Stories
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Kakaw Winter Practice ❄️
How can you live in harmony with the seasonal cycles? We share with you the qualities of winter and a breathing practice to connect with winter time.
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Cacao & psilocybin: an ancient ceremonial combination
Going into ceremony has had important value in our lives. The ceremonies we have experienced have guided important decisions, marked points of transformation, and have given insights that helped with...
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Farm biodiversity in Peru
These intelligent eco-networks only work if the whole system including birds, insects, squirrels, plants, and fungi are part of it. Managing a farm in this natural way (without using...
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How Pure Kakaw started 5 years ago
Looking back, we see a big change of people becoming more familiar with traditional cacao drinks. More and more people care about knowing the source of their cacao...
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Spice up your creativity with cacao
Creativity is a big part of our lives and we experiment with different ways to nourish it, channel it, and express it. In our creative sessions we fell in love...
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Alta Verapaz - The people behind your cacao from Guatemala
Farming and preparing cacao is a lot of work and this needs many skilled people in the whole process. The hard work on the land is done by...
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Language from the heart - NVC
Listening and talking from the heart is not always easy, but worth practicing. It also helps being true to ourselves and support us in living from the heart...
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Gratefulness ritual with Beronica
This ritual was powerful because of its simplicity. It goes straight to the core of all virtues: gratefulness. Taking a moment to stand still, become aware of...
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Beronica, maestra de cacao
Beronica is a real cacao warrior. She learned working with cacao and the dynamics of growing food from her grandmother (abuela) from a young age. She now...
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Cacao protects your heart and blood vessels agains stress
Cacao is full of healthy compounds and extremely rich in healthy flavanols. It literally protects our heart and blood vessels and is advised in a healthy diet.
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Shaping your own ceremony
In a ceremony we bow to our inner self. We honour the life that flows through us and to which directions it leads us. The benefits of a...
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The Power of Rituals
Through Pure Kakaw we love to learn and share about living our life to its fullest potential. Rituals are part of life, in many forms, and can support...
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Hike to Machu Picchu (good memories)
There is much less known of cacao used by the Incas and natives of Peru compared to the Aztec and Maya cultures. But there was definitely cacao. The...
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Presenting our new cacao origin: CUSCO, PERU!
At the core of Pure Kakaw lies sourcing special cacaos from special farms. And we’re excited to share cacao from a new origin: Peru! To be more specific,...
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Differences in effects between coffee and cacao
Both coffee and cacao are stimulating drinks but the way they interact with our body is not the same. This is because of the difference between the alkaloids...
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Why we choose agroforestry for the best cacao quality
Although we're not living on a cacao farm, we do want to source from places that we love to be and actually want to live! The farms we partner with...
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Pure Kakaw in Happinez Magazine
The whole Pure Kakaw project symbolizes working form the heart for us. We fell in love with this whole food and it took us on journey. Through Pure...
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Neuro-food: feeding your brain
When we think about health, we mostly think about our body. We know much less about how our brain functions, let alone how to care for it....
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Nadi Shodhana breathing exercise
Our breath is always with us and using it is very powerful. We love to combine breath with cacao to arrive in the 'now' with a calm mind. In...
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Making traditional cacao drinks
Before hand whisks, the cacao was poured from one vase into another vase until foam appeared and the drink was mixed well. The Mayas and Aztecs where...
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"Gratitude is the parent of all virtues"
A daily gratitude ritual can transform your life and make you more optimistic, friendly, empathic, and helpful towards others. Studies have shown that most happy people created a habit...
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Cacao or coffee?
Let's be honest. We really enjoy a good coffee ourselves. We don't drink it as much anymore because the effect is sometimes too edgy/nervous. More people want...
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"Raw" cacao?
Why ‘raw’ cacao is technically not raw. Although it might be treated with the most care and respect it would be better to label it as ‘unroasted’ unless it is temperature...
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Iced Cacao
There are two ways of making this drink: Pour ice cold oat milk over a cacao shot. Pour a cacao...