Cacao Apprenticeship
Initiation into the healing energy & spirit of Cacao
Deepen your connection to the spirit of Cacao & the earth under your feet - while learning to hold hold space and facilitate sacred ceremonies with Cacao in your unique way.
Much more than a simple how-to facilitate Cacao ceremonies, this is a oldschool apprenticeship where you’ll learn to work with the medicine & rituals through real life experience and mentoring throughout the learning journey. Join us as we venture into the wilds, both within and around, guiding you on a deep personal healing journey while studying the healing craft with Cacao.
ps. Yes - it is possible to do a fully online version if you live further away - reach out and let’s talk!
10 Months Cacao Apprenticeship
This is an initiation into the healing energy of Cacao - while exploring the landscape of what it means to be a spaceholder & medicine-keeper in a Nordic context.
We are building bridges between the devine mystery, magic and everyday life. Bringing life as an sacred act of ceremony together with childlike wonder, joy and grounding in your life and work. Let’s together explore the nuances of how to bring and embody an earth-based and sacred approach to life together with Cacao as well as how to share this with other.
You’ll be learning more about plant shamanism, to communicate with plants, inner guidance, earth-based tools, singing in ceremony, rituals and healing techniques - all cocreated with Cacao and the practices you already embody.
Our focus is on supporting your growth as a spaceholder, not only for others but also for yourself, while deepening your practice and relationship to the more-than-human-world - guided by the spirit of Cacao. By nurturing a deep connection with Cacao, you'll find yourself flowing more effortlessly in sharing your gifts with the world.
Through our Cacao Apprenticeship Program, you will embark on a transformational journey, designed to:
Initiate you into the energy of Cacao & sacred rituals
Provide you with the tools, knowledge, and confidence to facilitate offerings with Cacao
Engage in hands-on apprenticing and guidance, gaining practical skills and insights from experienced practitioners.
Expand in your personal healing journey with Cacao
Help you cocreate and design your own magical practice with Cacao
Learn shamanic earth-based tools and practices to work with the energy and spirit of Cacao and expand your ability to listen to the whispers of spirit
Connect you with nature, the shamanic realsm and plant allies
Your personal healing journey
Through our 10-month apprenticeship, you'll delve into the heart of Cacao medicine, guiding you on a profound personal healing journey while equipping you with the skills to guide others. By nurturing a deep connection with Cacao, you'll effortlessly share your gifts with the world.
Crafting Sacred Space
Learn to hold space for transformational experiences, both for yourself and others. Explore the art of spaceholding, communication with plants, shamanic tools, rituals and healing techniques - all in partnership with Cacao. This is a space for diving into rituals, singing, movement, prayer, meditation and expand your ability to listen to the whsipers of spirit.
Cultivate a deep personal relationship, practice & devotion with the spirit of Cacao as the foundation
It is through the strong foundation of a deep personal relationship to Cacao that the healing energies of Cacao together with you can flow freely. Just as each practitioner is unique, so too is the space they hold, guided by their individual gifts, magic and embodied practices, and shaped by their co-creation with Cacao.
Cacao is not merely a tool; it is a wise and healing plant spirit. Like a skilled weaver, Cacao helps us integrate and expand our gifts, potentials, and magic as we serve her.
Through this apprenticeship you will establish a strong foundation for your continued practice and relationship with Cacao. This is a life-long study and path. This will weave and build on the practices and energies you already embody and the new inspiration that comes along your study, path and exploration with Cacao.
Our focus is on cultivating this foundation, this connection so that this can be what guides and supports your future offerings and journey with Cacao.
Apprenticeship highlights
My role is to support you in deepening your connection with Cacao and with yourself, as you embark on your healing journey and refine your craft. I will teach and guide you in the art of spaceholding, plant shamanism and practices with Cacao.
Highlights:
Dive deep into your personal healing journey.
Cultivate a profound relationship with the spirit of Cacao.
Engage in 1:1 shamanic Cacao sessions and group ceremonies.
Apprentice in our Cacao ceremonies
Classes & Q&A’s about Cacao & plant shamanism
Receive coaching & guidance to support your journey.
