Aynua Cacao Medicine Carriers
Connecting the hearts of humanity, one cup of ceremonial cacao at a time
Meet the Aynua Cacao Medicine Carriers
If you live in the same region as one of them, you can order Aynua Ceremonial Cacao directly from them, and participate in one of their offerings. Want to be part of the tribe? Contact us
North America
Clarissa Thompson
St.Rapid, South Dakota
United States
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Clarissa, a sacred space holder with over 15 years of experience, is certified as an E-RYT 500, RYPT, and YACEP.
Her expertise extends to Sound Healing, Breathwork, Cacao Ceremony Facilitation, Prenatal Yoga, and Mindfulness and Meditation.
Drawing from diverse traditions like The Wheel of the Year and Celtic shamanic rituals, and her travels across the globe, she crafts unique, multi-sensory experiences that blend movement, sound, breath, and cacao.
Clarissa's approach, which incorporates shamanic instruments, crystal singing bowls, and intuitive practices, aims to create transformative experiences for her students.
She leads retreats, yoga teacher trainings, and local offerings in the Black Hills region, dedicated to fostering holistic well-being and spiritual growth.
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Email: sacredspiritualspace.com
Kate Alvo
Montréal, Québec
Canada
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Serving from a place of humility, and an authentic desire to share tools for grounding and connection.
My connection with cacao has been organic, growing from the day I was first served a cup after a plant medicine ceremony, through working with it very occasionally to help me move through difficult emotions, to my current daily cacao that supports my meditation, self inquiry and emotion work practices.
After five years of slowly beginning to share it with close friends, I was called to serve it in circles alongside a friend who facilitates conscious connected breathwork. Together, we hold cacao and breathwork ceremonies and retreats in and around Montreal. The cacao serves as a beautiful way to open the circle, creating connection and safety within the group, and allowing people to open themselves to some deep inner work and insights.
As a facilitator of nervous system regulation techniques such as TRE (Tension and Trauma Releasing Exercises) and the Safe and Sound Protocol, I have also found cacao to be a wonderful complement to these approaches and have found myself offering a cup to clients after particularly emotionally challenging sessions, allowing them time to integrate the work and come to a place of more grounding and peace before going back out into the world.
I also offer one on one sessions for people who wish to take some time to prepare for or integrate medicine ceremonies and retreats, or who simply need a safe space to reflect on their process with me.
I am so grateful to have been called to deepen my connection with this beautiful medecine, and look forward to introducing it to anyone who is ready to receive it.
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Website: katealvo.com
Phone: 1 418 850-0071
Veronique Santos
Gatineau, Québec
Canada
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My journey with cacao began in 2015, at a ceremony held by Alku and Diana.
Encountering the spirit of cacao led me to tune in with my inner landscape and root into trust and receptivity of the Earth's wisdom.
I am a mother, a spouse and have twelve years of experience teaching yoga and meditation. In fall 2023, I completed the Cacao Ceremony Facilitator training with Aynua and it has been a blessing to share the gifts of sacred cacao with my family and community.
I hold ceremonies and meditation circles in the Gatineau-Ottawa area, in Canada. My approach is inspired by a deep longing for awakening and embodying the wisdom within ourselves.
Cacao inspires me to embrace ritual and ceremony, which for me are gateways to create a powerful space of transformation, allowing one to live with more intention, purpose and grace.
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Email: santos.veronique8@gmail.com
Monica Noseworthy
Paris, Ontario
Canada
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Monica is a medicine carrier of ceremonial cacao, spiritual guide, and facilitator of transformational healing experiences.
Rooted in heart-led practices, somatic healing, breathwork, and feminine embodiment, she supports others in deepening their connection to self, spirit, and community.
Her work is devoted to creating sacred spaces where healing, authenticity, and remembrance can unfold.
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Cassandra Michler
Los Angeles, California
United States
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I serve from a place of devotion, humility, and a deep commitment to living in right relationship with the Earth, the Divine, and one another.
My path into this work was shaped through years of personal healing and spiritual initiation. Through practices including yoga, tantra, meditation, breathwork, women’s work, shamanism, and earth-based traditions, I was guided into a life of ceremony, sacred service, and conscious leadership. I walk the Golden Age Priestess & Rose path as an initiate devoted to the remembrance of the divine feminine and sacred union.
My relationship with cacao deepened during my Munay-Ki rite initiations in Peru with Diana and Alku, where I sat with Sacred Union Cacao throughout the entire initiation. Not long after completing these rites, I met my beloved Cory. Together we now steward Triveni Temple of Sacred Union and co-created Relationship Yoga, a practice devoted to conscious partnership and embodied love. Today, through Triveni Temple, we travel the world offering ceremonies, serving cacao, and participating in planetary gridwork at sacred sites in devotion to ancient remembrance and the collective awakening.
