I'm super excited to have one of my best friends on the podcast today, Christine Olivia.

You may have seen us dancing on my Instagram story at I Am Sahara Rose. We're always dancing somewhere.

And we got to know each other about a year ago only. And she hit me up and invited me over to her house for a cacao ceremony.

And I had not cacao ceremony in a very long time. It was part of my teachings when I was studying with Malika, my shamanic dance teacher in Bali.

She also hosts cacao ceremony. So I had not done a cacao ceremony in a minute. And I was like, oh, cacao ceremony, L.A.

So we enjoyed a cup of guacamole and cacao and really dove deep in both discovered that we love so many of the same things and just instantly realize that we are past life sisters.

And now I'm super excited to share her with you on the highest self podcast. So cacao ceremony. What is it?

We're hearing this word cacao is buzzing right now. And the beautiful thing about it is it's bringing people together.

So in this episode, we talk all about what cacao is. Like is it chocolate? Is it hot chocolate? Like what are people even drinking? Is it a drug?

How do you feel? Like why are people saying that their heart feels open? Where are they dancing? What's going on in these cacao ceremonies?

We talk all about that in this episode. Scientifically how it's good for you, what it does to the body, how to drink it, how to have your own ceremony, how to use it in your daily practice.

And also Christian's journey about finding this sacred plant and reconnecting with her ancestors and her deceased father through the sacred medicine of cacao that has been used by her ancestors in Guatemala for thousands of years.

So it's such a treat to have her sharing this with you because she's someone who is a cacao ceremonialist. That is what she does every single day and is so dedicated to this plant and really honors and knows so much about it, which is a type of person that you want to learn about it from.

And someone who really understands its roots, its cultural background and of course the science related to it as well after this episode we had our own cacao ceremony right here in my house.

It does not need to be with a bunch of people. You can have your own cacao ceremony just like alone or with a friend and we siped on this cacao and we harmonized our voices together through singing different beach mantras and then we danced and then we sing cacao ceremony songs.

And we videoed it all so I will be sharing the video in rose gold goddesses rose gold goddesses is my sacred sisterhood collective.

It is an incredible membership community that has monthly goddess circles expert calls videos like this like entire cacao ceremony videos, tons of rituals, articles, workshops, live events, opportunities to meet up with goddesses in your city.

We have meetups happening in dozens of cities every single weekend, the opportunity to shine your light shine your message be seen be heard and get to know people who are spiritual sisters on the path like you who want to sit in cacao ceremony and talk about all the different things.

So if you want to learn more about it, we are going to be opening the doors again in January. So head over to rose gold goddesses dot com and you will be able to join the wait list right there that way you'll be notified when we open doors back up again in January and would love to have you there and our cacao ceremony video will be there so you'll be able to watch it then and if you're in rose gold goddesses just head over to the workshops section and you will see the cacao ceremony video.

So cacao such a beautiful plant medicine that I have been enjoying more and more of I really love infusing the rose I love making rose tea and having the cacao with that and it's just such a magical elixir to amp up your life and my personal favorite ceremonial cacao is this tantric rose cacao so it actually is infused with rose so when you're drinking it has this like delicious rose.

Delicious rosy flavor to it, which is just very central and beautiful and I got that on ceremonial slash cacao dot com and you can use coupon code Sahara for a discount.

So again, it's ceremonial dash cacao dot com with coupon code Sahara for your discount and I will have that link in the show notes the tantric rose cacao my absolute favorite.

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