and create lasting transformation in your life.
Gavin Kendrick is a writer from Liverpool. He founded the Cacao Love project and has shared cacao produced by Asháninka growers with thousands of people around the world. He publishes weekly essays that illuminate the connections between ceremonial practice, neuroscience, and practical wisdom for daily life. Gavin is a lifelong student of the forest mysteries, and has apprenticed in traditions from the Peruvian Amazon, Central African rainforest, and Druid revival. He is a ceremonial musician who plays the eight-string harp, log drum, and mouth bow. He teaches syntropic agroforestry, and lives with his wife Diane, growing a two acre food forest on the coast of East Africa. Diane Ghogomu is a ceremonialist, educator, and musician from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, whose Cameroonian heritage, South American sojourns, and Kenyan home have shaped her into a bridge between worlds. Drawing from her initiations in Central and East African spiritualities and healing music traditions, she cultivates joy-centered ritual spaces. As founder of Afrocosmic and co-director of Cacao Love, she dedicates herself to supporting African and Indigenous wisdom keepers to cultivate ecological, economic, cultural, and spiritual sovereignty. Diane is a Harvard-educated Fulbright recipient, published scholar, and filmmaker, and weaves rigorous scholarship with sacred practice. She lives on the Kenyan coast with her husband Gavin and their Great Dane, Navéla.
Inhaltsangabe
Part I: Entering the cacao orchard * A modern cacao ceremony * What this book is and what it isn't * What is cacao? * Who is this book for? * Our brothers and sisters, the trees * How is Cacao Made? * The Transformational Power of Ceremony Part II: Meeting Cacao: An Ancient and Modern History * A Short Stroll through the Cacao Grove * The Journey of Cacao to the Modern World * What does ceremonial grade mean? * Cacao cosmovisions * A medicine of the heart * Our first ceremony together Part II: Cacao and Health * The Chemistry of Cacao * Understanding Cacao Contraindications * Dosages * Creating Irresistible Elixirs Part III: Cultivating Practice * The Foundation of the Path * A Daily Practice * Altar building * Elemental alchemy * Awakening the Senses * Free Writing * Breath Prayer * Pelvic Rocking Part IV: Holding Space For Others * What Is Holding Space? * What kind of something is that something? * Supporting people to navigate their experiences Part V: Sharing Ceremony * The Inspiration to Share * Choosing a venue * Designing a structure * Creating an invitation * Preparing The Medicine * Creating Sacred Space * Opening the Space * Closing The Ceremony Part VI: Rituals to Share * An introduction to Somatic Experiences * Somatic Experience #1: Herbal Foot Soak * Somatic Experience #2: Chair Yoga * Somatic Experience #3: Breathwork Part VII: A Closing Prayer * Pasonki
Part I: Entering the cacao orchard * A modern cacao ceremony * What this book is and what it isn't * What is cacao? * Who is this book for? * Our brothers and sisters, the trees * How is Cacao Made? * The Transformational Power of Ceremony Part II: Meeting Cacao: An Ancient and Modern History * A Short Stroll through the Cacao Grove * The Journey of Cacao to the Modern World * What does ceremonial grade mean? * Cacao cosmovisions * A medicine of the heart * Our first ceremony together Part II: Cacao and Health * The Chemistry of Cacao * Understanding Cacao Contraindications * Dosages * Creating Irresistible Elixirs Part III: Cultivating Practice * The Foundation of the Path * A Daily Practice * Altar building * Elemental alchemy * Awakening the Senses * Free Writing * Breath Prayer * Pelvic Rocking Part IV: Holding Space For Others * What Is Holding Space? * What kind of something is that something? * Supporting people to navigate their experiences Part V: Sharing Ceremony * The Inspiration to Share * Choosing a venue * Designing a structure * Creating an invitation * Preparing The Medicine * Creating Sacred Space * Opening the Space * Closing The Ceremony Part VI: Rituals to Share * An introduction to Somatic Experiences * Somatic Experience #1: Herbal Foot Soak * Somatic Experience #2: Chair Yoga * Somatic Experience #3: Breathwork Part VII: A Closing Prayer * Pasonki
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