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The Mindful Paths, Dubai (2026)

12/02/2026

You are the number one reason! Yes, you read it correctly 🤍

I choose not to have a professional photographers at my events for many reasons, but most importantly because I choose to keep the events as intimate as possible!

I have had at times professionals come in. While beautiful memories are created when someone has a real skill in photography I noticed that it also costs something.

It has its unique costs when a camera is present in space. This why I choose to keep my space free of distractions. So you can relax and do you!

It’s for us, to keep it real. The circles are a space not to show off, but to experience, to be present without pressure to perform.

Why? Because the work we do, the way we slow down is something sacred and is better done in privacy!

So if you want to join a space that is not all about your instagram, you’ll love it here! And especially at our desert circles with cacao, where we drop into our heart-space and slow down to soften we rely on authentic organic content.

We don’t try to upsell, what you see is what you get. It’s what organically emerges simple snippets we take as tokens of memories…

So if that’s the space you see yourself in, join me under the full moon 🌕 on the 1st of March. We’ll gather to share our cacao, reiki, sounds and little pot luck dinner around the fire 🔥.

Blessings,

Sylvie

01/02/2026

The Snow Moon Awakening: Closing the Circle
As the Snow Moon rises tonight, it carries a special weight, it is the final Full Moon of the astronomical year. This is the ultimate “bridge” moment: the peak of winter’s silver light meeting the first sparks of Imbolc.
While the world is still draped in white, the “Awakening” (Gromnitsa) has begun. We are standing at the finish line of one solar journey and the starting blocks of the next.
Tonight’s Rituals of Fire & Frost:
• The Great Sweep: As the Snow Moon illuminates every corner, we are washing the floors and sweeping away the dust of the past year. 🧹
• Sun on a Plate: We’re honoring the moon’s glow and the sun’s return with golden pancakes and fresh bread, fuel for the transition. 🥞
• Living Water: Collecting the “heavenly water” from the melting snow to cleanse our homes and our intentions. 💧
• Lighting the Path: Just as the moon reaches its fullness, we light lamps throughout the home to drive away the lingering shadows of winter.
The Goddess Brigid is stirring, and the seeds beneath the snow are ready. We honor the moon for guiding us through the dark, and we welcome the light of the new year to come. 🌱✨

The final shedding 😉
📸.j.shabnam

30/01/2026

Are you ready to hold the space?

Fast forward from the shy girl to fully booked circles, to the one who shows up in unapologetically. Ready to share and hold space with integrity!

Where does this confidence come from? Embodied knowledge and so many mistakes down the line… I still make them.

But something shifted, I am opened up more and more to own them and treat them as opportunities to learn and expand - and I do my best to remain fair while I grow.

It didn’t always come easy, to own it. Not just glamorous and beautiful parts, but the ugly mistakes too.

Recently I made a mistake where my booking page hasn’t been updated on time, and sold spaces with a promise I didn’t keep.

It was hard, I didn’t like what happened. And I could have brushed it off, or just deflected, pretending it wasn’t on me.

I have owned up, I didn’t blame someone else, I compensated my clients and apologized.

To this day I also don’t know the answers to everything, and I don’t make one up on the spot to look knowledgeable, I acknowledge that too.

If that comes up, I’ll let you know I have to look into the matter myself so I can give you the response with the right depth.

Why? Because to me it matters that when act, you know you can trust the intention behind the action and when I speak you know you can trust what I say.

Holding space is not a performance, it is tho art. It’s the art of becoming fully yourself, accepting yourself and through that others… Deeper and deeper every time!

It’s part of my upcoming course to help you do the same, so if you’re ready to take your cacao journey and facilitation to the next level, join me next week!

It’s a deep-dive, it’s so much more than just serving a drink… It’s ethics, cultural background, trauma awareness, hands on practical knowledge and facilitation skills… and all that comes with it!

If you feel the pull, it’s your time and you already know!

27/01/2026

People often believe when they have cacao something intense should happen them, something emotional and big.

What I experience much more often is that people leave more settled, more present and more in their body. There is less mental noise, a softer way of relating to what is coming up, and often a clearer sense of what actually matters and what can be let go of.

That doesn’t come from cacao on its own. It comes also from how the space is held. From pacing, from consent, from not pushing experiences forward, from understanding how the nervous system responds when it finally feels safe enough to slow down.

This is why I teach cacao the way I do. Trauma-aware, respectful of its cultural roots, grounded in both science and lived experience, and rooted in what is actually happening in the room.

Cacao doesn’t need to be made stronger, and people don’t need to be pushed open. What’s needed is enough safety, enough presence, and enough integrity for something real to unfold in its own time.

If you feel called to hold cacao spaces in this way, you are welcome to reach out. You can send me a DM and we can feel into whether this training is the right fit for you.

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25/01/2026

I’ve sat in ceremonies and held so many! I don’t know if I can still count them or not.

