In this class, we explore cacao and chocolate making as both a nourishing craft and a joyful, embodied ritual. You’ll learn how to work with cacao as a plant ally to create simple herbal chocolates and sweet treats that are both delicious and functional—supporting consistency and ease when taking other herbs, tinctures, or medicines that might otherwise feel challenging to integrate into daily life.
We’ll look at cacao not only as an ingredient, but as a heart-opening medicine that supports connection, presence, pleasure, and grounding. You’ll be guided through ways of blending herbs into chocolate in supportive, intentional ways, while also understanding how to match flavours, effects, and energetics of different plants.
Alongside practical chocolate-making skills, we’ll explore how food can become ritual—an accessible way to bring more joy, care, and meaning into everyday wellness practices. This class invites you to deepen your relationship with cacao as a daily ally for both nourishment and medicine, and to discover how sweetness itself can support healing and consistency.
Teacher Bio:
Maria is a herbal enthusiast, facilitator, and somatic practitioner originally from Aotearoa New Zealand, now based at Lake Atitlán, Guatemala. Her work weaves plant medicine—especially everyday herbs and cacao—with embodiment and ritual to create grounded, trauma-informed spaces for healing and transformation. She supports people in reconnecting with the wisdom of plants, their bodies, and their innate capacity to heal.
In this class, we explore cacao and chocolate making as both a nourishing craft and a joyful, embodied ritual. You’ll learn how to work with cacao as a plant ally to create simple herbal chocolates and sweet treats that are both delicious and functional—supporting consistency and ease when taking other herbs, tinctures, or medicines that might otherwise feel challenging to integrate into daily life.
We’ll look at cacao not only as an ingredient, but as a heart-opening medicine that supports connection, presence, pleasure, and grounding. You’ll be guided through ways of blending herbs into chocolate in supportive, intentional ways, while also understanding how to match flavours, effects, and energetics of different plants.
Alongside practical chocolate-making skills, we’ll explore how food can become ritual—an accessible way to bring more joy, care, and meaning into everyday wellness practices. This class invites you to deepen your relationship with cacao as a daily ally for both nourishment and medicine, and to discover how sweetness itself can support healing and consistency.
Teacher Bio:
Maria is a herbal enthusiast, facilitator, and somatic practitioner originally from Aotearoa New Zealand, now based at Lake Atitlán, Guatemala. Her work weaves plant medicine—especially everyday herbs and cacao—with embodiment and ritual to create grounded, trauma-informed spaces for healing and transformation. She supports people in reconnecting with the wisdom of plants, their bodies, and their innate capacity to heal.