Cacao is a plant medicine that draws us inward - into the heart, the body, into relationship. It works gently yet profoundly on all of the facets of our being. Rich in magnesium, iron, flavonoids and theobromine, Cacao supports the nervous system, enhances circulation, and opens the heart physically and emotionally. Compounds such as anandamide, often called the ‘bliss molecule’ support a rediscovery of connection and presence. Cacao’s spirit is traditionally understood to foster truth-telling, compassion and embodied prayer. While not psychoactive as some of the other plant medicines, Cacao's healing power is by no means lesser. 

Peru is not only one of the world’s most important producing countries today, it is also one of Cacao’s oldest homelands. Long before Cacao traveled north to Mesoamerica, it was cultivated, revered and ceremonially consumed in the upper Amazon basin. A spiral-shaped ceremonial temple in northern Peru (Huaca Montegrande) reveals that Cacao was used here more than 5000 years ago.  

When prepared with reverence and intention, Cacao invites us into the same ancient remembering practiced in the temples of early Amazonian cultures: a remembering that healing happens in community, that the heart is a place of wisdom, and that plants are our wise teachers.

To sit with Cacao in Peru is to sit at the source: where ancestry, Earth and Spirit still speak through each cup. To sit with Cacao daily is to step into an ongoing healing portal, a living frequency that continues to work inside of us long after the cup is empty. Gently re-attuning the heart to our highest Truth, to coherence and remembrance.