Hape & Cacao Ceremony with Yawanawa & Cacao Ceremonist Deb Nicholls.

We will be welcoming back the Yawanawa tribe from the Amazon forest offering their prayers, songs and sacred medicine of Hape. You will have a chance to meet this medicine with honour & respect these medicines deserves. 

This special evening will begin with a powerful Cacao Ceremony around a beautiful candle-lit altar, led by experienced Cacao Ceremonialist Deb Nicholls of Cacao Divinity @deb.empoweringcircle

Followed by storytelling and sacred Hape Circle led by Lua in support of his father - Casique Masharua sharing their ancestral wisdom. 

Hape is sacred tobacco snuff used as a ceremonial medicine as a part of Yawanawa culture. It is a mixture of 100% mapacho tobacco and Tsunu (ashes of a special tree in the Amazon jungle). Hape is traditionally served through Tepi or Kuripi (self-serve). 

They are usually made from bamboo or animal bone. It is an extremely powerful medicine for cleansing, connection to the spirit realm, and purification of our energetic body. It may have a purgatory effect, this is part of the cleaning and realignment of energies in our body.

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Casique Masharua chef – paje of the Yawarani village, one of the 14 villages based in Rio Gregorio territory. He is the leader and wisdom holder of antient prayers & traditions of Yawanawa culture. He speaks fluently native language – Nuke tsai, travelling with his family to share his message of Amazon forest. 

Luan Yawanawa is 3rd son of Cacique Roque, chef of the village Yawarani. He has been studying medicine of the forest, Yawanawa culture & spirituality for past 15 years. As a part of the preparation for the spiritual path of healing and service, he has done Samakei (spiritual diet) lasting from 1-3 months in complete isolation with deep studies with the sacred medicine of the forest.

Jaine Furtado represents the feminine force of Yawanawa culture, she is the mother of two sons, and as well done her sacred diet focuses on a deeper connection with the medicine of the forest. She brings loving motherly frequency to the ceremonies and equally holds the space to support participants in deepening their knowledge of themselves.

It is advisable to fast (water only) 4 hours before the ceremony, and avoid drinking alcohol, junk food and too sugary/ salty food. Please bring a bottle of water with you.

For more info please reach out to: medicineceremoniesuk@proton.me