What I know for sure is that each and every one of them taught me something new… about life, about my triggers, and how to embrace and embody each situation for what it is!

There were times I wished I had someone to give me tools for this journey, and I have teachers whose wisdom and approach I treasure…

Yet, why I created this cacao course the way it is exactly is to give all that I wish I got given at the very beginning of my journey!

What are these? Unshakable embodied knowledge and confidence.

Being deeply rooted in my values, and knowing that I don’t know everything, but that’s more than enough.

Acceptance - towards the parts of me that I found hard to feel compassion for when triggered.

The courage, to acknowledge that I am allowed to be imperfect and so are others around me.

Holding space taught me big time how to hold myself!

And trauma awareness allowed me to slow down, to not try so hard to impress but lead by example - to hold a space that is truly safe, because I myself feel safe in it.

To know that in a circle as facilitator, we are not therapists, however what we create is therapeutic if we do it we strong ethics and care.

So if that’s something you may catch yourself struggling with, the course is for you. Because … it’s beyond the recipes and ways of making cups of cacao.

If you feel the pull, drop a DM and let’s figure out if the Trauma Informed Cacao Training is for you!

Blessings,

Sylvie

22/01/2026

If you’ve been circling this training quietly, this is your invitation.

Not to rush, but to choose consciously.

Sometimes hesitation isn’t doubt.
It’s the nervous system checking:
Is this safe? Am I supported? Will I be held as I learn?

This training is designed with that in mind.

You might already be holding space in small ways.
Or feeling the responsibility and the pull of working with cacao before you even “officially” do.

This training is for that in-between moment,
where something in you knows you’re stepping closer.

I’m holding this training with a small group so there’s space for practice, reflection, and real mentorship.

If you’ve been circling quietly, this is me naming the moment.

20/01/2026

Under the bright light of the Full Moon in Leo, we gather in the desert to enjoy the grounding, warmth, and connection.

It’s time to nurture and to ignite your inner fire 🔥

From 4 PM, we open the circle around the fire with ceremonial cacao, followed by sound healing by Sylvie and reiki by Claudia ! The recipe for the body and nervous system to soften as the desert light shifts into the sunset, into the night.

This is a gentle, held space to:
• release what no longer needs to be carried
• reconnect with yourself and others
• be supported by sound, stillness, and the open sky

You’re welcome to stay after for a simple potluck dinner under the stars.

📍 Desert location - disclosed upon registration
🕓 From 4 PM
🌕 February Full Moon

Limited spots. Reservation required.

19/01/2026

Literally every moment, every breath is an opportunity to create! Today it hit home for me more than on other days…

In the morning I felt a little fragile and, as I was driving to hardware store, to actually create something…

…To get that missing piece for my DIY ice bath project, I understood how god lives in us on a level I may haven’t had the chance to embrace before!

Life is nothing but big playground of DIY projects, and I invite you to feel it too! To feel how easily you can bend time when you need more of it, how it is to be fully present so you can take one step at a time…

To tap into the that space where we hold the power to grow, and to become! It doesn’t have to be complicated, it doesn’t require perfection it requires simple and clear directions.

Blessings,

Sylvie

18/01/2026

Some trainings focus on what to do with cacao, very few explore how to actually hold the space.

Presence isn’t something you memorise.
Safety isn’t something you recite.
Confidence isn’t built from the “right words”.

It comes from lived experience.
From understanding the body.
From knowing when to slow down, when to hold silence, when to ground.

Working with cacao is a relationship.
With the plant.
With its cultural roots.
With the nervous system.
With the people in front of you.

This is why I teach cacao as trauma-aware, culturally respectful, embodied and grounded in science.
Because when these pieces come together, the work becomes more than ceremony — it becomes responsible facilitation.

If you feel called to work with cacao deeply, ethically and with integrity, my 45-hour Trauma-Aware Cacao Facilitator Training might be for you.

You don’t need to rush.
You don’t need to perform.
You just need to feel the resonance.

✨ DM me if you’d like to learn more ✨

15/01/2026

We go far beyond collecting information, during this course we also practice how to be with people.

You’ll prepare cacao from bean to cup.
You’ll learn how to hold space without rushing or pushing.
You’ll work with your voice, your presence, and your nervous system.
And you’ll learn how to close and integrate what opens.

Everything is taught through experience.
Because that’s how confidence is built.
And that’s how ceremonies become safe and meaningful.

February 6-8th, training at followed by self paced online integration.

If you feel the call to hold cacao spaces responsibly,
you can find the details through the link or message me 🤍

14/01/2026

This training is for those who feel the responsibility of working with cacao.

It’s a 45-hour embodied deep dive, rooted in ethical sourcing, cultural respect, and trauma-informed facilitation.

It goes far beyond recipes or quick certifications.

The in-person immersion takes place in Dubai, February 6–8, followed by online guided integration and ongoing support.

If this resonates, DM me for full details 🤍

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