Join us a Group Cacao Meditation at our new studio in SE Portland.
Advanced registration is required
Enjoy a gentle, heart-warming experience with ceremonial cacao! This is perfect whether you're brand new to it or it's already part of your personal practice.
We'll have a check-in/intention circle at the beginning, and a sharing/integration time at the end, to be witnessed and find support in community.
In between, each week's facilitator will lead a meditation (about 45-60 min) that might include guided imagery, gentle breathing, light drumming, and/or slow movement while we sip our traditionally prepared, single-origin cacao.
It's common to leave with new insights, motivation, and/or clarity.
You'll have a choice of cacao serving size (4oz, 8oz, or 12oz), with a recommended "small" serving because it's a shorter experience (not a deep journey).
This space is confidential, consent-based, and trauma-informed. The guidance is simply an invitation to go within, in a held space with others doing the same. There's no "right" way to be here, as long as we're respectful of others in the space.
Seating options include backjacks (6), yoga bolsters (6), and loveseat/swivel chairs (4 spots, better if sitting near the ground is uncomfortable for you).
WHEN AND WHERE
6-8pm Tuesdays – Rotating teachers. Select your date in the drop menu.
1988 SE Ladd Ave
Portland, OR 97214
*Space is limited. Advanced registration required*
*Doors open at 5:45pm. To protect the container, new entry closes at 6:15pm even for those who registered.
CONTRIBUTION
$25
ABOUT CEREMONIAL CACAO
Cacao is the natural, unprocessed form of chocolate grown in tropical regions around the world. Most people know cacao as a superfood. It has possibly the highest amount of antioxidants of any food. Cacao contains beneficial minerals like iron and magnesium. It promotes the release of “happy” neurotransmitters in the brain. And the main active compound, theobromine, always appears in higher amounts than the caffeine, resulting in a more grounded, gentle energy.
Yet cacao also has another aspect not spoken about in health food stores. It has been used for ritual and celebratory purposes in Mesoamerica for thousands of years. This more mysterious "plant medicine" side of cacao offers the potential to put you more in touch with your body and your soul. You can gain insights into the best direction moving forward, as well as the focus and motivation to take action towards those goals.
Soul Lift Cacao sources authentic ceremonial cacao through ethical direct trade with historic cacao stewards in Latin America. Many brands import cacao seeds to process in a factory and then call it “ceremonial.” When the cacao is made where it grows, it makes the direct trade a lot more equitable. Currently our model sends an average of 17% the “fair trade” rate back to the source country. The cacao makers send intentions into the cacao for it to be a soul medicine for the world.
However Nick advises against using the term "cacao ceremony," and he'll explain why in this course!
ABOUT NICK
Nick Meador is the founder of Soul Lift Cacao, a social enterprise working with indigenous groups in Latin America who prepare authentic ceremonial cacao using ancient traditions. Nick has also been a transformational facilitator for over a decade, leading experiences ranging from 3-hour cacao journeys, to immersive cacao tours in Guatemala and Mexico. Nick also trains people how to share cacao ethically through his courses.
In 2015, Guatemalan ceremonial cacao changed Nick’s life by helping him overcoming chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS). In the years since, Nick has traveled throughout Central America connecting with cacao farms, collectives, and experts. He founded Soul Lift Cacao with the mission to create a positive impact in the world by helping historic cacao stewards share their cacao here in the U.S.
ABOUT MELODEE
Coming soon!
ABOUT ALELIE
Coming soon!
LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
We acknowledge that we are gathering on the ancestral lands of the Multnomah, Kathlamet, Clackamas, Tumwater, Watlala bands of the Chinook, the Tualatin Kalapuya, and many other indigenous nations of the area that is now called Portland, Oregon.
