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Cacao Ceremony Bundle

Nowhere else can you find so many options with your cacao! Our 8oz bundles are a great way to experience the many Ora Cacaos. Choose from our line of pure cacaos, enhanced cacaos, and the variety bundle which contains all of our options.

 ** Bundles vary based on selection and may not be as pictured

 

PURE CACAO BUNDLE

With an 8oz bag each of: Boundless Belize, Glowing Guatemala, Thriving Tanzania.

ENHANCED CACAO BUNDLE

With an 8oz bag each of: Mystical Mushroom, Oaxacan Spice, Tantric Rose Blossom, and Vibrant Vitality.

VARIETY BUNDLE

With an 8oz bag each of: Boundless Belize, Glowing Guatemala, Mystical Mushroom, Oaxacan Spice, Tantric Rose Blossom, Thriving Tanzania, and Vibrant Vitality

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  • Get started on your cacao journey

    Get started on your cacao journey

    Perfect for first timers, this kit has the quality cacao you need to experience cacao ceremony at home. Connect with the unique energy of each cacao.

  • Give a Unique Gift

    Give a Unique Gift

    Cacao makes a great gift for the holidays. Gifting a kit with many types of cacao in it will ensure that your gift recipient finds a cacao they connect with!

  • Discover or rediscover a favorite cacao

    Discover or rediscover a favorite cacao

    Every pure cacao is unique to where it comes from and every enhanced cacao is one of a kind. Follow our tasting guide below to savor and explore.

How to Taste and Savor Cacao

Chocolate tasting requires awareness, presence, curiosity, and patience.

To really get to know a certain cacao, you must invite it to tell you a story. Every story has a beginning, middle, and end. And so does the flavor of cacao as it registers on your tongue.

Pay attention to how the flavor of the cacao changes, from beginning, to middle, to end. You may have noticed that the flavor of cacao lingers for a long time. That’s because, unlike most chocolate, our cacao has no sugar added.

Sugar is a flavorless substance, and it makes the taste of something go away faster. That’s why you get a hit of flavor from an M&M, and then it’s gone, making you almost right away reach for the next one! And all of a sudden you’ve eaten a whole bag. There’s no lasting satisfaction in sugar, but just a single disc or a single sip can tantalize your taste bud for minutes on end.

So try letting one of our cacao discs melt in your mouth, or simply savor each sip for a long moment. Then, watch how the flavor changes! And see if you can describe a piece of your journey with the chocolate tasting map.

To help us articulate the experience of cacao tasting, we often refer to this chocolate tasting map from the International Institute of Chocolate and Cacao Tasting.

You can use this too. And you can even start to develop your own map! It was designed to “create a standardized approach to understanding the fine flavor in cacao and chocolate that is intuitive.”

Remember, it’s okay if this is hard. It was for us too! Just try your best and play with it, and relax into the pleasurable experience that chocolate tasting is!

Explore the Cacao Flavor Profile Map

Preparing Your Cacao

  • Step 1

    Take a handful of cacao discs (use 20-25 discs, depending on your desired dosage).

  • Step 2

    Combine with 1 cup of 180°F liquid (water, herbal tea or nut milk).

  • Step 3

    Whisk or blend for 15 seconds. Optionally add sweetener (try maple syrup or raw honey).

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4 reviews
  • John D.
    Verified Buyer
    2 weeks ago
    Rated 5 stars
    Great Variety!

    Great turn on to the exotic cacaos!

  • Jenna P.
    Verified Buyer
    1 month ago
    Rated 5 stars
    Cacao Ceremony Bundle

    I have enjoyed trying all of the different kinds of cacao and each cup has been such a magical addition to my daily routine ☺️

  • Rachel T.
    Verified Buyer
    1 month ago
    Rated 5 stars
    Fast delivery of precious goods!

    Living in Hawaii, I worried if it would arrive melted, but great communication helped me know exactly when it would arrive and well-packed and placed in the shade of my porch, no melting issues at all. I love the convenient, reclosable packaging and the ethical and fair focus on making the world a more beautiful, joyful place! Mahalo, Ora!💕

  • Michael C.
    Verified Reviewer
    2 months ago
    Rated 5 stars
    Healing Ceremonial Cacao & PTSD

    I served my country as a Marine in Desert Storm then came home and worked as a state trooper and detective. Between fighting terrorism and crime I saw my share of sadness in this world.

    I have always loved chocolate. I’m also aware that this is because of the uplifting effect Chocolate has on mood. But when I found Ceremonial Cacao my world changed.

    It took a while to get used to the purity and strength that the various Cacao mixtures offered. I confess that at first I was just getting some comfort food and while that is true, it’s really so much more.

    I made a traditional ritual out of using the different blends and got my wife Serenity on board. She’s a nurse on the front lines of fighting Covid.

    There’s an instant gratification from a Cacao ritual but the real wonderment is in the long lasting affects. Like exercising, you don’t get completely fit by one workout. Though a single exercise session can feel good: The irony of this is that I found, through simple internet researching, that exercise induced mood stabilization, euphoria and that sense of accomplishment, is very similar, at a hormone -Neuro-transmitter level to drinking Cacao.

    So now retired from my career, having survived many dangerous encounters with murderers and rapists, I climb mountains with Serenity all over the world.

    We always pack our bundles and Ceremonial items to use on the cliffs and ridges of Earth’s most beautiful mountain peaks.

