Healing
Cacao
Ceremonial Grade Cacao
What is cacao? Cacao is the purest form of chocolate.
Cacao starts as a blossom on a tree, grows into a pod, and is broken open to reveal fruit around the seeds. The fruit and seeds are delicious in this stage, but are only accessible 20 degrees north and south of the equator. What we receive are the toasted, fermented, or sun dried seeds (depending on who you get them from) that have been unwrapped and formed into disks or blocks to assist with transit and workability.
The term “ceremonial” cacao is reserved for cacaos which maintain their nutrient profile, the inherent chemical composition of the cacao, and are conscious of the energy of the end-product throughout its life-cycle. It is not the powders you find in the supermarket and certainly bears no resemblance to the chocolate candies at check-out.
Keith’s Cacao
While there are many cacao brands on the market, and even many ceremonial grade cacaos, I work primarily with Keith’s Cacao from the Lake Atitlan area of Guatemala. I have met some of the people that bring this cacao to market, understand the process it goes through and conditions in which it’s worked with, and can say with certainly, it most closely resembles what comes out of the pod. This cacao is of the criollo, or origin, variety. The seeds are small, making it less cost-effective to work with, but the flavors, nutrients, and energetics of this cacao can’t be beat.
If you’d like to try it on your own, grab your cacao here
Cacao Ceremony
Cacao ceremonies are offered virtually, as a large-scale events, as small-scale gatherings, or 1:on:1.
Though there are many ceremonies that use and incorporate cacao, ceremonies to honor cacao are fairly new.
Cacao is pschyo-active and will activate heart-opening, but is not psychedelic.
I like to compare the cacao spirit to "grandmother energy". She'll open the door and hold your hand as you decide to cross through, but unlike ayhuasca or cannabis, she will not hold you there once you make that choice.
many people replace their morning coffee with cacao, noting the energy and focus acheived without the jitters or crashing.
Final Result
Cacao can provide anything from a tasty chocolatey beverage reminiscent of childhood winter days to a heart-opening medicine ready to help you understand generational traumas. She is an amazing healer on her own, but even more powerful when used with intention and guidance.
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Meagan Hopper
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