08/12/2026
I am a Sacred Cacao Ceremonialist. 🌹🤎
Madre Cacao is sacred. She is medicine.
She is not an everyday hot chocolate dressed up with intention. She is not a wellness trend, an aesthetic, or something to be served simply because cacao ceremonies have become popular.
She deserves reverence. Respect. Love. Care. Honour.
I think we need to talk about some of the inauthenticity that has found its way into the cacao world.
“Ceremonial grade cacao” is not some universally regulated sacred designation. It has largely become marketing language used to sell cacao.
The ceremony is what is sacred.
The relationship, the preparation, the prayers is sacred.
The lineage and people behind the medicine matter.
The way she is grown, tended, harvested, crafted and carried matters.
The cacao I work with comes directly from a family in Peru who handcrafts it from bean to medicine; singing, dancing and praying with her throughout the process. There are hands, hearts, land, ancestry and devotion behind what eventually reaches mine.
I refuse to forget that. I refuse to treat Madre Cacao as though she begins when she reaches my ceremonial pot.
A cacao ceremony, to me, is a plant medicine ceremony. That means when I hold one, I have a responsibility.
To know the medicine I am serving.
To continue learning.
To understand her teachings.
To honour where she comes from.
To acknowledge the ancestral relationships that existed with cacao long before she entered modern spiritual spaces.
To prepare her with intention.
To hold the people receiving her with care.
And above all, to remain a student of the medicine myself.
🌿 So why do I hold cacao ceremonies?
Because Madre has a beautiful way of inviting us inward.
Back into the body, the heart, our being, this sacred vessel we were given as children of Creator.
My ceremonies aren’t here to promise you a breakthrough, healing, awakening or transformation.
Medicine doesn’t work through guarantees.
I create the container.
I bring the teachings.
I tend the medicine.
I guide the embodiment.
I honour what has been entrusted to me.
And then you set your intention and surrender, you listen, you allow yourself to meet what is already living inside of you.
You become open to what the ceremony, the medicine, your body and your own spirit may have to teach you.
Sometimes she whispers, or she cracks something open, or she simply asks you to sit still enough to finally hear yourself.
That is the medicine, that is why I serve her.
That is why I will continue to speak about the reverence, responsibility and honour that belong beside her name.
Madre Cacao is sacred.
May we remember how to treat her that way. 🤎🌹