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Festival Mná Offer
Saoró is delighted to sponsor Festival Mná – Summer Solstice Edition, a powerful gathering celebrating women, wellness, community and connection. Festival Mná shares values close to our hearts at Saoró — creating inclusive spaces for healing, creativity, ceremony and togetherness.
We’re proud to support this beautiful event and are keeping it featured on our homepage so our community can learn more and book their place. Visit the Festival Mná Website for full event details, or book tickets directly through Eventbrite.
The Cacao Experience
Saoró Cacao Facilitator Training Program
Train as a cacao facilitator with Saoró.
This is a weekend of ceremony, connection and experiential learning with the spirit of Peruvian Cacao in the Irish countryside. You will then be guided through an online 30 day dieta, before graduating as a group where you will return to the place which you trained. This is truly more than a training, it is an opportunity for deep, personal, inner transformation.
Beginning under the Virgo New Moon, September 11th.
THE COFFEE ALTERNATIVE
Saoró Barista Cacao
People in the holistic space have been aware of the magic of cacao for years. We now want to create a Cacao revolution, where people swap their daily coffee for a delicious and nutritious cup of Cacao energy.
This is why we created Saoró Barista Cacao:
- Rich, velvety, single-ingredient Cacao
- Sustained energy, no caffeine crash
- Pure single-ingredient Cacao
- Barista-friendly and easy to work with
The Ceremonial Journey
From Tree to Bar
There’s more to your cup of ceremonial cacao than the act of making it from your chosen block or bar of cacao. The journey from the rainforests of Bali is part of the ceremony; you aren’t just consuming a drink, you are a participant in this journey.
Like any ecosystem, a rainforest is a balance of give and take between the wildlife. Cacao trees were originally native to the jungles of South America and now occupy a similar niche in the Balinese rainforests. They are semi-wild; left to themselves they fit effortlessly into the landscape as they are relatively small “understory” trees. With some thoughtful attention they can produce reliable crops without threatening the forest around them.
A deep dive by Prof. Steven Abbot for Saoró.
Welcome to Saoró
If this is your first time here, welcome to The Saoró Experience! Here’s a little run down on who we are and what we’re about:
Saoró is an Irish company founded by Shamanic practitioner Vivienne Dempsey and business partner Patrick Daly, offering premium, ethically sourced cacao that supports both people and planet. Beyond supplying ceremonial cacao, The Saoró Experience was created to connect artists, healers, practitioners and activists across Ireland. It is a platform for those on a healing path, whether through shamanism, energy work, cacao, or other spiritual and holistic traditions, to connect, collaborate, and uplift one another by sharing their creative work, upcoming events, and practitioner offerings.
We wish this online space to be a place where people can express themselves freely, write of their interesting and diverse journeys to a like-minded audience, and to connect with others. We are a broad and inclusive community!
You are very welcome here, and please don’t be afraid to leave your mark! Browse our Blog, Poet’s Corner, Event Listings, Practitioner Directory and Artists Gallery, and leave a piece of you here. Express yourself freely. Together we thrive. Aho!
passionate about Cacao
All about Cacao…
Cacao is both a nutritional powerhouse and a sacred plant medicine, and it is rapidly gaining attraction in Western Culture. Naturally, more and more people are becoming interested in learning more about its history, its health benefits, its taste and so on.
If you are curious and would like to learn more about cacao, head over to our cacao library where we have a tonne of articles and resources discussing all things cacao along with some recipe inspiration. We also warmly invite you to contribute your own writing to the library!
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Jess Paget
'Cacao and Me Since 2023', It's been 2 years since I really began to connect with Mama Cacao. In that time my connection with her has ebbed and flowed. Ive had regular, daily doses that became part of my routine, I've had times where I've stepped back from her, and I've had times where she called me in to dive deep within myself.
Meet the Artist – Vik Crobio
We’re so excited to introduce the creative force behind the incredibly stunning Andean Hummingbird on our Premium Peruvian Ceremonial Cacao: Vik Crobio — illustrator, muralist and tattoo artist from Cusco, Peru.
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.
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