We keep groups sizes small to ensure a more intimate setting.
Spaces therefore are limited.

How to Prepare:
Wear comfortable warm clothing, no jewellery or zips, no Jeans, socks compulsory.
Drink plenty of water and bring a water bottle.
Make sure you come on an empty stomach/ have no food for 2h prior to the ceremony.

Who can attend:
16 years +
No prior aerial yoga or meditation experience needed.

Cost: $45

Session time:
12-1:30pm
2:30-4pm

About Cacao Ceremony:
The tradition of drinking ceremonial cacao has its origin in the ancient cultures of the Mayas and Aztecas in Central America. It was used to evoke Ixcacao – the goddess of Chocolate, Fertility and Abundance. She was also known as the ‘Queen of Love and Pleasure’, connected with the energy of the heart.
We will share a cup of this magical plant – the pure ceremonial grade cacao by cacao shaman Keith Wilson.
Cacao is an amazing plant medicine – a powerful aphrodisiac, mood enhancer, an antioxidant that protects the heart, densely packed with nutrients and proven to be the most pharmacologically complex food in nature!
It can improve your memory, reduce heart disease, shed fat, boost immunity, and create loads of energy.
Cacao contains the neurotransmitters and chemicals responsible for wellbeing, as well as anandamide, known as the bliss molecule that leaves us feeling euphoric, moderating pain perception, as well as assisting in regulating appetite and mood.
When high quality cacao beans are prepared for ceremony as they will be in this offering, all the mood enhancing neuro-chemicals in cacao become particularly active. It increases blood flow and nutrition to the brain, heart and skin, and the whole body is nourished. People report heightened awareness, focus and intensified sensations.

About Radha.
Guided by Radha from Heart Awakening, an experienced 500h CYT yoga and meditation teacher and a ceremonial cacao practitioner. Radha was among the first people to bring cacao ceremonies to New Zealand.
She encountered the cacao plant in ceremonial context in 2012 while living in its native lands of Central America for several years. It was love at first sight and her relationship with the spirit of this super food grew as she learned how to prepare the rich cacao drink from the tree to the cup.
Having participated in various ceremonies facilitated by shamans, healers or friends in Mexico, Guatemala and Peru, Radha started facilitating ceremonies herself in 2014 in Europe. An experienced space holder being a Yoga Teacher and a retreat facilitator, she loves sharing her passion for community, authenticity and self-knowledge in combination with the cacao spirit.
Radha serves only best quality ceremonial cacao by chocolate shaman Keith Wilson.

Cancellation Policy.
Strict 24hour cancellation policy applies, no refunds.
Please ensure you arrive at least 5mins prior to event starting, door will close 5min past to allow avoid interruption during session.

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A great course for beginners, this class balances the technical know-how with best-in-class user-centric design. You’ll learn how front-end design, HTML, CSS and back-end database management all play a role in building the perfect site.

What you’ll learn:
Web Design Principles
This module gives you an introduction to the core principles in web design.

Design Elements
Develop an understanding of layout using hierarchy and creating styles. We look at the practical role of elements such as line, form, value and grids. You’ll also learn some technical fundamentals around resolutions, file sizes and types.

Coding
Learn to code your own website with HTML and CSS, and explore other popular coding languages such as WordPress. Your tutor will help you use the coding skills you have developed to learn customising templates and basic maintenance of web pages using HTML and CSS.

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Blending industry-choice platforms like Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator with the classic design foundations of typography, page layout and brand, you’ll learn how to convert your creative thinking into inspirational print and multimedia designs.

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Schamet has a special offering as she will share tools and topics from her book “Essential Goddess Training.” We will create sacred space to empower each other, learn tools so we may let go of what holds us back, and support each other along our path so we may soulfully create the life of our dreams…

A personal messege from Schamet:
Hello there Goddess Circle lovers… finally got some dates together. Please understand some of the dates are as close to the full moon as I could make them as I will be in and out of the country in 2019. Also dates of full moon are not a consistent Friday night… dates are near full moon magic!

xoxoxolooking forward to seeing all of you soon.

