Cacao Facilitator & Ceremonialist Training
Cacao is the pathway to the heart’s calling
Ajna Temple’s Cacao Facilitator & Ceremonialist Training teaches you how to facilitate cacao ceremonies, from working with ceremonial cacao and ceremony preparation to facilitation skills and creating meaningful cacao experiences.
Next step: send your Expression of Interest for a free discovery call, or view the current Ceremonialist Teacher Training dates.
Is This Training Calling You?
- You are amazed by the power of this soft heart Medicine.
- Ready for a heart opening journey.
- Inspired to share the magic of cacao with the people around you…
This small and beautiful bean is so revered for its heart opening effects that its journey has carried it worldwide.
An ancient indigenous myth from the Central and South America areas shares that whenever the balance between humans and nature becomes threatened, Cacao comes from the rainforest to open people’s hearts and return the planet to a state of harmony.
Are you being called forth to be a Ceremonial Cacao Facilitator to support this state of harmony being restored?
To hold space for people to re-connect in to their own inner wisdom keeper of their womb and hara, to move from their head and heart?
To support people living from their hearts, and being able to seek their answers from within?
How do we brew the most delicious cacao? How do we hold space for pretty much any type of workshop?
This Facilitator Training is not about working through a Manual, though one IS provided….
Who Is It For?
This is useful for anybody who already facilitates groups, or those who would like to hold space and teach but want to build confidence and hands on experience. You will co~create your own ceremony to complete this training.
You will be qualified to hold Cacao Ceremonies, but many students come to these trainings to simply be able to facilitate their own passions and practices.
If you are wanting to bring a Ceremonial aspect to your already existing practice and workshop, I invite you to come to this.
What Does the Training Include?
- Full participation on the course
- 1 Cacao Ceremony of Daisy & Stephs
- Tuition for the four-day intensive in-person training in Gold Coast, which includes four Cacao Rituals & Ceremonies. (Please note: travel, food and accommodation are not included)
- A certificate of completion
- Invitation to assist Meow Cacao Ceremonies
- Aftercare – Two Check-In calls (one with each facilitator) within a month after the Training
What Will the Certificate Qualify Me to Do?
- This teacher training covers everything from how to create sacred space for people to open up and feel safe, create brilliant musical set-lists (your no. 1 co-facilitator), tools to integrate trauma/emotional releases within a workshop space, and how to get people to sign up.
- It is about embodiment. The greatest teachers are those who teach through full embodiment of their teachings. It is transmission that is our greatest teacher.
- Reclamation of our power as masterful creators as alchemists.
- Deep remembrance of what we truly are. Communion with Cacao Spirit
- Communion with pachamama, the celestial realms, our guides, animal allies — the elements, connection, empathy, wisdom.
What Will I Gain on a Personal Level?
- Personal empowerment
- Personal growth and expansion
- Greater self-love
- Deeper connection to self
- Develop your intuition
- Gain holistic body awareness
- Develop profound embodiment
- Skills for open, honest communication and self expression
- Integration of body mind and spirit
- Tools for personal practice and personal health
- Cleansing and protection practices
- Fun, laughter and playfulness
- Clearing old energies, spending time in paradise and meeting amazing people
- Transmitting from a teacher with over 25 years experience
- How to be adaptable and adjust to changes
- Learn how to hold trauma informed space for others
- Gain confidence in groups
- Learn effective Facilitation
I’m IN! How Do I Sign Up?
For current dates and pricing, see the Ceremonialist Teacher Training listing. If no dates suit you yet, send your Expression of Interest below.
Pricing from the previous intake, for reference:
Instalment plans available: If you are a FULL YES and need to pay in payment instalments, please enquire with us about payment plans with the first instalment of $333 to secure your place and the full balance due before the training.
We also support people who come from different backgrounds and economies, or countries with a lower income. Please get in touch, if none of the above options works for you, so that we may find a solution that balances both your needs and our dedicated work. No Refunds, but Name changes are accepted.
Moments From Our Cacao Ceremonies






About Your Cacao Queen Facilitator
STEPHANIE THALER (AJNA)
Stephanie is passionate about embodied awakening and opening hearts. She studied in Guatemala with Keith the Cacao Shaman and with other Mayan Tribes to understand the mysteries of this magical bean, brought the first Cacao Ceremony to Israel, and has been offering them around the world for over a decade.
She is a mother, a qualified Rebirther, accredited Yoga teacher, certified Massage therapist, Watsu practitioner (water massage), Reiki master, Theta healer, Attunement Therapy Practitioner, Soul Fragmentation Retriever, Womb Clearer, Chord cutter, Crystal-dreaming practitioner, Interpersonal Relating guide and a Cacao Mama Queen.
She is the founder of Meow Cacao and Ajna Temple.
As a shamanic Breath-Doola, a mother and an Empowerment Healer, she is here to activate the remembrance of heaven on earth, supporting humanity to embody life as the ceremony, breath as the ritual, body as the temple & presence as the prayer. #ajnatemple
Expression of Interest
Share what you feel ready for, your experience, your intentions and your preferred timing. Stephanie will review your answers and contact you to arrange a free discovery call.
Disclaimer
Ceremonial doses of Cacao are not recommended for people who are taking antidepressants (Cacao contains MAO inhibitors), or who have a serious heart condition, or have very high blood pressure or suffer from epilepsy. Pregnant women may take smaller amounts. Please get in touch if you have questions. This is a deep self inquiry course, and not for people who have any outstanding mental illnesses. Please check with us if you are concerned.
This is a COVID Regulations-Safe Environment. We will continue to stay updated with COVID Regulations and if necessary move this Online. If COVID changes our situation by any means and lockdown happens, the course will go forward, online in Zoom calls.
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