Amor Cacao Ceremony

Cacao, Rose and Blue Lotus Women’s Ceremony

Eternal spirit || Love Elixir

1.30pm-4.30pm

16th February 2025. 

£25/£30/£35 Sliding Scale

Hosted @ Yogasara, pICTOn Street, bristol.
Yoga , PranaYama (Breath) & Sound.

Alchemy Rose Quartz Bowls, Ceremonial Holding and Women’s Incitation with Hannah Bedford.
Chandara Vinyasa, Restorative Yoga, Movement Alchemy & PRANAYAMA (Breath) with Fay Rosamond. 

AMOR CACAO, ROSE AND BLUE LOTUS WOMEN’S CEREMONY.

Welcome to a magical gathering at Yogasara! Join us for a blissful experience where we will indulge in the divine energies of cacao, rose, and blue lotus. This ceremony is specially crafted for women to come together, connect, and honor the sacred feminine within. Let's dive deep into our hearts, awaken our senses, and embrace the power of love and healing. Come and be a part of this sacred space where we celebrate sisterhood, self-love, and transformation. Reserve your spot now and let the magic unfold!

To become and to be. Witness the internal exchange of breath. Enliven the form of the body. Create structural beauty and presence through Yoga, Pranayama (breath) and Sound.
Unravel the layers Vyabhicarabhava (Transient/superficial),

Sthayibhava (Aibiding/Standing deeper),

Rasa (The pure Essence of an Emotion)

Ekarasa (The single, deepest rasa within all other rasas, identified as Bhakti rasar, the essence of Divine Love).

“THE GOAL IS REVEALED IN THE PATH

Love is of the divine heart’s own eternal and unconditioned nature. Being eternal, this love is uncreated. Accordingly, the Love that supports each of us at the core of our being is not produced as the effect of any cause. Therefore, the Love we experience is not finally the result of our actions in the world, not the product of our disciplined knowledge, not the consequence of our austerities, not the effect of our emotions. Its presence and expression within us is not the fruit of anything but itself.

Think about it for a moment. If Love were the result of some cause, then it would disappear if that cause were to disappear. It would be contingent on that cause. But love is not contingent on anything whatsoever. Love is an aspect of God’s nature, and God is not conditioned by anything. Dwelling within us as the source of being, God inwardly shares Love with the human Spirit. Thus the Love that stands in the true Heart, which is our own highest nature, is not dependant on anything. It is completely free. It is spontaneous. The Essence of such Love is the essence of Gods own Love. It is not created: It is revealed.”

‘William K. Mahony

Exquisite Love

Reflections on he spiritual life based on Narasa’s Bhakti Sutra"‘


Protection and growth will be at the heart of our prayer. To invite us into the moment, to be present with the breath, dissolving into angelic bliss, resting into the divine energy of our body, heart and spirit. This time can help to remind us it’s okay to let go; to loosen our attachments and instead rest into what we all ready have inside of us; to experience the rich inner tapestry of embodied presence. 
 This ceremony aims to give space, to reflect, rest, open and invoke your dreams into the darkness, receiving fully the nourishment of the cold earth days ahead. To rest in beauty and the grace of spirit woven within us and all around, submerged in natures reflection.  


Hannah will open and close the ceremony space. Her experience and training have centred around the exploration of ceremonial work with a specific emphasis on women’s health.

We will honour the spirit of cacao and have a warm drink served with intention. We will also bring the Rose and Blue Lotus into the space as a tincture/scent at different points throughout the ceremony. Next Yoga with Fay; Chandara (moon shining) Vinyasa with an incremental build up of postures with sequencing to honour the season and tides of nature; based on yoga classes taught weekly with live music and sound. The end of the yoga practice will move towards restorative postures (yoga taught with props and blankets with positions held for up to 10 minutes at a time; super comfy and restorative) into a Gong Bath to help the body deepen into a relaxed space ready for the Alchemy Quartz Crystal bowls with Hannah. Hannah Bedford will lead the next part of the session with her Alchemy Rose Quartz and Gold Crystal bowls emitting a soft nurturing tone with a pure sonic resonance that is unsurpassed by any other singing bowl currently made. You will receive sounds that flow through you, that rest and restore your body on a cellular level. As you receive the frequencies. Fay will offer tuning folks to individuals in the session that work deeply around and through the energetic/physical field of the body.
At different points in the practice Fay will invite the integration of Movement Alchemy which is a somatic exploration to reflect how the body might like to express itself, to help integrate the experience. Movement Alchemy will be a subtle aspect to the whole ceremony and will be woven in at points it feels relevant. Movement Alchemy has derived from Fay's exploration of Release Based Dance Technique within a structure of Improvisation with psychodynamic expression and consideration. 
We will finish with a food and tea blessing, singing to close the session.  

