A private container held just for you and your people

For the group that's ready to go somewhere real.

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Some of the best conversations happen when people feel safe enough to stop performing.

When the small talk falls away and something true comes through. When a team stops presenting to each other and actually connects. When a group of friends or family stops skimming the surface and goes somewhere that matters.

Cacao creates that space.

She softens what's been hardened. She quiets the noise. She opens people, gently and without force, to what's already there underneath.

I've watched it happen in boardrooms and backyards, with strangers and with lifelong friends. Every single time, people leave feeling more like themselves and more connected to the people around them.

That's what a private ceremony does. And it's why I do this.

THIS IS THE RIGHT EXPERIENCE IF YOUR GROUP WANTS TO

Spark genuine connection before a big creative push or collaboration

Open a retreat, offsite, or team gathering at a deeper level than icebreakers allow

Integrate something you've been working on together, a shift in culture, a new direction, a hard season

Come to a celebration, a milestone, or a meaningful gathering and actually feel it

Create space for real conversation instead of surface-level socializing

Mark a personal threshold together, a birthday, a union, a goodbye, a beginning

How it happens:

I come to you. I set the space, I bring the cacao, and I guide your group through ceremony: a ritual drinking, a guided meditation, and open space for whatever wants to surface.

Some groups go deep. Some stay soft and accessible. I follow the room. What stays the same every time is the cacao, and the care I bring to holding the container.

You'll leave feeling cracked open in the best way. Closer to yourselves. Closer to each other.

A Private Ceremony

$350 flat + $25 per person | Everything included:

  • 90 minutes of ceremony and sound journey held just for you

  • Ceremonial grade cacao, prepared with intention

  • Extra cacao for every person to take home

  • Practice materials for solo integration

  • My full, unhurried presence

“I’ve been to a lot of corporate retreats. I’ve never been to one that started like this. The rest of the day felt completely different because of it.”

“I’m not someone who does this kind of thing. But within twenty minutes the whole room had softened in a way I’d never seen. We had better conversations that day than we’d had all year.”

“I thought it would be a little awkward to do something like this. It was the opposite. Something about it just... cracked us all open at the same time. We left closer than we’ve been in years.”

Lessen the distance between your head and your heart.

Lessen the distance between your head and your heart.

The Science

(for the part of you that wants to know)

Theobromine, cacao’s primary active compound, gently increases blood flow to your heart. Not a jolt, not a spike. Soft, sustained, open-hearted energy. She also works with three of your brain’s most powerful love molecules: phenylethylamine, the love molecule; oxytocin, the bonding hormone; and anandamide, named after the Sanskrit word for bliss.

When your heart opens chemically, it becomes easier to feel what you’ve been intellectualizing. That’s the bridge.

A gentle note, this isn't something you need every week, or even every month. My hope is for this to become a tool, something you return to seasonally, as a practice.

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