Cacao
Ceremony

Are you curious about cacao and ceremonial practices? Would you like to help yourself and others remain lit from within?

During this training, you will learn how to guide yourself and your community through cacao’s proven powers to open hearts, release blocks, and access higher perspectives.

Discover how to create a sacred ceremonial space that bridges ancestry and present consciousness to manifest positive change.

Through interactive workshops, practical learning, and in-person excursions you will gain confidence facilitating powerful ceremonies honoring cacao’s lineage from its roots in ancient African and Mayan cultures to its modern integration as a catalyst for inner exploration.

Experience cacao as a plant spirit and teacher, and share it’s sacred gifts with your clients and community.

• Craft cacao into nourishment; learn traditions from seed to cup plus recipes to open the heart’s wisdom
• Embody the centered presence for holding ceremonial space – energy management tools for safe, aligned facilitation
• Blend and administer cacao formulas connecting past lineages and emerging communities
• Lead intimate gatherings and large circles through proven sequences: set intentions, orchestrate journeys, guide integration
• Bridge ancient rhythms with modern personal development to initiate consciousness expansion

• Dive into the history, rituals and energetics of cacao
• Visit a cacao farm to understand the matrix of ceremonial pathways
• Learn space holding techniques to create an atmosphere of trust, care, and regeneration
• Facilitate intimate or large gatherings with confidence, care and compassion
• Transform yourself and others through the “food of the gods”
• Gather intelligence between Earth’s teachings and the Heart’s wisdom
• Realize from within why alignment and integration are essential and symbolize a pathway toward health and harmony

• Your heart’s wisdom compels service through ceremonial leadership
• Cacao’s abundant nourishment and indigenous roots magnetize deeper initiation
• An inward yearning to midwife transformation – both personal and collective – persists
• Guides, coaches, teachers feel destiny’s nudge to uplift communities through sacredness
• Unblocking healing powers through ritual, self-inquiry, and embodied sensations sounds affirming
• Blending earth’s ancient rhythms with current conscious spaces sparks inspiration
• Trusted mentorship and supportive community ease the often lonesome path of self-actualization

• Understand the essence of cacao’s rich history and communal gatherings around the world
• Become proficient in the farming, harvesting and preparation process of ceremonial cacao
• Customize recipes to suit your needs and communal intentions
• Facilitate gatherings for individuals and groups through integrative processing
• Align and integrate cacao with meditation, yoga and somatic movement
  

Located in the heart of bustling downtown Ubud, The Yoga Barn is a welcoming tropical oasis that has been an anchor for the global yoga community since 2007, when it humbly opened its gates, with only one simple studio on the edge of a raging river.

The spirit of The Yoga Barn is intrinsically led by the depth of Balinese culture & spirituality, blessed by the Hindu and animistic traditions of Bali, and embraced by the healing medicine of Ubud.

The Yoga Barn’s expansion over the years into a ‘global yoga epicenter’ has been in direct response to the demands of the student and is fueled by the passion and positive intentions of all the faculty and staff who participate in keeping the magic alive, daily.

Currently, The Yoga Barn is known as one of the top wellness & yoga centers in the world, as an oasis for learning, self-discovery, wellness, healing, rejuvenation and inner transformation.

The studios are famously known for their tropical environment which cultivates an ‘in nature’ connection, an aspect and feeling that is unique to The Yoga Barn experience.

Built within an enchanting ravine and thriving along beloved Jl. Gautama, Taksu fuses nature’s beauty with leading-edge wellness in Ubud’s heart.

Awaken senses strolling wood decks near gentle waterfalls, connecting with jungle sounds and primordial energy flow.

Learn ancestral wisdom traditions merging old rhythms into new eras alongside diverse teachers guiding from experience – the perfect foundation in this power spot.

Whether restoring delicate balance wandering forest trails, purifying in the Dragonfly Spa, or nourishing at the alchemical Tulsi Juice Bar, access deep restoration in this spiritual oasis known for harmonizing humans and nature.

For over a decade, Taksu has mentored restoration in body, mind and spirit echoing these lands’ primordial songlines.

Now immerse in their secrets to bridge cacao’s ancient magic with emerging communities through conscious ritual in one of Ubud’s most treasured destinations.

Though these aspects are thoroughly covered, this training was about everything required behind the scenes to forge oneself into who you need become to step into the role of facilitator with confidence and authenticity, uninhibited by any preconceived ideas about who you are and what is holding you back. This is about expanding and unveiling the essential nature that already exists within. This was a revitalization of the inner majesty that has always been there and in turn – a reminder of what exists inside us all if only we shed the stories and cultivate a relationship with our inner sanctum.

I am immensely grateful for the example Chocolako set regarding what it means to be a strong yet deeply nurturing presence, fully in her power, and helping me to remember how to step back into mine. If you feel called to this training, it is for a reason. And if you trust that and show up genuinely and ready to receive, you will grow in deeply profound, irreversible, and magnificent ways.”

MIANA, USA

I was not disappointed. This course was in my opinion excellent. I have learned valuable skills that are also transferable to other space holding events and I feel competent and confident leaving to facilitate my own ceremonies.

Guest teachers were brought in to offer specific insight and they were very good.

Excursions were fun, enjoyable and educational.

Chocolako holds her training with genuine care for her participants. An experienced and educated woman full of wisdom, keen to share what she has learned with others.”

PIPPA, UNITED KINGDOM

I consider it to be the best gift I ever gave to my self.

I felt so safe, seen and empowered through out the training.

She guided us with so much love and compassion and I definitely felt much more confident after the training .

I felt I got more than I expected with other external teachers included in the rich program.”

PETRA, NORWAY

Chocolako is a very experienced, wise and fun teacher. She has this amazing energy which she radiates to her surroundings. Chocolako has truly thought me to be confident and embrace the divine woman in me, which I am forever grateful for!”

AZRA, NETHERLANDS