We will share the beauty of the seasons while embodying the spirit of renewal and hope within the community through Cacao Ceremony, Chandra Vinyasa and Restorative Yoga, Movement Alchemy, Sound, Song with Alchemy Rose Quartz Crystal Bowls.  

In much love and deepest respect. 

Any questions please get in touch. 

Fay 

Heart Intentions for Amor Cacao ceremony

To Be together is at the centre of this offering. based within the structure of Yoga classes led by Fay Rosamond. The intention is to give space and time to receive the sweetness of being human in the collective prayer with cacao. We arrive and share cacao and songs.



10am - 10.30 am Cacao Ceremony.

10.30 -1 1.30 Chandara Vinyasa and Restorative Yoga, Movement Alchemy Ritual and Gong Bath with Fay Rosamond.

11.45am - 12.45pm Alchemy Rose Quartz Crystal Bowls with Hannah Bedford.

12.45pm - 1pm Food & Tea Blessing/Song circle to finish.

Collaborators to Amor Cacao

  • Hannah Bedford

    Hannah has always loved music and grew up exploring sound from a young age. After living in Berlin, Hannah had developed a regular Jivamukti yoga practise, which incorporated Sanskrit chanting. These chants always promoted emotional release and joy to Hannah. Back in London Hannah started to explore sound within a spiritual framework, meeting her first teacher, Alchemy Crystal Singing Bowl practitioner Carly Grace. Through
    the completion of the Introductory and Advanced Sound Medicine trainings with Carly Grace and Yantara Jiro, Hannah was drawn towards a powerful set of rose quartz Alchemy Crystal Singing Bowls. These bowls took Hannah to play at yoga retreats and led her to plant medicine and the sound healing qualities of the songs sung by the Huni Kuin tribe. Hannah discovered the channelling of energy through playing musical instruments and the voice. Quickly Hannah met her next teachers Cherub & Tim Wheater, with whom she trained to also play the gong, shamanic drum, tuning forks, and opening up the power of our voice with vocal toning.

    Hannah believes that sound frequency has transformational power, that we can all harness, working down to the cellular level in the body. During the sound bath Hannah invites us to let go and surrender into the soothing heart centred vibrations created by her Alchemy Crystal Singing Bowls.

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  • Fay Rosamond

    FAY IS A SENIOR TEACHER AND LIFE LONG DANCER BASED IN BRISTOL, IN THE UK.

    Fay began exploring movement in her early childhood with Cechetti Ballet and contemporary dance. She studied Dance and Choreography at degree level at University completing a BA Honours in Contemporary Dance from Bath Spa University in 2006 and a post-graduate Diploma in Dance Studies from Trinity Laban conservatoire of dance and music, London in 2008.

     Fay danced professionally contemporary dance and taught technique/creative dance sessions to children, students and adults of all ages. In her mid twenties after a knee injury Fay found herself commit fully to yoga. This ended up being several years of rehabilitation that helped her recover physically with a new found awareness of how the body and mind can heal if given the space and support to do so. Fay’s journey to become a teacher of yoga started here in 2011. She understood limitation and therefore the realm of potential we all live within, whether thats physical or energetic, she discovered in her movement journey that we all have to commit to go deeper inside of ourselves to unloosen, question, play and discover what we never imagined possible.

    Fay’s main explorations have been rooted in Choreography, Performance, Dance Technique, Contact Improvisation, Movement Development, Somatic Practices, Yoga, Pilates, and Feldenkrais. Fay also has a love for Philosophy, History, Music and Art, all of which she has studied along side her love for Yoga, Horsemanship and Dance. Her previous journey inspires her method and approach to teaching Yoga Ritual. It is a creative exploration of movement, music, sound that has developed over ten years of teaching, with exquisite sequencing of asana (postures) that interweave a philosophical enquiry into the class that may offer individuals a shift of perspective and experience.  The practice is now on a journey with a integration of movement medicine a practice of dance that explore the magical realm of being; the ancestral story of the person and evokes another dimension to the ritual of moving body.


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