Equinox Cacao Ceremony with Nana Marina: NEW SUNSET PARK LOCATION!
Note: this event has a new location in Sunset Park Brooklyn NY.
On September 22nd, we honor the Autumnal Equinox, a time of harvesting the fruits from last season.
This day is a perfect time to open our hearts with gratitude, and to embrace the growth, the lessons, and the changes that we have experienced in our lives. By integrating these learnings, we can continue on the path of welcoming wisdom into our lives, and living in a powerful and purposeful way.
It’s a great honor and privilege to welcome wisdom keeper and ceremonialist Nana Mariana Cruz to NYC from the Tz’utujil Mayan community of Guatemala, to guide the evening’s Cacao Ceremony.
Web of Life Community NYC is grateful. to gather and to share the ceremonial drink of Cacao, and connect our hearts, minds, and prayers for the season ahead.
On September 22nd, we honor the Autumnal Equinox, a time of harvesting the fruits from last season.
This day is a perfect time to open our hearts with gratitude, and to embrace the growth, the lessons, and the changes that we have experienced in our lives. By integrating these learnings, we can continue on the path of welcoming wisdom into our lives, and living in a powerful and purposeful way.
It’s a great honor and privilege to welcome wisdom keeper and ceremonialist Nana Mariana Cruz to NYC from the Tz’utujil Mayan community of Guatemala, to guide the evening’s Cacao Ceremony.
Web of Life Community NYC is grateful. to gather and to share the ceremonial drink of Cacao, and connect our hearts, minds, and prayers for the season ahead.
Energy Exchange
$45 - $50
Zelle: 347-653-8847 or cash at door (please RSVP so we have a head count)
No one is turned away for lack of funds
Zelle: 347-653-8847 or cash at door (please RSVP so we have a head count)
No one is turned away for lack of funds
Other details:
Please do not drink alcohol or any stimulants at least three hours before and after the Cacao Ceremony.
FAQ
What is Cacao?
Cacao is a tropical fruit, rich with antioxidants including theobromine known to contain an amino acid called tryptophan that assists the human brain to produce the neurotransmitter Serotonin, which can increase feelings of overall happiness. When consumed, cacao stimulates the brain to release endorphins, lower our stress levels, and give us a general sense of wellbeing.
Cacao has been shared through the millennia as a very important source of physical and spiritual nourishment. It was a measure of exchange, and its value is increased by sharing! In the Mayan tradition, cacao has been used as a sacrament of community connection and Love. It is known as the “Food of the Gods”, and an “Elixir of Love”. Cacao opens the heart and allows for a deeper connection to self and others.
Ceremonial cacao is a high-quality, minimally processed chocolate that has been shared through the millennia as a very important source of physical and spiritual nourishment in a variety of ceremonies, including births, marriages, negotiations, and as offerings. Ceremonial Cacao can also be used to help ground the mind, body, and spirit, and to open up new creative pathways and connections to nature, community, and spirit.
What is a Cacao Ceremony?
A Cacao Ceremony is an ancestral way of prayer in MesoAmerica where all participants drink the sacred food as a symbol of communion to oneself, to nature and to the creator.
Nana Marina Cruz is Maya Tz'utujil. She is Ajq'iij also called a Nana or spiritual guide, in Tz'ununya San Pedro la Laguna, Guatemala. She is a ceremonial leader and conducts fire and cacao ceremonies and is also a teacher of the Mayan calendar and the Mayan cosmic vision. She is the daughter of Tata Pedro & works not just as a healer and therapist with natural folk methods, but as a ceremonial leader of fire, tobacco, cacao and sweat lodge, and teaches native Mayan languages. She emphasizes the importance of being truly connected in body and spirit. She believes that everything has a meaning, everything has an origin, every emotion, every disease has an origin. By finding the origin, you can truly heal the spirit and body. @naan.marina.official
Nana Marina Cruz is Maya Tz'utujil. She is Ajq'iij also called a Nana or spiritual guide, in Tz'ununya San Pedro la Laguna, Guatemala. She is a ceremonial leader and conducts fire and cacao ceremonies and is also a teacher of the Mayan calendar and the Mayan cosmic vision. She is the daughter of Tata Pedro & works not just as a healer and therapist with natural folk methods, but as a ceremonial leader of fire, tobacco, cacao and sweat lodge, and teaches native Mayan languages. She emphasizes the importance of being truly connected in body and spirit. She believes that everything has a meaning, everything has an origin, every emotion, every disease has an origin. By finding the origin, you can truly heal the spirit and body. @naan.marina.official
Web of Life Community in NYC:
Web of Life is a multi-generational, multi-faith prophetic movement devoted to renewing our covenant with the natural laws of the earth and united in our desire and commitment to recover, practice, and safeguard ancient wisdom, and express our evolutionary human potential to create a compassionate, creative, caring civilization that honors each other and the planet. We create sacred spaces in NYC where we somatically activate a living memory in our bodies of how to commune, co-exist and co-create in harmony with nature.