This is an opportunity to work with me through the stars and planets in the cosmos IN PERSON IN JERSEY!!
And in much smaller group than I usually hold!
Also, until Friday 19th July it is being offered at a greatly reduced price!
Understanding and yielding my uniqueness through the codes in my astrological natal chart gave me incredible insight, and helped guide the course and flavour of my life from very early on and I want to give you the opportunity to reap the benefits of your uniqueness too, no matter how old or young you are.
This is fundemental and universal knowledge for life.
THE COSMOS IN ME is an exploratory, reflective, interactive, playful, fascinating and empowering journey into the recesses of your psyche, and a journey which aims to bring transformation in your relationships, family, career and all the aspects of life that you are calling it in.
What Potential Lies in Your Astrological Birth Chart?
Your relationship dynamics to your whole self lies in the wheel of your birth chart. Through reading and understanding your chart, together we will unravel:
The pathway and portal to your purpose on Earth.
Fully knowing your SELF and bringing play, celebration into who you are.
Understanding and embodying your feminine receptive/intuitive nature and innate needs for regeneration.
The potential within your mental realm, your communication and how to reap the best from it.
Your pathway to yield abundance and claim life’s bounty.
Your relationship karma and how to feel more empowered in the relationship you are in or call in the right partner for you
Your deepest wounds, strongest karmic lessons and how you can transform them to reap their power.
Your raw masculine assertive power and how to claim it fully in a way that aligns to better life on earth.
The endeavours that will help you personally to expand and flourish the most.
Understanding how future transits of the planets will influence/change your mood/energy/lifestyle.
This course will be solely taught by myself.
I’ve studied astrology in-depth since I was in my early twenties. I self studied through many books and had a personal astrology tutor who lived in Jersey. Since then I have consulted many professional astrologers and gained an even broader understanding of the planets and own relationship to them. My most resonant influence has been ‘Astropsychology’ a term coined by Carl Jung in the school of Analytical Psychology, and also sometimes referred to as Humanistic Astrology. This incorporates understanding and support from the greek god planetary archetypes as well as the main collective unconscious psychological archetypes, which form a common foundation for the experiences of all human beings.
This course is for you if you ….
Are wanting to reap, celebrate and embody your innate gifts for the benefit of all beings.
Are ready to uncover and transform the hidden power within the deepest wounds and challenges your life brings you, and integrate the empowered blueprint of your chart’s potential into your life.
Want to clear stuckness/depressive energy and immerse in an embodied flow that happens when tapped into your authentic needs.
Have a curiosity for understanding the universal connections and mythic realm within the fabric of the cosmos, and the links therein to your psyche.
What you will receive when you sign up
A copy of own unique astrological natal chart wheel 2 weeks before the start of the course.
A 75 minute astro-coaching birthing call with me.
A place in an intimate closed group of 8 participants, taking part in 12 (2.75 hour) tutoring meetups transitting through 12 portals or stages of initiation. 6.30pm til 9.15pm over a 6 month period.
A full day nourishing astro-retreat in a special location. All food/refeshments included.
A committed support group to reflect your processing.
The dates are:
Tuesday 17th September
Tuesday 1st October
Tuesday 15th October
Tuesday 29th October
Tuesday 12th November
Tuesday 26th November
Tuesday 10th December
Tuesday 7th January
Saturday 10th January ALL DAY 10am til 5pm
Tuesday 14th January
Tuesday 28th January
Tuesday 11th February
Tuesday 25th February
What you need to sign up:
You will need to know your time/date/placeof your birth.
A thirst for transformation, new knowledge and an openess to work in a small group.
An investment of £1111
THERE ARE STRICTLY LIMITED PLACES
Book the course by end of Friday 19th July and pay just £888 (20% off)
Pre pay payment PLAN available: £333 x 3 available until Friday 19th July too.
Enter the Sacred Spiral Temple of Your Soul with Maria Barnicoat, Alexander Lee-Briard, Laura Flynn, Kevin Proctor, Maz Heaney, Elsa Young, Susie Woods and other special guest/teachers still to be announced.
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** Ecstatic Dance Body Prayer
** Crystal Sound Bowl Vibration Healing
** Full Bodied Chakra Activation Journey
** Conscious Communion
** Psyche Transformation
** Reclaiming Humanity
** 3 month Ayurvedic Vibrant Health Programme
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What is Awakening?
Our 8 week intensive is a dance-sing-prayerful-movement- vibrational sound healing and activation immersion into the mysterious spiral fabric of your chakras.
