A warm, heart-opening container — often held with sound.
Ceremonial cacao is a gentle plant ally, not a psychedelic. In Mexico it is usually held as a quiet, heart-centred circle — frequently woven together with sound healing, breath or movement.
Cities where listed practitioners hold cacao ceremony, ranked by how many work there.
Each works with cacao ceremony as a real part of their practice. Reach out directly — no middleman, no paid placement.
Alex Romero — known professionally as Alex Shambori — is an E-RYT 500 yoga teacher, sound healer and ceremony facilitator based in Puerto Escondido. She holds more than 700 hours of training and runs sound baths with Tibetan bowls, handpan, shamanic drums and Koshi chimes, plus monthly cacao ceremonies, Reiki, ecstatic-dance DJ sets and her own Soul Sanctuary retreats on the Oaxacan coast.
Alexandra Barba is a Gestalt psychotherapist and sound alchemist who co-founded Moon Beats Studio in Roma Norte, Mexico City. She trained as an Onanya in the Shipibo lineage in the Peruvian Amazon, and complements her sound work with magical and medicinal herbalism, bioenergetics and hypnosis. She holds one of the country's largest collections of quartz bowls — over thirty — and leads ceremonies with cacao under the Maya lineage.
Alexi Cecchini Bravo is the founder of Holistic Living, a sanctuary that splits time between Puerto Escondido and Luzern, Switzerland. With roots in Mexican traditions and Western nervous-system science, she weaves yin yoga, sound healing with singing bowls, breathwork, somatic bodywork and cacao ceremony. She holds a weekly Yin + Sound class at Marea Yoga Studio in Puerto Escondido and runs monthly cacao and sound circles.
Enicia Fisher is the founder of Sanadora Sanctuary and Sanadora Yoga International, holding sacred space for healing retreats in Mexico and the US since 2012. She is the creator of Heart Alignment Yoga and a heartfulness meditation practice that pairs gentle yoga, breath and sound journeys to recalibrate the nervous system. Sanadora's home base is a 7,500 sq ft private residence in central San Miguel de Allende.
Floriane Brossaud runs Go With The Flo Yoga in Puerto Escondido, weaving yoga, sound healing and cacao ceremony into a single integrated practice. Her sound work uses Tibetan and crystal bowls alongside other instruments. She offers private 1-hour sound therapy sessions with meditation, body harmonization and aura cleansing, plus group sessions, online sound baths, and bespoke offerings for retreats and bachelorette parties on the Oaxacan coast.
Joey is a sound practitioner who has been working with sound since 2008. She and her husband relocated from Seattle to the jungle outside Tulum, where they built a sound temple and host ceremonies in a private cave and cenote. Her work centers on alchemy crystal singing bowls and planetary gongs, often in collaboration with other musicians.
Julia Allshouse is the founder of Vikara Wellness, a sober holistic retreat brand running nervous-system reset programs in San Miguel de Allende, Yelapa, Oaxaca and Bacalar since 2012. Originally from Pittsburgh and over a decade in Mexico, she pairs yoga, sound, TRE® and Shaking Medicine with collaborator-led sound baths to support trauma-informed healing. Her San Miguel programming brings in local sound practitioners to round out the work.
Lizeth, who carries the ceremonial name Quetzalli, is the founder of Medicine Wheel Tulum. She left a corporate marketing career in Mexico City in 2005 to study Buddhism and Vipassana, then reconnected with her indigenous Mexican heritage through the Moon Dance and trained as a Temazcalera. Medicine Wheel runs ancestral ceremonies including temazcal, cacao, sound healing, Janzu, ice baths and Mayan clay rebirth rituals.
Maria Akal is a cacao ceremony leader who works with private retreats and beach homes along the Tulum hotel zone, including Zorba Beach Homes. She holds heart-opening cacao circles paired with sound healing instruments and meditation, drawing on ancestral Mayan lineage of the cacao plant.
Osiris is a multi-instrumentalist and composer with twenty-five years dedicated to the therapeutic application of ancestral instruments from around the world. He is a resident healer at El Santuario Resort & Spa in Valle de Bravo, where he leads cacao ceremonies, immersive concerts and individual sonotherapy sessions, and is co-founder of the Valle-de-Bravo-based collective El Santuario Music. He performs internationally as a Wanderlust artist and releases meditation music as Signos Sonoros.
Ricardo Mones Valverde is a Mexican sound healer and ceremonialist who has facilitated sound journeys at Casa Om Mazunte and other healing centres across Latin America. Born in Cancún, he left a decade-long corporate-marketing career at age 29 after a spiritual awakening and has spent the last ten years studying with master healers from yoga, Kirtan, Buddhism, Shamanism, the Red Path and temazcal traditions. He works primarily with voice and acoustic instruments, often paired with cacao.
Steff Fink is the founder of Amor Adentro, a Mexico City sound healing project offering sound, breathwork, cacao and Reiki. She also serves as Editor in Chief of Local.mx. Amor Adentro runs both group sessions — historically hosted at MŪLA — and personalized 1:1 sessions across CDMX.
Cacao has been used ceremonially in Mesoamerica for thousands of years, so it is fitting that a contemporary cacao-ceremony scene has grown across Mexico. On this directory, cacao almost never stands alone — facilitators usually pair it with sound healing, voice, breath or gentle movement, so the cup becomes the doorway into a longer journey.
Ceremonial cacao is pure, minimally processed cacao paste prepared as a warm drink. It is not a psychedelic and it is not plant medicine in the ayahuasca or psilocybin sense. The active compounds — theobromine, a little caffeine, and mood-supporting compounds — produce a soft, clear lift: more focus, more warmth, an easier connection to feeling. You remain completely lucid.
Ceremonial cacao is strong — far more concentrated than ordinary hot chocolate. If you have a heart condition, take antidepressants (especially MAOIs) or blood-pressure medication, are pregnant, or are caffeine-sensitive, tell the facilitator in advance and check with a doctor if unsure. A good facilitator will ask about medication and health, explain dosage, and never pressure you. This is not medical or psychological treatment.
Look for someone who is transparent about sourcing and dosage, asks about your health and medication, and holds clear, unhurried space. Every practitioner below is independently verified and works with cacao as part of their offering — reach out directly and ask how they run their circle before you book.