Cacao and Sound Ceremony
A Time to Honor Nature’s Final Harvest & Your Cosmic Belonging

During these swirling times much can feel uncertain. If you’re experiencing that, you’re not alone! Perhaps you’re craving to have more self-reflection, gratitude and honoring in your life?

We feel that the importance of creating ceremony is becoming more apparent. We’ve decided to make time for some simple yet sacred acts of blessing and connecting to the balance and flow of this human experience. We’re inviting you to join us.

For thousands of years, human beings have honored their connection to the earth, the seasonal changes, and major life transitions with ceremony. Ceremony is an ancient technology of indigenous people. It’s an inherent part of humanity’s past and it’s ancestral wisdom. It’s a way to celebrate life in all its forms. It’s a pause in time to be thankful for water, air, fire, and land, as well as the plants, creatures, animals, and minerals that exist on this planet with you.

You can use this cacao and gong healing ceremony to align with your intentions and create more balance inside of yourself so you can continue to act in harmony with others and the world around you.

Date: October 30th

Time: 6-8pm

Investment: $69
All sales final and non transferrable. If you cannot attend, you may gift your ticket to another.

Here is an overview of what we’ll do….

1. Set an intention.
2. Create an altar.
3. Make an offering.
4. Welcome sacred space.
5. Cacao ceremony and sound journey.
6. Close the sacred space and share gratitude.

The Cacao:
Attune to your senses. Sip. Attune again.
A mindfulness-based guided meditation with gentle movement and a serving of ceremonial grade Peruvian Cacao Criollo. Cacao drink made with 1 oz of Ceremonial Grade Cacao Paste, coconut milk, vanilla, and a touch of honey.

Cacao is the raw whole food form of chocolate. This velvety drink is plant medicine. It inspires euphoric states in the body. After you sip the Nitric Oxide production in your body increases, relaxing your arteries, which allows for increased blood flow. Cacao contains Anandamide. Termed “the bliss molecule” it’s associated with improved motivation and increased pleasure.

The Sound: Alchemy Crystal Sound Bath
Sound Healing is one of the oldest forms of healing known to mankind and has been used the world over to invoke, attune, and transform Consciousness. Sound produces powerful vibrations and, as we are vibrational beings by nature, our very structure is transformed by its movement.

Alchemy Crystal Tones ™ Singing Bowls are made of the highest quality (99.992% pure) quartz crystal, making them incredibly resonant. The tones produced by Alchemy Crystal Bowls are not just heard by the ear, you feel them in your body, with certain tones affecting your energy centers (chakras) for healing, balancing & meditation.

Our bodies are crystalline in structure. When working with crystals, there may be profound effects on the organs, tissues, and cells, as well as the circulatory, endocrine, and metabolic systems. Thoughts are energy forms. When thought energy interacts with a crystal, those thoughts are changed to more harmonic forms, which change brainwave frequencies, showing possible alterations in consciousness. Thus, the power of positive intention or affirmation combined with the use of crystals provides remarkable healing results.

GONG BATH The sound of a gong helps the brain reach deep relaxation – specifically the delta and theta brain wave states, which are the slowest brain waves in humans. We tend to reach these states during daydreaming or deep sleep, and they are known to aid relaxation, creativity and natural healing.

Samhain:
This celebration was one of the four main festivals of the Gaelic calendar. Tradition holds that Samhain is a time to honor the end of harvest season and the start of the coldest half of the year. It’s also been referred to as The Celtic New Year. Modern folx who would like to invoke a sense of nature-inspired-spirituality may choose to use a Samhain ritual to remember and cherish their innate cosmic belonging.

Facilitators for the Event

Sarah Rusnak is a Sandpoint Idaho based: Yoga Health Coach, Yoga Instructor, Cooking Coach, and Personal Chef. You can utilize her services through distance learning or in person. If you’re ready to elevate and expand your mind-body health with intentional habit shifting and compassionate self-discovery, Sarah can help.

Ara Lyman is the owner and operator of Shala living yoga. She has dedicated the past 20 years of her life to the study, practice, and teaching of yoga and sacred sound healing. She has over 1400 Ya hours of certification and over 12,000 hours of teaching in studio, trainings and events.