Resource & Energize: 6 Day Cacao & Waterfall Retreat in Peru
Join a deeply transformative cacao retreat with yoga and breathwork in Northern Peru. Rebalance, resource, and renew with nature.
RESOURCE & ENERGIZE: 6 DAY CACAO RETREAT IN PERU
Get to know yourself in the most sacred way. Join a unique in-person retreat in Northern Peru, the birthplace of cacao on the planet, and a place of epic waterfalls.
DATES: March 4-10, 2025DURATION: 6 DAYS / 6 NIGHTSLOCATION: AMAZONAS, NORTHERN PERUGo back in time. More than 5000 years ago.
In a valley of Northern Peru where dinosaurs used to roam the Earth. A place filled with energy vortexes and cleansing waterfalls.
A time when sacred plants were used ceremonially by ancient shamans, helping humans live in harmony with nature.
For thousands of years, these natural medicines of the Amazon were kept secret from the rest of the world.
But about 500 years ago, one of them — just one — disseminated all over the planet. Over time, almost everybody on Earth got to know it.
Except for one thing: the full extent of its healing potential.
5000 years ago, loneliness, feeling overwhelmed, stress, and exhaustion were mostly inexistent.
Today, it is a common source of suffering.
For many highly sensitive spiritual seekers, it has become their normal. Under the surface, limiting beliefs keep circling around:
“I am not enough… I am unworthy… I am alone…I am too sensitive”
Because of that, many people are hard on themselves. It can be overwhelming on a daily basis to get from A to B or simply live life according to one’s true nature.
It is becoming more and more challenging to navigate a sensitive nature amongst city life, or a busy buzz. Caught in an infinite loop of performance, self-improvement and high expectations, life is rarely fulfilling. The cycle of stress and exhaustion, anxiety and depression, starts forming a downward spiral.
Things begin to break apart, while many feel that they are about to break down.
But it does not have to be that way.
An ancient medicine is waiting to be rediscovered.
It is hiding in plain sight, inside something everyone knows well: chocolate, or cocoa — XOCOLATL, in the ancient language of Mesoamerica.
Found in its purest form, it is a powerful medicine called ceremonial cacao — BAKAU, in the ancient Awajun language of Northern Peru.
Now is the time to rediscover the medicine of cacao.
On this journey of breakthrough, liberation, and purpose, some are now called to carve a new shamanic path adapted to the needs of contemporary life.
A path where you can welcome yourself with resonance, resilience and regeneration.
Our feelings, sensitive gifts, and needs become priority again, as we learn to honor ourselves, and the quality of life we are blessed to create here and now. Everyone’s relationship with cacao is unique, and its teachings are sacred.
Enjoy fresh cacao in nature
Experience cleansing waterfalls
Yoga and movement classes
Learn about your own energy field, sustainable resourcing, and how to bring your unique gifts to life.
Discover how ceremonial cacao, and breathwork, can help liberate energy blockages caused by emotional core wounds and trauma. Saturate yourself in a natural environment where safety and grounded presence, guide you in welcoming yourself home.
Join a transformative journey of regeneration
This retreat includes guided yoga, breathwork, personal growth workshops, and cacao wisdom, to support your journey of self discovery. You will notice what resonates with you in your life, and what no longer serves. You will cultivate more connection with self, what nature practices help you most to regenerate, and how to navigate life with a clearer trajectory.
Meet this beautiful plant ally at its birthplace.
Connect with your heart like never before. Join us for a unique cacao retreat in Northern Peru.
Restore Your Whole Being with
Cacao, Breathwork & Yoga
Relax in an Eco-lodge with Pool and Inspiring Waterfall View
What Will Support You
Experience a Transformative Journey on the Land of the Ancient Medicine of Cacao
As you connect and work with the sacred medicine of cacao, on the land where it originated on Earth, you will embody its essence, and discover facets of yourself, and essential life lessons to live from a place of integrity.
What resonates with you, how resilience and healthy boundaries can support you, and ways to regenerate for a long lasting relationship with self and others. Visit a cacao farm and enjoy the sacred space time of tasting ancient cacao strains, and hearing your own soul through the cacao forest.
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Enhance Your Life & Release Emotional Blockages
Cacao enhances the connection with yourself, and your life choices, simply by cultivating presence, gratitude, and welcoming all that you are. Cacao has many medicinal benefits, bio-chemical properties boosting serotonin and mood, and allows you to tune into the creative gifts you wish to share with the world. When you fill your cup, you can then serve, and inspire others to do the same. Be that guiding life force and example of how rich and fulfilling life can be.
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Learn How to Welcome Your Own Energy And Sensitivities
When you learn to create a safe space to welcome your emotions and personal transformation, you immediately rewire the unsafe spaces that created wounds in the first place. Cacao has a gentle presence of unconditional love, that will help you feel confident in who you are, and how you can build resilience and fortitude in your everyday life.