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Its 2024 and its time to wake up and claim your personal power for the benefit of all of life on Earth. We each have a place and a part to play in these intense times of transformation. This journey is for you if you want to experience a more creative, activated, empowered and authentic version of yourself within a circle of committed, compassionate community, that you can offer to your life path, your relationships and all of life on the planet.
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You will have direct exerience of how your chakras are intertwined energetically with your physical, emotional, mental and spiritual wellbeing, lifestyle choices and the environment you are in. We carry our life stories in our bodies and chakras and have the power to reweave a more harmonious and empowered existence into them.
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Although we very much recommend this course be taken as a complete journey, if you cannot attend all modules, it is possible to book individual sessions. Everyone over 16 is welcome
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This creation of work has evolved through its first launch in 2009 by Maria. It brings together powerful threads and experiences of her own journey of empowerment learned over the course of the last 30 years and includes some wonderful special guest teachers. Everyone from past journeys are welcome.
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DATES AND THEMES
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Tuesday 16th April: 18.30 til 21.30 – 1st Chakra “ROOT AWAKENING” Muladhara/Grounding/Belonging/ Earth: The Root Chakra. – A journey back to the deepest soil of where we came from. Honouring the past and our ancestral lineage. Shining the light on your sense of ground, belonging and connection to your body and the body of mother earth.
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Tuesday 23rd April: 18.30 til 21.30 – 2nd Chakra “SACRAL AWAKENING” Svadisthana/Passion/Creativity/ Water: The Sacral Chakra. A journey into our need for relationships and our sense of power, sex, money and survival in our physical environment. Shining the light on your ability in relating, connection to your feelings and ability to create abundance.
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Tuesday 7th May: 18.30 til 21.30 – 3rd Chakra “SOLAR AWAKENING” Manipura/Confidence/Personal Power/ Fire: The Solar Plexus Chakra. A journey into our sense of self-esteem, self-confidence and self-respect. Shining the light on your sense of core strength and self value.
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Tuesday 21st May: 18.30 til 21.30 – 4th Chakra “HEART AWAKENING” – Anahata/Compassion/Acceptance/Air: The Heart Chakra. A journey into our ability to let go, our ability to forgive and feel inner peace. Shining the light on your ability to experience love, acceptance and compassion.
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Tuesday 4th June: 18.30 til 21.30 – 5th Chakra “THROAT AWAKENING” – Vishuddha/Deliverance/Authenticity/ Ether: The Throat Chakra. A journey through the maturation of the willpower to true inner authority. Shining the light on your ability to live in your authentic expression.
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Tuesday 18th June: 18.30 til 21.30 – 6th Chakra “THIRD EYE AWAKENING- The Power of the Mind ” – Ajna/Intuition/Foresight/ Ether: The Third Eye Chakra. A journey into our mental body, our sense of symbolic sight and psychological characteristics. Shining the light on your ability to see clearly and discern truth.
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Tuesday 2nd July: 18.30 til 21.30 – 7th Chakra “CROWN AWAKENING- Transcendence” Sahasrara/Unity/Divine Intelligence/ Ether: The Crown Chakra. A journey into our connection to life force energy, inspirational and prophetic thoughts, transcendent ideas and mystical connections. Shining the light on your ability to transcend.
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Tuesday 16th July: 18.30 til 21.30 – Rainbow Ceremony/Integration and Witness. A celebration of our uniqueness and an embodied integration of all the modules before.
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Investment:
**£187 (15% off). It is possible to pay £87 on booking and £100 by 16th April.
**Or Drop-In Bookings: £27.50 per session
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A concessionary rate is available for those in financial need or unwaged/very low wage. Please contact me directly to discuss your needs: mariaearthbeauty@gmail.com
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Refunds are not available but in extreme cases we can discuss a credit for future events.
Visioning & Awakening Soul Journey/Retreat
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🌱 Chakra Soul Journey/Dance Meditation
❤️Vision Board Creating
🌱Sacred Sharing Circle
❤️Alchemical Body-Prayer Dance
🌱Conscious Communion
❤️Soup & Cake Share (GF+VE)
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As the celebration of ‘Imbolc’ is upon us, we come together consciously in honour of the new seeds of awakening that are stirring inside of our cells.
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Many of us set resolutions or goals during the new year, but Imbolc is also a great time for goal setting and thinking about personal development that we’d like to see throughout the year.
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This is also a great time for planning and creating ideas to help your enterprise grow. If you’ve been thinking about reinventing yourself, trying something new or coming up with new ideas, now is the time.
