Cacao Facilitator Program, December 2026.
8th day Initiation into Cacao as a medicine
Next date: 01.12.2026555
with Cacao Fino de Aroma
From a sanctuary for wildlife conservation called: Ecuador.
Somatic Regulation & Nervous System Mastery: understanding trauma patterns, parasympathetic activation, and cacao’s neuromodulating properties.
Ancestral & Alchemical Cacao Studies: Mayan cosmology, Andean lineage wisdom, and practical alchemy of preparation, dosage, and ceremony.
Facilitation Ethics & Energetic Boundaries: learning to hold medicine spaces with clarity, humility, and heart integrity.
Embodied Service & Leadership: cultivating a grounded presence that transmits healing rather than performs it.
Land & Reciprocity: direct immersion with regenerative projects protecting the Fino de Aroma cacao legacy and the Jaguar’s forest.
AYA 🌺 Pacha Cacao ® — December 2026 Cohort
This is not a beginner’s journey.
It is a specialization program, a sacred deepening designed for those who are already practicing within the healing arts: therapists, coaches, space holders, energy workers, yoga teachers, ceremonial guides, and plant medicine practitioners ready to refine their craft.
🌎Through this initiatory pathway, we enter the sacred art of balancing and recalibrating the nervous system, working with the ancient intelligence of Cacao as a living medicine.
You will learn to guide others through embodied states of coherence and release, blending ancestral wisdom, somatic science, and herbal astrology to awaken the heart’s original rhythm.
This training unfolds across a paradise-like landscape in Ecuador, where forest-grown Cacao Fino de Aroma meets sacred water, volcanic soil, and celestial guidance.
Each participant will journey through the ceremonial, emotional, and scientific dimensions of holding space with integrity, learning to bridge the physical and the energetic, the personal and the planetary.✨
This intensive is a specialization for experienced healers, not an introductory course.
It is designed for those already walking the path of therapy, yoga, herbalism, energy medicine, or plant facilitation who are ready to deepen mastery through Cacao Medicine, bridging science, herbalism, astrology, and alchemy.
Across eight immersive days in the paradise-like lands of Ecuador, we will explore Cacao as both neuro-regenerative medicine and sacred teacher, balancing the nervous system and awakening the heart’s coherent rhythm.
This intensive is a specialization for experienced healers, not an introductory course.
It is designed for those already walking the path of therapy, yoga, herbalism, energy medicine, or plant facilitation who are ready to deepen mastery through Cacao Medicine, bridging science, herbalism, astrology, and alchemy.
Across eight immersive days in the paradise-like lands of Ecuador, we will explore Cacao as both neuro-regenerative medicine and sacred teacher, balancing the nervous system and awakening the heart’s coherent rhythm.
🜂 DAY 1 — The Call of the Fire Heart
Opening Ceremony · Nervous System Mapping
Orientation to AYA 🌺 Pacha Cacao ® lineage and ethics.
Somatic grounding and parasympathetic activation.
Understanding Cacao as a neuromodulator and heart opener.
💨 DAY 2 — Science & Soul of Cacao
Biochemistry · Neuroendocrine Harmony
Active compounds: theobromine, anandamide, magnesium, MAO inhibitors.
How cacao influences serotonin, dopamine, and oxytocin cycles.
Bridging scientific and ceremonial perspectives.
🌿 DAY 3 — The Herbalist’s Eye
Cacao as Plant Ally & Phytotherapeutic Matrix
Formulating with adaptogens and womb herbs.
Alchemical temperature, roasting, and fermentation as living processes.
Crafting personalized blends for emotional regulation.
✨ DAY 4 — Celestial Codes of Cacao
Astrology · Venus & Mars · The Cosmic Fire of Service
Planetary correspondences of cacao.
Reading birth charts through the lens of medicinal plants.
Aligning ceremony timing with lunar and Venus cycles.
🌑 DAY 5 — Alchemy of Transformation
Shadow Work · Elemental Integration
Working with death and rebirth archetypes (KEMÉ & KAN).
