Cacao, Art and Sound Immersion ~ activating the sacred seeds of your heart

Join us for a transformative day of learning, ritual, healing, and connection. Dive into the magic of cacao with insights into its ceremonial and ancestral use, preparation techniques, songs, prayers, and rituals.

Discover the ancient wisdom of cacao, a sacred plant medicine for the heart that helps us open up and heal gently. Cherished by civilizations like the Mayans and Aztecs, cacao’s ritualistic use is at least 5000 years old, connecting us back to ourselves, our bodies, and the earth. Explore ceremonial cacao energy and properties, the energy of the day based on Mayan principles, and learn how to incorporate cacao and meditative art practices into your daily life for grounding, reassurance, and joy.

The Cacao’s energy of pure love can bring harmony and balance into our everyday lives—and that’s what we will share with you.

We will be working with the ancient cacao wisdom teachings on the topics of:

• Using cacao as a supportive tool to navigate changes, challenges, and growth
• Incorporating sacred cacao medicine into your daily life as an ally for grounding, reassurance, and joy.
• Creating a contemplative neuro art practice
• Deepening the connection to your heart to bring harmony and balance into everyday life.

Who this is for:

• Those seeking a deeper connection with your body, your heart, and your inner wisdom.
• Those seeking liberation of the heart to heal gently and connect with your creativity.
• Those longing to live the embodiment of heart-centeredness and joy
• Those working with plant medicine or other healing modalities that desire a tangible connection to integrative practices.
• Those seeking a structured space to reconnect, to be held, witnessed, and bloom in sacred openness.

Plus, stay connected with a 1-week cacao immersion and receive a week's supply of ceremonial-grade cacao to continue the journey at home.

Our day retreat itinerary:

• 1:00 pm. Arrival, smudging/introductionsopening ceremony
• 1:30 pm: Heart opening warm-up - somatic movement
• 2:00 AM: Introduction to cacao origins, ceremonial practices, and uses.
• 2:30 PM: Break
• 2:45 PM: Cacao preparation session
• 4:00 PM: Cacao Ceremony, Sound Journey, and an intuitive neuropath art session.
• 6:00 PM: Integration and sharing circle
• 7:00 PM: Conclusion

( Optional add on: join us for Mexican feast afterwards at local (we will walk there) Mexican Restaurant called Nacho Mamma)

Home Immersion :

• We’ll connect through a WhatsApp group and have daily meditations and journaling prompts for the 7-day post-retreat.

Investment:

Day retreat and cacao 7-day immersion (includes 1 week supply of 100% ceremonial grade cacao): $220.00 - $325.00 sliding scale

What to bring to the retreat:

Come with an intention, it can be anything alive for you at this time.

For the altar: bring a sacred object (you will take it back with you) or an offering (ex. Flowers, fruit, tobacco)

Journal and a pen

water bottle

Comfortable clothing for sitting on the floor

Yoga mat

We look forward to sharing this sacred journey with you!

Facilitators

Ana Mexia is a Mexican-born medicine woman, sound practitioner, trained Cacao facilitator, and ceremonial space holder. Her deep passion for learning about and from native communities has led her to work with wisdom keepers such as Mayan elders to bring this work forward in a respectful way.

She took part in a 7-month apprenticeship with a Mayan elder where she deepened her connection to Cacao, her Mexican roots, and the Mayan community’s wisdom and calendar. She is a devoted student of curanderismo and shamanic practices, and her work weaves together different tools she’s learned along her Medicine Path such as sound, voice, meditation, breathwork, and traditional healing practices.

Andonia Fthenakis is a multidisciplinary artist born and raised NYC with deep roots in Greece. She works with raising the vibration of the earth, our heart and soul through alchemical energy medicine and the esoteric healing arts. She is a Bank Street educator and ceremonial space holder trained in various healing modalities including cranio sacral unwinding, ThetaHealing, tuning fork therapy, vibrational sound healing and vocal sound therapy. Her teachings foster somatic healing, encouraging deep surrender for mind-body-soul balance by blending healing and art practices.

register here: https://www.akouie.com/event-details/activating-the-sacred-seeds-of-your-heart-cacao-art-and-sound-retreat

or venmo your spot @Andonia-Fthenakis