For over 15 years I have also walked the path of entrepreneurship, founding and co-founding mission-driven ventures including EarthLab and MoonLab Productions, weaving visionary leadership with sacred service through transformational events, regenerative initiatives, planetary stewardship, and building global communities.
It is an honor to share this beautiful medicine and hold space for connection, remembrance, and love.
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Website: trivenitemple.com
Email: cassandra@weareearthlab.com
Elodie Jouvenot
Montréal, Québec
Canada
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Elodie (she/they) is a somatic intimacy guide, Dakini shamanic practitioner based in Montréal (Tiohtià:ke), and founder of Ecstatic Temple.
Rooted in non-dual Tantra, animism, and trauma-informed practice, she holds ritual spaces where presence, pleasure, and power become portals to the sacred.
She has worked with cacao since 2018 — both as a daily rite of transition and as a medicine she serves in group ceremony, weaving it into Temple gatherings and plant medicine ceremony. An invitation to slow down, feel, and return to the body.
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Website: ecstaticwisdom.ca
Email: elodie@ecstaticwisdom.ca
South America
Daniela Gil
Pisac, Sacred Valley
Peru
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Daniela is an oracle, womb wisdom guide, ceremonial facilitator, and channel of the Akashic Records who carries a rare purity, clarity, and devotion in her work.
She’s the founder of “Akashic Metamorphosis”, an online training and mentorship for psychic intuitive development & mastery in accessing the Akashic Records.
Daniela lives in the Sacred Valley of Peru where she guides ceremonial hikes with huachuma (San Pedro), a heart-opening master plant teacher.
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Phone: 51 922 809 241
Website: www.danielagil.love
Karla Torres Solari
Barranco, Lima
Peru
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Karla is an energy coach who shares a variety of tools that support well-being and greater awareness, including yoga, meditation, ceremonial cacao, animal communication, and Access Consciousness.
Curiosity and dedication led her to discover more of herself and to begin opening her heart through ceremonial cacao. She believes there are always countless possibilities available to every person, that limitations are not fixed realities, that the Earth is always contributing to us, and that together with the universe, we can embody so much magic.
She loves supporting others in their life choices and, above all, empowering them to recognize that they always know, and that they always have a choice.
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Phone: 51 942 220 122
Email: karlats90@gmail.com
Marta Madhavi
Pisac, Sacred Valley
Peru
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Marta was born in Italy and reborn in Peru, 15 years ago, where she started a new cycle of her life.
She is a medicine woman sharing different kinds of ceremonies and therapies, leading women circles with cacao, as well as organizing and guiding retreats.
She is also a Yoga Teacher (RYT 500), working a lot with women and pregnant women. She works with Ancestral and Shamanic healing. Sounds and Medicine Music.
Her path with Mama Cacao started 10 years ago and she keeps on carrying and expanding the Medicine of Cacao. She met Diana and Alku 12 years ago when they lived in the Sacred Valley, and they recently started this beautiful collaboration.
She is in love with the Sacred Union Ceremonial Cacao, this special medicine of the sacred fusion between Macambo and Theobroma, the powerful Prayer contained, and she feels very honored to share it. She lives in the Sacred Valley of Cusco, while always connected to her native birthland, offering the Sacred Union also in Italy and Europe.
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Europe
Gráinne O'Neill
Armagh, Northern Ireland
United Kingdom
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Gráinne is a qualified somatic Life coach, meditation and breathwork coach, Cacao Ceremonialist and Kundalini reiki practitioner.
Gráinne’s purpose in life is to help people through healing. She is passionate about holding space for others and giving them the opportunity to honour themselves.
She offers a range of services online and in person, including life coaching, Spiritual 1:1s, Women's Circles, Kundalini Reiki and Cacao Ceremonies.
Gráinne has been on her own journey since 2017, coming from being a girl crippled with anxiety to stepping into her power. Through training and personal experience, she helps her clients on their journey of accepting that you were born enough.
She travelled to Northern Peru in November 2023 to train with Diana and Alku and sit with Mama Cacao and deepen her connection. Cacao has changed her life, as she brings her back into her heart, reminding her of her true nature.
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Phone: 077 54 56 61 57
Email: grainne@rechargeyou.co.uk
Rúna
Molkom, Värmland
Sweden
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Rúna is a holder of ceremonies, a carrier and servant of plant medicines, as well as a psychologist working with and researching altered states of consciousness in therapy.
Cacao has been her close ally for over seven years, accompanying her through study, ritual, and daily life. She deeply values cacao as a gentle friend and teacher for reflection, presence, deeper love, and a deeper emotional life.
In Europe, she tries to share cacao with care, to honour its origin and the hands that produce it. She offers it with deep gratitude, hoping that it continues to nourish meaningful connection in others as it has in her own life.
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Email: runafriderika@gmail.com
Want to Become a Cacao Medicine Carrier?
Order Aynua Ceremonial Cacao a minimum of twice a year, and you will be featured on this page. Contact us to receive all the details.