Cacao Ceremony Box - 16oz
Each box contains ceremonial cacao to support your intentions.
Choose between the Warrior for stamina, the Lover for heart connection, the Trail Blazer for resiliency, and the Mystic for spiritual guidance. Discover how cacao can help you cultivate the qualities you are wanting more of.
Each box includes three 16oz bags of ceremonial cacao (about 60 servings).
The Warrior
The Warrior
Supports sustained energy and a mood boost throughout the day. Includes: Oaxacan Spice, Thriving Tanzania, Vibrant Vitality
The Lover
The Lover
These cacaos are a physical and meta-physical heart opener. Access your gratitude and emotions. Includes: Connected Colombia, Oaxacan Spice, Tantric Rose Blossom.
The Trail Blazer
The Trail Blazer
These cacaos are the ideal delivery mechanism for neuro-optimizing and resiliency building superfoods. Includes: Mystical Mushroom, Uplifting Uganda and Vibrant Vitality.
The Mystic
The Mystic
These cacaos help you start your day with ritual, connect with gratitude, and set intentions. Includes: Boundless Belize, Mystical Mushroom, Tantric Rose Blossom
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- $137.00
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- $137.00
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Why Ceremonial Cacao?
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UPLIFT
Neuromodulators and neuro reuptake-inhibitors in cacao support a stable and elevated mood that lasts.
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ENERGIZE
Theobromine gently energizes and helps with coffee reduction or replacement.
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NOURISH
High mineral density in cacao replenishes deficiencies so you can be optimally healthy
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RITUAL
Cacao ceremony begins with mindfulness, gratitude, and intention. Practice at home to deepen your relationship.
The Warrior
Cacao is uplifting and energizing without the crash, jitters, or anxiety of coffee. The cacaos in this bundle support sustained energy and a mood boost throughout the day while staying grounded and being able to sleep at night.
The Lover
The cacaos in this bundle feel like a hug in a mug. Experience sipping luscious cacao that envelopes you with its nurturing energy. Cacao is a physical and meta-physical heart opener that helps you access your gratitude and emotions.
The Trailblazer
For high functioning humans, cacao is the ideal delivery mechanism for neuro-optimizing and resiliency building superfoods. These cacaos supports you to bring your powerful energy to your work, contributing to a better world for us all.
The Mystic
When you meet cacao with intention and awareness, you receive guidance from this kind plant elder. These cacaos help you start your day with ritual, connect with your gratitude, and drop you deeper into meditation & creative practices.
What Makes Our Cacao Ceremonial Grade?
Ceremonial Cacao means premium grade cacao that's ethically sourced from small family farms practicing regenerative agroforestry. Ceremonial cacao is made from whole cacao beans that are minimally processed and crafted for drinking with intention and gratitude. Here's what we’ve come to define as the gold standard for Ceremonial Cacao:
Preparing Your Cacao
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Step 1
Take a handful of cacao discs (use 20-25 discs, depending on your desired dosage).
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Step 2
Combine with 1 cup of 180°F liquid (water, herbal tea or nut milk).
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Step 3
Whisk or blend for 15 seconds. Optionally add sweetener (try maple syrup or raw honey).
Ethical Trade Regenerative Agroforestry USDA Organic Sugar-Free Third Party Lab Tested Metals Safe Vegan & Keto GMO-Free & Soy-Free
Ethical Trade Regenerative Agroforestry USDA Organic Sugar-Free Third Party Metals Tested Vegan & Keto GMO-Free & Soy-Free
Answers to Frequent Health Questions
What are the Nutrition Facts?
What are the Nutrition Facts?
Boundless Belize, Connected Colombia, Glowing Guatemala, Thriving Tanzania:
Mystical Mushroom Cacao:
Oaxacan Spice Cacao:
Tantric Rose Blossom Cacao:
Vibrant Vitality Cacao:
Is Your Cacao Tested for Heavy Metals?
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.
Is Cacao A Stimulant?
Is Cacao A Stimulant?
We’ve tested our cacao and it has 36 mg of caffeine per 1 oz serving, or about 1/3 of what a regular cup of coffee has. It sounds like a lot, but 1mg of caffeine in cacao is not equivalent to 1mg of caffeine in coffee, because cacao has many other compounds that balance and down-regulate the caffeine.
The primarily stimulant molecule in cacao is actually theobromine. Ora Cacao has 212mg theobromine per 1oz serving. Theobromine is a mild cardiac stimulant, and differs molecularly from caffeine which is a nervous system stimulant. Theobromine gives a long lasting, gentle, embodied energy without any sort of jitters or crash, even for sensitive people. Overall, theobromine is only about one quarter as stimulating as caffeine, and it has a much longer half life in the liver, meaning that it's effect on the body is softer and longer for sustained energy.
Theobromine is also a vasodilator (it relaxes blood vessels), so it has a neutral effect on blood pressure. The improved circulation from cacao is excellent for cardiac health, and improves absorption of the nutrients in cacao and superfoods that it is paired with.
Ceremonial cacao is a great coffee replacement because it offers a grounded energy boost without the jitters and crash. You can fully or partially substitute your cup of coffee with a cup of cacao. If you are new to cacao we recommend drinking it before 2pm so that the stimulant effect has time to clear before you need to sleep.
How Does Cacao Affect Mood?
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?
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.
Are there any Contradindications?
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.
CONNECTED TO THE SOURCE
FROM FARM TO CUP
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.