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During our time together, a chakra awakening practice will be guided through song, meditation and ecstatic dance, with the beautiful aid of ceremonial cacao to align our intentions with our hearts (the central chakra and bridge between the ground and the ether chakras). The process creates an alchemy within our heart, minds and bodies and helps to expand us where we have contracted. We become less in our left brain and more open to our creative/dreaming side.
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There will also be time to create vision boards to bring into the earthly plane texture and clarity to all our desires and intentions before we will end our time together with delicious soup and cake (vegan and gluten free).
Alexander Lee-Briard, Maria and friends will offer live music, creative vibes and song for the journey.
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All materials will be supplied but if you have anything creative you’d like to use please bring it too.
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Bring: Water, Blanket and a Cushion
Cost: £39. Contact me directly if cost is an issue.
Venue: St Mary’s Barnloft is at the back of St Mary’s Vicarage. Across the road from St Mary’s School and has its own carpark. To access the space you need to come through a gate and walk up some metal stairs to the loft space.
Dive deep into the nature of establishing deeper connections with others, learning how to relate to each other in a sacred manner, and unfolding an alternative and expansive way to solving conflicts, other than our cultures hierarchal and punitive approaches.
Our course is set over 3 different days, with an emphasis on partner exercises, group exercises and embodiment practices to anchor a deeply healing and harmonious sense of relating.
The dates are:
Sunday 26th November
Sunday 3rd December
Saturday 9th December
The times are:
10.30 til 4.30
On our 3 part course will focus on:
* Learning how to apply a listening practice with partners, groups, large and small and to restore peace and harmony amongst families and communities.
* How ritual and creating sacred space are at the centre of conscious communication and council and how to create this each time we share.
* Exploring the shamanic roots of the talking stick practice.
* Understanding the feminine and masculine aspects of communication.
* Addressing the nature of apology, forgiveness and the urge for revenge.
* Bringing awareness to the challenges faced by those walking the peace path.
* The principles of Non-Violent Communication, how it is not the means to an end in itself but how it can fit in and support a new way of communicating.
* The elements needed to create “Radical Listening” partnerships for ungoing support and how to implement this into your life.
Your host for this journey is Maria Barnicoat who has over 20 years of holding group spaces. She holds regular embodied dance practice events with the focus on empowerment, rememberance of our true natures and bringing back the power of the village and community.
Terms and Conditions:
It is inly possible to sign up for the whole course and not part of it.
Deposits are non-refundable
Cancellations are non-refundable
At the end you will have a Certificate to acknowledge your attendance.
The cost for the 3 days is £225 The earlybird price is now on until 10th October and is £195
It is possible to just pay a deposit now of £60 to hold your place
Numbers are limited to just 20 due to our smaller venue. If you want to join us, please book soon to avoid disappointment.
Please contact Maria directly if cost is an issue and you want to participate.
In the days before our ceremonies we can use our creative visualisation potential to make the circle stronger and the medicine more profound by imagining ourselves in the circle together with intention for connection and openness to what wants to come forward.
Please prepare your body by planning to eat just lightly before the event or leave an empty stomach if you want to feel the effects of the medicine more strongly (do not worry the cacao will bring you plenty of energy), take no caffeine nor other stimulants (Alcohol included) before as the cacao is a powerful cardiovascular stimulant.
The Promise of Cacao
We will connect together with the guide of Cacao.
She adapts to the needs of each person and helps them to connect and feel openness in their heart. She offers a deep journey of healing our pathway to love and brings immense clarity of mind and profound insights.
She is said to reveal patterns, cultivate self-love, forgiveness, increase consciousness and support us in our path and personal growth.
In Western culture we’re not used to seeing plants as sacred, working with their spirit, nor allocating them certain powers. We are blessed that Cacao is now being quite widely offered as a medicine for connection and restoring our true humanity in the west.
Physiological Benefits of Cacao
Benefits are found in the neurotransmitter modulating agents that act as natural antidepressants. Its high valeric acid content blocks the stress hormones, while triggering the release of dopamine, anandamide and the endorphin phenylethylamine, all of which are known as the ‘bliss molecules’.
Cacao also contains the essential amino acid tryptophan, which increases production of serotonin, an important brain chemical that helps us remain positive and happy. These neurotransmitters also remain in the bloodstream longer after ingesting cacao, creating a natural antidepressant benefit, while the theobromine and caffeine content boosts energy levels and relieves fatigue.
