Prasad Batch #3 is NOW AVAILABLE!

For over a decade I've seen chocolate as prasad, as an offering.

What started, almost 15 years ago, as simply choosing a small piece to place on my altar every morning, and then mindfully taking my time to savor after I finished my practice, evolved into leading group workshops & ceremonies (although I've always preferred the term 'offerings') that take the contemplative aspects of yoga and explore going deeper into them using chocolate. This led to opportunities to visit, and work on, cacao farms and to connect with chocolate makers, from all over the world, who are also see chocolate as so much more than just a guilty pleasure.

This project, Prasad, is intended to merge it all together.

The idea first came to me while spending time in a small Shipibo community in the Ucayali region of Peru in 2017.
From there, the task of deciding whether I had the courage to actually put it out there, and then whether I could find the perfect people to help me to bring it to life, began. I’m especially grateful that artist extraordinaire Vanja Vukelić was game to take the images that were in my head (and journal) and bring them to life with her design for the mould.

The first batch, introduced in 2019, featured cacao sourced from the Polochic Valley of Guatemala; a very special cacao grown by a Mayan community there for generations. Batch #2 launched January 2020 and also featured an exquisite cacao from Guatemala, this time from a nearby community in the Alta Verapaz region. The latest manifestation,
Batch #3 features Vrae99 cacao from the Pichari region of Ayacucho, Peru; a fascinating variety that bursts with the flavors of berries, jungle fruits and delicate floral notes.
And even more appropriate now that I officially call Peru, the birthplace of cacao, home!

The Details:
Each box contains….
a 6 oz chocolate disc/mandala
4 cards to guide your experience with the cacao
Ingredients: Cacao, Passion, Love

The Vision:
For Prasad be shared solo or with 3 friends.
Each disc is divided into 4 sections and each section is one serving.
The box also contains cards to guide your experience.
These cards draw from many traditions, and dig into the different energies that inspired each quadrant -
the cardinal direction, the archetypal energy, etc.
They are simply my interpretations and are neither right or wrong, but rather simply intended to inspire.

Namaste!

Batch #3 of Prasad is only available in Peru.
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