FOR SENSITIVE SPIRITUAL PRACTITIONERS WHO BEGIN THEIR JOURNEY WITH CEREMONIAL CACAO
Reclaim Yourself & Serve Your Tribe with Cacao
Discover a unique trauma-informed cacao facilitator training, combined with the purest ceremonial cacao from Peru. Reclaim your voice, your heart, your power, and serve your community with confidence.
The Challenges of Being an Empath while Holding a Ceremonial Space with the Medicine of Cacao
If you are an empath who feels called to facilitate cacao ceremonies, managing your heightened sensitivity and nervous system responses, while holding a safe, grounded, and supportive space for others, can be challenging.
As a highly sensitive individual, intense emotional and energetic overload can lead to exhaustion and adrenal fatigue, especially if you do not have strong grounding practices and self-care strategies in place, before and during facilitation.
Without this foundation, you may struggle to stay present, maintain your own emotional balance, and effectively support participants through the deep emotional processing that cacao ceremonies can invoke.
Additionally, you must navigate the responsibility of creating a safe and ethical container for the ceremony, which requires proper training, boundaries, and self-awareness, so you can avoid burnout or overwhelm.
The core challenge is to balance your own sensitivity with the demands of guiding others through vulnerable and heart-opening experiences, while ensuring their nervous system remains regulated, and the ceremonial space is held with integrity and care.
A Path of Empowerment for You to Lead Transformative Cacao Ceremonies
We understand the challenges of being an empath holding space for others. Our approach, the fruit of 14 years experience, will accelerate your personal and professional development, while deepening your connection with cacao.
Through a holistic, experiential program designed to help sensitive individuals overcome personal challenges, you will learn how to master the art of holding safe and transformative spaces for others. This training blends deep self-inquiry with practical facilitation skills, guiding empaths to harness their sensitivity as a gift rather than a burden.
Introducing: The Golden ÆRA Cacao Facilitation, the only trauma-informed training presented live from Northern Peru, the birthplace of cacao on the planet.
This training will teach you how to use cacao’s heart-opening and consciousness expanding properties, so you can release personal blockages and access higher perspectives. This is both a personal healing journey and a professional initiation, for you to turn your empathy into a superpower — helping you shine from within and become a confident, compassionate space holder.
Through step-by-step guidance, you will learn not only the history, preparation, and spiritual significance of ceremonial cacao, but also how to create safe, supportive environments where ancestral healing can unfold — for you and the people you serve.
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The Golden ÆRA Cacao Facilitation
Learn how to navigate emotions and trauma, with the support of ceremonial cacao, and build a solid foundation of ancestral healing, for you and the people you serve.
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The Golden AYNUA Ceremonial Cacao
Experience a pure 5000 year-old strain of cacao from Northern Peru, a gentle yet powerful medicine to support you on this journey of deep and long-lasting transformation.
The Golden ÆRA
Cacao Facilitation
A unique, modern-day, trauma-informed cacao facilitator training, presented live from Northern Peru, the birthplace of cacao on the planet.
Designed for highly sensitive spiritual practitioners who begin their journey with the medicine of ceremonial cacao, the ÆRA journey will help you achieve 4 milestones:
Ancestral + Energetical + Relational + Archetypal
3 or 6 Week Online Course:
Price for Group Training: $1290 USD
Price for Private Training: $1890 USD
7 Day Retreat in Peru:
Price for Private Retreat (Individual): $4890 USD
Price for Private Retreat (Couple): $5790 USD
Optional Therapeutic Session with Psilocybin Mushroom Available
Included: 750g of Aynua Cacao Shipped to Your Door
What Makes Our Training Unique
14 Years Experience
Trauma-Informed
Unique ÆRA Framework
Hosted by a Couple
AYNUA
OTHERS
At the Birthplace of Cacao
What Our Past Students Have to Say
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“The best journey I’ve ever taken! Spiritually and physically… I’d go back in a heartbeat! If you’re thinking about it, book it!”
— Grainne, Ireland
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“The training I had with Diana & Alku provided me with a solid and profound foundation for guiding ceremonies in the integrity and wisdom of cacao. I'm extremely grateful.”
— Veronique, Canada
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“What a Journey! Thank you again for holding such beautiful space for me and cacao.”
— Jessica, USA
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“Powerful and life-changing. I experienced significant shifts within, and felt completely supported by Diana and Alku, who offer a safe space to work with cacao.”
— Kerry, Australia
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“I feel honored and blessed. Although thousands of miles away, this energetic initiation with cacao was felt so deeply.”
— Elisabeth, USA
“With Diana & Alku, we feel the benevolent energy of cacao surrounding and supporting them, amplifying their ability to guide others towards profound inner transformation. They are not only teachers, but guardians of the sacred, guides on the path of reconnection to oneself, and to the mysteries of cacao.”
