Sacred Cacao Ceremony & Light Body Activation

with Alexander Rey Perez

Meditation by Master Vito

Dates: Saturday, December 20th & December 27th

Time: 4:00 PM – 8:00 PM

One ticket per person, per day.

(The ceremonial experience is expected to last approximately 3 hours. Additional time is intentionally held to allow for integration, rest, and organic flow.)

Location: Shangri-la – Temple Hills, Maryland (address shared upon registration)

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About the Ceremony

This is a sacred cacao ceremony rooted in ancestral remembrance, re-indigenization, land stewardship, accessibility, and embodied healing.

The cacao served in this ceremony is sourced from Bonita Cacao, stewarded by a Dominican woman whose family has cultivated cacao for generations. Her work is devoted to preserving criolla cacao, the most ancestral and rare cacao variety. Many of the trees from which this medicine comes are 90–100 years old, and more than 7,000 cacao trees have been planted in dedication to ecological preservation, cultural continuity, and care for the land.

The island now known as the Dominican Republic is ancestrally called Quisqueya, a Taíno word often translated as “Mother of All Lands” or “Great Land.” In Taíno cosmology, sacred nourishment and life-sustaining abundance are central to right relationship with the land. Honoring the name Quisqueya is a way of remembering the land beyond colonial renaming and acknowledging cacao as a medicine that long predates modern borders, trade routes, and extractive systems.

Cacao has long been revered as the Food of the Gods—used ceremonially across the Americas for prayer, creativity, communion, grief processing, and healing. What is less commonly known is that cacao’s relationship to the Caribbean is deeply shaped by colonial theft and suppression. Caribeño, Indigenous, and Afro-Indigenous peoples were often forced to grow cacao for colonial economies while being forbidden from consuming or practicing ceremony with the very medicine their ancestors knew intimately.

This ceremony exists in conscious relationship to that history.

Alexander offers this cacao as an act of reclamation, remembrance, and re-indigenization—not to romanticize the past, but to restore dignity, context, and right relationship to a living tradition.

Alexander will be returning from Quisqueya shortly before these gatherings, where he received an initiation on the mountain in direct communion with the land, the bosque (forest), and the cacao trees themselves. This ceremony is both an offering and a homecoming—bringing cacao back into conscious, ancestral relationship.

The cacao served will be Bonita Cacao’s Platinum and Gold varieties, prepared with prayer, reverence, and intention.

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Meditation with Master Vito

Master Vito will be sharing the hung sau (I am spirit) meditation in the lineage of Kriya Yoga as taught by Paramhansa Yogananda, his guru. We look forward to connecting with the divine by embodying that energy within ourselves. This meditation features breathing exercises to prepare the mind and body. After, we connect with the divine through will power and focusing. This is a guided meditation that will help you connect deeper in your practice.

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Medicine, Energy & Cosmology

Within ceremonial and energetic traditions, cacao is understood to work across the physical, emotional, and subtle bodies.

This particular cacao is taught to support integration of the 44·44 Gene Codes—a symbolic spiritual and energetic framework associated with harmony, coherence, and remembrance. Within this cosmology, cacao is said to:

•Support harmonization of the blood, carrying ancestral memory and vitality

•Encourage balance between the left and right brain hemispheres, supporting clarity, intuition, and integrated perception

•Gently guide the nervous system toward coherence and heart-centered presence

•Assist in light body alignment and deeper attunement to inner guidance

These teachings are shared as ceremonial and spiritual frameworks, not medical claims, and are intended to support reflection, embodiment, and personal integration.

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Accessibility & Right Relationship

Many cacao ceremonies are understandably expensive due to ethical sourcing, labor, and preparation. At the same time, Alexander holds a firm belief that sacred medicine should be accessible—especially given the histories of extraction, exclusion, and prohibition surrounding cacao.

For this reason, the general ceremony is offered at $22.22, creating an entry point so more people can gather with the medicine in a respectful, intentional way.

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Ticket Options

🌿 General Sacred Cacao Ceremony — $22.22

Includes ceremonial cacao, guided ritual, ancestral education, meditation, and group activation.

🔥 Ceremony + Light Body Recalibration — $66.66

Includes everything above plus an extended energetic activation. This offering draws from:

•Reiki Levels I & II

•Golden Dragon consciousness

•Violet Flame transmutation

•Ancestral, intuitive, and light-body healing practices

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Honoring the Land Where We Gather

This ceremony takes place on land currently known as Maryland, the ancestral homeland of the Piscataway, Nacotchtank (Anacostan), and other Algonquian-speaking peoples.

It is an honor to bring cacao—a sacred medicine of the Caribbean and Central Americas—onto this land with humility, gratitude, and respect. We acknowledge the original stewards of this place and recognize land remembrance as an essential part of ethical ceremonial practice.

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About the Facilitator

Alexander Rey Perez is a two-spirit man of trans experience, ceremonial guide, artist, and multidimensional spiritual practitioner of Dominican, Cuban, and Costa Rican ancestry, with ancestral ties to land-based plant medicine traditions, including cacao.

Alexander has worked with energy healing since childhood and is attuned to Reiki Levels I & II. With a Gemini South Node, teaching, transmitting wisdom, and working with consciousness, language, and subtle energy are deeply mastered paths. His work centers on sovereignty, accessibility, remembrance, and ethical relationship with sacred medicine, creating spaces that are inclusive, grounded, and reverent.

About Master Vito

With over 30 years of experience in martial arts and 20 years of experience in meditation, Master Vito will be guiding you to connect with your inner bliss. His goal of sharing his knowledge and passions in order to bring peace to the self and spread it throughout the world is embodied through this practice. With an artistic view point backed by scientific exploration, the art and science of meditation is a powerful tool he uses daily to connect with the divine. May we connect with this light within and spread it to others by being the light.

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Cultural Respect, Lineage & Right Relationship

This offering is rooted in lineage, lived experience, and conscious reclamation. Cacao is approached not as a trend or aesthetic, but as a sacred medicine historically tied to Caribbean and Indigenous peoples—many of whom were prohibited from practicing with it while being forced to cultivate it under colonial rule.

This ceremony is offered in the spirit of right relationship, humility, and respect. Participants are invited to approach the space with openness, curiosity, and care for the cultural and ancestral roots of the medicine.

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What to Bring

•Comfortable clothing

•Journal and pen (optional)

•Water bottle

•An open heart

•Meditation Cushion

Please avoid heavy meals 2–3 hours prior to the ceremony.

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Health & Legal Disclaimer

This cacao ceremony is a spiritual and cultural experience. It is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any medical or psychological condition, nor is it a substitute for professional medical or mental health care.

Ceremonial cacao contains natural stimulants and may not be suitable for everyone. Individuals who are pregnant, have heart conditions, are sensitive to caffeine, or are taking MAOIs or medications that may interact with cacao should consult a qualified healthcare professional prior to attending.

By choosing to participate, attendees accept full responsibility for their physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being during and after the ceremony.