Cape Town Breathwork & Ceremonial Cacao: Open your heart

✺ Session Focus

Open your heart through the medicine of cacao and breathwork. We will combine the two potent and impactful healing modalities of ceremonial cacao, also called the medicine of the heart, and transformative breathwork, a portal to change your state, dive into your subconscious and connect deep within.

Working with those two medicines combined amplifies the transformational healing power and helps you to go on a deep journey. Tuning in and listening to your heart and inner voice, tapping into your authentic power and releasing everything that is blocking you from it.

✺ General Infos

Open to all levels, 2.15 hour session including an introduction to breathwork and a full breathwork session with music. Limited spots, booking or reservation is essential. We will be a small group with a maximum of 12 people.

✺ The event includes:

• Grounding meditation

• Full introduction to breathwork

• Cacao Ceremony with Ceremonial Grade Heirloom Cacao

• Heart-opening breathwork journey with music

• Meditation and Integration

• Debrief with integration tools

✺ What to bring to your breathwork session

• comfy clothes, something warm to put on (you might be colder than usual as you are changing the chemistry in your body, I will explain more about that on the event)

• optional: a blindfold or sth to cover your eyes (scarf, shirt) as it helps you focus more on your breath

• optional: pen and paper (or your journal), water or herbal tea

✺ How to prepare to make the most of your breathwork journey

• Ideally no alcohol 24 hours before the session (if you drank alcohol it is ok but you are likely to not go as deep), no substances/drugs 24 hours before the session 

• Ideally don’t eat a big meal right before, have your last small meal an hour before the session

• Please arrive 5-10 minutes before the event so that you have enough time to set up your space

• Please read the contraindications before joining, in case any of them apply to you get in touch with me before you book.

✺ Benefits of Ceremonial Cacao

For this ceremony, we will be using ceremonial-grade raw heirloom cacao from Tanzania.

• Heart-opening and connecting you to our emotions: Ceremonial-grade cacao contains compounds that promote the release of "feel-good" neurotransmitters such as serotonin, potentially leading to a sense of emotional well-being and heart opening. Ceremonial cacao can help to create a safe space for emotional expression and release, aiding in the processing of deep-seated emotions together with transformational breathwork.

• Rich in antioxidants and nutrients: Ceremonial-grade raw cacao is a potent source of antioxidants, which can help neutralize free radicals in the body and protect cells from oxidative stress, it is anti-inflammatory. Cacao is a good source of essential minerals such as magnesium, iron, and potassium.

• Enhanced inner connection: Ceremonial cacao has been used traditionally in spiritual ceremonies to facilitate introspection and meditation, helping you to connect deep within yourself.

• Increased energy and vitality: The natural stimulants in cacao, including theobromine, may provide a gentle energy boost without the jittery effects associated with some other stimulants like coffee.

• Improved mood and mental clarity: The theobromine and other active compounds in ceremonial cacao can contribute to enhanced cognitive function, improved focus, and heightened mental clarity.

✺ What is Conscious Connected Breathwork?

A form of active meditation where we are changing the chemistry in our body through a specific breathing pattern and get into a trance-like state (altered state of consciousness), accessing our subconscious mind.

Conscious Connected Breathwork (CCB), which we will be using in the session, is also considered a healing, transformational breathwork to release physical or emotional blockages, get out of your patterns and feel your true potential

✺ Potential benefits and effects of a breathwork session

• can help you feel joy, happiness, a „natural high“

• you possibly can access a non-ordinary state of consciousness

• can help you gain mental clarity

• can balance your body, help you feel more centered

• can help you feel more self-love and self-confidence

• can lead to personal empowerment

• can help improve your overall wellbeing

• can relieve stress and anxiety

• can help you release, let go, forgive

✺ Refunds

Please note, we do not arrange refunds or exchanges. You can try to find a replacement for yourself.

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PLEASE READ THE DISCLAIMER BEFORE PURCHASING.

By purchasing this service, I agree with these terms:

I declare that I am not recognizing myself in any of these contraindications below.

• Pregnancy (Pregnant women are advised against practicing Breathwork without first consulting and getting approval from their primary care physician)

• Asthma

• Epilepsy

• Detached retina

• Glaucoma

• Uncontrolled high blood pressure

• Cardiovascular Diseases (including prior heart attack)

• Mental disorders (manic disorder, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), paranoia, psychotic episodes, depersonalization, etc.)

• Strokes, TIA´s, seizures or other brain/neurological conditions

• A history of aneurysms in your immediate family

• Use of prescription blood thinners

• Hospitalized for any psychiatric condition or emotional crisis within the past 10 years

• Osteoporosis or physical injuries that are not fully healed

• Acute somatic and viral diseases

• Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD-II and COPD-III)

• Chronic diseases with symptoms of decompensation or terminal illness

• Individual intolerance of oxygen insufficiency

• Cancer, unless IHT is prescribed by a doctor

• Low Impulse Control

I understand that if any of these above-mentioned issues are applicable to me, I am obliged to inform the facilitator about this. If I choose to participate without the facilitator knowing these conditions, the participation will be on my own risk and I am responsible for the consequences resulting from this session.

I understand that I am fully responsible for my own health (emotional and physical) and I am in a good condition when entering the Breathwork session. I am participating on my own risk at all times.

I understand that I have to be clean of alcohol and substances for at least 24 hours prior to the Breathwork session. It is my own risk to participate to the session whilst have taken alcohol or (prescription) drugs.

I understand that Breathwork is an alternative healing modality and should never be used as a substitute for direct medical treatment. Everyone attending a Breathwork ceremony is responsible for seeking medical advice, should they need medical help.

I understand that by accessing a Breathwork session I can experience an altered state of consciousness and I can be confronted with past pain and trauma that has been suppressed, avoided or forgotten. Breathwork is a powerful tool to heal these deep-rooted (emotional) pains. However, there is never given any guarantee, a warranty or a or a prediction that I will be able to access this awareness during the session(s).