Open Your Heart to Cacao
A self-paced journey to become intimate with Cacao as Plant Medicine.
Cacao is a loving teacher. Its Spirit Keeper guides those who are ready to experience bliss while expanding their inner wisdom through Cacao's profound shamanic journeying experience.
Explore the teachings, ceremony, and sacred relationship with Cacao through five recorded lessons you can experience at your own pace.
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The Sacred Medicine of Cacao
For thousands of years, cacao has held a meaningful place in the ceremonial and cultural traditions of ancient civilizations.
The scientific name Theobroma cacao means “food of the gods,” reflecting the reverence associated with this remarkable plant.
Journeying with cacao invites you into the present moment, beyond the mind's constant activity, opening space for reflection, inspiration, and a deeper connection with yourself.
Through this initiation, you are invited to discover cacao not simply as a beverage, but as a plant with which you can cultivate a conscious and sacred relationship.
What You May Experience
Cacao as plant medicine can become a companion for reflection, presence, and the exploration of your inner world.
As you cultivate a relationship with the Spirit Keeper of Cacao, your experience may include:
- Expanding the space of the heart
- Personal breakthroughs and insights
- A deeper sense of wellbeing
- Moments of bliss and inner peace
- Greater awareness of your own energy
- Light code activations
- Exploring healing and integration
- Communing with Mother Earth
- Co-creating a new vision for yourself
- Experiencing shamanic journeys
Five Lessons of Initiation
Originally recorded in November 2022, each lesson holds a clear intention for expanding your relationship with the Spirit Keeper of Cacao.
Foundations
Learn the basics of cacao, its benefits, its ceremonial uses, the difference between cacao and cocoa, and how and why to prepare it. Begin your first encounter with Cacao's Spirit, even if you cannot prepare a cup of cacao.
Deep Dive to Meet the Ancient Keeper of Cacao
Meet the Spirit Keeper of Cacao through feeling, experiencing, and shamanic journeying. Explore cacao as plant medicine and deepen your relationship with its teachings.
Microdosing
Explore the concept of microdosing and how it relates to cacao as plant medicine. Journey deeper with cacao, opening to personal healing and an expansion of self-love.
Deep Love & Healing
Meet the archetypes of Cacao and their unique medicine: Mama Cacao, Tata Cacao, and the Spirit Keeper of Cacao.
Integration, Closing & Going Forward
A shamanic journey of wholeness and integration. This final circle gathering invites you to anchor what you have learned and experienced, bringing the journey to a meaningful close.
Your Own Rhythm
These are recorded teachings. Return to each lesson and explore the material at your own pace.
Learn Through Sacred Experience
Shakti Bottazzi shares her experience of more than 40 years on the shamanic and healing path, together with her knowledge of the medicine of cacao.
Drawing upon her experience journeying with cacao and the teachings she has received, Shakti offers this initiation as an invitation to deepen your own relationship with the plant and its Spirit Keeper.
The course was recorded as a series of sacred circle gatherings, preserving the teachings and experiential practices for you to revisit in your own time.
Begin Your Cacao Journey
Allow the Cacao Spirit Keeper to guide you into the depths of your inner wisdom.
Shakti Bottazzi
Spiritual Teacher, Medicine Woman
Shakti Bottazzi is a modern-day medicine woman. She is a cosmic citizen carrying many different transmissions within, while also being a citizen of Argentina, Italy, and the United States.
Born and raised in Argentina, she took her first steps on her spiritual path during her late teenage years, seeking answers through meditation and energy healing from Andean and Jesuit traditions. Later, she studied with masters from Japan, China, and India, including more than a decade of Buddhism. She has received direct transmissions from curanderos in Central America and medicine from the Navajo tradition.
Shakti began channeling ascended beings of light in 2012, receiving direct teachings and guidance that she has incorporated into her vast repertoire of tools, creating her own methods for healing and teaching.
Successful in her own right, she is a three-time entrepreneur, motivational speaker, and Fulbright Scholar with more than 30 years of experience in the corporate world.
Shakti brings together her multifaceted, multicultural life experience to guide people into their becoming. Those who work with her expand their gifts, learn to trust their intuition, and become deeply connected to their own soul's work, leading lives of inspired action, purpose, passion, and prosperity.
Open Your Heart to Cacao
Begin your self-paced initiation into the sacred teachings and medicine of cacao.
Five recorded lessons · Self-paced learning
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