Why Cacao?
Cacao cultivates a deeper sense of presence and connection, offering a meaningful journey for your mind, body, and spirit. Spiritually, cacao opens your heart and enhances your meditation practice, deepening your connection with yourself and bringing a sense of calm and unity. It boosts mental clarity and focus with antioxidants, helping you think more clearly. Emotionally, cacao lifts your mood by releasing feel-good chemicals, making you feel more at ease. On a physical level, it delivers essential minerals like magnesium, which can help your muscles relax.

Combining cacao with breathwork can further amplify these benefits, as cacao’s mood-enhancing properties deepen your emotional release during breathwork. This synergy promotes a more profound sense of relaxation and clarity, allowing you to connect more deeply with your inner self and achieve a heightened state of consciousness.

Why Breathwork?

A group breathwork session allows us to let go. Once we have acknowledged what are purpose and intention is for the session we can move past any resistance that might come up and, let go. Through a fully guided rhythmic series of breaths and breath holds we can enter into a state where we can step aside from out past, our present, our fears and our future. By doing so we can see the past for what it truly was, release stress stored in the body, step away from anxiety and into self confidence, self love and joy.

By allowing our minds to rest we can let the body express the emotions we have been hiding. Fear, pain, anxiety, anger, rage, happiness, joy, love are all things we tend to not allow ourselves to express so we end up storing them in our bodies creating potential problems. By breathing the way we do in these group sessions we allow these emotions to surface and leave the body.

Jess

Jess wears many hats. She is a Woman's Circle Facilitator, Cacao Ceremonialist, Sound Therapist, Self-Discovery and Embodiment Coach, Yoga and Meditation Teacher and a Paediatric and Mental Health Occupational Therapist.

Her passion and mission is to support and empower you on your journey of self-discovery, helping you find deeper meaning, purpose, and joy in life. Jess believes that community and deep connections are essential for your well-being. "It takes a village to raise a baby," she says, "but when do you stop needing your village?"

Jess reminds you that sitting in circles, participating in ceremonies, and connecting with others are ancient practices that remain vital today. She holds space for you to reconnect with yourself, encouraging curiosity and the understanding that the answers you seek are already within you.

Barney

Barney is a qualified Master Breath and Movement Coach. Specialising in helping people find their way back into their bodies, recognise their nervous states and alter them appropriately.

After suffering for decades with anxiety, panic and chronic pain, Barney went on a self healing mission. To figure it out for himself, after coming to the realisation that no one else will be doing it for him. Learning that finding the right guides is essential, but keeping them as guides and using them to help you do the work yourself. Upon finding his guides he was able to begin healing on his terms. Now from all the experiences and learnings he aims to be a guide for others as best he can.

"Once you master being you, truly feeling into your body and being at one with it, then you can learn to love yourself and others, and live a peaceful life."

What to bring?

blanket
pillow
water
journal (optional)
eye mask
wear comfortable clothing
open mind

Parking

When you pull in from Wilsons Rd drive past 'The Studio' on your left and turn into the car park on your left. Mornington Community House is there opposite the the youth centre. Walk down the stairs and ring to door bell to to gain entry to the building.

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