Cacao Pop-Up
Welcome, i’m so glad you’re here! Below you’ll find reflection prompts and information about ceremonial cacao. I’m around if you have questions or curiosities or just want to chat!<3 KatWhat makes ceremonial cacao so special is the integrity carried through every part of its journey. From the mountains of Colombia to your cup, each step is touched by intention, reciprocity, and love. As you sit with your cacao, you’re invited to continue that lineage of presence and weave in your own heartfelt intentions.
a guide to your cacao experience
Coming into presence
Before you sip, take a moment to come into presence.
Maybe lengthen your spine, take 3-5 intentional breaths, focus on lengthening the inhales and exhales. Imagine that each inhale could carry in a sense of calm (or whatever you wish to feel), and each exhale allowed you to let go of tension (or whatever feels right for you).
What do you notice in your body when you breathe in a sense of calm? …when you exhale tension? (Tune into any sensations, for example warmth, coolness, softening, tightniess, openness, buzzing, pressure, stillness, ease… whatever is true for you, let it be simple).
Intention and engaging the senses
Maybe you arrived in this space with an intention, or maybe not, either way, from this place of presence, take a moment to decide what you’re ready to invite, receive, or soften into.
If your intention had a color, a texture, a feeling, what would it be?
When you’re ready, hold your cup of cacao in your hands. Feel the warmth, breathe in the scent. Before you take a sip, you can whisper your intention to the cacao (aloud or in your mind).
With each sip, you might imagine your intention (and maybe the color/texture/feeling of your intention) gently entering the body and flowing into the mind, muscles, bones, cells, etc.
What does it feel like to receive what you’re calling in? Get curious about sensations, maybe temperature, pressure, softening, subtle shifts, are any emotions popping up to say hello? Where do you feel it most? Does the cacao carry your intention to a specific part of your body? What draws your attention?
Cacao often meets us in the heartspace, what do you notice there?
Receiving
After several sips, or near the bottom of your cup, pause again. What do you notice now? Has anything shifted, even in the smallest way? Name the quality of your inner landscape.
If cacao had a message for you what would it be (maybe a word a color, a sensation, a feeling, a texture, an image, a symbol, a song, or something else). What does cacao wish to share with your system today?
An invitation to create
You’re invited to create something with the supplies provided that comes from the heart. Maybe it’s a love letter to your current self from your future self, maybe it’s a message for the world, maybe it’s an interpretation of your experience or intentions, or maybe something else… allow yourself to flow with the heart opening medicine of cacao.
FAQs
Why ceremonial cacao?
Cacao is a superfood, rich in magnesium, iron, and antioxidant content that support overall wellbeing. And, minimally processed cacao beans, means higher nutrient density. The theobromine in cacao supports cardiovascular health, initiating a boost of vitality without strain on the nervous system. Cacao triggers the release of neurotransmitters like serotonin, dopamine, and anandamide that support mood regulation, memory, and focus.
On an emotional/spiritual level it is highly revered as a heart opener, known for its ability to connect you to your heartspace, intuition, and creativity.
“Ceremonial” cacao means it is grown, processed, prepared, served and revered with intention and presence at each step along the way. This high vibration cacao is much more than a cup of hot chocolate, it’s a gentle plant teacher that invites us to slow down, sense into our heartspace, and return home to ourselves.
Why Jaguar Siembra?
This cacao is unique because it is ethically sourced from indigenous communities in La Sierra de Santa Marta in Colombia. A region that is known as “the heart of the world”. This cacao is hand harvested, minimally processed, and supports reforestation and regenerative land stewardship. Processed with love and intention, you’ll sense the sacred in this beautiful cacao.
For me, this region along the Caribbean coast has a special significance on a personal level. Over the last several years I have spent a few months at a time getting to know this particular part of the world, and the lovely people of this region. I am truly honored to share this cacao with you and support their project.
Jaguar Siembra’s mission: “We use the power of the arts, storytelling and education to co-grow food forests alongside indigenous Colombian families. We share food for thought, preserving our ecosystems and cultural heritage”. Learn more on their website here!
Why the pop up?
Big Bright Circle’s mission is to help folks come home to themselves, to discover their own innate magic, and feel connected to the natural rhythms of the Earth that reverberate through each of us. I believe that the more we can open ourselves up to the magic of our own humanity, we open up pathways to transform, grow, evolve, and access inner peace.
I am offering this community event as an opportunity and invitation to slow down, arrive in presence, and connect to your heartspace. Whether you choose to sip quietly and enjoy on your own or chat with others, this community event is a reminder that none of us are moving through the flows of life alone. I want to create experiences where we can slow down and hold ourselves and others in presence.
What is interoception?
Interoception is your ability to sense and perceive what’s happening inside your body. Our bodies speak the quiet (well, sometimes not so quiet) language of sensation. The flutter in your chest, the warmth in your belly, the subtle tightening of your jaw, tension, pain, etc. It is the ongoing conversation between your body and your awareness, and it’s always communicating, whether you notice it or not.
Most of us move through life responding to what’s outside of us, but interoception invites us to listen inward. When interoception is strong, you can recognize your needs earlier. You notice stress before it becomes overwhelm, hunger before hangry, emotion before shutdown or outburst. Your body becomes something you can listen to instead of something you have to ignore, manage, or push through.
This changes how we care for ourselves. Instead of reacting when something becomes intense or uncomfortable, we can respond while signals are still quiet and workable. Awareness becomes supportive rather than urgent.
Read the blogpost here!
about kat and big bright circle
Hi, I’m Kat Itz, a CranioSacral Therapy + Energywork Practitioner, Clinical Hypnotist and Herbalist. I offer CranioSacral Therapy, vibrational medicine, and subconscious reprogramming to help you become more well acquainted with the essence of your being. When we lead from a place of curiosity, we begin to relate to ourselves and the world in a wholly distinct way, beautiful transformation becomes possible, we learn to regulate in new ways, and we feel more settled within ourselves. Regulate your Nervous System, let your innate wisdom lead, live your purpose.
I am particularly interested in how the imprints of thoughts, energy, emotions, and experiences create dis-ease and imbalance within us. My current offerings are designed to use CranioSacral Therapy, energetic bodywork, and vibrational medicine (stones, plants, sound bowls, hypnosis) to integrate spiritual lessons and reprogram self-limiting energetic and emotional patterns in our bodies and subconscious minds so that you can access more freedom and circle in closer to your own center.