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Saturday, 15 March 2025
incl. VAT
Freedom Cacao Ceremony with Expressive Breathwork, Meditation & Sound (Mini Retreat Day)
A deep journey of release and rejuvenation with Shane Cooke (4 Hours) £55.00 / Placeincl. VAT
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Connect to your Intuitive Centre
About the Event
In this sacred circle, we’ll come together to share a cup of beautiful cacao elixir, inviting the energy of Mama Cacao and the presence of the four elements into our space. The Spirit of Cacao, a wise and nurturing guide, holds radiant feminine energy that fosters a sense of connection with both Mother Earth and the Cosmos. Known for her gentle but profound healing, Cacao opens the heart and aligns us with our intuitive center, allowing access to insights, energetic shifts, and release from blockages. Through this journey, you may receive personal guidance to nurture your path forward and welcome a natural flow of abundance into your life. Our ceremony will blend the grounding essence of cacao with breathwork, sound healing, and a fire ceremony, creating a transformative and invigorating experience. To close our circle, we’ll share herbal teas and snacks, honoring our bodies and spirits as we return, refreshed and renewed, from this journey.
How do Ceremonies help?
Ceremonies offer a powerful space for releasing stagnant, heavy, and non-serving energies, guiding us back to a state of wholeness, warmth, and deep connection. Through the gentle yet transformative power of ritual, we open ourselves to healing experiences that can elevate our vibrational energy, nourishing higher levels of self-love, confidence, and spiritual alignment. Whether you seek to let go of old patterns and emotional blocks, release past experiences, or simply bask in feelings of love and euphoria, the spirit of cacao invites you on this journey. These ceremonies create a sacred space for you to reconnect with your true self, supporting you as you realign with your intentions and embrace the path to where you want to be.
A beautiful space to open your heart
Is there something in your life that no longer serves you? A thought, habit, or past experience you’re ready to release? Our ceremonies create a safe, sacred space for heart-centered release, allowing you to let go of what no longer serves you. Together, we step into our power, individually and as a group, supported by courage, strength, and a non-judgmental community. Here, freedom awaits.
At the center of our circle is a beautiful altar, a space that holds energy and supports our journeys. You’re welcome to bring a treasured item, perhaps a crystal, a sacred tool, or a photo of someone dear, as a symbol of your intention and a reminder of why you’re here. We’ll place it on the altar, where it will be held in the collective energy throughout the ceremony, supporting you as you embark on this transformative journey.
4.5 Hour Ceremony Itinerary
Ceremony Schedule
- Welcome to the space | Introduction | Cacao talk
- Setting intentions, smudging & grounding session
- Journaling what we are going to release and let go
- Drink the sacred cacao medicine & open our hearts - Main Ceremony
- Conscious expressive breathwork journey to drop deeper into our bodies, expand consciousness and release unwanted energies
- Meditation & Sound
- Fire & drums – Burn what doesn’t serve us
- Fire Gathering, Fresh Soup and Herbal Teas
- Close
Ceremonial Music
The entire ceremony is accompanied by a thoughtfully curated soundtrack of medicine music, designed to support and deepen your journey. This healing soundscape is crafted to guide you through each phase of the experience, allowing the music to carry you inward and enhance your connection. We’ll incorporate a range of sacred instruments, including gongs, drums, and rattles, each adding its unique resonance to the circle. These sounds are carefully chosen to help clear stagnant energy, soothe the mind, and create a meditative space where you can explore, release, and renew.
How to Prepare for the Ceremony
Be prepared and wear comfortable clothing and please bring:
- Yoga mat
- Small pillow
- Cover/throw
- Water
- Notebook and pen
- Eye cover (if you need one)
- Your favourite mug
- Try not to have a large meal or any caffeine within the 4 hours before ceremony
What is a Cacao Ceremony?
A cacao ceremony is a sacred gathering rooted in ancient traditions, designed to foster connection, introspection, and heart-opening experiences. Originating from the indigenous cultures of Mesoamerica, cacao was regarded as a divine plant medicine used in rituals and spiritual practices for thousands of years. Revered as "the food of the gods," cacao was believed to facilitate communication with the spirit world and to deepen personal reflection. Today, modern cacao ceremonies honor this rich heritage while offering participants a gentle, non-psychoactive way to explore mindfulness, emotional release, and a sense of unity.
The benefits of a cacao ceremony extend beyond its historical and spiritual significance. The natural compounds in ceremonial-grade cacao, such as theobromine and magnesium, promote relaxation, heightened focus, and a sense of well-being. Combined with intentional practices like meditation, music, and sharing, cacao can help participants release emotional blocks, enhance self-awareness, and cultivate a deeper connection to themselves and others. Whether you’re seeking clarity, healing, or simply a nurturing space to reflect, a cacao ceremony offers a warm and transformative journey for mind, body, and soul.
Moving Energy
Conscious, Expressive, Breathwork
Conscious Expressive Breathwork is a transformative breathwork modality designed to connect you deeply with your body’s innate wisdom. This practice involves breathing to different rhythmic patterns for 45 minutes, supported by music, Reiki energy, and sound vibrations to create a multidimensional healing experience. By engaging in this process, you unlock and release stagnant energy cycles stored within your body, allowing vitality and flow to replace heaviness and low-vibrational energy. As the breath initiates this release, somatic movement becomes a natural extension, guiding you to intuitively follow the energy's path. Together, the breath and movement encourage the body to express and release, enabling profound healing and alignment.
