Learn a Deeply Healing Modality. Become a Shamanic Massage Practitioner.
CEREMONIAL MASSAGE TRAINING WITH ANCESTRAL CACAO
Experience a journey of inner Transformation. Become a confident shamanic massage practitioner during a unique training in the mountains of Northern Peru, or online.
DATES: Jan 13 - 24 / June 2 - 13 / Oct 6 - 17, 2025
DURATION: 12 Days / 40 hours
Location: Amazonas, Northern Peru
Become a Confident Ceremonial Massage Practitioner
This training is suitable for beginners, existing bodywork therapists, and those on the energy healing path who want to create safe spaces of deep healing and wellbeing.
What is a Ceremonial Massage?
A Ceremonial Massage weaves together a blend of advanced massage techniques, ceremonial cacao, restorative movements, healing sounds, and plant cleansing, to reach a profound level of transformation.
A sacred dance in connection with nature, Ceremonial Massage helps awaken memories, clear energies, cleanse the womb, balance masculine and feminine energy, process trauma, bring the body back into balance, and restore passion for life.
Ceremonial Massage sessions are literally moments out of time that bring you back to your heart center, while your temple receives unconditional loving care.
Ancestral cacao medicine, is a gentle plant ally that helps you, and your clients safely open up energetic pathways to deeper and meaningful healing.
A Journey of Inner Transformation with Ancestral Cacao
The blueprint of this training empowers each participant to go on a personal journey of healing, integration, and profound transformation with the support of ancestral cacao medicine.
By learning new skills, and by bringing your own gifts to life, you will become a more powerful practitioner, who can be fully present for your clients, and a highly intuitive healer.
Theobroma cacao is an adaptogen that allows each person to connect with themselves, and the natural rhythm of their bodies, tuning in with the nervous system, and expanding towards a nourishing life style.
Wherever your roots lie when you come to this training, you will leave in full bloom as a qualified Ceremonial Massage Practitioner, empowered to help more people on their healing path.
What You Will Learn
This immersive training Includes 40 hours of deep knowledge and techniques with two experienced trainers.
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Be a Heart Centered Practitioner
Learn to listen with your heart, and be energetically present to the needs of your clients. Develop a high level of awareness and intuition, so you can serve from a place of self respect and integrity. Become a compassionate and heart centered practitioner.
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Activate Healing On All Levels
Learn advanced massage techniques, including Swedish Deep Tissue, Acupressure, Reflexology, and Cranial Sacral Therapy. Learn how to navigate through the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual bodies. Become confident at supporting healing on all levels.
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Create Safe Ceremonial Spaces
Support the self healing capacities of your clients by making them feel safe and supported. Learn how to create the best circumstances for transformation, from the moment you receive your client, to the moment they leave your space. Learn and experience how ceremonial cacao can support personal growth and transformation in body, mind, and spirit.
“I am deeply grateful for all the energies, knowledge, and magic powers that this training can bring to the table.”
— Mihaela, Romania
Content of the Training
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In harmony with nature and spirit, you will learn how to perform massage techniques as an art form, with cleansing rituals and healing practices that help activate and balance energy centers. Sound healing, crystals, and intention setting are key elements in this offering.
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Learn in-depth Swedish massage techniques to support deep healing and increase wellbeing. Whether you come to this training with previous massage experience, or as a total beginner, what makes this course unique is the way we teach you to apply these core massage techniques in combination with other healing modalities. Teaching from a spiritual perspective, our students learn to develop their own natural skills and gifts to tune into all aspects of the client’s needs.
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Cranial Sacral is a relaxing and resourcing technique that opens the connection between the brain and the spinal cord, balancing and opening channels of energy that make us more conscious of what needs to be transformed. Discover how to tune into the body’s subtle pulses, and integrate this gentle but powerful modality to help awaken and release unresolved trauma and blockages.
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Focusing on the feet as a reflection of the body's organs, structures, and systems, we cover common reflexology techniques, and show you how to navigate this important map of the human body. With gentle and stimulating touches on the soles of the feet, you will learn how to balance the corresponding part of the body.
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With this needle-free treatment, you will learn how to activate key acupressure points that awaken the self-ealing properties of the client. Using the flow of universal energy through meridian channels, we are able to help people with chronic pain, trauma, and blockages, so we can restore balance and harmony.
