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International Tiger Project
Saoro a proud green supporter of the International Tiger Project
Saoro is proud to be a Green Supporter of the International Tiger Project donating €4 from the sale of every Sumatra Ceremonial Cacao Bar to support conservation and protection projects to save the Critically Endangered Sumatran tiger and its habitat.
The Cacao Experience
Saoró’s Cacao Facilitator Training Program
In this comprehensive program, we will embark on a journey exploring the sacred and transformative qualities of Cacao, as well as develop the necessary skills and knowledge to guide others in their own Cacao experiences.
Cacao, also known as the “food of the gods,” has been used for centuries in ceremonial and spiritual practices. It has the power to open our hearts, expand our consciousness, and deepen our connection with ourselves and the world around us. As a Cacao facilitator, you will have the opportunity to share this ancient wisdom and facilitate profound healing and transformation for others
NEW LOTUS / ROSE TINCTURE RANGE
Blue Lotus & Damask Rose Tinctures
Immerse yourself in the healing power of flowers with a range of tinctures developed by Agata, the Extravaganga for Saoró.
Blue Lotus — revered for centuries in Egypt & used in ritual to meditate, connect with higher realms & stimulate inner vision.
Damask Rose, with its rich connection to love & divine femininity, supports union with your higher self & the universal energies that fill your heart.
Image credit @louisemichelle_photography
Welcome to Saoró
We source & sell high quality sustainable, great value Ceremonial Cacao to a wide audience.
We honour & spread the values of the sacred plant of Cacao by supporting a holistic heart-centred community space that supports individual & collective healing. Ultimately our individual work together flows into the collective field for greater kindness, harmony & creativity.
Whether you are here to buy Cacao, increase your knowledge about the Cacao, find a holistic event or a nearby holistic practitioner, or join our lively blogging community of healers, poets & artists – you are very welcome!
Together we thrive
Ní neart go chur le chéile
passionate about Cacao
All about Cacao…
Cacao is both a nutritional powerhouse /superfood and a sacred plant medicine. If you’d like to know more about Cacao head over to our Cacao Library.
You’ll find articles/resources all about Cacao – recipes, the history of cacao, making the switch from coffee to cacao. You can also learn more about others in the community & their Cacao stories.
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Alex Magill
Cacao has been a very gentle and subtle teacher, however when needed, packs a punch! It has been extremely emotional. Sitting with Cacao has helped me give myself permission to stop. To listen. To feel. To learn. To trust and to love… myself.
Nikki Solyom
When I began holding Cacao ceremonies myself, I found that the guided meditations would pour through me effortlessly — as though her spirit was speaking through me, like a river of wisdom and story.
Gary Patterson
As a young man growing up in the west of Ireland I had shut down my feeling heart, it was too painful. Nothing dramatic but a consistent stream of “big boys don’t cry, get up and get on with it, don’t be a soft lad, toughen up...
Introducing South American Shamanic Waters
Saoró is delighted to present a range of Shamanic Waters for individual & group ceremonial use. Used for generations by the Shamans of South America in ceremony and in healing rituals, these waters can act as an aid to open or close sacred space, to clear heavy energy, as protection, as a blessing, to give thanks, to welcome abundance and luck into your life.
Collaboration with Ceramic Artist Maeve Monahan
Saoró are super excited to announce their collaboration with Belfast Ceramic Artist Maeve Monahan.
Saoró Red Tent | Menopause Awareness
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**Saoró Poetry Month**
The Foxglove and the Bee
By Kieran Coogan
@kieran.coogan
You fit me
Like a foxglove
Opening before me
With colour and scent
You lay a velvet runway
That I may land and
In the buzzy frenzy
Get covered
Head to wing
In your foxy dust
You get me
Like no other
So much so
That after my little dance
I go weak in my bees’ knees
Tumbling inside you
Again and again.
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Please join us in April for poetry month — share your own original poems or poems by others that have inspired you… DM us on @saoroexperience or email us at info@saoro.org
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If you like this series, please also consider supporting us… Each purchase you make on Saoro.org supports our work in the community and boosts a local small business 🌱♥️
#poetry #poetrymonth #cacao#community #wearesaoro #letyourspiritsoar #wearesaoro #consciousness #shamanism #ceremonialcacao #cacaoireland #saoro #saoroexperience #togetherwethrive #rainforestcacao
**Saoró Cacao Facilitator Training 2025 - meet Gary**
Meet the team for Saoró Cacao Facilitator Training….
Read the full piece from Gary on Cacao & Me:
https://saoro.org/2025/04/13/gary-patterson/
@anam_beo / @gary.patterson_
“I first came across Cacao while I was traveling in Guatemala and if I’m honest, I didn’t like the taste. It was bitter and I had a massive sweet tooth! I was new to sitting in circles, to connecting to my heart, it was all a bit woo woo and I struggled to notice any changes physically or any other way.
As a young man growing up in the west of Ireland I had shut down my feeling heart, it was too painful. Nothing dramatic – but a consistent stream of “big boys don’t cry, get up and get on with it, don’t be a soft lad, toughen up, etc! I had placed an impenetrable armour around my heart for my survival. It was very useful: slagging rolled off me like water from a duck’s back. The down side was I couldn’t feel….
Luckily I didn’t give up on Cacao after that first encounter. A part of me knew that there was something there for me. So I sat in other circles as I travelled through Central and South America and just as that steady stream of insults had closed my heart before, the steady stream of connecting with Cacao started to gently open me up and sensitise me to my emotions.”
