BRIDGE TRADITION with TRANSFORMATION
Cacao
Ceremony
FACILITATION TRAINING
WITH CHOCOLAKO
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Journey into the mystical world of cacao ceremonies and unlock the healer within.
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.
Over 10 days of in-person learning, this course will prepare you to:
- 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
Immerse yourself in the origins, rituals, and preparation of ceremonial cacao.
- 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
This journey calls to you if:
- 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
This training will support you to gain:
- Extensive immersion into cacao’s history – from cultivation to modern applications
- Become proficient in bean-to-bar chocolate alchemy – the complete farm-to-cup spectrum
- Source high-vibration cacao aligned with your ethics and intentions
- Develop skills for holding ceremonial space from energetic principles to ritual frameworks – for both individual and collective transformation.
Guide from Embodied Wisdom
Having directed your own metamorphosis through cacao, new wisdom and intuition awaken – allowing you to compassionately guide others seeking growth and healing.
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There’s a reason why Earth and Heart are spelled with the same letters. Find out why for yourself during this 10-day journey in Ubud, Bali.
The practical knowledge and inner development gained will allow you to merge ancient rituals with modern communities……
Develop confident facilitation skills grounded in respect for the past, present, and future of cacao’s place in spirituality and personal development
Deepen your knowledge from seed to ceremony:
- 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
A SAMPLE DAILY SCHEDULE
9:30 am | Breakfast
10:30 am | Cacao Workshop #1
12:00 am | Lunch and Lounge
2:00 pm | Cacao Workshop #2
3:30 pm | Personal Practice
4:30 pm | Yinnergy or Restorative Innergy
5:30 pm | Integration and After Care
Meet Chocolako
As the first woman freed from arranged marriage in her lineage, this intuitive guide has blossomed into a radiant force for transformation.
Having cultivated spiritual mentorship across 6 continents, Chocolako creatively integrates rituals to empower others in liberating themselves and living out their soul’s purpose.
Whether studying with shamans or elders in Peru, preparing cacao in Mexico, or exploring the Maasai Mara Safari with a group, she’s always deepening her well of insight and supporting others to do the same.
Chocolako is an international yoga teacher and teacher trainer at The Yoga Barn in Ubud, Bali.
Her uplifting classes, Cacao Ceremony Facilitation Training and Womb Wisdom Wellbeing Yoga Teacher Training bridge tradition with transformation to help students shine from within.
With over 8,000 teaching hours, this soulful E-RYT 500 exudes warmth, and holds space for grace, laughter, tears and expansion.
Beyond teaching yoga worldwide, Chocolako earned her MBA from Bayes Business School in London, an MPH from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Bachelor of Science degree in Human & Organizational Development from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee.
Learn more at www.chocolako.com and savor her uniquely flavored offerings!
Location: The Yoga Barn in Ubud, Bali
(April, August and December Trainings)
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.
Location: Taksu Wellness Center in Ubud, Bali
(May and July Trainings)
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.
Ready to unlock the healer within and bridge tradition with transformation?
FACILITATION TRAINING
EARLY BIRD RATE
(Early bird rate by March 15th)
*Save an additional $200 if you bring a friend!
- 10 days of experiential learning
- Hands-on facilitator training
- Foundational training manual
- Breakfast included
- Culinary instruction
- Chocolate making workshop
- Ceremonial grade cacao
- Recipes and step-by-step ceremony guidance
- Water Purification Temple Visit
- Cacao Farm Excursion
- Certificate upon completion
- Continued education credit for Registered Yoga Teachers with Yoga Alliance – YACEP
MAY 8-18
JULY 1-10
AUG 1-10
DEC 12-21
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