Love transforms us into something we cannot see yet. We must let the heart break open to know it.
Awakening hearts as she touches them, cacao inspires us deeply to let joy shine through the cracks of heart break. It permissions the light in us to expand and be able to experience that all that we feel can be loved. She is a gentle teacher.
Cacao, the main ingredient in chocolate, is a sacred plant medicine that originates from the Mayan and Aztec cultures. Cacao ceremony is one of their ancient spiritual practices.
In Awake Heart, we will work closely with cacao medicine to explore the heart space, what it feels and looks like to live with an open heart, what boundaries your heart actually needs in order to open fully, and how to practice really loving all parts of yourself and life.
This intimate circle, facilitated by Giovanna, will provide the space and tools to access deeper vulnerability and intuition, emotional healing, ownership of yourself and your life path, and being supported by healthy sisterhood. By gathering with other women for 6 months, we sync with each other to create a space of safety and beautiful growth.
This circle is NOT a certification or training to facilitate cacao ceremonies, it is a container to be guided and supported in your personal communion and healing journey with yourself with the support of the cacao plant.
We will meet every two weeks, a total of 13 times throughout the 6 months.
Gatherings are every other Sunday - starting June 13th!
Circle Details
Six month container (next circle starts June 13, 2021)
Thirteen sessions (every other Sunday at 10am PT)
What’s Included
How to prepare your own ceremonial cacao drink and personal practice at home
Sisterhood - a safe and intimate container to be witnessed and supported (at scheduled meeting times and also in-between via private group chat)
Weekly practices to connect deeper with yourself and your heart - journal prompts, meditations, rituals, recorded songs
1 pound of Guatemalan ceremonial cacao
We start our next circle June 13, 2021
**Registration closes on June 4th at 12pm PT**
Investment: $800 Pay-in-full OR Payment plan of $145 per month for 6 months
Space is limited to 12 women.
Three discounted spaces available for women of color in need. Message me at giovanna@apurifiedlife.com for this option.
Let’s journey into the heart together!
more about Cacao Medicine
Cacao is a great facilitator to go within and unlock our heart space, awaken our senses, and do our inner healing work. It's a beautiful gift to ourselves to take time for this practice to amplify the expression of our intentions and transformation.
Benefits of ceremonial cacao:
Opens the heart space (heart chakra & heart medicine)
Access to higher energies - love, joy, connection
Offers greater perspective on situations in our life to facilitate doing the inner work - moving through limiting beliefs, fears, blocks, suppressed emotions
Heightens emotional awareness and release
Relaxation, clarity, and inspiration
A great meditation guide towards our true Self
“I gained a new level of sharing my self more vulnerably and expressing my truth. I also learned more about self compassion and to be kinder with myself. Cacao is so healing and connecting in circle with sacred songs and using our own voice tapped into my soul and I loved those circles!
I trust Giovanna so fully as a facilitator. Such capacity, light, wisdom and music! And she always brings her full presence as she holds space for us in this container.”
“My experience in Awake Heart was a gathering of women holding a container for soul work. By creating an awakening in our bodies through the Cacao plant, an energetic shift moved what was most needed to look at and brought to the surface during the meditation. Through the communal gathering and song, I felt that there was a sweet invitation of safety to allow for us to merge the unintegrated parts of ourselves into the conscious. A wholeness to be experienced for ourselves as well as being witnessed in both our pain and bliss.”
“Out of Awake Heart, I developed new and better practices of speaking, listening and relating to others. I felt trust and was able to experience moments of belonging and vulnerability. I love how the topics came naturally and shifted based on your intuition.
I developed a lot of solid practices and positive change thanks to my experiences in Awake Heart circle. Meditation has become a tool for grounding, I’m more curious about the way I live my life. I’m more present for others and have more compassion.”
“I love/loved/lovingly appreciated being a part of Awake Heart. It has helped me to understand myself on a deeper level, by acknowledging what parts of me I needed to recognize and pay more attention to: my needs and my wants. It helped me be less shy about being vulnerable and sharing my true self with others.”
“Giovanna spoke and sang directly into my heart. She embodies a spiritual understanding of the earth and shares her wisdom with love and ease. Thank you for guiding us so lovingly into ourselves! With the help of cacao, I felt a sense of openness and compassion towards myself and others. I felt a powerful connection with the others in our circle, which amplified the experience. For me this was a ritual towards self-realization, building the blocks towards a society living in Love. Can’t wait to meet together again.”
Video & Photography by Regina Felice