Learn the Art of
Cacao Ceremonies
Deepen your connection with the wisdom and consciousness of cacao.
Join a 3-day immersive training rooted in traditional Mayan wisdom and activate your own sacred connection to the cacao consciousness to be guided by the plant to confidently prepare the ceremonial cacao, hold holy space, and guide transformative healing experiences
What You Will Experience & Learn
Sacred Cacao Ceremony Experience
Experience firsthand a safe, heart-centered ceremony for healing, connection, and transformation.
The Language of Cacao as a Healing Ally
Activate your own connection to the consicousnes of the cacao and learn your own decoding of how cacao communicates and supports personal insight through the subtle language of the heart, body, and spirit. Learn how to compassionately support participants as their experiences unfold:
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Emotions and psicosomatic release
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Inner visions and imagery
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Energetic shifts
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Cup readings and symbolic messages
Ceremonial Preparation of Cacao
Experience the traditional preparation process from bean to cup while learning the sacred relationship between intention, prayer, and cacao.
Hands-on teachings include:
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Praying and setting intentions with cacao
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Roasting cacao beans
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Peeling and grinding cacao
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Preparing ceremonial cacao for different purposes, groups, and energies
Combining Cacao with Other Plant Allies
Learn how to thoughtfully and safely incorporate complementary plant allies to deepen the ceremonial experience.
Work with:
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Flowers
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Herbs
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Spices
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Other supportive plant medicines
What will you take back home
By the end of our retreat, you would have:
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Learn how to prepare and intend the Cacao following the Traditional Pre-Columbian Cultures
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Learn the many ways cacao works as a gentle yet powerful ally for emotional healing. Learn how it can help open the heart, bring unconscious emotions and memories into awareness, deepen intuition, support emotional release, enhance feelings of connection and compassion, and create a grounded state from which meaningful personal transformation can unfold.
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Understand how to guide groups safely, by learning the structure, confidence and tools to lead your own ceremonies
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Deepen your intuition, and most importantly trusting it as a facilitator and healer
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Develop a stronger connection to your own heart and inner wisdom.
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And... 200 gr of your own Prayed and Roasted Ceremonial Cacao!
3-Day Immersive Training
Day 1 — Sacred Cacao Ceremony
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Opening circle
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Full ceremonial cacao experience
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Heart activation journey
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Integration and reflection
Day 2 — Hands-On Cacao Preparation & Activation
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Praying and Intending the cacao
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Roasting, grinding, and preparing cacao
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Preparing ceremonial blends
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Ceremony and Altar preparations
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Mini cacao ceremony for personal connection activation
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Understanding cacao’s subtle guidance
Day 3 — The Language of Cacao & Group Facilitation
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Holding healing group spaces
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Emotional and energetic support practices
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Closing integration
Who Is This Training For?
This training is designed for:
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Therapists
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Sound healing practitioners
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Yoga teachers
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Energy healers
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Circle holders and facilitators
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Anyone called to work with cacao in a sacred and intentional way
Especially for those who wish to:
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Become more confident and resourced in holding group experiences
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Expand their offerings and client base
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Create authentic community through silence, respect, presence, and vulnerability
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Deepen their relationship with cacao as a sacred medicine
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Learn how to serve cacao following ancestral traditions and ceremonial integrity
Who is your host and facilitator
Valentina Martilotti an intuitive healer and quantum shifting therapyst who responded to the call of of the plant medicine itself and its invitation to be served as a tool for heart activation and human transformation. And through direct connection to the cacao and intense training in Latin America she is now offering the ceremonial art to those ready to step into.
Humanity is being invited to move from living purely through the conditioned survival mind into a more heart-led way of being — rooted in presence, compassion, connection, and truth.
Cacao is one of Earth’s sacred medicines supporting humanity through this transition.
This work is not only about ceremony.
It is about remembering how to listen, feel, connect, and heal together.
Where, what and how
Dates: 11- 13 September 2026
Location: TBC- Options: UK or PORTUGAL
6 places only
Investment: Training + Accomodation
Training: £500
Accomodation+ Catering: TBC
Your investment includes:
3 Days residential of immersive ceremonial training
3 Online Group Sessions: introduction (pre-retreat), integration and follow up sessions
1 Personal Integration session after the apprenticeship
200 grams of your own prayed and roasted cacao to use in your ceremonies
Ceremonial Cacao and blends Recipies
A minimum of 3 apprentices is required for the container to open.
