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About Us

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!

What it important at saoró

Our Core values

Sustainability. We ensure that our Cacao makes a positive net impact on the planet, most especially the rainforests, wildlife, indigenous communities and our own customers. Our cacao is sourced ethically and transparently, with fair pay for farmers and a commitment to biodiversity and rainforest regeneration.
Our commitment extends beyond cacao, with contributions to global conservation initiatives such as the International Tiger Project.

Discernment. Choosing the right partners who align with our values and vision.

Collaboration over competition. Supporting others builds community, together we thrive!

Accessibility. Providing medicinal grade Cacao at the most affordable price to introduce more people to the joy and health benefits of cacao.

Our Core values
Our Core values
Our Core values

Our Mission Statement

What We Hope To Accomplish

We hope that The Saoró Experience becomes an evolving community space where people feel a warm welcome to contribute their ideas, whether that is through artistic expression, a blog post or an event. Whatever form it may take, we hope to share this open invitation to all who wish to share their experience on their journey back to self, and to promote openness, dialogue and cohesion in our diversity.We also hope to introduce more people to the joy and health benefits of 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 our Barista Cacao for a daily on the go Cacao. 

As we believe true societal change will come through grass roots community movements, we will continue to promote collaboration and coming together, social activism and conscious living. And have a bit of craic along the way!

saoró Cacao

Meet our Cacao Range

SHOP THE RANGE

THE TEAM

Meet The Team

Kate Redmond - Saoró

Vivienne Dempsey

FOUNDER, CEO
& PRoDUCT DEVELOPMENT LEAD

CONTACT

Patrick Daly

co-founder
& sourcing director

CONTACT

Kate Redmond

OPERATIONS
& BRAND MANAGER

CONTACT

Caroline Graham

SALES SUPPORT
& SHIPPING
CONTACT

Scotty & Joanne

BARISTA CACAO
AMBASSADORS

CONTACT
Alex Magill

Alex Magill

SAORÓ
NORTHERN IRELAND & UK

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deirdre gleeson

Deirdre Gleeson

EDITOR
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Regular Contributors

Therapist and a Certified Cacao Facilitator Siân Williams is a regular contributor focuses on giving her clients the confidence to follow their own intuition and discover purpose in life. Read some of Siân’s work here.

We are delighted to also have way shower, spiritual life guide and medicine woman, Mary Sky as a regular contributor on Saoró.

Siân Williams

therapist / Cacao Facilitator

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Mary Sky

Wayshower, spuritual guide

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Stockists

Where to find Us

Sage and Seer

Facilitated by Janey Lavelle a Homeopath focusing on woman’s wellbeing and womb healing, an Energy Alchemist she creates a fusion between bodyworks treatments, reiki, tuning forks and crystals. Janey is a Sacred Sister who journeys with Maria Magdalena, womb wisdom, ceremonial circles and cacao as a vehicle to heal. Tel 086 0264721

Main Street, Carrowhubbuck South, Enniscrone, Co.Sligo, F26T9X8

Misty Hollows

The Misty Hollows is a Crystal, Holistic, Spiritual & Mindfulness Shop based in Carrickmacross, which now holds a new space called The Hollows Wellness Centre offering services, treatments, workshops & courses of all backgrounds in the holistic world. Contact Nicole 0852744141

Market Square Shopping Centre, Drummond Etra, Carrickmacross, Co. Monaghan, A81 DX78

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