Blessings of love and light,
Schamet

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Simple lunch is provided, please register.

To register and for more information: retreat@compassion.org.nz or 04 383 7769.

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So, spend the night with us getting to know your night skies..

Ticket price includes refreshments and one drink upon arrival. Cash bar.

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The Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) certification is considered the gold standard in the field of information security. This CISSP training is aligned with (ISC); CBK 2018 requirements and will train you to become an information assurance professional who defines all aspects of IT security, including architecture, design, management, and controls. Most IT security positions require or prefer a CISSP certification, so get started with your CISSP training today.

Enroll Now: https://www.simplilearn.com/cyber-security/cissp-certification-training

Key Features of CISSP Certification Training:
– 32 hours of instructor-led training
– 32 hours of self-paced videos
– 5 simulation test papers (150 questions each) for practice
– Offers the requisite 30 CPEs for taking the CISSP examination
– Domain-specific test papers to prepare you for CISSP certification

Course objectives of CISSP Certification Training
Simplilearn’s CISSP certification training is aligned to the (ISC)² CBK 2018 requirements. The course trains you in the industry’s latest best practices, which will help you pass the exam in the first attempt.

The certification helps you develop expertise in defining the architecture and in designing, building, and maintaining a secure business environment for your organization using globally approved Information Security standards.

With unprecedented security breaches now being reported, the demand for IT security professionals has never been higher. Frost and Sullivan reports that there will be a shortage of 1.5 million security professionals by 2019.

Contact us for Individual and Corporate Training Requirements:
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Recreate dishes straight from the recipe collections of the French Impressionist painters and, while you cook, learn more about their life and works. Price includes short visual presentation, glass of wine, all fresh ingredients and recipes.

You’ll explore French Impressionism, and celebrate the good life so joyously captured by the Impressionists, with hands-on cooking classes led by a professional chef and an art historian. Join one workshop or all four over the course of the year—once you’ve done one, you’ll be sure to want to do more! This year’s series includes all-new material and new artists after previous year’s very popular sell-out workshops.

Book all 4 classes & save 20%. For this deal, please email wendy@savour.org.nz for promo code.

June 29: Claude Monet: In this workshop, we’ll explore dining at Giverny, with recipes from Claude Monet’s Normandy cooking journals. We’ll replicate Monet’s favourite creamy eggs and mushroom dish, a garden salad with edible flowers, and an apple tart based on Monet’s painting La Galette.

September 7: Vincent Van Gogh. Learn how to cook two dishes Van Gogh ate while living at the Auberge Ravoux at the end of his life. We’ll make a roast, stuffed, rolled lamb dish as a main, an easy but impressive dish that looks great on the plate. And for dessert, chocolate rum truffles.

October 19: Toulouse Lautrec. One of Lautrec’s favourite hang-outs was the Moulin de la Galette, a popular restaurant-cabaret in a windmill in Montmartre where he painted some of his most well-known works. Van Gogh, Pissarro and Renoir also painted the Moulin de la Galette! The Moulin specialised in serving both savoury and sweet galettes made from the flour milled on-site in the moulin. Today’s dishes recreate a savoury mushroom and bacon galette and a sweet pear galette.

November 9: Paul Cezanne. Learn how to make dishes inspired by Cézanne’s native Aix en Provence. Provencal goat’s cheese and vegetable tart followed by an easy but visually stunning almond tuile and fresh berry and cream stack.

Ts&Cs: Upon full payment, we’ll confirm bookings via email. We will not be able to offer refunds. If you are unable to attend you may transfer your ticket to another person in your place.

We reserve the right to cancel or postpone classes. In this case a full refund is provided or you will be invited to transfer to another class.

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This practice is an ancient form of contemplative prayer, deeply anchored in the teachings of the early Christian desert fathers and mothers of the 4th and 5th centuries.

All are welcome.

For more information call 04 383 7769 and ask for Christine.

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