The caffeine content is actually very low and it is the theobromine content (which translates to ‘food of the gods’) which increases energy. It is a cardiovascular stimulant rather than a nervous system stimulant (as in the case of coffee).
Cacao is the number one antioxidant food in the world, coming in with 15 times more of these awesome flavonoids than blueberries. These precious antioxidant flavonoids help in trapping damaging free radicals and heavy metals, clearing up corrupt cells from the system and supporting detoxification, as well as aiding in the optimisation of blood function and fortifying blood vessel and artery walls. This helps to improve circulation, supports the heart muscle and regulates blood pressure.
Cacao is packed with essential vitamins and minerals, including being a top source of Magnesium, Manganese, Sulfur, Iron, Zinc, Potassium, Copper and Chromium in its raw state.
Precautions
Its best to consult your physician before booking a ticket if you are : Taking Antidepressants, taking hypertension medication, if you are Pregnant (it is likely still safe to consume ceremonial cacao but at lower doses) and if you have a heart condition.
What to Bring
Wear layers to keep you warm and clothes that you can move around in. Especially as for some of our events we may be OUTSIDE.
Blankets for lying on and one to put over you. Cosy comforts.
Plenty of water as we get more thirsty than usual with Cacao.
When we are in our bodies – moving to the echo of nature, to the pulse of life, we are at home. Our return home can be as simple as a choice to drop back down into the cells, muscles and bones of the body. It is the honest practice of the heart, and where we can allow our boxed away messiness to breathe and be alchemised by the communal exposure within a pulsating chapel of rhythm.
Where else can you immerse in a holy ground of truth, tenderness and courage whilst stomping ancestral dust into the ground?
Our mother vessel for the evening will be Cacao – in all her beautiful heart opening glory. An avatar of these intense and unpredictable times to help us return back home with each other and remember our interconnectedness and true humanity.
Maria will bring the medicine of Cacao and hold the Ecstatic Dance whilst Adrian Kent will share some Kundalini Yoga.
We will have some live musicians to bring some lovely vibes to the evening.
Why are many of my events centred around Ecstatic Dance?
ecstatic
ɪkˈstatɪk
adjective: feeling or expressing overwhelming happiness or joyful excitement. involving an experience of mystic self-transcendence.
noun: a person subject to mystical experiences.
It is the mystical momentum that happens when we put ourselves intentionally into motion, within community to let our truth speak through our bodies.
It is the practice of the heart
It is the offering of the soul to life.
The remedy for stagnation.
The remedy for heartbreak.
The remedy for numbness.
A unique place and time with the invitation to show up just as you are.
Not for entertainment, not with expectation, not to people please.
A place and practice to bring our boxed away messiness into the open to breathe and to play.
To have a chance to be witnessed and transformed by the alchemy of conscious exposure.
To know that all parts of us are welcome. Somewhere. Without censorship.
A practice to surrender to the bubbling potential that arises from our surrender to being an intrinsic, colourful, bright and also shadowy part of nature.
Our ecstatic dance community knows the medicine that comes from being truth.
We are the medicine for each other.
An offering en masse baring the beautiful and painful imperfections of life.
Where else can you adventure into the heart of your spirit with inclusivity and full permission to let go of all right and wrongs?
Where else can you fall at your own feet in awe and wonder at the mystery of the fabric we weave together?
Where else can you burn freely and wildly in the alchemical fires of passion and transformation?
Where else can we find safety in the vulnerability of showing your soul, whilst stomping millenial karmic dust and tribulation into the ground?
Here we honour each other and the tenderness that arises from the re-connection of the cells in the body.
A homely playground of truth, tenderness, bravery and curious willingness.
An 8 week intensive dance-sing-prayerful-movement immersion into the mysterious spiral fabric of your body and psyche.
Influenced by wonderful mystics and teachers such as Caroline Myss, Toko-Pa Turner, Ram Dass, Reginald Ray, Gabrielle Roth and Joanna Macy. You are invited to be part of a core group working deep with the past, present and future to claim the power you have lost on life’s journey.
Starting in April 2022, if you cannot attend the whole journey, it is also possible to book individual sessions.
🌈 Our chakras connect strongly with our physical, emotional, mental and spiritual wellbeing. They are healthy when we are empowered and energised through life experience, initiations and environmental factors. They are weakened through personal trauma, ancestral trauma, illness and stagnation physically, emotionally and spiritually.
🌈 We can claim back lost energy in them with enquiry, reflection, witness and embodied movement; acknowledging our interconnectedness and with that, our intrinsic need to attend to our wounds – becoming our own sovereign healers.
