WELCOME TO CIHUATL CACAO
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Join our Educational, Exploratory, Expressive Immersion and Communion
to learn of the Traditional Teachings and Herstory of Xocolatl (Cacao)
from the origin of Cem-Anahuac (Mesoamerica).
Are You Ready To Cultivate and Deepen Your Relationship With Cacao?
May you feel called to sit and study intimately with the Sacred Sacrament that is Cacao?
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Comprehensive Program imbued with Cultural Education, Medicinal Knowledge, Relationship Guidance, Inner Work Exploration, Healing Modalities and Ceremony.
It is true that Sacred Cacao Medicine has spread like wildfire around the world.
It is true that some of us acknowledge the Truth
beneath it’s colonization, some of us don’t, and some of us are foreign to it.
It is true that we are responsible in knowing the source of what we put into our bodies and respecting the origin by way of educating how this Medicine has been colonized + capitalized and how we can righteously participate in it’s preservation.
- The Medicine of Cacao’s Bittersweet Truth
THE JOURNEY BEGINS
From the Root to the Flower to the Fruit to the Bean.
Four Module Journey through the Elemental World to receive the Teachings of Earth, Air, Fire and Water within the
Ancient, Alchemical Wisdom of Xocolatl ‘Cacao’.
MODULE 1 - ROOT
Introducing Yourself to Cacao
Cultural Herstory + History
Alchemical Process - Bean to Cup
Preparation of Cacao doses
Medicinal Benefits
Welcoming Ceremony
MODULE 2 - FLOWER
Colonization of Cacao + Chocolate Industry
Creating Space for your Personal Path of Study
Cultivating your Relationship with Cacao
Invoking the Inner Child Creativity
Vocal + Song Liberation
MODULE 3 - FRUIT
Medicine of the Heart
Honoring Honesty and Accepting Life as Love
Cacao + Women’s Health Relevance
Cultural Appropriation vs. Appreciation / Reverent Reciprocity
MODULE 4 - BEAN
Praying to the Holy Water
Guidance for your Continued Communion with Cacao
Walking Heart Open with Integrity
Integration + Implementation
Closing Ceremony
Intimately Commune with Cacao
+ Dedicate to Your Personal Study Path
Join our community of Cihuame (Women) whom have journeyed through Cihuatl Cacao
Learn of the Fundamental Pillars of Xocolatl from the Cultural Lens of Cem-Anahuac
Listen to the Inner Instructions of Prayer + Ritual for the Design of your Study Path
Live your Creativity and Love your Heart Healing
WHAT’S INCLUDED?
Cihuatl Cacao Curriculum - Four Modules | 40 Pages
Study Guidebook with Informative Lessons, Journal Inquiries, Guidance for Communion and More.
Cihuatl Cacao Online Community
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WHAT’S NEEDED FOR THE JOURNEY?
Your Intimate Sacred Space at Home
Your Personal Bounty of Ceremonial Cacao
Your Open, Willing Heart
Essentials for Preparing Your Cacao -
Pure, Spring Water
Jarra / Pitcher + Molinillo / Whisk
Or Mason Jar / Blender
A Special Cup for your Cacao
PLEASE NOTE
This is Not an Initiation or Training to Serve Cacao and Facilitate Ceremony
This is an Educational Immersion for your Commitment to your Inner Self, Exploring your Relationship with Cacao and Personal Study Path
This Immersion is For You If You
Love Chocolate
Aren’t familiar with the Origin and Cultural History of Cacao
Are Interested and Ready to Cultivate a Relationship with Cacao in an Authentic, Reverent, Impactful way
Feel the Importance of Honoring the Original Stewards of this Medicine
Intuitively know Cacao has been calling you in deeper
Are Inquiring for the Inner Teachings and Spirit of Cacao
Long to learn more about the Medicinal Benefits of Cacao
Wondering how Cacao benefits Women’s Health
Are Exploring a Healing Protocol for Liver Detoxing
Feel Creatively blocked and Curious as to how Cacao can Uplift any blockages
Navigate Emotional or Hormonal Shifts and seek to Find Clarity and Restore Harmony
Need Guidance to Create a Personal Study Path and Devoted Ritual Practice
Know that Cultural Appropriation is a Risk to this Path and you’re Wondering how to Remain in Integrity
Feel the Heart Tug to Express your Voice through Song
Ready to Release Emotions, Open your Heart and Accept Life as Love
Ready to Walk In Beauty, Joy and Respect for the Ceremony of Life
COMMUNITY TESTIMONIAL
“Communing with Cacao in this intentional way is an act of decolonizing our relationship to what so many of us westerners know as chocolate. Like all plants, Cacao has a unique spirit, message, and essence to share with us. Depending what is alive for you in your own life, the messages that are received will vary.
It is clear in the cadence of Mariana’s voice, and the words she has chosen to share with us, that the wisdom of Cacao and the cultural traditions associated with this sacred plant medicine, course through her veins. If you are curious about deepening your relationship with Cacao, Mariana is a compassionate and experienced guide.”
“For me being in circle, means being in ceremony. I’ve been wanting to work and learn from Cacao in a more intimate way for many years, from the origin. Being in circle with Mariana has been a sweet, nutrient-dense moment of savoring history, Cacao as a plant, as medicine, as a weaver of the heart and how it brings us back to ourselves. Mariana’s strong spirit and devotion to Cacao and her lineage, weaves the circle in a such a beautiful way, with the presence of her ancestors can be felt, she is a vessel for this medicine to be passed on, so honored to keep learning from her and from Dear Cacao in these deeper layers. Grateful, always.”
“This tree has been grounding my sexual healing and awakening in the most gentle and loving way and it felt so good to introduce Cacao to the land ancestors and spirits of the original stewards (eastern Cherokee tribe, Tsalaguwetiyi)...
I feel very humbled to be in communion with Cacao, whose medicine is not a part of my blood ancestry, on this land, which is not the home of my ancestors, and to still feel the love and support for the healing I am doing to unravel the many layers the distortion of greed that lives within me...
Maraina, I am deeply grateful to you for holding this medicine space for me to remember the herstory of Cacao, and for the privilege of receiving the wise ways that your ancestors were in right-relationship with this medicine. Thank you for your gentle guidance and heartfelt invitations for me to begin this mending and healing journey with Xocolatl. ”
Meet your guide
Mariana Mae was raised with the warm, grounding essence of Cacao in the morning time with her family at their mesa de desayuno ‘breakfast table’.
Growing up in Mexico Tenochtitlan, Mariana connected to the medicine and Spirit of Cacao at a young age, yet she didn’t quite understand why.
Ever since Mariana embarked on her study path with Xocolatl to remember her Roots and reclaim the Costumbres ‘Traditions’ + Conocimientos ‘Teachings’ of her Grandmothers and Grandfathers, she has discovered the origin stories of Cem-Anahuac and how the medicine of Cacao has been revered, protected and honored for ancient times long ago.
Cihuatl Cacao is her comprehensive contribution to a global community ready to receive the Cultural Knowledge and Feminine Wisdom Foundational Pillars of Xocolatl.
With gratitude to her teachers from Mexico + Guatemala, as well as her matriarchal line of abuelas and tias whom passed on these sacred traditions, Mariana shares deep joy and reverence for the remembrance and role of the Cacao Woman - Cihuatl Cacao.
ENROLLMENT OPENS SOON
RE-LAUNCHING FEB 2024
I Look Forward to Deepening into this Heart Path with You
T l a z o c a m a t l i
Cacao Tree Photo by LavaLove Cacao