Let us come together to honor the new year and the first new moon of 2022.

This cacao gathering is open for all who hear the call, who are curious, who want to receive the medicine of cacao in community. Know that you are welcome. Know that a safe space will be held for you to experience the medicine of cacao and to return to your heart.

*TBC Mount Maunganui location* If the weather is suitable then we will be on the earth and under the trees otherwise a snug indoor location will be provided as Plan B.

After the year that was 2021, let this sacred time be for you, to ground you and nourish you. Be guided to connect in stillness with cacao, be guided to lay down on Mother Earth to receive her grounding energies, be guided through meditation, gentle breath and intuitive EFT Tapping, be guided to lean into your desires and manifestations for 2022 through quiet contemplation and journaling. Let us sit in heart felt connection with one another and Mother Earth.

New moons are the beginning of a new lunar cycle - a new cycle of life is being birthed! We are blessed with the invitation to go within, to find the quietness and instinctual energy that we need to rest, replenish and to create space for clarity and planting the seeds of our manifestations.

WHAT TO BRING/INSTRUCTIONS

*Please ensure you arrive about 5-10 mins before the ceremony begins to set up.

Your divine self – be dressed in something comfy

Your favorite mug

Yoga mat

Props and pillows to sit on if you wish

Blanket

Journal and pen

Water bottle

CONSCIOUS COLLAB

The purpose of Conscious Collab is to create and support an NZ holistic community through soulful collaboration and offerings of the sacred plant medicine cacao within loving, safe and inclusive gatherings to promote liberation, peace and unity.

The Co-Founder of Conscious Collab, Kelly, is a certified trauma informed cacao facilitator. She received her certification through Radha Iveta/Heart Awakening.

CACAO

A sacred plant medicine known to grow along the equatorial belt in particular Central and South America. Cacao has been used for thousands of years in ancient traditions, rituals and rites of passage. More now than ever does this world need the healing medicine of cacao to open our hearts, to awaken and to heal.

Cacao boasts many amazing nutritional benefits supporting physical, emotional, and spiritual health. Cacao can gently stimulate the cardiovascular system increasing blood flow and energy, support the healthy production of serotonin and dopamine, increase mental focus and clarity, promote feelings of relaxation, happiness, love, increase creativity and inspiration, nourish the body with various vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, and health promoting fats and can help to take us out of our heads and into our heart space.

PREPARATION & PRECAUTIONS

Eat fresh and wholesome on the day to prepare your physical vessel for the medicine. If you need to eat beforehand, try to have a light meal about 2-3 hours before cacao is consumed.

Drink lots of water, avoid alcohol and any other recreational substances that day and preferably the day before.

Please advise if you are on any medications such an anti-depressants or anti-psychotics, if you are pregnant, if you have any heart conditions, if you have any intolerance to fermented foods, if you have anxiety. If you have any other health conditions that you are unsure of with regards to drinking cacao please get in touch.

COVID DISCLAIMER

By purchasing a ticket for this gathering you are confirming that:

- You have not had covid in the last month and do not currently have covid.

- You have not come into close contact recently with anyone who has had covid.

- You have not travelled overseas recently.

- If you are unwell you confirm will not attend this gathering.

- You are aware that this gathering is for all, there will be no discrimination and you will attend at your own risk with full awareness of this point.