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As truly special members of our community we wanted to reach out and personally invite you to join Florencia Fridman + Pablo Castro this summer solstice For the Love of Cacao retreat at beautiful Shambalante retreat center✨

This Retreat was curated for our global Cacao community who shares Cacao, is wanting to deepen their knowledge or are looking for an immersive experience on ceremonial Cacao

This summer solstice we invite you to embark on a beautiful journey to the heart of the Mayan Jungle in the Yucatán region where many of the communities there have been practicing their traditions for thousands of years.

We know how amazing this medicine of cacao is that allows us to connect deeper to the heart space, and also begin to activate the essence of unconditional love.

Many communities throughout meso america have understood the power of this plant spirit.

Through this beautiful journey, during the upcoming summer solstice, we will get to know this plant through the history but also through ancient recipes that have been used in this part of the world.

We will open the space with a sacred fire ceremony guided by a local elder, we will also connect with the wisdom of the temazcal.

We are reaching out to our Florecer Community to make sure you know everything there is to share that Shambalante is offering a 5% discount until May 20th!

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For the Love of Cacao

Join us for a Solstice celebration with Cacao
in the heart of Yucatan

🗓 June 20-23rd, 2024 (Summer Solstice)
📍 Yucatan Mexico​
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A retreat to connect with cacao and the wisdom of the prehispanic latin american cultures, to discover more lightness, joy and alignment in our spiritual path.

In this retreat you will learn more about cacao, its uses today and its relevance to the Mayan culture in the pre-hispanic period. You will be involved in the use of this sacred plant and connect with the energy of the solstice, through cacao drinking, yoga, temazcal, dream interpretation and offerings to Mother Earth.

With the magic of cacao and the Mayan and Amazonian wisdoms, we will travel within ourselves to discover peace, love and joy to be co-creators of reality. We will connect with the sacred cacao, remembering our beautiful purposes on this Mother Earth.

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What will you learn?

• Traditional ways and recipes to connect with cacao in a loving and simple way.
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• Energetic connection with one’s own body through yoga.
• Perspectives on the interpretation of dreams, from the Amazonian cosmovision.
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• Knowledge about the sacredness of cacao in the ancient Mayan culture (hieroglyphics, iconography, cosmovision)
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• Greater connection between the emotional, mental, physical and spiritual bodies, through a temazcal ceremony.
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• Knowledge to offer to Mother Earth through indigenous cosmovisions.
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• Alignment of the spiritual path, by recognizing the social, ecological and energetic congruence in daily life.
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• Greater capacity to weave community from joy, humility, love and solidarity.

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🌞 Schedule of Activities 🌞

Thursday, June 20th

15:00 hrs – Arrival and cleansing ritual
17:00 hrs – Opening Ceremony
19:30 – 20:30 hrs – Dinner
20:30hrs – Music Circle

Friday, June 21st

7:00 hrs – Talk on dream interpretation and yoga session
8:30 – 9:30 hrs – Breakfast
10:00 – 12:00 hrs – Demonstration of cocoa recipes
12:30 – 13:30 hrs – Lunch
14:00 – 16:00 – Cacao Ceremony: Offering of gratitude to Mother Earth
16:30 – 19:00 hrs – Experience “The twenty nahuales”.
19:30 – 20:30 hrs – Dinner

Saturday June 22nd

7:00 hrs – Talk on interpretation of dreams and yoga session
8:00 – 9:00 hrs – Breakfast
9:30 – 12:30 hrs – Temazcal (sweat lodge)
12:30 – 13:30 hrs – Light lunch
15:00 – 17:00 hrs – Talk about ancient Mayan cacao and cacao hieroglyphics drawing exercise
17:30 – 19:00 hrs – Cacao drinking and meditation with sound
19:30 – 20:30 hrs – Dinner

Sunday, June 23rd

7:00 hrs – Talk on dream interpretation and yoga session
8:00 – 9:00 hrs – Breakfast
10:00 hrs – Closing Ceremony
12:30 hrs – Lunch and Farewell

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