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Connect to the spirit of ancient Andean healing rituals, and learn how to listen and sense energy. Your energetic intuition will be activated, and the power to perceive and heal will be in your own hands. Aligning with the concept of chakras and the intricate energy system, our focus will be on bringing universal life-force energy to support cleansing, deep healing, and transformation. This will incorporate crystal healing, Munay Ki rituals, and Andean Cosmology, where we venture through the energetic domains of the lower, middle, and upper worlds of existence.
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Explore how to create sacred space through the use of drums, instrumental sounds, and chanting for energy transmissions and healing. If you feel called to learn medicine songs, we are also happy to share these blessings and empowerments with you.
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By connecting to the womb, we can bring consciousness to clear away past trauma and relationships that are no longer in service, balance the energy and rhythm of the moon cycles, and bring vitality to the reproductive system. You will learn to do this through abdominal massage, energetic and sound healing, and cranial sacral therapy, empowering the divine goddess within. The rite of the womb is offered to support the exploration and integration of this deep healing work.
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Our core wounds represent our deepest seated pains in life. You will learn how to identify the wounds that you carry in order to heal and develop compassion for yourself, and for others. Through guided meditation and self inquiry, your course leaders will help you transform past trauma and beliefs that are holding you back, so you can reclaim your own personal power. Learn to identify which wounds you carry, how to heal them, so you can help others become conscious and evolve on their healing paths. This is a core foundation for self development, and your ability to hold a compassionate space for your participants.
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Establish a beautiful bond with this gentle plant ally, cacao. Experience how this medicine guides you to a more connective visceral journey, accompanies you through emotional break-throughs, and gracefully expands your ability to support others on their healing journey.
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A journey into self, reminding you of all the support you have from your ancestors on your path here on Earth. We will explore the animal archetypes in the Andean Cosmology, and how they help guide you on a spiritual life path. We will also explore archetypes that we play as a practitioner, or that our clients can portray, and how to maturely navigate these dynamics. As you heal your ancestral lineage you open up to new beginnings, so you can live a life of integrity, in harmony with nature’s elements.
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Explore how to create sacred space through the use of ancestral smudging and energy clearing rituals. Learn how to cleanse the energy field of the client, which helps them ground and set an intention for the healing session, as well as cleansing your energy field as a practitioner.
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Set and setting are key components in providing exceptional ceremonial experiences. Checking in on your participants and their particular needs builds a sense of trust, and sends a message that you are a mature guide. Learn how to navigate difficult emotions, triggers, and challenging situations that can arise during your time as a space holder.
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Learn how to consciously communicate with your client, create a blueprint for your business and financial transactions, set healthy boundaries, and support your client before, during, and after their session. Ceremonial cacao helps open up communication channels for grounded presence.
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Honoring yourself first, with a healthy physical, mental, energetic, and spiritual self-care practice, is crucial. This course will cover techniques that enable you to stay grounded as you care for others. We will explore movements that ease the physical burden of massage on the practitioner’s body, as well as identify the main energy centers of the body, so you can perform safe and effective treatments. Key to success as a practitioner is learning how to set healthy boundaries, and make conscious decisions guided by your intuition, and the wisdom of your heart. Energetic cleansing, meditation, and breathing techniques will all support your self-care practice.
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We recognize that this training is as much about personal growth and healing, as it is about professional development. A ceremonial healing massage can feel similar to a plant ceremony, as visions and memories are brought to the surface. With loving presence, we offer a safe and non-judgmental healing space where you can work through anything that arises and allow yourself to connect with your sacred energy as you step into your true power. Ceremonial Cacao will be offered throughout the training to lovingly support your journey of transformation.
Evaluation & Support
During the training, you will be required to practice your techniques on your fellow course participants, as well as on our guest models.
The final evaluation will come from delivering a Ceremonial Massage session for our course leader, Diana Deer Hawk, who will share in-depth feedback based on the experience.
Your learning, integration and healing process will continue to take root when you go home. As such, we believe strongly in checking in and providing support after the training. We will also be there to answer any questions, as you work through your 20 hours of self-practice with your community.
Ritual in Nature
We prepare ceremonial cacao in nature, and bring life to your own personal altar (or mesa), so it is ready to be used to help others in ceremonial healing sessions. The content of a mesa can vary, but generally includes healing stones and other personal objects representing elements and wisdom from your own personal healing journey. Please bring with you any stones, crystals, pendulums, earth elements, or other artifacts that have led you to this path.