Explore shamanic and earth-based tools, practices and spaceholding techniques
Join a supportive community of apprentices
Possibility to embark on a plant Dieta or online initiation to deepen your connection with nature.
Singing in ceremony?
Singing is medicine!
Singing is about freedom. It is about expression.
To sing is to listen.
To listen to the wisdom of spirit all around and within. To listen to the whispers of your body, your womb, your intuition and lifeforce energy and give it space to express.
Free, wild, authentic singing is to be curious, open and receptive to play with the song of the universe within us. To allow creativity to unfold through your channel.
Let’s explore your voice, your sound, your expression as a spaceholder and person in this world. Let’s play!
Open yourself to the magic of Cacao
Develop a personal practice and deepen your relationship with Cacao, allowing its spirit to guide you on your journey.
Experience the magic of sacred rituals and ceremonies with Cacao firsthand.
Engage in hands-on apprenticing and guidance, gaining practical skills and insights from experienced practitioners.
Receive coaching and energetic guidance to support you on your path as you explore all the light and shadows that arrive while journeying deep with Cacao.
Learn to create meaningful ceremonies/rituals/offerings that feels safe, sustainable and authentic to you.
Expand your capacity as a Cacao Practitioner to hold space for others and also holding space for yourself simultaneously.
Open up to the spirits of plants, learning to communicate with them in a way that feels natural to you.
Deepen your connection to the earth and local nature with Cacao as a dooropener.
Dive into shamanic and practical methods for protecting and cleansing your energy and keeping your practice grounded.
Develop your unique approach to the art of medicine making.
Explore the physical properties and processing techniques of ceremonial grade Cacao.
Program structure
Together we will meet online or in-person 2 times per month, in a container that creates space for expansion in your inner landscape as well as practical knowledge and classes.
You will have 1-2 individual shamanic sessions per month with Cacao to dive deeper into your relationship and personal healing journey.
You will attend our Cacao ceremonies as an apprentice and practicing this healing craft in real life as well as receive supervision, guidance & feedback to nurture your unique approach to Cacao.
🌱 Overall
Opening ceremony
8 x Online Classes
4 x Online Q&A
2 x 3hr individual cacao sessions in nature
3 x 2hr individual online cacao sessions
6 x ceremonies as apprentice
1 x 24 hr. Cacao & naturetherapy session in nature
1 x design workshop / coaching
2 x apprentice-led ceremonies
Closing ceremony
🌱 Module Highlights
Opening the container and vortex
Initiating your relationship with Cacao
Understanding the properties and history of Cacao
Connecting & communication with plant spirits
Sacred ceremony and rituals
Using shamanic tools in ceremony
Singing/sound & rewild your voice in ceremony
Facilitation practices with Cacao
Designing your unique offerings with Cacao
Building your ecosystem as a practitioner
Apprentice-led ceremonies, final exam and closing ceremony
🌱 Possibility for a Masterplant Dieta/Initiation
Immerse yourself in a plant Dieta or initiation process, either in-person or online, to deepen your connection cacao, other master plants and a profound shamanic healing practice.
We invite all of our apprentices as part of their apprenticeship to have a Dieta with us in Sweden or in the Amazon. This is energetic foundation and relationship to nature upon which we build our entire healing modality. This Dieta can be with e.g. Birch, Pine, Noya Rao, Bobinsana etc. This is also the space where we dive deeper into singing with medicine.
Eva Maria:
“Play, rest, nourishment & enjoyment is also medicine and equally important as that which we call ‘hard work’. For me, Cacao is embodiment medicine in the very best way!”
Cacao Apprenticeship
Cacao Apprenticeship
This journey is a commitment to your healing, your relationship with Cacao, and your evolution as a spaceholder. Our next 10 months Cacao Apprenticeships begin in October 2024. However, it is possible to start an Individual apprenticeship throughout the year.
Book a free initial discovery Call and let the magic unfold.
Investment for the Cacao Apprenticeship
Individual Cacao Apprenticeship = 35.000 kr.
Cacao Apprenticeship with 2-4 apprentices = 28.000 kr. per person
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