    Through it all, I found that life is its own reward. You…

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Answers to Frequent Health Questions

What are the Nutrition Facts?

Please note: serving size is 20-25 discs

Boundless Belize, Glowing Guatemala, Thriving Tanzania:

Mystical Mushroom Cacao:

Oaxacan Spice Cacao:

Tantric Rose Blossom Cacao:

Vibrant Vitality Cacao:

Is Your Cacao Tested for Heavy Metals?

Our cacao has been lab tested for safety and meets comprehensive EU standards for absence of heavy metals. In particular all our cacao tests below detectable thresholds for lead, and all our cacao tests below government mandated limits for cadmium. We actually test for 68 different heavy metals, but our focus here is on lead and cadmium as those are of most public discussion.

So why is our cacao so much safer than other chocolate products out there? 

Let’s look at cadmium specifically. Cadmium uptake is dependent on many variables, including cacao genotype, cacao tree age, and other trace metals present in the soil. Notably, the more depleted the soil is of other beneficial minerals such such as Zn, Ca, Mg, and Mn, and the younger the trees are, the higher the Cadmium uptake is. Because our cacao sourcing is focused more on quality than quantity, it is not farmed as intensively as the majority of global monoculture cacao production. Rather, our trees tend to be older and within polyculture agroforestry systems with rich soils - all factors that reduce cadmium uptake. The permaculture practices that our farmers use also regularly replenish the soils. So really, cadmium uptake has a substantial amount to do with farm management practices.


It’s also interesting to note that cadmium is first accumulated in leaves, then cacao pod shells, then cacao beans. Proper handling and shelling of cacao beans can remove the husk, which has a higher concentration than the edible part, the bean. We take great care in our cracking and winnowing process to remove as much shell as possible, which also reduces cadmium concentration in the final product. With our recent factory upgrade, we actually acquired a cracker and winnower that is a state of the art German design, used in the chocolate industry for over fifty years! This results in the cleanest cacao nibs possible.

Are there any Contradindications?

We believe cacao has potential as a holistic therapy for depression, and we have encountered the effects of cacao during depressive episodes to be uplifting and stabilizing. It is our sincere hope that someday cacao could become a part of a clinically proven method for treating depression naturally, or as a method for assisting people in reducing their dependence on powerful pharmaceuticals. 


Because cacao is contraindicated with SSRIs, many people struggling with depression cannot take cacao because of the SSRI’s they are medicating with. There is potential that people may be able to partially reduce their SSRI medication intake and supplement with ceremonial cacao, however medical studies on this need to be done to establish a verifiable protocol. If you are a medical practitioner and would like to collaborate with us on such a study, please let us know! Because pharmaceutical SSRIs have many side effects and ceremonial cacao is beneficial in so many other ways, we are hopeful that such a protocol would greatly benefit the lives of many people struggling with depression and other mood disorders.

How Does Cacao Affect Mood?

Consuming cacao can replenish minerals vital to our body. Magnesium is chronically deficient in the majority of western diets, and cacao is the highest naturally occurring source. Magnesium is used in all key brain functions, especially memory and concentration. It is also beneficial for the function of the heart, acting to relax blood vessels and decrease strain. Besides magnesium, cacao is also the highest naturally occurring source of chromium, and also high in copper, calcium, manganese, zinc, sulfur, iron, and phosphorus.

What Minerals Does Cacao Have?

Many ceremonial cacao lovers report a notable impact on their mood. There is substantial science that explains why ceremonial cacao is so beneficial. Pure cacao contains beneficial neurotransmitters and neuro-modulators already present in our brain. It also contains reuptake inhibitors that block the pathways that our bodies normally use to break down and recycle these beneficial mood altering molecules, so the good mood lasts for longer. In the long term, regularly working with ceremonial cacao can have therapeutic health benefits, including creating new neural pathways that change our daily experience to include more joy, love, and connection.

Top Molecules in Cacao

Some of the top mood altering molecules in cacao include:

Anandamide is commonly referred to as the bliss molecule, and is associated with the runner’s high effect. It is actually the first endocannabinoid to be discovered, and it is well known for moderating pain. Cacao also has N-linoleoylethanolamine, which is the reuptake inhibitor for anandamide.

Phenylethylamine (PEA) - Helps with excitement, alertness, attention. Gives the perception of time slowing down.

Norepinephrine is commonly referred to as the joy molecule. It is both a neurotransmitter and a hormone,

Serotonin - Helps with wellbeing, and creates resistance to stress. Cacao also has MOA inhibitors that inhibit reuptake of serotonin.

Dopamine - Gives feelings of motivation and pleasure. Cacao also has MOA inhibitors that inhibit reuptake of dopamine.

Due to these molecules and many others, when you drink ceremonial cacao you may feel expansive, blissful, connected to self and/or others, inspired, connected to your intuition & vision, connected to spirit, grounded, emotions arise, and the movement of stuck energy. You can also experience increased blood flow, mood elevation, and a more expanded state of consciousness. Cacao is a vasodilator, meaning your blood vessels and muscular systems relax. When working with ceremonial doses of cacao, blood flow can increase by up to 30%, meaning that more blood (life force energy) is moving through your body and nourishing all of your systems.

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Our hearts have been opened and our lives have been transformed through intimate contact with cacao, one of nature’s greatest healing medicines. We hope in our relationship with you, you will receive many gems of wisdom compiled from countless hours in the field, that we hope will deepen your practice, connection and life.

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