Cacao Practitioner

Training Program

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A 5-Week Empowering Immersion into Cacao Ritual

Are you ready to create a potent and sentient connection with the power of your Heart?

Do you feel ready to regain a deeper connection with the Earth, with ritual and with the body?

Do you want to learn about guiding rituals with respect for the Cacao medicine, and hold space for your process and the process of others?

Join Cacao medicine carrier Shadi Terra on a guided transformative journey to find a deeper connection with the ancestral plant teacher of Cacao.

The course is held in an empowering ceremonial framework designed by Shadi, who's been hosting Cacao rituals for 8 years and lives in Guatemala, in deep connection with the land and the local Mayan elders.

During this 5-week program, we'll offer you a unique mix of teachings, transmissions, seminars, tools and rituals to guide you deeper into your own wisdom and truth.

The course will give you tools, community, and connection with the plant teacher, so you will feel adept at journeying with it, and eventually facilitate your own Cacao event with knowledge, care and responsibility.

One Spirit’s Cacao Practitioner Training aims to bring both people who are experienced and people who are new to Cacao the necessary foundations of Cacao ritual in a playful and interactive way.

During this training, aspiring as well as active Cacao facilitators will gain a deep understanding and connection with ceremonial  Cacao as a plant medicine.

This 5-week journey offers you the necessary knowledge and tools to be able to work with Cacao in a responsible way, while honoring the medicine, the land  and the culture it originates from.

During this guided transformational journey, we will co-create a ritual space to receive the joyful and powerful teachings of Cacao. This process will invite a deeper knowing of ourselves, and offers us the space to come home into the love and care of our own Hearts. In this space we can feel solid in our love and make empowered decisions to truly thrive in this world.

The intention of our training is to assist you, as a sentient being, in connecting deeply with your unique expression of Love, the Cacao medicine, and with your own capacity to hold space for your process and the collective process of transformation at this powerful time on the planet. Supported by Cacao as your ally.

Shadi Terra

Shadi grew up in Belgium and has been living in Guatemala, in deep connection with the land, for about 8 years. They traveled nomadically all over Latin America for many years, soaking in deeply the land-based cultures of this planet while reclaiming their own body's wisdom and ways. Shadi spent quite some time in India during which they trained to be a Yoga teacher and Reiki master. They traveled to numerous sacred sites all over Europe and the Americas, in reverence of the ancient knowing they offer, and started hosting ceremonial travels for groups back in 2018.

Shadi identifies as gender fluid, pansexual and ecosexual, and feels most at home in nature. They love expressing themselves through devotional singing, dancing, in service at rituals, and while guiding groups with the ancestral Mayan Cacao medicine, in which they have been initiated by local wisdom keepers.

Shadi has been studying Mayan cosmology with wisdom keeper Francisco Puac for about 5 years, and has sat in countless Mayan fire rituals at the ceremonial sites of Guatemala, nourishing a deep connection to the land and its wisdom. They have journeyed extensively in Cacao ritual with Cacao shaman Keith Wilson at Lake Atitlan since 2014, and continue to share the powerful Cacao medicine in their own unique way.

Shadi organizes and assists ISTA (International School of Temple Arts) trainings in Guatemala, Mexico and Belgium.