Join the SOUL TRIBE in our CACAO COLLECTIVE events for 2021.
Tuesdays + Thursday at 7pm - 8pm
Venue: TBA (somewhere fabulous - see below…..
Tuesday 3rd August - WILHEMEENA MONROE (VENUE - Bali Garden - MATAKANA)
Thursday 12th August - ASHLEIGH DUNCAN (VENUE - MOVESPACE)
Thursday 19th August - KAYLA ANDERSON (VENUE - Grey Lynn) - CANCELLED DUE TO LOCKDOWN
Thursday 26th August - DYLAN KAUFMAN (VENUE TBA) - CANCELLED DUE TO LOCKDOWN
Created from the years of holding space in ceremony every week at the SOUL CENTRE in Titirangi, the Cacao Collective was born from the sacred foundation of consistency, community and care. With our first facilitators Connie Causa and Lucy Brooking (Cacao Keeper) and Wilhemeena Monroe holding space for over 7 years we created a community of cacao where meeting every week together became our way of BEING with each other, with heart, with love and in connection with all things.
Ceremony is about coming together with an intention and purpose - we gather to rest from the outside world and tune in with who and how we are. Cacao enhances our receptivity to the magic held within ourselves. She is a soft yet powerful plant-teacher, helping us open our hearts, which aids us to approach life through a lens of compassion and joy. The best way to know what cacao can offer you is to experience it yourself. She supports us wherever we are in life, however we are feeling, and is a safe experience for all.
A beautiful way to spend an evening, as we sit in circle with this delicious plant medicine, in meditation with our breath and with each other. Because it's always better with chocolate!
Who we are:
A collective of facilitators, magic makers and ceremonial babes who hold space in mutual support of the sacredness of the earth, mama cacao, each other and the wider community we serve.
Our service is to LOVE, to cacao, to co-creation and to community.
We create a safe and sacred space for people to rest, connect, to heal and BE.
Created from the years of holding space in ceremony every Tuesday at the SOUL Centre in Titirangi, the Cacao Collective was born from the sacred foundation of consistency, community and care. With our first facilitators Connie Causa and Lucy Brooking (Cacao Keeper) and Wilhemeena Monroe holding space for over 7 years we created a community of cacao where meeting every week together became our chocolate church.
Founder and Holder of the sacred container – Wilhemeena Monroe/SOUL CENTRE
Founding facilitators: Ashleigh Duncan and Wilhemeena Monroe
What we do:
We combine our energies to co-create a safe and sacred container for each other and for the community - creating a stronger and consistent place of support
To be of greater service to love, to cacao herself and to the wider SOUL community
To be a place of support for community and cacao
To create a container of support for collective members and their practice and growth energetically and logistically - so we can be the best we can be.
Creating Simple, Beautiful, Consistent, Easeful ceremony
WILHEMEENA ISABELLA MONROE
Wilhemeena is an international leader in wellness facilitation - a dancer, an artist and poet, she is a world re-knowned healer and teacher of the healing and sacred arts.
Working with many sacred traditions, Wilhemeena has developed a kite (basket) of knowledge that stems from Taoist, Ayurvedic, Yogic, Mayan, Aztec, Andean and Pacific and multi-nesian lineages - helping people heal and inspiring them to live their best lives - returning us back to the sacred parts of ourselves. She facilitates personal ceremony + healing, working one-on-one with individuals as well as group facilitation, trainings, retreats and online programs. for more info see: www.mswilla.com
As a social entreprenuer she founded The SOUL CENTRE and held space there for over 17 years as the priestess and managing director, SOUL WELLBEING AT WORK ( a wellness int he workplace initiative) and ELEMENTAL ALCHEMY - a energy healing and qi gong training programme, as well as numerous healing and wellness workshops and products.
She is a rampant creator and is passionate about creating ways for people to find more freedom and healing in their lives.
ASHLEIGH DUNCAN
Originally from Scotland, Ash has been traveling the world for the last 10 years and has found a sense of home and community in Auckland. Ash learned to be a cacao facilitator in 2020 from Jemma Gawned - a beautiful teacher from Anchoring the Light which is based in Australia, Bali and Peru. Since then, Ash has been holding space for cacao ceremonies around Auckland and has a passion for sharing this beautiful heart opening medicine with others in a space and setting that weaves the Andean cosmology and ancient wisdom teachings.
KAYLA ANDERSON
Kayla is a self love guide working with heart opening therapies involving ceremonial cacao, NLP, timeline therapy, and breathwork as tools for transformation. Combining these modalities, Kayla creates experiences that are highly transformational, creating profound shifts within the body and mind to enhance feelings of self-worth, love and confidence. Kayla is the co-founder of LOVEYOU a self-love retreat company aiming to empower women to love who they are. She also shares the medicine of love through her cacao ceremonies, 1:1 healing journeys and online programs.
DYLAN KAUFMAN
Dylan is passionate about holistic arts and sacred living. He facilitates transformational spaces to cultivate energy flow and deepen embodiment through the integration of all aspects of self. In heartfelt service, he aspires to support us personally, to help us to reconnect with our truth, and to help all life on Earth evolve into greater mastery.