Obsidian and mushroom allies for inner purification.
Guided shamanic journey: the melting of resistance into devotion.
🦋 DAY 6 — Sound · Breath · Movement
Somatic Release & Coherence Practices
Breathwork, vocal toning, and movement as regulation tools.
How to safely guide participants through emotional waves.
Designing sensory sequences for ceremonial flow.
🕸 DAY 7 — WHat is Ceremony
Facilitation Ethics · Energetic Boundaries
Trauma-informed leadership and group dynamics.
Ritual protection, prayer, and integrity in service.
Practicum: leading a micro-ceremony.
🌞 DAY 8 — Ceremony of Reciprocity
Integration · Certification · Commitment to the Earth
Closing cacao fire ceremony and personal oath to Mother Earth.
Presentation of facilitator projects linked to conservation.
Blessing with Cacao Fino de Aroma and Jaguar spirit invocation.
Return to Sacred Origins
🌳 Day 2: Conservation as Ceremony – Awakening the Guardian Within
Location: AYA 🌺 Pacha Sanctuary | Puerto Quito Region
🌞 Morning: The Unveiling – Why Conservation is Sacred
Guided walk through our sanctuary’s reforested paths, where once-threatened lands now bloom with cacao, native flowers, and songbirds.
Teaching Circle:
“Conservation is not charity. It’s remembrance.”
What does it mean to protect a land that gave you cacao?
Introduction to land stewardship, biodiversity guardianship, and the interdependence between cacao and native forest ecosystems
Understanding native Cacao Fino de Aroma as a living prayer that only thrives in biodiverse, sacred relationships — not monocultures.
🌱 Theme: Conservation is not optional — it is survival. It is the ground where the sacred grows.
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🪔 Midday: Truth Telling – The Shadow of Chocolate
Community Dialogue Circle:
“What you eat becomes who you are — but do you know where it came from?”
Unveiling the shadow of the modern chocolate industry:
Deforestation
Child labor & exploitation
Genetic modification & hybridization
Chemical additives, dairy, and sugar
Why single origin cacao is not a trend, but a spiritual and ecological necessity.
Honoring the resistance of our Ecuadorian ancestral farmers, who preserved cacao as a ceremonial plant — with agroecological techniques that worked with the Earth, not against her.
🍲 Lunch: Ancestral Nourishment
Enjoy a meal made with local, native ingredients grown through regenerative practices — an embodied taste of what conscious conservation feels like.
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🌳 Afternoon: From Consumer to Guardian
Interactive Reflection:
“What is my relationship with the things I consume?”
Group inquiry and journaling: how we become participants in restoration, not just spiritual tourists
Learn simple yet powerful ways to support land regeneration, cacao biodiversity, and ancestral food systems — wherever you are in the world
Earth Guardian Pledge Wall:
Each guest writes one act of reciprocity they will carry forward
(seed planting, food sourcing, cacao honoring, conscious storytelling, etc.)
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🌿 Theme:
You are not here to consume medicine.
You are here to remember how to be medicine — for the land, for cacao, for the children of the future.
Day 4: Intag, The Water & Life Sanctuary – Guardians of the Unseen
Location: Intag Cloud Forest | Imbabura Province
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🌄 Morning: Ascending into the Cloud Realm
Departure from Puerto Quito as we rise into the lush embrace of Intag, one of the most biodiverse and threatened regions on Earth.
A slow, contemplative journey into the mists — entering the home of sacred waters, jaguar trails, and orchid spirits.
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🏡 Midday Arrival: The Sanctuary of Doña Ileana de los Ángeles
Arrival at the Water & Life Sanctuary, a sacred land named in honor of Doña Ileana de los Ángeles, beloved mother and matriarch of the Ramírez family.
Welcomed by:
Bryan Ramírez – steward of this sacred land and young guardian of the new generation
His siblings – co-weavers of the sanctuary’s vision
Javier Ramírez – grandfather elder, leader of Intag’s anti-mining resistance for over 3 generations
🍲 Shared Lunch — a warm, nourishing meal with the family, sourced from local agroforestry and ancestral recipes
🌿 Theme: To sit at the table of the resistance is to eat from the hand of the Earth.
