Râ cacao

Hi beautiful soul!
I'd like to introduce cacao, my brand and myself.

A soft yet powerful plant medicine, cacao is prepared as a beverage for centuries by ancient civilizations to celebrate, heal, and connect with the gods. Râ cacao mission is to celebrate and honour this indigenous wisdom by crafting fine flavour & organic cacao beans ethically grown in an indigenous territory of Costa Rica & of Guatemala. It is minimally processed to ensure the maximum benefits for your body, mind, soul and heart.

I'm Clara, French and live in the Netherlands in a beautiful eco-place, building my sustainable paradise.
I've enjoyed making ceremonial cacao and sharing it with friends for about three years, and I've decided to spread it even more in early 2023.

Let me tell you where this comes from...
I have always been interested in earth and life sciences, humanitarian actions, health, always looking for the alternative (I mean... the natural in fact). So I decided to study agro-development engineering specializing in food product development and nutrition. I learned about many cultures through my studies!
For my thesis, I went to Costa Rica to work on an exploratory study on food experiences, perceptions, behaviors and the role of cacao. My goal was to interview many cacao farmers households on this topic, providing content for larger projects regarding community development and the creation of cacao origin labels. I just fell in love with cacao! Our interviews became real workshops for transmitting knowledge on the riches of cacao and their artisanal preparation.

Throughout my studies, I was able to discover it thanks to many teachers : farmers, indigenous communities, scientists, healers... and I decided to follow training as a cacao practitioner afterwards.

I am amazed by the beauty of this tree and its fruits. What ancient wisdom! Which I would like to pass on to you so that she can help you open a door to your needs and desires of the moment.

What I offer :

- Hand-crafted Ceremonial grade Cacao at home (Almere), by myself (Costa Rica origin) and Maya Q'eqchi women (Guatemala origin). Both comes as a pure product, that is to say 100% cacao, without sugar or additives. They both are sustainable using natural energy as much as possible such as beans sun-drying. They both are ethical with lots of respect and commitment towards the farmers. They both are hand-crafted tree-to-block. Finally, all our love is infused in every block, cleared with smoke magic & Reiki-channelled upon requests! All products can be found on https://www.racacao.com/shop

- Traditional tools such as Mexican wooden whisk (Molinillo) and Mexican hand-crafted clay cup for your daily cacao or rituals, but also other coming and going products such as natural cacao fruit juice bottles, raw or roasted cacao beans...

- 1:1 offers : Cacao & Reiki session and Cacao mentorship (Business or Personal journey). Find all informations on https://www.racacao.com/healing-mentorship-with-cacao

- Ceremonial workshop : Bean-to-bar or more accurately bean-to-ceremonial drink, we will dive together in the cacao realm through the whole process of the making of ceremonial cacao, until we can sit together and drink our sacred cup. It's a combination of theorical & practical transmission with a ceremonial dimension.

- Ceremonies : Different types of ceremony with cacao, co-creations with other medicine (wo)man, including other plant-medicines or sacred practices such as shamanic breathwork.

Follow me on instagram at https://www.instagram.com/ra_cacao/ to stay updated or just learn about cacao :)