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Create A Life Of Sustainability And Regeneration
Learning ancestral cacao practices that have been revered for many generations will enrich your spirit, and the way you participate to weave a blessed path for generations to come. Connect with the Earth, and learn how to balance masculine and feminine energy within. The regenerative spaces you create for yourself to re-charge will smoothly integrate into your daily lifestyle. This supports you in how you show up in the world, to welcome your gifts and true nature.
“I felt completely supported by Diana & Alku, who offer a safe space to work with cacao.”
— Kerry, Australia
Content of the Retreat
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History is being re-written regarding the origin of cacao on the planet. Learn the history of cacao from ancient times to now, its use as a sacred medicine, and what makes cacao ceremonial. Discover the amazing benefits of this sacred tree, for physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual health. Become familiar with all the steps, from the tree to your cup, and how the sacred medicine of cacao can change the world.
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Learn all the steps to prepare the best ceremonial cacao for a small or large group. This includes: intention setting, ancient cacao preparation, and quality of presence. Receive guidance on how to connect to the spirit of cacao, and the shamanic experience this sacred medicine provides.
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Through inspiring workshops, learn a universal approach to understand, prevent, and heal trauma. Discover how cacao can help expand your consciousness, and uncover the role of emotions and human needs, in relation with your energy level.
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Taping into your life force energy through your breath is a transformative practice that can help heal and cleanse on the physical, mental, and emotional levels, and provide a great source of energy and clarity. Transcend the mind and enter a state of pure flow and clarity.
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Learn the importance of cultivating self-respect, and how to set healthy boundaries around your sacred space. Having clear boundaries in and around yourself, will help you fortify your relationships, and self respect.
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Learn beneficial communication techniques supported by the medicine of cacao, that you can apply every day. Discover empowering tools to anchor and integrate for greater ease, and sensitivity support.
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Receive crucial information on how to protect your energy under challenging circumstances. Learn cleansing rituals, and how to open and close your energy and availability.
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Within the body, we find the answers we are seeking. Within the body, we connect back to the wild call of our true essence. Experience yoga and movement classes with the grace of yin to awaken and gently move stagnant energy into a more aligned version of you.
Experience Emotional & Creative Breakthroughs
Connect Deeply with Cacao & Yourself
Day 1
Arrival in Amazonas, Peru
Lunch
Opening Cacao Ceremony
Breathwork
Dinner
Evening Relaxation Free Time
Day 2
Morning Yoga
Breakfast
Waterfall hike
Lunch
Cacao Preparation and Ritual in Nature
Dinner
Evening Relaxation Free Time
Day 3
Breakfast
Visit to a Cacao Farm Full Day (Lunch at the farm)
Cacao Fire Ceremony
Dinner
Evening Relaxation Free Time
Day 4
Breakfast
Free Time
Lunch
Guided Workshop
Breathwork
Dinner
Evening Relaxation Free Time
Day 5
Breakfast
Horseback Ride and Waterfall hike
Lunch
Afternoon gentle yoga
Dinner
Evening Relaxation Free TIme
Day 6
Morning Yoga
Breakfast
Guided Workshop
Lunch
Free Time
Closing Cacao Ceremony
Dinner
Included in this Retreat
12 Hours of Guidance with Diana & Alku
Breathwork and Yoga Classes
6 Nights in a Deluxe Eco Lodge / Shared or Private Room
3 Organic Vegetarian Meals per Day / Vegan & Gluten Free Options
500g of Aynua Organic Ceremonial Cacao + 250g of Sacred Union Blend
Natural Swimming Pool
Yoga Platform
Transportation, Airport Pick-up & Drop-off
Exclusive to this Retreat
Workshops for Personal Growth
Breathwork Sessions
4 Cacao Ceremonies
Visit to a Cacao Farm
Yoga Classes
Waterfall Excursions
Horseback Riding
Cacao Rituals in Nature
Horseback riding to the 3rd highest waterfall in Peru
Cacao connection
Is this Retreat for Me?
If you are on a spiritual or shamanic path, this retreat will inspire you to bring your gifts to life. If you feel blocked, and want to liberate your potential, you will be given the tools to feel more confident in yourself. This is a spiritual and transformative experience that will enable you to go deep into your own healing process. As you learn to be present with yourself, you will develop the capacity to navigate your energy, and trust your intuition. If you are looking to be a more connected person, and work with the incredible medicinal benefits of ceremonial cacao, this retreat is for you.
“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
“Diana & Alku teach and guide gently, while holding an energetically nourishing space for one to be successful on their healing journey.”
— Tatiana, Ukraine
Meet Your Teachers
Be guided by two spiritual teachers who live in Peru and share more than 10 years of experience working with ceremonial cacao, and a passionate and experienced breathwork, and yoga teacher.