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🌺 Afternoon: Sacred Reciprocity with the Cacao Elder & Flower Spirits
We journey to the Cacao elder tree near the conservation garden — a cacao unlike any other, perfumed with an enchanting floral essence, rooted in deep Earth memory.
Ceremony of Sacred Reciprocity to offer your prayers to the land, and listen to the presence of the tree.
Botanical Immersion with Bryan, who will introduce:
The secret world of wild Ecuadorian orchids
How they influence and communicate with the cacao tree
The sacred ecology between birds, flowers, trees, and human presence
🌸 Theme: Not all pollination is physical. Some is spiritual.
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🐸 Evening: Into the World of the Dinosaur Frog
Sunset guided conservation walk with Bryan and the young elders
Monitor and observe the habitat of the “extinct” dinosaur frog, a sacred amphibian whose survival mirrors the health of the land
Teachings:
The role of clean, sacred water
The interdependence of species — frog, orchid, jaguar, hummingbird
The urgency of resistance to mining contamination in Intag
How one small frog holds the balance of an entire ecosystem
💧 Theme: When we protect Water, Water protects us.
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✨ Close of Day
Night rest in the sanctuary, wrapped in the breath of mist, orchids, and ancestral dreams
Optional reflection:
> “If I disappear the unseen, what beauty will be left in the world?”
“How can I be a voice for what cannot speak?”
Day 5: The Offering of Water – Beauty as Resistance
Location: Intag Cloud Forest | Treehouse Sanctuary
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🌿 Where You Rest: A Vision in the Trees
For Days 4 & 5, your home is our first sacred treehouse, a living prayer rooted in the forest canopy of Intag.
Built by local hands and fueled by ancestral dreams, it is the seed of a greater vision: 5 more treehouses, a conservation corridor, and an Earth Guardian home.
You’ll learn how to become a co-founder of this sacred regeneration.
🛖 This isn’t accommodation. It’s participation.
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💧 Morning: Pilgrimage to the Sacred Waterfalls
Guided walk through orchid-lined trails to the ceremonial cascades of Intag.
Offering ritual to Mama Earth: water as blessing, water as remembrance.
Prayers, seeds, or silence offered in devotion to the source of life.
🌊 Theme: May we become as pure as what we wish to protect.
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🌺 Midday: Grandmother Cacao & Community Circle
Cacao ceremony beneath the flowering elder cacao tree, joined by our community guardians.
Guided dialogue with Javier, Bryan, and local elders:
Living legacy of resistance against mining
Spiritual-communitarian-eco-tourism as a sustainable economy for Earth-aligned futures
Cacao as a teacher of devotion. Tourism as ceremony, not consumption.
🍲 Ancestral meal by the river, infused with Earth’s gifts
🌿 Theme: A tourist asks what they can take. A guardian asks what they can protect.
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🔥 Afternoon: Coffee & Cacao Roasting + Vision Circle
We gather once more around grandfather fire to roast native cacao and coffee beans — grown on the very land that has resisted extraction for generations.
Their scent opens the heart. Their taste carries history.
☕ “What have I received?”
🌱 “What can I contribute to preserve this magic?”
Together we vision, brainstorm, and dream aloud:
How can we support this sanctuary to thrive?
How can each guest take this message home and become a guardian, storyteller, or ally?
📝 Guests are invited to write or draw their reflections and commitments to leave at the sanctuary altar.
🌌 Theme: From soil to soul, may our gifts return to the land that gave them.
-->Nay 6: Integration at the Waters – Living Life as Ceremony
Location: Intag Hot Springs | Final Blessing & Gratitude Circle
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🌄 Morning: Farewell to the Treehouse Sanctuary
After breakfast, we lovingly say goodbye to our home in the clouds — the Treehouse of Los Ángeles de Junín, built with devotion by the Ramírez family and blessed by the surrounding forest.
