Camino de Cacao: Mayan Cacao Initiation

With Nana Mimi, Sarah D'Antoni (Naiya) and Krystal Penrose

April 10 - 17, 2027

Address: San Juan La Laguna, Guatemala

Contact: ourancestralweavings@gmail.com

  • $3,280.00 – The Garden Room (private room)
  • $3,380.00 – Vista Room (private room)

Join us for an 8-day indigenous, Earth-based initiation and training into the the path of cacao in the sacred lands of Guatemala

Learn how to facilitate with cacao, build a living relationship with this plant, and integrate this potent medicine into your life or facilitation work.

This is not a retreat, it’s an initiation and rare invitation to receive traditional teachings, sacred rites, and direct transmission from an unbroken lineage.

Whether you are seeking to deepen your personal connection or bring this medicine into your work, this experience was created to lean into your inner wisdom while connecting to an actual living lineage of Cacao.

This initiation is designed for those who are already holding space and are ready to deepen their work through ancestral wisdom and sacred cacao. It is especially aligned for:

– Therapists, clinicians, and healing professionals seeking to integrate earth-based ritual and indigenous teachings into their practice

– Coaches, facilitators, and space holders ready to step into deeper level of spiritual leadership

– Practitioners who have been serving cacao and want to receive authentic, ancestral permission to continue their work with integrity

– Ceremony leaders and guides who are looking to root their offerings in lineage and living tradition

– Students of the mystery who feel called to remember, reconnect, and walk a path of reverence, prayer, and reciprocity

You may already be serving others; but this is your moment to be held, to receive, and to be initiated. This is not a retreat for personal healing alone, it is a sacred passage for those ready to embody responsibility, carry tradition with care, and walk the cacao path in right relationship.

About the Leaders

Nana Mimi

Nana Mimi is a highly respected Mayan spiritual elder and wisdom keeper from the Tz'utujil lineage of Lake Atitlán, Guatemala. She is a guardian of the sacred fire, a keeper of ancestral cacao traditions, and a devoted teacher of Mayan cosmology, fire ceremonies, and womb healing—carrying the ancient knowledge passed down through generations. Her mother […]

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Sarah D’Antoni (Naiya)

Sarah (she/they), founder of Ancestral Weavings, is a ceremonialist, grief activist, and threshold guide specializing in transformative journeys focused on ancestral reconnection. She guides individuals, couples, and groups through threshold work to reconnect with ancestral wisdom, interrupt inherited patterns, and restore relational integrity. She holds over 10,000 hours of training in ritual healing, with certifications […]

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Krystal Penrose

Krystal is originally from Detroit, Michigan and currently lives in Boulder, Colorado and travels internationally. Her ancestral lineage is mostly Northern European, with a touch of Native American. She has been an active student of her ancestor’s Pagan Wheel of the Year and much of her life centers around these studies of the cyclical ways […]

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