Cacao

Introduction

Through the Mycellium of the truffle, the energy flowed from Sweden to Friesland and we ‘Nordic Sisters’ found each other in beautiful Fryslân!

Together with Heidi, I guide Cacao & Truffle retreats for groups.

Both our paths flowed deeply through Mother Earth and found the path of plantmedicine; truffle and Cacao, a magical combination! From a place of passion and healing through plantmedicine with psilocybin, we entered into collaboration with these spirits and are passionate about bringing this into the world. Truffles feel like ancient medicine from our place ‘Northern medicine’ and therefore very special and familiar to work with. Our Northern energy seamlessly matches in the field of light and love and we stand firmly with our feet in the Swedish/Frisian clay….

From a loving heart, we hold a safe ‘space’ for the group and ensure that each person can take a deep journey.

Truffles contain the active substance psilocybin. This substance expands consciousness and makes it possible to come into deeper contact with your soul, as it were, without limiting beliefs standing in your way. You see your life and events from a different perspective. You gain insight into old patterns and how you can organise your life differently, so you learn to live more from the heart and less from the mind. It is a journey of experience, in the field that you enter you can experience more clearly how you do things from limiting habits and also how you can transform this. You take this experience with you into your daily life and benefit from it. It can be very liberating and you can feel more connected afterwards.

Physical benefits.
Brain studies have shown that the brain increases its communication with the different parts of itself under the influence of psilocybin. Through brain scanes they have seen how participants brains lit up with activity after taking the psilocybin. Thousands of new connections form, linking brain regions that don’t normally talk to each other. It can be explained like this, if you imagine your brain is like a snow globe, the snow that is set on the bottom is your patterns, thoughts and habits. It’s sort of fixed and it’s not easily changed. What happens when you ingest psilocybin is that you shake this snow globe and your brain starts to work differently. After a session your snow is coming down to the ground and you can from there find a menu of options that you didn’t see before. Your mind has expanded and got restructured from your normal patterns, behavior and habits. It’s like reprogramming the operating system of a computer.

Emotional benefits
We are most addicted and medicated in recorded history and the problem is that we numb ourselves. We can’t say there is the “bad stuff” – “here is vulnerability, grief, shame, fear, disappointment, i don’t want to feel that, im gonna take a pill and forget about this”. We can’t numb those hard feelings without eventually numbing authentic joy, gratitude, happiness… and eventually we are looking for our purpose and meaning. Psilocybin assisted therapy is a direct way to become more in contact with our emotions and look what’s blocking us from feeling that passion and curious feeling you had like when you were a child, but maybe slowly fade away. This form of therapy alters a new perspective, a different consciousness, bringing us in a space of increased clarity and a healing compassion towards ourselves and others.

Psychological benefits

Through our life our experience is shaping us and our perception of ourselves and how we are experiencing the world, that’s what’s forming our so-called “core belief”. Our core beliefs also result in how we react and respond to life’s challenges and our mental health. But that doesn’t mean that our core beliefs are always the absolute truth as we may think. These perceptions can become destructive patterns and cycles that contribute to mental suffering. With Psilocybin we can deep dive into our core beliefs and question them and challenge them. This is what you can also do in “normal talk therapy” but the difference with using psilocybin as a tool is that you can find new more healthy core beliefs in a much faster way.

Spiritual benefits
It’s very clear that in our modern era or society we can lose our vision of divinity, meaning, purpose and that can result in a “spiritual emptiness”. Studies show experiments that people who have ingested psilocybin in a therapeutic way have experienced a sense of pure awareness and a merging with ultimate reality, a transcendence of time and space, a feeling of sacredness or awe, and deeply felt positive moods like joy, peace and love. People say that they can’t possibly put the experience into words. Their reaction to psilocybin is that it is one of the five top most meaningful experiences of their lives and helping them not be afraid of the afterlife.

Cacao is beneficial for your body and soul, bringing you inward in a gentle but clear way. The medicine opens your channels, your energetic system and the heart. For thousands of years, Cacao has been used in rituals and ceremonies. When you work with Cacao, you are in contact with the multi-dimensional spirit of and it is possible to get deeper in touch with your own divinity. Cacao opens heart and system to be able to receive the truffle more deeply.

A retreat with us includes first a free meeting (online or in person) when we are checking if this kind of therapy is for you.

If we decide that this kind of therapy suits you, discuss your dosage and to help you to find and clear out your intention. These calls are included in the price. In these calls we’ll also go over practical things that will help you feel prepared for your upcoming retreat.

First day:
19.30 walk-in/check-in rooms.
20.00 opening circle with introduction/sharing.
(We open the weekend ritual and take time to land with each other).

(There is opportunity to choose to go into the sauna or have a yin/yoga nidra class).

Second day;
10.30 opening circle with bodywork
Saturday morning we start with bodywork to get into the body and open up to the plant medicine. We make sure everyone’s intention is clear before we embark on this journey.

After that we let go of time and slowly sink into the free field and into contact with the spirits of the Cocoa & Truffle.

At the end of the day, we end it with a sharing session and a nourishing meal. Should you wish to stay an extra night to integrate everything properly, that is certainly possible at het Zonnehuis.

Extra night: € 25,- and 7,50 for bedding 

It is a good idea to not plan to do anything after the ceremony and spend your night somewhere calm where you take your time to rest and don’t get disturbed. (We will drive you back to Leeuwarden or Harlingen after the ceremony if you want to.

After the ceremony you can choose if you want to either have a call on the following day and/or in the days/weeks following your Psilocybin experience. 2 call are included after the ceremony and I suggest you have one the day after and one 1-3 weeks after the ceremony.

Available languages: English, Swedish and Dutch.

Where: the Zonnehuis Exmorra (near. Makkum, the Netherlands).
Het Zonnehuis is a beautiful group accommodation where the energy is fine and there is a warm welcome. You share a room, it may be possible to stay an extra night, see below.

Transport: You have to book your transport to the Netherlands by yourself. From the airport in Amsterdam (Schiphol) you can easily take the train to Leeuwarden (2 h train ride). When you arrive at the train station we will pick you up by a car and go to Het Zonnehuis,

Cost: € 333,- per.person. (incl. 1 night stay and coffee, tea and dinner after the ceremony). Extra night: € 25,-.

Registration: send an email to: mariana@therapyyogadhyana.com

Any questions? Send me an email to: mariana@therapyyogadhyana.com or call me: +31 6 41 62 36 53.

Any questions to Heidi? Visit her website: https://herthus.nl/contact/

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We are here for you all the way through your journey.