Final embrace of the mist, the orchids, and the sacred pulse of this land before we journey to the healing waters.
🌳 Theme: Every structure we build in harmony becomes a temple.
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💧 Midday: Sacred Waters of Intag
Arrival at the natural mineralized hot springs, held by the Earth and warmed by the inner fire of the Andes.
Gentle bathing, laughter, silence, and restoration — the nervous system fully relaxes, the body remembers its softness.
🪔 Intag River Offering Ritual
Together, we return to the river one last time to offer our gratitude and prayers, releasing the journey, anchoring the transformation.
Seeds, words, and tears are offered as the river carries them into the great web of life.
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🍫 Medicinal Cacao Journey – Integration with All AYA 🌺 Pacha Cacao ® Blends
A deep tasting and soul communion with all of AYA’s ceremonial blends:
🌺 Womb Elixir Blend
🍄 Noursing Alchemy Blend
😄 Gemini & AYA Huma Blend
🌳 Single Origins of Esmeraldas, Quinindé & Puerto Quito
Guided inner journey to discover:
> “Which blend speaks to me now?”
“What medicine is calling to stay with me as I return to my world?”
🌿 Theme: Medicine is not just something we drink. It is something we become.
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🌎 Afternoon: Final Cacao Blessing & Expansion Circle
A sacred Cacao Gratitude Circle, where we offer our voices and prayers for:
The Earth and her waters
The guardians and their families
The dreams we will now embody
The communities we’ll ripple into
🕊️ With our final sip, we speak this invocation aloud:
> “I choose to live my life as a ceremony.
With cacao in my heart and Earth as my altar,
I walk as a guardian of beauty, of joy, of truth.”
🌀 🔥 Evening: Grandfather FRetreat Contribution & Sacred Reciprocity Exchange
AYA 🌺 Pacha Cacao ® Initiation 9 Retreat
7 Days | Puerto Quito & Intag Cloud Forest | Ecuador 🇪🇨
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🔮 Investment: $2,222 USD
This sacred exchange includes:
✔️ 6 nights / 7 days in soul-aligned to the Sacred Count of Time and space following our Ancestors Cholq'ij with Cacao medicine and full lodging, including our first sacred treehouse sanctuary
✔️ All ancestrally prepared meals, locally sourced with native ingredients
✔️ Participation in all ceremonies, cacao rituals, land offerings, and ancestral teachings
✔️ Your own medicinal cacao paste, crafted by your hands with love and prayer
✔️ Transportation between retreat sites: Puerto Quito ↔ Intag
✔️ Access to sacred natural sites: waterfalls, rivers, conservation forests, and hot springs
✔️ Wisdom transmissions from the ASOANES cacao guardians, anti-mining elders, and the Ramírez family
✔️ Participation in the EcoSímia ancestral exchange
✔️ Full integration day at the sacred hot springs of Intag
✔️ Final Earth Guardian Cacao Blessing
✔️ Your Earth Guardian Certificate – AYA 🌺 Pacha Cacao ® Initiation 9
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✨ What’s Not Included:
✖️ International flights to/from Quito, Ecuador
✖️ Transfer from Quito airport to Puerto Quito (optional add-on: $ USD)
✖️ Additional nights for extended integration at Treehouse Sanctuary:
• $144 USD per night, including meals and forest rest
✖️ Optional Master Plant experiences for qualified participants (additional fee)
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🌱 Pre-Retreat Requirement
All participants must complete our 2-Day Online Mini-Course
📖 “Walking in Sacred Reciprocity: A Portal into Spiritual-Communitarian Eco-Tourism”
✔️ Free & included with retreat
✔️ Required to embody our mission before arrival
✔️ A key to enter the land in right relationship
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💌 To Apply & Join the Circle
We welcome 121 initiates as well as groups up to 8 participants per journey, to walk this path with intimacy and devotion.
Retreat in an Equatorial Paradise, learn about Cacao from the roots where she originates. Adopt a baby tree and get deep with your own medicinal journey by understanding deeper layers of Plant Medicines and Conservation supported within community.