Cacao training

With Familia Cacao, we have facilitated over five in-depth cacao trainings, guided by Mayan cosmovision and ancestral wisdom.Together with Tata Walter from Guatemala, we have offered immersive 5- and 9-day training experiences, designed to reconnect participants with the roots of cacao — its origins, its spirit, and the authentic ways to work with this sacred plant and share it with the world.

These trainings are not only about learning — they are about remembering, embodying, and integrating a way of relating to life, to nature, and to community.

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What the training includes

Deep wisdom & lineage

• Transmission of knowledge about the sacred cacao plant, its history, prophecy, and role in the Mayan world. 
• Understanding how cacao lives and evolves within the modern world.

Ceremonial cacao preparation

• How to prepare cacao in a ceremonial way
• Understanding different types and qualities of cacao
• How to work with cacao in your own offerings and spaces

Mayan cosmovision & calendar

• Introduction to Mayan cosmovision
• Discovering your nawal (your personal day energy / spirit guide)
• Learning how to work with the energy of the day to support your facilitation of cacao circles

Facilitation & space-holding

• Structure of a cacao gathering or ceremony
• How to create a safe, grounded, and meaningful container
• Understanding responsibility, presence, and energetic awareness

Altars & symbolic space

• How to create powerful and supportive altars
• Working with elements, symbols, and intention

Songs, prayers & expression

• Learning traditional and inspired cacao songs and prayers
• Using voice, music, and expression as part of the space

Somatic perspective

• Understanding the body in facilitation
• How to support emotional processes through embodiment and presence

Your unique transmission

• Finding your own authentic way of working with cacao
• Moving beyond imitation into personal expression and truth

The experience

These trainings are deeply experiential and immersive.

They include:

• Cacao circles 
• singing workshops
• somatic and movement practices
• fire rituals
• sharing circles
• moments of silence, reflection, and integration

It is a space of both learning and transformation, where knowledge is not only understood, but lived.

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If you feel called to walk this path and deepen your connection with cacao —

→ Apply for the next training. 

Join us for the upcoming immersion and step into your own relationship with this sacred plant and the wisdom it carries. ♡