Prana Love SACRED CACAO Exeter

Join us for playful-prayerful evening of Yoga (Prana Motion), SACRED CACAO CEREMONY and Movement Medicine (ECSTATIC DANCE), Music and Poetry *** please feel free to bring instruments, songs, poetic offerings COSTS: £20 in advance / £25 on the door Advance bookings: http://www.exeteryoga.co.uk/workshops/cacao-yoga-dance/ Prana Love is a paradigm shifting synergy of playful-prayerful practices. It is lovingly designed to encourage community, freedom and unity, connection, compassion and co-creativity. It is about living and loving whole-heartedly and fully giving and receiving our gifts in this dance of life. The CACAO CEROMONY will guided by KEEF WESOLOWSKI MILES (Prana Motion) and WIOLETTA WESOLOWSKA MILES (Earth Medicine) . For this offering, Keef and Wioletta are aligned with many lineages from the yoga, dance, tantra and shamanic worlds and especially with Shamans and teachers ALBA MARIA and DHAN RIBEIRO from Brazil - www.terramirim.org.uk, RAFA SEMILLA - www.healingthelandproject.com and Susannah and Ya'Acov Darling Kahn - www.schoolofmovementmedicine.com Keef will offer a Prana Motion Yoga warm up to help us arrive in our bodies and let go of the week before drinking the Cacao in traditional Ceremonial way. As part of the ceremony we will experience the sounds of medicine drums and rattles and Wioletta will invite us to explore individual, partner and group meditations to open the heart and connect with each other in community. The ceremony will then move onto the dance floor as the medicine starts to take effect and we will dive deep together into the ecstatic dance of expansion and contraction alone, together and in community. The intention is to open to healing, trance, connection and HEART FULL COMMUNITY. The dance will be LIGHTLY guided by Qualified Movement Medicine Teacher and Founder of Prana Motion KEEF WESOLOWSKI MILES ABOUT CACAO WE use the finest quality CEREMONIAL GRADE CACAO from Guatemala There is much information now available on the web if you wish to investigate further for now, we would like to share: Cacao is a powerful heart-healng plant medicine from the rainforest. It is an Earth Medicine. A gift form Pachamama. The famous 'Chocolate Shaman' in Guatemala reminds us that an "Indigenous myth tells us whenever the balance between humans and nature becomes threatened, cacao comes from the rain-forest to open people's hearts and return the planet to harmony. It is "The Food for the Shift". It has mutiple possible benfits including opening the heart in relationship and community, deepening meditation, trance, journeying, inducing euphoria. It has a reputation as a safe and gentle aphrodisiac, increasing sensitivity and passion. It nourishes the body and heart in yoga and dance and has numerous health benefits including: Protein and healthy fats, essential vitamins and minerals (such as magnesium, vitamin C, natural sulfur, B-complex vitamins and iron). Studies link it to lower risk of heart disease, high blood pressure and obesity. It is good for the heart, increasing blood flow and adding vitality and energy to our bodies. AND it contains powerful anti-oxidants (compounds that boost the immune system). In short it is a SUPER FOOD that nourishes your body, opens your heart and lets your Spirit Soar. ***IMPORTANT** Antidepressants do NOT mix with the tryptophan and MAO (Monoamine Oxidase) inhibitors in this cacao… – it can result in very painful migraines. Many anti-depressants are contra-indicated with the tryptophan and MAO inhibitors in this cacao, so we recommend checking your meds first. Worst case scenario is headache and nausea, but avoid the hassle and do research first. Serious heart conditions. The theobromine in cacao increases heart rate significantly and is a vasodilator, lowering blood pressure. If you have such a condition, go lighter on amounts. Pregnancy & breastfeeding. Like coffee or tea, it is important to reduce intake of stimulating foods. The theobromine in cacao, which is very similar to caffeine, has a stimulating effect. Thus we recommend using lower dosages (ex. a maximum of 1oz in a ceremonial drink). Further awareness: In our experience it is clear that each individual comes with a unique physiology, psychology, emotional landscape and health/wellbeing background. As such each person’s experience is particular to that individual at any given time. Certainly nausea, some degree of sleep-depravation and anxiety are possible extreme reactions for particularly sensitive individuals (especially when pre-existing challenges in these are areas are current issues for anyone). Cacao is, after all, a stimulant of sorts. Also, on occasion challenging emotions may come to the surface for attention and healing depending on individual life circumstances. That said, our experience of working with cacao and the experience of most facilitators and participants tends towards the positive or extremely positive. Negative outcomes do tend to be quite exceptional. As such we invite you to make an informed choice and to take responsibility for your own experience and wellbeing and encourage you to investigate further as appropriate. Our personal experiences have been fundamentally positive and life enhancing. ABOUT Prana Motion Prana Motion is a powerful synergy of yoga, movement and meditation practices developed from 15 years of study and practice in a wide variety of ancient and contemporary practices: including yoga, dance, meditation, tantra, shamanism, body work and other approaches to life and conscious evolution. It is both playful and prayerful in its approach to the dance of life. It is focused on connection, community, creativity and our relationships with each other and all of life. Its primary intentions include self-exploration, healing and creative, embodied and heart-centred self-expression; healthy relationships and the weaving of innovative, dynamic and sustainable communities and the ongoing revelation of the full potential of each human being as unique and interconnected and interdependent expressions of divine consciousness. So much is possible when we choose to plug in to Source and fully participate in the co-creation of our life stories. ABOUT Movement Medicine Beautifully described by Susannah and Ya'Acov Darling-Khan, the founders of Movement Medicine. MOVEMENT MEDICINE is a body based movement meditation practice that will reconnect you to the wisdom of living from the heart, the joy of knowing who you are and the satisfaction of making your unique contribution to life. http://www.schoolofmovementmedicine.com/movement-medicine/what-is-movement-medicine/ ABOUT KEEF Keef Wesolowski Miles (WWW.YESYOGADANCE.CO.UK / [email protected] / 07834 703 127) I have been exploring, practicing and teaching many approaches to conscious evolution for over 20 years now and along the way I have become a multi-certified Yoga/Movement Teacher and Body Worker. I am the founder of Prana Motion and a certified teacher of Movement Medicine. Essentially it is my innate passion for life, love and laughter; community, connection and creativity; words, humour and music; yoga, massage and dance that revitalizes my life every day and enlivens the work that I am called to share. I have been incredibly blessed on my journey to have been supported and guided my many wonderful teachers, friends and family and it is a profound, yet simple, honour to share with you as we explore together this curious dance we call being human. We are human beings, human becomings, human dancings. ABOUT WIOLETTA For many years I have been travelling the world, immersed in different cultures, studying and practicing many ancient and contemporary healing arts and philosophies. These practices include Tantra, Shamanism, Dance, Meditation and healing massage techniques. Having been blessed to learn from many great teachers and healers from Poland to The Amazon, I feel honoured to be able to share my gifts with you in holding space for transformation and growth. Guided by my deep love of mother earth nature and the dance of being human I offer my self in service with love, respect and gratitude for my life and all of life. I am qualified Lomi Lomi therapist and the founder of Earth Medicine. With my background in interior design and engineering I am happy to help you create the life you long for and help you redesign both your inner energetic and outer physical worlds. As a young mother, I am well equipped to support you on your journey with care, presence and refined sensitivity.