The Benefits of Sound Healing
Experience the profound benefits of sound healing where the vibrational power of sound is used to harmonise body, mind, and spirit. Sound healing works by resonating deeply with our body's natural frequencies, allowing each cell to release tension and restore balance. The gong, in particular, produces a vast range of frequencies that penetrate the body at a cellular level, clearing stagnant energy and promoting deep healing. These sound vibrations help to calm the nervous system, shift brainwaves to a meditative state, and release emotional blockages, allowing for complete relaxation and renewal. Join us in this transformative journey, where you can experience true inner peace and rejuvenation.
Spiritual & Emotional Effects of Cacao
Heart
Opens the heart by dilating blood vessels allowing you to feel connected to your inner self.
Meditation
Decreases anxiety and helps us to meditate at a deeper spiritual level.
Emotions
Releases emotional blockages that no longer serve us and helps us find forgiveness in ourselves and others.
Subconscious
Enables us to access trapped emotions, conditions and patterns that are buried deep in the Sub-conscious.
Tranquility
Feelings of peace, tranquillity and floatiness.
Cacao, the Food of the Gods
The cacao we’ll be working with on the day is our potent Criollo variety, an ancient strain sourced from the central rainforest in Peru.
If you’d like, cacao will be available for purchase on the day for personal use. After the ceremony, I’ll be on hand to provide insight and guidance to support your own personal journeys with cacao. Please feel free to ask any questions.
Nurture your relationship
with Mamma Cacao
Very Important
Important: Please Read
Contraindications For Cacao
Although cacao is safe for most of us some people should take extra precautions for themselves before eating or drinking cacao.
Cacao is contraindicated with antidepressants including some SSRIs and all MORI antidepressants. If you are on high doses, I would not advise drinking a cacao. If you are on smaller doses smaller amounts of cacao are usually ok, but as always consult your doctor. In the weeks leading to the ceremony, you may want to test doses. Start with 5-10g in 250ml of water and see how that is for you. Please note cacao raises serotonin levels significantly.
For people with increased anxiety, a history of seizures, diabetes and heart conditions please consult your doctor before ingesting cacao.
More information on request. If you have asthma, please have your inhaler beside you.
Contraindications for Breathwork
Breathwork can result in physical and emotional release. Therefore, you are not allowed to practise Breathwork if you have epilepsy, detached retina, glaucoma, uncontrolled high blood pressure, cardiovascular diseases (including prior heart attack), mental disorders such as manic disorder, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, paranoia, psychotic episodes. If you suffer from strokes, TIA´s, seizures or other brain/neurological conditions. If you have physical injuries that are not fully healed and also lung diseases such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD-II and COPD-III)
Liability
Please note that by purchasing a ticket you agree that The Jasper Cacao Project Ltd and Shane Cooke are not liable for any injury or harm that you may incur at this practice/class & you fully understand the contraindications of ingesting Cacao and breathwork practice. You agree to take full responsibility of yourself, your health, your well-being and all of your belongings whilst at the ceremony.
Event Reviews
I had such an amazing journey at the Freedom Retreat. Shane holds space in a truly genuine and safe way, and I would recommend it to anyone
Reviewed by Lisa NewLove on Thursday 27th March 2025
Feeling totally blessed to have found Shauns cacao ceremony, the whole experience was amazing and Shaun guides you through effortlessly and creates a safe welcoming space. Truly an amazing experience.
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Cacao Ceremony, Expressive Breathwork , Meditation & Sound
Reviewed by Emma on Saturday 20th April 2024
Shane held a beautiful event, he was very friendly and calming. There is something really lovely about coming together as a collective with likeminded souls. I felt much lighter and left with an open heart. I will definitely be attending more of Shanes events :-)
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Cacao Ceremony, Expressive breathwork and Meditation
Reviewed by Leanne on Friday 22nd December 2023
Beautiful evening, thank you to everyone involved. A safe space held with kindness and compassion by Shane, it is clear how much he cares about the people and how passionate he is about the cacao. I drink cacao every morning however, Shane's cacao was potent and drinking it just before the breathwork and meditation/visualisation made for a very deep experience with both. I left feeling lighter, I had let go of things that no longer serve me and which have been weighing me down. Although I work weekly with an incredible coach, there is something very special about being with others in ceremony that allows a different type of release.
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Cacao Ceremony, Expressive breathwork and Meditation
Reviewed by Katie Baker on Tuesday 19th December 2023
Amazing...amazing...amazing best experience I've given myself in a long time. Thank you
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Cacao Ceremony, Expressive Breathwork, Meditation & Sound
Reviewed by Aileen on Sunday 17th December 2023
I attended Shane’s cacao ceremony with breathwork. I found the experience very relaxing yet cathartic especially the powerful breathwork. I really felt like it was shifting some stuck energy. Shane holds the space with a warm energy that makes one feel relaxed. Highly recommended...x
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Cacao Ceremony, Expressive breathwork and Meditation
Reviewed by Gillian Turner on Sunday 29th October 2023