As I invite you to close your eyes,
Placing your hands over your heart,
Start taking some nice beautiful deep breaths,
Breathing into your heart,
Coming into the moment,
As we open with a protection prayer.
Beautiful goddess,
We call to you,
Thank you for this day,
Sacred and new,
Wrap us in love and light,
Ancient and true,
Guide and protect us in all that we do.
So invite you to breathe in that light,
Breathe in that energy,
Breathe in that love,
Feeling that white light from the universe wrapping around you,
Surrounding you,
Keeping you safe,
Keeping us connected,
Bringing us here into this moment together.
Taking one more nice beautiful deep breath in and out.
And when you're ready,
I invite you to hold your cacao,
Holding it in your cupped hands so that you feel the warmth around your fingers,
As we take a moment to pay gratitude to Mama Cacao.
Thank you Mama Cacao for your sacred gift that we are about to receive.
We honour the ancestors whose care of the lands tended and carried this medicine to our hands.
With gratitude,
Respect and deep care,
We give thanks to the earth,
The water,
The fire and the air.
Just taking a moment to breathe in that beautiful aroma,
Perhaps placing it against your chest so you feel the warmth in your heart.
As we continue to breathe nice and deep,
Arriving into our bodies.
With this cup of cacao,
We gather here tonight to be held by the forest,
To journey inwards and to listen for the quiet truth that lives beneath the noise.
Tonight,
We sip together on our journey,
A journey into the forest,
Guided and supported by Mama Cacao.
Just breathing in that beautiful aroma of this forest medicine,
As we stand at the edge of the forest,
Ready and open for this journey.
Just notice how the world behind us starts to fade away.
You can see the light filtering down through the trees,
Feel the earth beneath your feet.
You can hear the birds,
You can smell the richness of nature all around you.
Just taking a slow,
Deep,
Nourishing breath as you say to yourself,
I allow the forest to hold me.
And I invite you to take your first small sip of cacao as you step forward into the forest.
I allow the forest to hold me.
And as you slowly wander into your forest,
Know that this is a safe place for you to explore and for you to let go.
Before long,
You find yourself coming upon a beautiful and sacred clearing.
And in this clearing,
A giant spiral path appears.
This spiral path is lined with rocks,
Crystals,
Wildflowers and beautiful green moss.
It is a spectacular sight to see.
This spiral is a path to remembering.
It is a place without judgment,
A place that calls only for your presence,
No fixing,
Just being.
Standing at the entry to the spiral path,
Breathe deep into your core as you say to yourself,
With each step I take inwards,
I remember.
Taking another small sip of cacao as you step into the spiral.
With each step I take inwards,
I remember.
And as you walk through the spiral,
With each turn inwards towards the center,
You are shedding layers that you no longer need.
And this shedding,
We do it with honesty and with compassion for ourselves.
With each turn that you make,
Feel that call to release.
Perhaps releasing a role that you are tired of carrying,
Or a story that no longer fits.
Or a belief that once protected you.
Just walking through your spiral,
Shedding what no longer serves.
Perhaps sipping with each release.
Walking,
Sipping,
Turning,
Releasing,
As you travel inwards.
The forest receives everything without judgment.
The forest says to you,
I support you as you let go.
And as you arrive at the center of the spiral,
Taking a seat on the smooth stone that has been awaiting your arrival.
Take a moment to say to yourself,
Here I remember who I am.
Just pause and breathe.
Allowing the stillness of this moment,
Here in the center,
To surround you.
Here,
I remember who I am.
As you continue to breathe,
Sitting in the center,
Continue sipping on your cacao.
As we allow these words to connect with us.
The forest around me is ancient and true.
Old magic greets me as I walk on through.
Ready for transformation,
Ready for growth.
I enter this forest,
Open to both.
I walk and I weave through spirals of life.
Shedding old stories,
Old patterns and strife.
The earth is listening,
I am grounded.
By forest magic,
I'm held and surrounded.
With weeds at my center,
My truth soft and tender.
I remember who I am at my core.
I remember what I came here for.
Breathing into that energy.
Taking a few deep breaths.
When you're ready,
I invite you to visualize offering the center of the spiral,
The last of your cacao,
As a gift of thanks.
And as you begin to walk back through the spiral,
The forest offers you a symbol or a totem to carry home.
It could be a leaf,
A stone,
A sensation or a word.
Holding it close to your heart.
And this time,
As you take the turns outwards through the spiral,
You notice that you are returning along the same path,
But as a very different self.
You are grounded,
Alive and free.
Walking back,
Saying to yourself,
I carry this truth gently into my life.
Breathe into that energy.
As you leave the spiral,
Wandering back through the forest.
Taking a moment of gratitude for the forest,
For holding you.
Gratitude to the spiral for reminding you.
Gratitude to Mama Cacao for guiding you.
And gratitude to yourself for showing up.
The sacred spiral lives within you and continues in daily life if you give yourself permission to release the layers that no longer are needed as your days turn.
Find your centre,
Breathe and feel the forest spiral within.
Your own sacred place to feel grounded,
Alive and free.
Thank you and blessed be.
