AYA 🌺 Pacha Cacao ® Medicinal Retreat, Ecuador December 2026.

• Somatic Regulation & Nervous System Mastery: understanding trauma patterns, parasympathetic activation, and cacao’s neuromodulating properties.

• Ancestral & Alchemical Cacao Studies: Mayan cosmology, Andean lineage wisdom, and practical alchemy of preparation, dosage, and ceremony.

• Facilitation Ethics & Energetic Boundaries: learning to hold medicine spaces with clarity, humility, and heart integrity.

• Embodied Service & Leadership: cultivating a grounded presence that transmits healing rather than performs it.

• Land & Reciprocity: direct immersion with regenerative projects protecting the Fino de Aroma cacao legacy and the Jaguar’s forest.

Ecuador, corazon del Mundo, Ancestral Origin of Cacao

Study Program

AYA 🌺 Pacha Cacao ® — December 2026 Cohort

Not a beginner’s but a specialization program, a sacred deepening designed for those who are already practicing within the healing arts: therapists, coaches, space holders, energy workers, yoga teachers, ceremonial guides, and plant medicine practitioners ready to refine their craft

🌎Through this initiatory pathway, we enter the sacred art of balancing and recalibrating the nervous system, working with the ancient intelligence of Cacao as a living medicine.
You will learn to guide others through embodied states of coherence and release, blending ancestral wisdom, somatic science, and herbal astrology to awaken the heart’s original rhythm.

This training unfolds across a paradise-like landscape in Ecuador, where forest-grown Cacao Fino de Aroma meets sacred water, volcanic soil, and celestial guidance.
Each participant will journey through the ceremonial, emotional, and scientific dimensions of holding space with integrity, learning to bridge the physical and the energetic, the personal and the planetary.✨

AYA Pacha Cacao is a Living Offering designed with all the Elements to awaken deeper humanity

This intensive is a specialisation for experienced healers, not an introductory course.
It is designed for those already walking the path of therapy, yoga, herbalism, energy medicine, or plant facilitation who are ready to deepen mastery through Cacao Medicine, bridging science, herbalism, astrology, and alchemy.

Across eight immersive days in the paradise-like lands of Ecuador, we will explore Cacao as both neuro-regenerative medicine and sacred teacher, balancing the nervous system and awakening the heart’s coherent rhythm. This intensive is a specialization for experienced healers, not an introductory course.

It is designed for those already walking the path of therapy, yoga, herbalism, energy medicine, or plant facilitation who are ready to deepen mastery through Cacao Medicine, bridging science, herbalism, astrology, and alchemy.

Across eight immersive days in the paradise-like lands of Ecuador, we will explore Cacao as both neuro-regenerative medicine and sacred teacher, balancing the nervous system and awakening the heart’s coherent rhythm.

Opening Ceremony · Nervous System Mapping

• Orientation to AYA 🌺 Pacha Cacao ® lineage and ethics.

• Somatic grounding and parasympathetic activation.

• Understanding Cacao as a neuromodulator and heart opener.

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🌿 DAY 3 — The Herbalist’s Eye

Cacao as Plant Ally & Phytotherapeutic Matrix

• Formulating with adaptogens and womb herbs.

• Alchemical temperature, roasting, and fermentation as living processes.

• Crafting personalized blends for emotional regulation.

✨ DAY 4 — Celestial Codes of Cacao

Astrology · Venus & Mars · The Cosmic Fire of Service

• Planetary correspondences of cacao.

• Supporting birth charts through the lens of medicinal plants.

• Aligning ceremony timing with lunar and Mayan cycles.

🌑 DAY 5 — Alchemy of Transformation

Shadow Work · Elemental Integration

• Working with death and rebirth archetypes.

• Obsidian and mushroom allies for inner purification.

• Guided shamanic journey: the melting of resistance into devotion.

🜂 DAY 1 — The Call of the Fire Heart

💨 DAY 2 — Science & Soul of Cacao

Biochemistry · Neuroendocrine Harmony

• Active compounds: theobromine, anandamide, magnesium, MAO inhibitors.

• How cacao influences serotonin, dopamine, and oxytocin cycles.

• Bridging scientific and ceremonial perspectives.

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AYA 🌺 Pacha Cacao ® — December 2026 Cohort

🦋 DAY 6 — Sound · Breath · Movement

Somatic Release & Coherence Practices

• Breathwork, vocal toning, and movement as regulation tools.

• How to safely guide participants through emotional waves.

• Designing sensory sequences for ceremonial flow.

🕸 DAY 7 - Web of life as Ceremony. Facilitation Ethics · Energetic Boundaries

• Trauma-informed leadership and group dynamics.

• Ritual protection, prayer, and integrity in service.

• Practice: mapping a micro-dosing journey.✨

Love is our inspiration, Beauty the Healing Force moving us into Creation

🌞 DAY 8 — Ceremony of Reciprocity

Integration · Certification · Commitment to the Earth

• Closing Cacao fire ceremony and personal oath to Mother Earth.

• Presentation of facilitator projects linked to conservation.

• Blessing with Cacao Fino de Aroma and Jaguar spirit invocation.

Maria

AYA PACHA CACAO Founder

My healing Arts flow with somatic release and embodiment work empowered by the Plants and other Ancient Medicines. Since my early twenties as a full-time Shamanic healer, Coach and Educator while deepening my own path of healing and integration.

Born and in love with Ecuador paradise of Wildlife. I profoundly enjoy sharing Ancestral Medicine made in AYA Shamanic Lab while educating about environment, Ritual and sustainability, how to co-exist with Mother Nature in harmony, praising her beauty.

Ever inspired by the Amazon, lungs of our world, to become the best version of myself, an eternal student of her pharmacy and healing magic.

After 10 years mastering the Healing Arts through Alchemical ways to transform disconnection into intimacy and purposeful action, walking by the side of Cacao Medicina Ancestral and other Master Plants, my immense love for Cacao Fino de Aroma and Metaphysics merges my Chemical Engineer with Mindfulness of Healing as a conscious choice, inviting me and you into deeper connection with oneself from the inside out.

IX Maria

AYA Pacha Cacao Founder

My spiritual path is Union, my womb and my relationship with Plants my connection with the divine,

My passion is to teach how to embody connection, how to become Love in Action to evolve with mother Planet.

Tomek

Tomek is a Plant Medicine Facilitator and Project Roots Coordinator at Numinous Ways, dedicated to creating transformative spaces for healing and authentic cultural connection.
At Numinous Ways, he organises and coordinates retreats with indigenous communities, supporting respectful engagement with ancient plant medicine traditions. He facilitates immersive experiences that foster personal transformation while ensuring that indigenous wisdom is honoured and preserved.
Tomek’s work is rooted in a lifelong relationship with plant teachers and a vision of healing that unites personal awakening with the cultivation of sustainability and reverence for the Numinous.

Meadinal Sound guide supporting our Healing journey