🌈 What can you expect?We will work through the heart rendering and powerful medicine of ceremonial cacao with self enquiry, movement, mantra, meditations, kundalini yoga and with each other as compassionate comrades to restore balance and wholeness into ourselves within each theme of each chakra. This is a full-bodied exhilarating and liberating journey but also one that works on a profound level in our wellbeing and psyche.
🌈 Everyone is welcome.Whether you are seasoned in personal growth through chakra work, or whether you are completely new, you are welcome to join us. If you joined for a past chakra journey, this will be unique, with new exercises, modalities and meditations.
DATES AND THEMES
❤️ Saturday 30th April: 18.00 til 21.30 – 1st Chakra “ROOT LOVE” Muladhara/Grounding/Belonging/ Earth: The Root Chakra. – A journey back to the deepest soil of where we came from. Honouring the past and our ancestral lineage. Shining the light on the frozen and lost energy which is hindering your sense of ground, belonging and connection to your body and the body of mother earth.
🧡 Saturday 7th May: 18.00 til 21.30 – 2nd Chakra “SACRAL LOVE” Svadisthana/Passion/Creativity/ Water: The Sacral Chakra. A journey into our need for relationships and our sense of power, sex, money and survival in our physical environment. Shining the light on the frozen and lost energy which is hindering your sense of relating and abundance.
💛 Saturday 14th May: 18.00 til 21.30 – 3rd Chakra “SOLAR LOVE” Manipura/Confidence/Personal Power/ Fire: The Solar Plexus Chakra. A journey into our sense of self-esteem, self-confidence and self-respect. Shining the light on the frozen and lost energy which is hindering your sense of core strength and self value.
💚 Saturday 21st May: 18.00 til 21.30 – 4th Chakra “HEART LOVE” – Anahata/Compassion/Acceptance/Air: The Heart Chakra. A journey into our ability to let go, our ability to forgive and feel inner peace. Shining the light on the frozen and lost energy which is hindering your sense of love, acceptance and compassion.
💙 Saturday 11th June: 18.00 til 21.30 – 5th Chakra “THROAT LOVE” – Vishuddha/Deliverance/Authenticity/ Ether: The Throat Chakra. A journey through the maturation of the willpower to true inner authority. Shining the light on the frozen and lost energy which is hindering your sense of authentic expression.
💜 Saturday 18th June: 18.00 til 21.30 – 6th Chakra “THIRD EYE LOVE – The Power of the Mind ” – Ajna/Intuition/Foresight/ Ether: The Third Eye Chakra. A journey into our mental body, our sense of symbolic sight and psychological characteristics. Shining the light on the frozen and lost energy which is hindering your ability to discern truth.
🤍 Saturday 25th June: 18.00 til 21.30 – 7th Chakra “CROWN LOVE – Transcendence” Sahasrara/Unity/Divine Intelligence/ Ether:The Crown Chakra. A journey into our connection to life force energy, inspirational and prophetic thoughts, transcendent ideas and mystical connections. Shining the light on the frozen and lost energy which is hindering your ability to transcend.
🌈Saturday 2nd July: 18.00 til 21.30 – Rainbow Ceremony/Integration and Witness. A celebration of all we are, an embodied integration of all the modules and chakras with a divine invocation of protection and affirmation of our intentions. This is given as a practice that can be followed daily to strengthen the spirit, root in our bodies and live an authentic life that matters to us and those around us.
Your guide for the journey will be Maria Barnicoat who will be the main space holder and teacher.
Adrian Kent will be our teacher for the Kundalini Yoga.
We are grateful to be supported by Kevin and a lovely team of musicians.
EXTRA OFFERS AVAILABLE
I am offering to all participants of the full course an Astrological Profile Consultation at a greatly REDUCED price to massively support the journey of the intensive.
Usually £165 for 90mins and includes a recording and chart picture – now on special offer for all participants of the intensive – this profile reading, consultation and counselling session is just £95 for all course participants.
I am also offering a course of 3 bodywork/somatic healing sessions. A mixture of massage techniques and somatic enquiry into the felt present sensations of wisdom that we all carry within the body. The sessions help create a deep relaxation and readiness in the body to unlock potential and create transformations in areas of stuckness and stagnation in your life.
Usually £210 for 3 sessions of 70mins, I am charging £180 for all course participants.
You are invited to a series of regenerative heart-re-wilding re-membering gatherings – engaging in community co-creatively with the spiritual opportunities that are emerging right now on Planet Earth.