Diana Deer Hawk & Alku Mateus were first introduced to ceremonial cacao in Central America, more than 10 years ago. Since 2017, they live in Peru, where cacao originated on Earth. They are continuously participating and learning about ancient cacao cultivation and preservation, archaeological discoveries related to cacao history, and sharing this with people from all over the world.
They teach how cacao is helping humanity rise to its full potential, one heart connection at a time. Experiencing this sacred medicine can revive and activate the roots of an ancient heart wisdom, within you, and in the people you serve.
With Aynua Amazonas, Diana & Alku support passionate cacao farmers and chocolate makers in Northern Peru, growing the finest quality of cacao on the planet, and steward a space for cacao education, preservation, and ancestral wisdom.
With their 30 years of combined experience in the field of personal transformation and spiritual growth, they can help you become the most confident and trusted guide, in service to humanity.
Diana Deer Hawk, Cacao Educator
Alku Mateus, Conscious Healing Teacher
Kristen Yates, Breathwork and Yoga Instructor
Diana Deer Hawk
Founder & Teacher
Diana is a passionate cacao educator, cacao ritualist, and spiritual archaeologist living at the birth place of cacao on earth, in Northern Peru. Weaving her way through circus performance, archaeology excavations, teaching yoga, ceremonial massage, internal martial arts, munay-ki initiation rites, plant medicine facilitation, to Motherhood. It was cacao that brought the most valuable life teaching: To live life in harmony with the earth, and initiate oneself to the true re-birth of being here on earth, to serve with heart, and create a meaningful life.
Through conscious parenting, she is able to recognize the ability to define new ancestral pathways for children of the future to create, and this is a foundation for many of the teachings for personal growth and sacred space holding, that has become primordial to share with the world.
She helps people awaken and connect with the spirit in all things, telepathy as a natural form of communication, and empowerment through cacao, sacred sites, and animal spirit medicine.
Aynua Amazonas is a sacred ceremonial portal co-founded with Alku Mateus to support personal and spiritual growth with ancestral cacao, for a more sustainable future for humanity on a physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual level.
Alku Mateus
Founder & Teacher
Alku is committed to supporting people on their path of transformation, and developing the capacity to hold safe spaces with authenticity and integrity. This has been so far the most fulfilling facet of his work.
Stepping on a spiritual shamanic path, was a strong calling, after a significant life change that took him from working for other people, to an inspiring life of service as a conscious entrepreneur, and pioneer for profound emotional excavation, and transformation.
Painting, filmmaking, graphic design, illustration, sacred geometry, teaching yoga, plant medicine, and conscious communication, are foundations that helped him discover his real purpose and gift, the desire to make the healing journey as simple, and accessible as possible, through visual representations of emotions, needs, and energy. This helps people re-connect with the wisdom of nature within, in combination with receiving the benefits of the gentle plant ally of ancestral cacao.
With Aynua Amazonas, he welcomes each day with openness and a readiness to serve, with heart.
Kristen Yates
Breathwork & Yoga Instructor
Kristen is a breathwork facilitator and somatic guide, RYT-500 yoga instructor, and shamanic practitioner who supports people with embodying their true nature and awakening their innate healing capacities within. With a background in psychology, trauma-informed somatic therapy, relational work and integrative wellness, she weaves Eastern and Western healing modalities to create safe and potent spaces for transformation.
As a multi-faceted facilitator, Kristen guides her students through a journey of returning to their bodies, integrating their soul parts, and emerging with a deeper connection to their most authentic expression. She believes we all hold a deep wisdom in our bodies, and weaves movement, breathwork and embodiment practices with energy work and intuitive guidance into her workshop and retreat spaces.
A nomad at heart, she currently makes her home in the Sacred Valley of Peru and regularly facilitates retreats, workshops, and ceremonies worldwide.
To Apply and Make Sure This Retreat is For You, Book a Free Clarity Call
To make sure this retreat is the right fit for you, schedule a free clarity call on Zoom, with Diana & Alku. They will answer your questions, and ensure that this retreat is aligned with your needs.
Registration
In Person CACAO Retreat in Peru: March 4-10, 2025The Aynua Cacao Retreat is a unique in person experience in Northern Peru. After completing your registration and payment below, you will receive all the information necessary for you to plan your travel. This training includes 10 hours of teaching, over a period of 6 days, in the majestic mountains of the Amazonas region, in Northern Peru (flight not included).
$2690 USD
SHARED ROOM$2990.00 USD
PRIVATE ROOM$4,690.00 USD
PRICE FOR TWO PEOPLEYou can pay by debit or credit card.
Visa, MasterCard, American Express, and Apple Pay.
during the retreat, transportation, food, accommodation, and all costs related to the activities of the retreat, are included in the price of the retreat.The cost of your flight tickets is not included in the price of the retreat. 100% refundable until 1 month before the retreat / not refundable after.a copy of your travel insurance, covering all medical expenses in case of injury, sickness, or disease, must be provided to us before your arrival.