Dear Relatives, it is a honour to host this beautiful weekend retreat in communion with the two powerful medicines: the Sweat Lodge and the Sacred Cacao. We are extremely bless to have our special guest singer and composer Eleonora Gorini.
Eleonora uses her voice to accompany the listener on a journey of self-awareness.
Her songwriting can be as sweet as a lullaby or as powerful as a volcano.
***The retreat will start on Saturday at 11am with the Sweat until 3pm.***
We will then take a break have some light food and start the Cacao Ceremony at 7pm until 9pm.
*After ceremony we will have a sharing circle with food and tea.
SWEAT LODGE
HEALING AND PURIFICATION RITUAL WITH THE ELEMENTS.
The Sweat Lodge is a profound ritual of physical, emotional and spiritual cleansing. It is a very effective detox that takes participants beyond the physical experience into a spiritual one. Is a ritual to help us reconnect to nature and the Elements.
Healing Benefits of Sweat Lodge Ceremonies
Mental Healing - it frees the mind of distractions, offering clarity.
Spiritual Healing - it allows for introspection and connection to the planet and the spirit world.
Physical Healing - it can potentially provide antibacterial and wound-healing benefits.
The sweat ceremony is intended as a spiritual reunion with the creator and a respectful connection to the earth itself as much as it is meant for purging toxins out of the physical body.
This ceremony is also an opportunity to connect to our ancestors to heal and give gratitude as often we carry past traumas that have been passed to us through our family lineage. The elders often said that the sweat Lodge is “the place where we remember who we are”.
Find out more about Sweat Lodge:
https://www.healingthelandproject.com/sweat-lodge
The Sweat Lodge is a place of spiritual refuge and mental and physical healing, a place to get answers and guidance by asking spiritual entities, totem helpers, the Creator and Mother Earth for the needed wisdom and power.
Cacao Ritual
The Food of the Gods.
The cocoa plant emerged in Mesoamerica around 1900 BC. in the coasts of the Gulf of Mexico, with the Olmecs who were the first to cultivate it and discover its flavour in the form of a drink mixed with water; later, the use of cocoa spread to the Mayan populations (600 AD) and Aztecs (1400 AD).
THE COCOA TREE (THEOBROMA CACAO L.) BELONGS TO THE FAMILY. IS STERCULIACEAE PLANT REACHES AN AVERAGE HEIGHT OF SIX METERS, HAS LEAVES OF UP TO THIRTY IN LENGTH AND SMALL PINK FLOWERS THAT FORM ON THE TRUNK AND ON THE MATURE BRANCHES.
The cocoa seed or grain contains theobromine, an alkaloid that stimulates central nervous system, so that when consumed it produces a sensation of well-being, acts as a mild diuretic and relaxes blood vessels and softens muscles.
THE SPIRIT OF COCOA IS ONE OF THE MOST POWERFUL DEITIES IN MAYAN COSMOLOGY, THEY CALLED HIM "KU-KU" WHICH MEANS SACRED ABOVE THE SACRED.
A tradition of thousands of years, bequeathed to us by our ancestors accompanied with shamanic healing chants, is the door to make a trip to our interior and open our hearts.
The ceremonial and ritual use that our old Olmec grandparents make of nature is linked by our Cosmovision and culture related to the environment in which they live and, in general, about the place they occupy in the universe.
Ceremonies and rituals constitute some of the cultural expressions through which the cosmovision is recognized and expressed, since from these symbolic links are established with people or divine beings and with the natural environment. In this way, a symbol constitutes the basic cultural unit in the structure of a ceremony or ritual and it is common for elements of nature such as plants, salvia divinorum, animals and fungi to be used to represent it.
THE REMAINS OF PSYCHOACTIVE ORGANISMS IN VERY OLD RUINS, REMAINS OF HALLUCINOGENIC MUSHROOMS (OF THE GENUS PSCILOCYBE), SUGGEST THAT THROUGH THEIR USE THE CONTACT OF THE HUMAN BEING WITH THE GODS WAS ESTABLISHED.
One of the organisms most used for ritual purposes were the mushrooms called Teonanacatl (meat of the gods); In fact, its use is documented in writings from the colonial era, where it is described that the mushrooms were generally mixed with cocoa (Theobromasp.) that was drunk at the end of a banquet, or they were pulverised to be smoked in combination with tobacco ( Nicotiana sp.)
Currently, the use of nature for ceremonial and ritual purposes persists in the indigenous peoples and local communities of Mexico. The conception of the sacred remains fundamental to the bond between humans and divine beings.
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