✨ An Invitation

What would it feel like to offer yourself the same grace and tenderness you so freely give to others?

What parts of yourself are longing for a little more compassion, understanding, or forgiveness?

And what sweetness might become possible when we soften our self-judgment and remember that we are worthy of love, even as we continue learning and growing? 🍯

This month, you're warmly invited into a BIPOC Sacred Cacao Circle devoted to The Sweetness of Grace - an afternoon of self-compassion, self-forgiveness, creative reflection, and community care.

Together with ceremonial cacao, prayer, letter-writing, and communal witnessing, we'll make space to soften, listen inward, and extend tenderness to the parts of ourselves that need it most. ❤️‍🔥

🐝 This Month's Circle - 10 Ajmaq • The Sweetness of Grace • Self-Compassion • Forgiveness

Our November circle arrives on 10 Ajmak in the sacred Mayan Cholq'ij calendar. Ajmak carries the energy of forgiveness, redemption, and restoring balance. Associated with the honeybee and the sweetness of honey, this nawal invites us to reflect on the ways we relate to ourselves, one another, and our communities.

The number 10 reminds us of our two hands and ten fingers, connecting us with Heart of Sky and Heart of Earth. It also carries teachings of cooperation, community, and mutual support - extending our hands to help one another find our way back to balance.

Together, these energies invite us to explore forgiveness not as forgetting, excusing harm, or forcing reconciliation, but as an opportunity to offer ourselves compassion while honoring our growth and accountability.

Through a Letter of Grace, we'll write to a past or present version of ourselves who may have needed more tenderness, encouragement, or understanding. We'll then symbolically sweeten our letters with honey or creative expression, offering words of care to the parts of ourselves we're learning to hold more gently.

We'll also explore Words of Grace, a communal witnessing practice where we can choose affirming words we'd like to hear and, if we wish, receive them back from community.

May we remember that even through our mistakes, our grief, and our growing, we are still worthy of sweetness. 🍯❤️‍🔥

🍫 What Is This Circle?

Sacred Cacao Circles are devotional spaces for prayer, reflection, and reconnection. We gather with ceremonial cacao as an ancestral ally - tending grief and joy, listening inward, and remembering what is true.

Each circle is guided by Madaly Love and weaves cacao ritual with a unique monthly healing practice or collaboration, within a container shaped by consent, accessibility, trauma-informed care, and collective liberation.

Cacao is a sacred Mesoamerican plant medicine, prepared with prayer and offered as a bridge between body and spirit, ourselves and our ancestors, and who we've been and who we're becoming. 🌀

🌱 This Circle May Be For You If…

• you're longing to offer yourself more grace, compassion, or forgiveness

• you're navigating self-judgment, regret, or a tender season of life

• you want to reconnect with the sweetness, joy, and beauty within yourself

• you're curious about creative reflection and writing as practices of healing

• you're craving space to soften, reflect, and reconnect with your heart

• you want to be held in community without fixing, rushing, or performing

No experience with cacao, meditation, writing, or creative practices is needed.

Come as you are. All of you is welcome. 🤍

🎨 What We'll Do Together

• opening agreements + grounding

• prayer + altar

• ceremonial cacao ritual with Madaly

• reflections on 10 Ajmak, grace + self-compassion

• Letter of Grace - writing to a past or present part of ourselves

• sweetening our letters with honey or creative expression 🍯

• Words of Grace - optional communal affirmations + witnessing

• optional journaling + community sharing 📓

• integration + closing

Everything is invitational. There is room for your yes and your no. Forgiveness, personal sharing, and communal witnessing are never required.

⚠️ Important Note

Cacao contains theobromine (a gentle stimulant). If you are pregnant, have serious heart conditions, or take MAOI antidepressants/medications, please consult your healthcare provider and/or reach out with questions: 📩 madaly@madaly.love

📞 Cancellation Policy

Registrations for workshops and events can be canceled and refunded up to 48 hours ahead of time or applied to future instances of the same event, where applicable. Workshops and events are non-refundable within 48 hours prior. Special exceptions may be made by calling the studio (510-306-4466) or emailing events@mygreenyogi.com.