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

• Somatic Regulation & Nervous System Mastery: the Alchemy of trauma, parasympathetic activation, and Cacao’s neuromodulating properties acting from hearth to planet centre.

• Ancestral & Alchemical Cacao Studies: Mayan Astrology, Andean lineage wisdom, Practical alchemy of preparation, dosage, and medicinal guidance for therapeutic processes and Conscious Cosmetic preparations.

• Facilitation Ethics & Energetic Boundaries: learning to hold medicine spaces with clarity, humility, and hearth integrity. Experiencing the Art of Mirroring as a healing space for your tribe to evolve in love.

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

• Land & Reciprocity: direct immersion with regenerative projects protecting not only Cacao Fino de Aroma legacy but also honouring and purifying sources of Lifegiving Water and the Jaguar’s forest source of all life.

Ecuador, corazon del Mundo, Ancestral Origin of Cacao

Study Program

AYA 🌺 Pacha Cacao ® | December 2026 Cohort

A deepening experiencial journey 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 experiencial Retreat for experienced healers or for individuals wishing to take their families into an authentic healing journey.

Designed for those already exploring the path of the Healing Arts as: therapy, yoga, herbalism, energy medicine, or plant facilitation, those ready to deepen their Nervous System and inner Alchemy mastery through Cacao Medicine, bridging Science, Herbalism, Shamanic Astrology, and intimate work with the Elements creating life, to empower our communities for the golden Times.

Across eight immersive days in the paradise-like lands of Ecuador: Intag, we will explore Cacao as both neuro-regenerative medicine and sacred teacher, balancing the Nervous System and awakening the hearth’s coherent rhythm, choosing to return to Schumann's Resonance pulsing from the heart of Mother Earth. An essential and radical evolutionary Art we can perform in the present moment, learning to hold space with our Nervous System is the most important gift we can offer to ourselves and others.

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

• Welcome home with a ritual Cacao fresh tea, introduction to your accommodations and Orientation to AYA 🌺 Pacha Cacao ® lineage and ethics.

• What is healing?

• Lunch and Rest

• Integration: Sharing musical Cacao circle to ground Healing.

• Somatic grounding and parasympathetic activation with movement and sound.

• Understanding Cacao as a neuromodulator and hearth opener through Earthing with the Ancient Frog and Ancient Waters.

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🌿 DAY 3 | The Herbalist’s Eye is a Spiritual Fire

Cacao as Plant Ally & Phytotherapeutic Matrix

• Sensorial breakfast. Learning the Amplifying effects of Cacao as a Master Plant.

• Formulating with adaptogens and womb herbs to connect creative to hearth Energy.

• Alchemical temperature, Calling in Sacred Fire roasting, and fermentation as living processes.

• Crafting personalised blends for emotional regulation.

• Exploring the cosmetic industry. Learning the Magic of Conscius beauty.

✨ DAY 4 | Celestial Codes of Cacao

• Planetary correspondences of Cacao.

• Supporting birth charts through the lens of medicinal plants.

• Aligning ceremony timing with lunar and Mayan cycles.

• Astrology · Venus & Mars · The Cosmic Fire of Service

🌑 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

• Waterfalls and Cacao, the Mastery of Flow and alignment. Early awakening to enjoy the beauty of Conservation.

• Medicine of tribe. Natures thrive as One. Active compounds working in synergy: theobromine, anandamide, magnesium, MAO inhibitors. Why Andandamide exist inside you and Cacao?

• Lunch and Offering with the Waters.

• Returning to our tree house for a tea and refreshments.

• Walk through the Orchids, witnessing Beauty as a Healing Force of Nature.

• Later talk: How Cacao influences the hormones of Love, dopamine, and oxytocin cycles. The role of set and setting.

• Bridging scientific, shamanic and medicinal 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.

Intag | Water Sanctuary

In the heart of the Ecuadorian Andes lies INTAG, a living sanctuary where water is sacred, the forest breathes, and ancient beings still walk freely through untouched wilderness.

Here, crystalline rivers carve their way through cloud forest mountains,
and every drop of water carries the memory of life’s first prayer.

INTAG is home to some of the planet’s most unique and endangered wildlife —
a refuge where nature still protects her oldest children:

🐆 The Andean Jaguar, silent guardian of the night, keeper of strength and mystery.
🐸 The Renowned “Dinosaur Frog”, a prehistoric jewel found nowhere else on Earth.
🦜 The Plate-Billed Mountain Toucan, flashing its rainbow wings through the mist.
🦎 Intricate reptiles and hidden amphibians, holding stories older than humanity.
🦋 Endemic butterflies and medicinal plants, living in symbiotic harmony.

This is a paradise of biodiversity — a living temple where the forest itself teaches.
A place where Cacao Fino de Aroma grows in communion with waterfalls, orchids, hummingbirds, and the ancestral intelligence of the land.

Home of the Jaguar * Soul of the Ancient call

INTAG calls to those who feel in their bones that protecting water is protecting life.
To those who know that spiritual mastery is inseparable from ecological guardianship.
To those who are ready to learn from the Earth not as a resource, but as a living mother.

When you enter INTAG, you step into a realm where:
✨ Water becomes medicine
✨ Silence becomes transmission
✨ Wildlife becomes teacher
✨ And every breath becomes an initiation

This is the sanctuary that cradles our AYA 🌺 Pacha Cacao ® lineage —
where regeneration, ceremony, and conservation merge into one unified mission.

Intag is a living vow to mother Earth.
A space where healers awaken, where protectors rise, and where the future of cacao medicine is safeguarded with devotion.

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