— Nathalie, Switzerland
We are Diana & Alku, and we live in Northern Peru, valley of sacred waterfalls, and birthplace of cacao on Earth
With a solid foundation in yoga, meditation, energy healing, holistic therapy, and plant medicine, we have 14 years experience on the path of healing with cacao.
Learning from multiple shamans of the Amazon and the Andes, as well as a variety of master plant teachers, we developed a deep understanding of the central role of nature for mental and emotional wellbeing.
Nature is our greatest connection to life. Meeting the spirit of plants, and receiving their wisdom, restores the sacred within.
Since moving from Canada to Peru, we co-founded Aynua Amazonas and La Casa del Cacao, to steward a sanctuary for people to connect deeply with themselves, and cacao as a medicine.
We see ourselves as guides, helping you navigate, and piece together, lost fragments that shattered through your lineage, yet are still in you, waiting to nourish your unique mission on earth.
We now work exclusively with cacao, and psilocybin mushroom, to support our unique ÆRA framework, designed to help sensitive individuals and couples move from trauma to connection.
14+ Years
We have 14+ years experience on the path of healing and teaching with the medicine ofcacao.
200+ Students
More than 200 students from all over the world have been certified through our courses and retreats.
15+ Countries
To this day, our ceremonial cacao has been delivered to more than 15 different countries.
PRIVATE GUIDANCE FOR INDIVIDUALS & COUPLES
The 90 Day ÆRA Journey
Embark on a 90 day journey of personal growth, from feeling alone with the weight of childhood trauma, to feeling deeply connected with yourself, and your loved ones.
Our unique framework, called ÆRA (Ancestral, Energetical, Relational & Archetypal), is designed for you to heal from the past, reclaim your power, and experience stronger relationships.
During this trauma-informed healing journey, we safely accompany you at the source of all mental and emotional blockages, and guide you in creating new conscious pathways to live your life in alignment with your heart.
For 90 days, you receive personal support from your guide, as well as the holistic benefits of drinking Aynua Ceremonial Cacao, included in this program.
During this journey, we use a very precise roadmap composed of 4 milestones:
Ancestral: Understand emotional traumas, and unearth your ancestors treasures
Energetical: Release, balance, and stand as the guardian of your energy
Relational: Communicate authentically, and hold space with your sensibility
Archetypal: Learn how to face the shadow, and embody your most mature self
This 90 Day Journey Includes:
Weekly Private Zoom Call
Daily Access to Your Guide via WhatsApp
High Quality Illustrated Documentation
PLUS: 2kg of Aynua Cacao Shipped to Your Door
Individual: $4500 USD / Couple: $5400 USD
The Benefits of the ÆRA Journey
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More Free
Feel more free to live as your truest self, liberated from the weight of childhood trauma, and the limiting beliefs of the past.
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More Empowered
Feel more empowered mentally and emotionally, so you can create healthy boundaries, and make choices aligned with your heart.
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More Connected
Feel more connected with yourself, and experience a life of healthy, fulfilling, and long-lasting relationships.
Rediscover Cacao as a Safe & Holistic Medicine
Cacao helps you safely explore the root cause of childhood trauma, so you can reclaim your power, your voice, your roots.
As you deepen your relationship with yourself, and what is present in your lineage, you develop the capacity to create safe healing spaces for others.
This is a journey of personal growth where your intuition and confidence are magnified, allowing you to live a healthy life aligned with the wisdom of your heart.
Access the Healing Wisdom of Your Heart
Cacao in its purest form is now catching the attention of more and more people around the world, with its amazing medicinal and spiritual benefits.
People are experiencing how ceremonial and medicinal grade cacao supports holistic health, acts as a natural antidepressant, enhances creativity, and opens communication to build better relationships.
PRIVATE TRAINING FOR INDIVIDUALS & COUPLES
Live Online Courses & Retreats in Peru
The Crystal ÆRA
Munay-Ki Initiation
Receive a unique trauma-informed energy healing initiation, preserved for thousands of years by the shamans of the Andes.
3-6 Week Online Course:
From $990 USD
7 Day Retreat in Peru:
From $4890 USD
Optional Therapeutic Session with Psilocybin Mushroom Available
Included: 500g of Aynua Cacao
The Golden ÆRA
Cacao Facilitation
Learn how to work with ceremonial cacao for personal healing and group ceremonies, with a modern-day and trauma-informed approach.
3-6 Week Online Course:
From $1290 USD
7 Day Retreat in Peru:
From $4890 USD
Optional Therapeutic Session with Psilocybin Mushroom Available
Included: 750g of Aynua Cacao
The Diamond ÆRA
Relationship Mastery
Discover a unique trauma-informed relationship course, designed for individuals and couples to experience stronger connections.
3-6 Week Online Course:
From $1890 USD
7 Day Retreat in Peru:
From $4890 USD
Optional Therapeutic Session with Psilocybin Mushroom Available
Included: 1.25kg of Aynua Cacao