Plantcestor Series
Community Study
Skin of Corn, Heart of Cacao
Cohort IV
May 18th- June 29th
Welcome
Join our 6-week Community Study.
Tuesdays 11 am CT & Sundays 11 am CT
Step into a profound 6-week journey where Corn and Cacao become your teachers.
Deepen your understanding of these master plants through history, ritual, and direct wisdom transference from their guardians. This is not just knowledge—it is an initiation into an ancestral way of relating to the land and to yourself.
Within the Cemanahuac, we see how Sacred Corn and Cacao are woven into the foundation of life for the people of Mesoamerica to this day. Their cultivation is a sacred act, and their presence in ceremony is a direct offering to life itself.
This is more than a course, it is an immersion into the relational teachings of these two sacred plants and their guardians.
Plantcestor:
an ancient living organism that are predecessors to the human kingdom, which depends on them to survive for food, breath, medicine, fire, shelter, and more. Through their intimate daily relationships to humans for many centuries, they have acted as vessels of ancestral, elemental, and *cosmic* knowledge, folklore, culture, history, and memory, and have been utilized to support the spiritual and earthly well-being of humans for many generations.
They are our ancestor's ancestors, amongst the earliest and most ancient beings whose livelihood, sacrifices, and brilliance has made human & animal life possible upon this Earth.
Through intentional and reciprocal cultivation and respectful relationship with these diverse and multi-dimensional allies, humans have been able to access the masterful and mysterious healing miracles and deep wisdom afforded by these highly intelligent ancestors, towards greater alignment with our own authentic purpose, greater wholeness, peace, and balance with the natural order of the universe that ensures and sustains all life. This wisdom of “plants as ancestors” is practiced and tended by Indigenous and traditional peoples from all over the globe, rooted in and passed down by the original ways of our ancestors.
Terminology coined by Layla Kristy Feghali
What is Included
14 Live Calls
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Special Guest Speakers and Wisdom Keepers
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Live call recordings.
Self Reflective questions
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Somatic Practices
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Guided Meditations
Learning Community
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Community Group Chat
Live Wisdom Transferences:
Tata Walter Quacain, Aj'quij from the Kaq'chiquel tradtion
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Nana Mimi, Aj'quij from the Tz'utujil tradtion
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Jordan, Co-Founder of Cacao Source
Guide book
transcription and slideshow materials included for your review
Class Portal with:
Class recordings
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our Resource Vault
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over 50 publications,
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Symposiums, videos etc..
Our Weekly Gatherings
2 Live Calls per Week:
Tuesdays 11 am CT & Sundays 11 am CT
May 18th- June 29th
Our calls are structured to offer both knowledge and integration:
1. Tuesdays
Informative and material overview. Some classes will include guest speakers.
2. Sundays
Integration & meditation and opening up space to share our process with the week's topic. One meeting will have a cacao circle.
How can the spirit of these two plants assist in your transformation?
Concepts of our Container:
What you will learn:
Week 1
Deep History
Connection to the seeds and Plant Ancestry. The mapping of Corn and Cacao.
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Recognizing + honoring Indigenous Knowledge in the Right Relationships
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Earth-based relationship to life and the soil + Earth
Week 2
Sacred Legends
Our Sacred relationship informed by the creation stories of Corn and Cacao.
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The ancient legends of how Corn and Cacao come to be on this earth.
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Defining what is Sacred
Week 3
The Soil in our Hands
Deep dive into Corn: Mapping ceremonies to today's relationship with the soil, our hands, and life.
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Recipes and the uses of these plants as Medicine
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The Ancient Relationship of Cultivation and "Domestication"
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Integration call: Guided tortilla Making Session + Thanksgiving Ceremony
Week 5
The Wisdom in Flowers
Guest Speaker: Tata Walter Quincan + Nana Mimi
The Mayan Cosmovision:
Learn from Mayan Wisdom Keepers about the ancestral relationship between Corn and Cacao.
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We will have two back-to-back wisdom transferences from the Kaq'chiquel and Tz'utijil Tradition.
Week 4
The teachings as Master Plants
Deep dive into Cacao: the pillar of consciousness, transmutation, and legacy within the blood.
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Cacao as the Central Metaphor for Classic Maya Life, Death, and Afterlife
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The relationship with Corn + Cacao to the axis Mundi (the tree of life)
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Integration call: Learn 3 Cacao recipes!
Week 6
Seeds as Warriors
Guest Speaker: Jojo, Co-founder of Cacao Source
Mapping the medicine to the global repercussions and food sovereignty efforts.
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Mapping the relationship to the present day
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Mapping the relationship to the present day
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The stories of the Guardians of Cacao
Closing Ceremony
Finalizing our container with Cacau to integrate our journey
Meet your Guide, Guest Speakers
and Mentors
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Supporting Community
Your participation extends beyond this course. A percentage of your tuition goes straight to the community of Taimarita. During the month of May, the community has a ceremony where they prepare the soil to sow the seeds of their sacred Corn. Your tuition directly supports the ceremony on May 18th.
Payment Plan and Support is available
Join with a friend and enjoy 20% off
This Journey is for you...
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If you are ready to relate to Corn and Cacao as Master Plants.
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If you are curious to understand the deep time of the relationship between Corn + Cacao in Mesoamerica
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If you are intrested in learning from the Guardians of these two plants within their ancestral cosmovison.
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If you yearn to cultivate a sacred and right relationship to Corn + Cacao
Testimonials
"This has forever deepened my relationship with Corn and Cacao. . Marianas work extends beyond the boundaries of traditional anthropology and archaeology. Her wisdom seeps into her transmission and into the relational awareness I have now with the plants."
"Each class is a seed of knowledge and wisdom. I cannot recommend this cohort enough! I work with Cacao and being in this container expanded and deepened an ancestral connection that is authentic to the source."
