You are invited to a prayerful morning of Chocolate & Chanting ~ Kirtan and Cacao with JoJo Silverman and Antonio Aversano. We will together create a safe and sacred space to receive guidance, sing praises, share visions and befriend grief, whilst communing with cacao medicine. Please register here to reserve your space and for more details.
$33 suggested donation. |
Sunday, October 22nd, 11:11am - 2:22pm
The Guthrie Center / Old Trinity Church, Great Barrington, MA
The Guthrie Center / Old Trinity Church, Great Barrington, MA
If you have any questions, you can reach Antonio by private message by clicking here.
Ceremonial Considerations
Things to Bring
• Reusable water bottle filled with water. Water is good medicine with cacao.
• Your special hot beverage mug (we always have some available).
• Sacred objects for the altar.
• Anything else you'd like to make yourself comfortable - cushion, blanket, shawl, etc...
• A pen and journal to take notes from our journey.
• Most important, please bring your full presence with an open heart and open mind.
* A Ceremonial Cacao drink is included as a part of this offering! *
And, you do not need to drink cacao to participate in this commUnity experience.
What is Ceremonial Cacao?
Chocolate, as it's commonly called, is a safe and legal plant medicine that can be an amazing assistant and catalyst in our Self-Realization. This Heart-Activation journey includes a potent dose of ceremonial grade, hand-peeled, lightly roasted heirloom cacao from Guatemala. Journeyers will learn more about chocolate as medicine and how to use it.
It is recommended that you eat very lightly (or not at all) prior to the ceremony to allow for full absorption of cacao.
Contraindications: Do not drink much cacao if you have a major heart condition, have severe low blood pressure, you are taking antidepressants (esp. Mao inhibitors), or if you are pregnant. Do not mix with alcohol or other stimulants. Cacao is toxic to Dogs, Cats, horses and other animals. Keep away from your pets!
What is a Cacao Ceremony?
Before the advent of commercial chocolate, cacao seeds were prepared as a ceremonial drink within the indigenous cultures of Mesoamerica. When used in ceremony cacao acts as a gentle, yet powerful, assistant to stimulate the pineal gland and open the heart. The effect helps to increase sensitivity to subtle energies and facilitate connection. Reclaiming chocolate medicine in this way, while sitting together with intention, holding sacred space, is a powerful way to transform our reality and to feel the love and support that is always present within us. It is of great importance in this day and age to take time out - even for an afternoon - and to remember this place of sweetness and alignment. Going home to this place together in a group, amplifies the experience and can have a deep and lasting effect on our consciousness. This experience, of allowing ourselves to fill up, as we sit in the company of our reflected truth, is called Satsanga. Medicine of the Heart employs the ancient remedies of Cacao and Kirtan as our faithful assistants on a journey of powerful vibration to reconnect and remember who we truly are.
Things to Bring
• Reusable water bottle filled with water. Water is good medicine with cacao.
• Your special hot beverage mug (we always have some available).
• Sacred objects for the altar.
• Anything else you'd like to make yourself comfortable - cushion, blanket, shawl, etc...
• A pen and journal to take notes from our journey.
• Most important, please bring your full presence with an open heart and open mind.
* A Ceremonial Cacao drink is included as a part of this offering! *
And, you do not need to drink cacao to participate in this commUnity experience.
What is Ceremonial Cacao?
Chocolate, as it's commonly called, is a safe and legal plant medicine that can be an amazing assistant and catalyst in our Self-Realization. This Heart-Activation journey includes a potent dose of ceremonial grade, hand-peeled, lightly roasted heirloom cacao from Guatemala. Journeyers will learn more about chocolate as medicine and how to use it.
It is recommended that you eat very lightly (or not at all) prior to the ceremony to allow for full absorption of cacao.
Contraindications: Do not drink much cacao if you have a major heart condition, have severe low blood pressure, you are taking antidepressants (esp. Mao inhibitors), or if you are pregnant. Do not mix with alcohol or other stimulants. Cacao is toxic to Dogs, Cats, horses and other animals. Keep away from your pets!
What is a Cacao Ceremony?
Before the advent of commercial chocolate, cacao seeds were prepared as a ceremonial drink within the indigenous cultures of Mesoamerica. When used in ceremony cacao acts as a gentle, yet powerful, assistant to stimulate the pineal gland and open the heart. The effect helps to increase sensitivity to subtle energies and facilitate connection. Reclaiming chocolate medicine in this way, while sitting together with intention, holding sacred space, is a powerful way to transform our reality and to feel the love and support that is always present within us. It is of great importance in this day and age to take time out - even for an afternoon - and to remember this place of sweetness and alignment. Going home to this place together in a group, amplifies the experience and can have a deep and lasting effect on our consciousness. This experience, of allowing ourselves to fill up, as we sit in the company of our reflected truth, is called Satsanga. Medicine of the Heart employs the ancient remedies of Cacao and Kirtan as our faithful assistants on a journey of powerful vibration to reconnect and remember who we truly are.
"It may be that some little root of the sacred tree still lives. Nourish it then, that it may leaf and bloom and fill with singing birds."
Black Elk
Black Elk