About the Shamanic Sound Journey

Do you want to celebrate the New Year with an inward connection? This journey invites you to Reflect and Release what no longer serves, then Reconnect and Realign with who you are now, and finally Renew and Rise towards the future you are calling in.

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Journey to connect with the Snake (2025 is the Chinese year of the snake) and then with the Horse (2026 is the year of the horse). Together we will shed our skin, be reborn, then move forward.

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First, we will cleanse our energy and call in the directions. You will be given the option of drinking cacao, which will enhance the shamanic journey. Before journey, you will be guided to set your intention for the journey,  After the journey, guided journal prompts will help you reflect about the past year, reconnect with yourself, and renew your commitment to your dreams and desires.

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Cacao — a raw, unprocessed type of chocolate in liquid form — will be provided, but drinking it is optional. The primary purpose of drinking cacao is its ability to foster emotional healing, spiritual growth, and connection through its heart-opening and mood-enhancing properties, which can facilitate introspection, release emotional blockages, and bring about feelings of euphoria and bliss. Spiritually, cacao acts as a plant ally or teacher, helping to deepen meditation practices, connect with intuition, and align with one's true purpose and inner wisdom. 

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PLEASE BRING:

• A cup or chalice for hot liquids (to use for the cacao),

• Journal and pen [Journals are also for sale at the Center]

• Eye mask or scarf

• (Amy adds: Consider bringing ear plugs if you are easily distracted!)

• Anything else (pillow?) that you need to be comfortable laying down on the floor. Blankets, meditation cushions, and some pillows will be available. A few rocking chairs are available for those who have trouble laying down.

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Please arrive 15 minutes early to get your cacao and make your nest.

DUE TO THE UNINTERRUPTIBLE NATURE OF THE EVENT, NO ENTRY AFTER 2:15 PM!

About Mary Ledvina

Mary Ledvina (she/her) is a writer, artist, healer, coach, teacher and trained cacaoista. She has found profound healing and guidance from going within using cacao with shamanic journeys.

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Mary has been working with her spirit guides since 1998. She leads monthly group journeys, meditates and journals daily, plus journeys at least twice weekly. Mary was formally trained as a cacaoista by Plant Spirit Medicine Woman (aka Sorrell Robbins), with whom she worked in a year-long shamanic training course, and with whom she continues to work today.  

Mary has had psycho-spiritual mind-body work (PSMW) training with many different indigenous shamans and healers and she uses a combination of many. She has studied Robert Moss’s teachings about dreams and journeying. Mary is also working with Dakota Earth Cloud Walker, who has led many shamanic journeys and is a sound alchemist, Shamanic teacher, and Celtic Medicine Woman.

Mary is a former massage therapist who now heals through creative practices like writing, art, and music. She has taught Nature Journaling, Plein Air Poetry, The Artist’s Way, Writing, Visual Journaling, and Art Journaling.

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Contact Mary at: maryledvina@gmail.com or 734-646-9161.

Learn more at: maryledvina.com

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