Included in the 12 Day Training in Peru:
40 Hours of Training with 2 Experienced Teachers
12 Night Private Accommodation with Incredible Waterfall & Nature View
3 Organic Meals per Day / Vegan & Gluten Free Option Available
500g of Aynua Ceremonial Cacao
PDF Companion Guide
Horseback Riding to a Magnificent Jungle Waterfall
Nature Excursion & Cacao Ritual
Certificate of Completion
Included in the 10 Week Online Training:
20 Hours (1 Class per Week of 2 Hours) of Online Training with Diana Deer Hawk
10 Hours of Pre-Recorded Content (1 Recording per Week of 1 Hour)
500g of Aynua Ceremonial Cacao Shipped to Your Door
PDF Companion Guide
Recording of Each Class
Certificate of Completion
20 Hours of Extra Practice to Complete Certification
Who Will Benefit Most From this Training?
This unique and comprehensive training will give you all the knowledge you need to be a Ceremonial Massage Practitioner, whether you come from a massage or healing background, or are a complete beginner.
You will also leave with solid foundations for advanced or further study into specific treatment areas. If you want to embark on a new career path, or expand your actual offering, this training is for you. Your connection with yourself, and cacao as a medicine will magnify, and this can be a beautiful addition to your future offerings.
Those who get the most out of this training come with an open mind and an open heart, ready to learn and experience through all of their senses. Given the focus on energetic and shamanic healing modalities, it is important that you trust the process, your capacity to be an energetic channel of deep healing.
“I am so happy I decided to take this training. I learned how to integrate different modalities, in details, with patience, presence, and compassion.
I had an incredible healing journey, and gained so much insight about myself. Diana and Alku are great teachers, who saw my potential, and how I could embrace my own power. After the training, I felt really connected to myself, as an empowered healer. I totally recommend the Ceremonial Massage Training.”
— Gianina, Peru
Meet Your Teachers
Diana & Alku share more than 30 years of experience in the field of personal transformation and spiritual growth.
Their devoted service in the world of health and self-development has enhanced the lives of students from all over the world. They hold a heart centered understanding of the healing journey, aligned with the wisdom of nature, and compassionate presence.
Diana Deer Hawk
Founder & Teacher
Diana is the pioneer of this healing modality called Ceremonial Massage. Through inner vision, shamanic journeys, body-work training in swedish massage, acupressure, cranial sacral, womb healing, energy healing, and sound therapy, she created this unique approach, now available for everyone to learn and integrate in their own holistic practice.
In 2009, she suffered from a back injury, leaving her unable to move. Through internal martial arts, Chinese medicine, yoga, deep inner reflection, plant medicine and master plant diets, she flip-turned her situation and changed the course of her life. After becoming a yoga instructor, practicing massage therapy for deep healing, and offering cacao facilitator trainings, she pioneered Ceremonial Massage as a healing modality.
With her compassionate presence and healing gifts, Diana seamlessly integrates the power of shamanic medicine with a unique combination of bodywork techniques. She is now called to guide people on their path of self discovery and personal growth, in the art of Ceremonial Massage.
Alku Salka
Founder & Teacher
Alku embodies the wisdom of the human emotional journey, welcoming all feelings and sensations as the intelligence of nature within. Through his personal experience and teachings, he helps people empower themselves and liberate stagnant energy to live a life of freedom and fulfilment.
In 2009, after a burnout and a long depression, he slowly started to feel alive again. Through the teachings of yoga, meditation, Plant medicine and Ceremonial Cacao, Alku developed an acute understanding of the human journey. Since then, he teaches how to overcome the deepest emotional core wounds with love, presence, and authenticity.
We Are Here To Answer Your Questions
To make sure this training is the right fit for you, schedule a free 20min clarity call on Zoom, with Diana & Alku.
“Diana & Alku are each powerful mentors and guides.
Together, they bring an incredible depth of knowledge and wisdom. What they share reminds you of lost wisdom and inner truth. My experience with them has been deeply transformative. Gratitude for the work they do and the gifts they share.”
— Clarissa, USA
“The training was for me a huge inner transformation.
It is so valuable, because it is so much hands on. The whole experience — physical, emotional and spiritual, all connected in one — made me feel ready to be a Ceremonial Massage Practitioner. I now have a lot of trust and confidence. I am so grateful.”
— Mihaela, Romania
Registration
Next Retreat in Peru: January 13 - 24, 2025
The Aynua Ceremonial Massage Practitioner Training is a unique course offered only in Peru. It includes 40 hours of teaching over a period of 12 days, in the mountains of the Amazonas region, in Northern Peru (flight not included).