Ceremonial Cacao for Facilitators and Circles
You hold the space. You pour the cup. Whatever people carry in with them, it passes through your heart and your hands first — and the cacao you choose becomes part of what they receive. This page is for you.
It grows on Bribri family farms across Talamanca, in the South Caribbean of Costa Rica. Elena collects the pods, ferments them, and sun-dries them for a week at her place in Bananito. Then a cooperative of one hundred Bribri women turns those beans into cacao, ground slowly for forty-eight hours and never rising above 109°F. That patience is what keeps the aromatics, the oils and the living character of the bean intact.
Ten years of the same relationship, the same mountainside, the same hands.
How much you need for a circle
A ceremonial pour is 1 to 1.5 oz — 28 to 42 grams.
1 lb / 454 g — about 11 to 16 cups. A small circle, or a season of private sessions.
1 kg / 2.2 lb — about 24 to 36 cups. A circle of twelve, twice over.
3 kg / 6.6 lb — about 70 to 105 cups. A rhythm of regular circles.
Shave it from the block and melt it into hot water.
Beginning
Start with the sample kit — three bars and a pound of ceremonial cacao, $85 plus shipping. Meet the full character of it in your own kitchen before you pour it for anyone else.
When you are ready, wholesale begins at ten pounds, confirmed personally by email, and ships worldwide by DHL from Costa Rica in about two weeks.
Growing together
Some facilitators pour this cacao every month — in circles, in studios, on their own shelves. When it becomes part of your rhythm we shape the arrangement around it, and standing partners receive allocation pricing.
Tell us how your year moves and we will meet it.