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Join us for an immersive Cacao Facilitator Training 2025
• In-person training (May 16–18 & June 14–15) — food & stay included
• Guided month-long Cacao dieta
• Written Cacao guide
• Ongoing support, collaboration & promotion for your events
• Exclusive discounts on our Saoró Ceremonial Cacaos
Email us at info@saoro.org or DM @saoroexperience for further details and to book a discovery call with Vivienne ✨️
#cacaofacilitator #cacaotraining#cacaoceremony#cacao #community #wearesaoro#letyourspiritsoar#wearesaoro #consciousness#shamanism#ceremonialcacao #cacaoireland#saoro#saoroexperience #togetherwethrive #rainforestcacao
**Saoro Cacao Facilitator Training May 2025**
Are you curious about deepening your journey with Cacao & learning how to guide others in their own Cacao experiences ?
Read the heartfelt feedback from past participants — and grab one of the final spots for our 2025 Cacao Facilitator Training….
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In this training, over two weekends, you will learn about:
> The history & traditions of Cacao
> The physical & psychological benefits of Cacao
> Choosing the right Cacao - environmentally friendly & sustainable
> Practical tools to facilitate Cacao ceremonies
> How to create sacred space
> Different ceremony formats, including rituals, shamanic journeying, heart-opening & connective techniques
> Ethics & trauma-informed safety considerations in conducting Cacao ceremonies
> Holding space, managing group dynamics, & responding to individual needs & experiences during ceremony.
The course costs just €1,100 and includes:
-> In-person training on May 16th/17th/18th, incl food & stay
-> Month long Cacao dieta, guided by the team to deepen your connection with this beautiful medicine (Cacao included)
-> Final in-person weekend of learning, sharing & celebration on June 14th & 15th, incl food & stay
-> A written Cacao guide
-> Future Saoro support/collaboration & promotion for you & your events
-> Exclusive discounts on our Saoró Cacao range
Payment plans available, tailored to individual needs 🙏
We’d love you to join us ❤️💫
Email us at info@saoro.org or DM @saoroexperience for further details and to book a discovery call with Vivienne ✨️
#cacaofacilitator #cacaotraining #cacaoceremony#cacao #community #wearesaoro #letyourspiritsoar#wearesaoro #consciousness #shamanism#ceremonialcacao #cacaoireland #saoro#saoroexperience #togetherwethrive #rainforestcacao
**Saoró Poetry Month**
Sisters
By Shauna Sweeney
@soulexpansion_withshauna
Silence.
It has become, a place that feels safe
Navigating with a smile
the people pleasing face
Polite and neat
Not a speck of dust to be seen
On the outside she is ok
From the inside the fire burns
Sacred rage up in flames
The gripping choke hold of our patriarchal race
Terrified of our power
To feel the unexpressed case
Years upon years
Who will be the one to break the chain
To the fallen women of Magdalene
We feel your pain
Swept under the carpet
Not a word breathed til this day
The abandonment.
The isolation.
Sheer fear, guilt and shame.
Your story is our story
We are here to make a change
The truth of the holy grail
Will lead us through with faith
Standing hand in hand
With the great Mother
Synchronistic beating of our hearts with the land
Taking up space
Reclaiming our sovereignty
Coming back home
To the one that will always be
Here’s to the return of
Divine femininity
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Please join us in April for poetry month — share your own original poems or poems by others that have inspired you… DM us on @saoroexperience or email us at info@saoro.org
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If you like this series, please also consider supporting us… Each purchase you make on Saoro.org supports our work in the community and boosts a local small business 🌱♥️
#poetry #poetrymonth #cacao#community #wearesaoro #letyourspiritsoar #wearesaoro #consciousness #shamanism #ceremonialcacao #cacaoireland #saoro #saoroexperience #togetherwethrive #rainforestcacao
**Give a sustainable gift this Easter**
This Easter why not give the gift of ceremonial cacao instead of an Easter egg?
Every Easter, our supermarket shelves are filled with cheap, unsustainable chocolate eggs, which puts a huge strain on our planet and on cacao crops and farmers.
Perhaps cheap is the wrong word because someone has to pay for it….
>> Farmers in West Africa (where the cacao for many of these chocolate eggs come from) are paid as little as $1 per day for their work
>>In this region, there is major canopy destruction as rainforest is cleared for intensive cacao plantations
Urge friends and family to choose fairly & sustainably this Easter. Choose cacao and craft chocolate from ethical sources that support the rainforest and indigenous communities.
Saoró supports Cacao farmers and communities that plant cacao trees with a diversity of other trees and shrubs to restore Canopy. The co-ops we work with pay the top rate to their farmers.
Let’s make a difference - one bar at a time…
https://saoro.org/products/
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#wearesaoro #rainforestcacao
#sustainability #sustainablecacao
#Ceremonialcacao #plantmedicine
#ceremonialcacaoireland
#togetherwethrive
This morning,
I caught up poet Nadia Ramoutar for a wonderful conversation on the power of poetry and living a creative life.
Nadia read her beautiful poem, The Phoenix and I was inspired to read one of collection also.
Check out Nadia`s magical book of poems and vibrant artwork `Making Mosaics` available from her website www.freemymojo.com
#wearesaoro #poems #poetrymonth #poetryonsaoro #creativewriting #community #cacao #healing #consciousliving