A journey through a five part series to pay reverence to the Earth and mystery of life on Earth and to reclaim, embody and remember the power and sacredness at the core of who we are, through the modalities of mantra, ecstatic dance body-prayer, voicework, reflective enquiry, meditation and the ceremonial medicine of Cacao.
We are now in the Age of Aquarius and we are the ones we have been waiting for to bring ourselves liberation. Let’s come together as children of the Earth, imagine what’s possible for a world we want to leave behind, and immerse in the process of unravelling and creating healing from the magical messiness of our evolving humanness together.
Each gathering will be held by Maria Barnicoat and Guests who will include Alex Lee Briard (Violin), Tom Nalichowski (Gong and Sound bath) .
We will meet each time within a ceremonial setting with Cacao. When we drink ceremonial grade Cacao consciously, she adapts to the needs of each person and helps them to connect and feel openness in their heart. She offers a deep journey of healing our pathway to love and brings immense clarity of mind and profound insights. She is said to reveal patterns, cultivate self-love, increase consciousness and support us in our path and personal growth.
In Western culture we’re not used to see plants as sacred, work with their spirit or allocate them certain powers. There is a lot we can learn from plants and knowledge from native culture. We are blessed that cacao is now being used as a medicine for connection and restoring our true humanity in the west.
What to bring?
Please bring layers you can remove and put on as your body temperature changes with our journey. Bring a blanket and water.
How to prepare?
It heightens the potential of the ceremony if you lightly fast during the day and avoid alcohol, caffeine, meats and dairy for 24 hours before.
Precautions
Its best to consult your physician before booking a ticket if you are : Taking Antidepressants, taking hypertension medication, if you are Pregnant (it is likely still safe to consume ceremonial cacao but at lower doses) and if you have a heart condition. Please email me if unsure and if you have any questions: mariaearthbeauty@gmail.com
Refund/Cancellation Policy
All cancellations within 5 days will be issued a full refund. Cancellations thereafter up to 48 hours before will be issued a credit for the amount of the ticket. Any cancellations less than 48hours in advance are non-refundable/non-creditable.
Concessionary rates available. Contact me directly: mariaearth-beauty@gmail.com
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Saturday 16th October 18.00 – 21.00 (Waxing Moon in Pisces)
Transforming the Mother Wound
Saturday 30th October 18.00 – 21.00 (Waning Moon in Virgo)
Receiving the Gifts
Friday 12th November 18.00 – 21.00 (Waxing Moon in Pisces)
The Body – The Portal
Saturday 27th November 18.00 – 21.00 (Waning Moon in Virgo)
Dreaming in Darkness
Saturday 18th December 18.00 – 21.00 (Full Moon in Gemini)
(Please note if the weather is good we will be holding this in a north easterly outdoor location to be confirmed 24 hours before our event)
Dear friends
You are invited to join us for a rich ceremonial journey with the sacred plant medicine, cacao.
Cacao adapts to the needs of each person and helps them to connect and feel openness in their heart. She offers a deep journey of healing our pathway to love and brings immense clarity of mind and profound insights.
She is said to reveal patterns, cultivate self-love, increase consciousness and support us in our path and personal growth.
In Western culture we’re not used to see plants as sacred, work with their spirit or allocate them certain powers. There is a lot we can learn from plants and knowledge from native culture. We are blessed that cacao is now being used as a medicine for connection and restoring our true humanity in the west.
What to expect?
We will begin within 10 minutes of arrival time (please arrive at 6:15 to have plenty of time to settle) and we will officially open and set our sacred container. The middle part of the ceremony is a shared group experience with cacao and a guided ecstatic dance body-prayer. We will end with a closing where we give thanks, and acknowledge what the group created during our time.
What to bring?
Please bring many warm layers. Especially if we will be outside, the temperature drops a lot once the sun goes down. Also bring a blanket and water and some food to share at the end of the journey. Bring a camp chair if you do not wish to sit on the ground.
How to prepare?
It is really helpful for the ceremony if you lightly fast during the day and avoid alcohol, caffeine, meats and dairy for 24 hours before.
Outside venue
If the weather is good the ceremony will be held in an outdoor location on the North East of the island. All participants will be notified 24 hours in advance if this is the case.
Precautions
Its best to consult your physician before booking a ticket if you are : Taking Antidepressants, taking hypertension medication, if you are Pregnant (it is likely still safe to consume ceremonial cacao but at lower doses) and if you have a heart condition.