Cacao Ceremony
Aeon Books Ltd (Verlag)
9781801521901 (ISBN)
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.
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
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| Erscheinungsdatum | 13.05.2025 |
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| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Essen / Trinken ► Themenkochbücher |
| Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Alternative Heilverfahren | |
| Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Lebenshilfe / Lebensführung | |
| Medizin / Pharmazie ► Naturheilkunde ► Phytotherapie | |
| ISBN-13 | 9781801521901 / 9781801521901 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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