We honour the traditional custodians of the land, the Wurundjeri people, the Indigenous, the First Nation People and all the Elders past, present + emerging.
You're invited to join Simone, Frankie and Linton in an evening of deep connection: Body-Heart-Soul. We gather to celebrate the aliveness of our human experience, initiating the group container with a Sacred Cacao Ceremony, followed by an activation of your own prana through Shamanic Breathwork. Then it’s time to unleash your wildness with an Ecstatic Dance experience before peacefully coming back to the stillness within you and integrating the experience through a Shamanic Inner Guidance Soul Journey. Vegan pizza and community connection will close the space.
What is Cacao Ceremony?
The evening will commence with a heart-opening cacao ceremony inclusive of a cacao blessing, honouring the land where we gather and the native land of cacao medicina. With cacao in your body vessel, you will be guided with sound and spoken words before a sharing circle connects us on a deeper level. Cacao is a potent plant medicine that opens the heart space and allows the unveiling of the heart’s shadows. Bliss, joy, love, peace, sadness or a deep sense of stillness may be experienced. Remember that any arising emotion is serving you perfectly, so the invitation is to allow yourself to surrender, and to feel fully, without any judgement for your personal purpose of growth, healing and expansion into Unconditional Love.
What is Shamanic Breathwork?
Shamanic Breathwork is a dynamic body-based, feeling-focused modality of transformation that anchors us deep within, bringing us home to our centre. Arrive willing to commit to the process and surrender to the experience as you are guided to breathe until you are surprised.
As we consciously connect in with the breath via this modality, we can unlock and activate our conscious awareness, a state where we are more receptive to messages, visions, interactions, experiences, memories and symbols that when processed and integrated illuminate that which is required to aid in our becoming. Don’t overthink and simply breathe!
What is Ecstatic Dance?
Ecstatic dance is a form of art expression, with no dance experience required. Be authentically you and allow yourself to explore all range of emotions as we dance together. Be ready to free yourself from any conceptualisation of how you should move and allow the music to move you. Let go of the control of the mind, there’s no right or wrong, and embrace your feelings through natural movements.
As we immerse in sound vibrations, you're brought into a journey of embodied self-expression, freely moving and releasing any parts of yourself that you weren’t even aware of, recharging your energies, and really experiencing the liberating nature of who you truly are in safe space, created for you to be authentically you. We invite you to surrender and drop into a blissful state of being as we dance, release, recharge, embrace and have fun together.
What is Shamanic Inner Guidance Soul Journey?
After the dance you will be safely invited to come back deep into your body with a specific guided meditation, a Shamanic Soul Journey, focusing upon your heart’s desires. "What I really want is…"
Once completed we will process the night with a sharing circle, grounding and connecting in community..
Following our multi-part inner journeying adventure, we will chill and marinate in one another's presence sharing vegan pizza from Red Sparrow. There's no rush to re-enter the outside world - stay a while, debrief with friends new and old, journal in introspection and further integrate your inward exploration before reintegrating into the external world. If you wish you are welcome to skip this part and head home to integrate in introspection.
About your guides
Simone (he/his) | IG: elementalslovealoha
Simone upholds a special relationship with the Elements and Mother Earth, Pachamama. This relationship stems from many lifetimes of exploring rituals and undertaking plant medicine ceremonies, following shamanic ancient traditions and the rites of passage and honouring his plant and human teachers.
He came into his body in the Northern Hemisphere of the planet, in a little city surrounded by mountains, rivers, forest and wildlife. Simone has been moving around since a young age looking for a place to call home, when he finally realised that this place is within him, in the heart centre-Anahata.
Simone draws upon different tools in his offerings - reiki energy healing, guided meditations, Kundalini kriyas, pranayama, sound journeys and sacred Cacao Ceremonies. The connection between Simone and Cacao is profound, full of respect and reverence.
Frankie (he/his) | IG: frankiep.me
Frankie is the co-creator of Centre of You, and an avid student and teacher of healing arts. He shares his wisdom and knowledge gained from his intrinsic interest in somatic releasing techniques, such as breathwork and movement.
Frankie is a qualified Yoga Teacher, Reiki Grandmaster, Shamanic Breathwork Facilitator and Ordained Shamanic Minister, who warmly guides and holds sacred space through the sharing and delivery of his inner teachings, embody through his life experiences.
PrimAudiA (he/his) | Soundcloud: PrimAudiA
Linton’s involvement with music over the years has included rapping, playing instruments, composing/producing, live mixing and DJing as vehicles for sonic creative expression. Under the new artist name, PrimAudiA, he’s been DJing organic electronic & tribal music covering a wide range of BPM’s and styles consistently over the past few years.
Exploring the worlds of Cacao Ceremony and Ecstatic Dance are new avenues for energy expression and facilitation with other practitioners. He is now focusing on returning to original music production and performance as PrimAudiA.
He has been a member of creative events collectives over the years, Earth Sound Music, Atomic Tribe & Freedom Doof...and has now started a new collective, Shadow Alchemy Events, a solutions-oriented creative event platform for education & building community.
Preparation
Bring your favorite Cacao cup, an eye-mask and water bottle is recommended. Wear comfortable, warm, loose clothing that enables ease of movement. Bring any sacred or familiar items to support you (crystal, feathers, cushion, teddy, etc.)
Important Information
Before ingesting cacao, it is highly recommended to refrain from caffeine after your morning breakfast. Cacao contains Theobromine, a stimulant similar to caffeine, and we wouldn’t want to overstimulate your body-system. We recommended you have a large late lunch no later than 3 hours before ceremony, so your time spent journeying is on a relatively empty stomach. Please let us know if you are pregnant or breastfeeding, on heart medication or MAOI or SSRI based anti-depressants, so we can adjust your dosage and check in with you.
Shamanic Breathwork requires a commitment to a cyclical breathing pattern and has the potential to bring about intense feelings which may result in strong physical and/or emotional release. This practice involves voluntarily hyper-oxygenating your bloodstream, paving the way for reaching an altered state of consciousness where you may experience possibilities that are not grounded in this reality (dependant on your level of output - you are always in control).
It is not recommended for pregnant women though if you are pregnant and wish to join, please, alert us and you will be offered a gentler breathing pattern.
This is a drug and alcohol free event and open to those aged 18+ only.
Tickets
ENERGY EXCHANGE | Early Bird $77 | Normal $90 + booking fee
Accessibility: If you are in need of this modality, though you are experiencing a transient time of financial hardship, reach out to grace@centreofyou.com.au or DM Centre of You's Instagram and together we will find a way for you to receive this beautiful practice.
Please arrive by 5:45pm to allow time to visit the bathroom and settle in before commencement. Parking is unmetered on Chapel Street from after 5pm. Alternatively park in the open-air parking lot on Anchor Place, the street that runs across the road from the arcade Centre of You is nestled within.