Next Upcoming Ceremony

Saturday 13th April 2024

153 Preston Road, Brighton

Hello my love,

I’ve created this ceremony to provide a nurturing space where you can focus on healing and remembering how powerful you are.

We’ll be using some of my favourite medicines: ceremonial cacao, tantric dance, shamanic sound healing, and being listened to.

Due to various traumas, I’ve struggled a lot with my mental health. Over the years, I’ve finessed what I need to navigate an emotion or thought spiral. Now, I use these practices even when I’m on top of the world. They help me feel clear-headed, connected to my body, and ready to play.

So, have you ever been on the dance floor at a party and just want to go outside and cry but you’re too embarrassed? Or maybe the intoxicant you took made you feel really horny but you’re afraid to embody your sexuality in case you attract unwanted attention or judgement? This ceremony could be liberating.

WHAT IS A CACAO DANCE & SOUND CEREMONY?

The intention of this ceremony is to provide a space where you can feel what you need to feel. All of the practices focus on:

  • Relaxing your nervous system

  • Filling you with love

  • Embodying spiritual wisdom.

Energies which are not of this higher frequency are purged through tears, laughter, yawns, shakes, breath, sound vibrations, bowel/bladder movements, and orgasmic sensations (welcome to being a full spectrum human! lol).

Ceremonial Cacao is a plant medicine which has been journeyed with in the Amazon for thousands of years. As a spirit, She is associated with divine feminine love. It’s a different species to what we use in normal chocolate and is packed full of nutritious compounds:

  • Serotonin: a well-known happiness and sexuality enhancing hormone.

  • Theobromine: increases the blood which flows through the heart and is an aphrodisiac. In Greek, theo means God and broma means food.

  • Anandamide: an endocannabinoid. Ananda is Sanskrit for bliss.

This medicine is safe for most people but please check with your doctor if you’re taking other medications. Also, if you are going to consume other medicines before you arrive, please take the minimum effective dose only.

After connecting with the spirit of cacao through ingestion, visualisation, and my icaro, we will begin moving our bodies. Tantric Ecstatic Dance is an ancient practice with the ability to activate kundalini shakti (creation/sexual/feminine/enlightening energy).

We work with:

  • Hip movements

  • Shaking

  • Deep breathing

  • Trusting the intelligence of how your body wants to move.

It’s effective for releasing tension and blockages from daily life and past traumas.

Once our bodies have done what they need to do, it’s time to lie down, rest, and receive. I will sing my icaros and play my drum, rattle, and chimes. Essentially, I’m sending you good vibrations, calling in medicinal spirits, and tuning your frequency.

And finally, we’ll integrate with a sharing circle. It can be such a relief to get things off your chest, feel listened to without being bombarded with advice, and hear what others are moving through so you remember you are not alone and your community is here to support you.

We’ll close with a cheeky group sing. If any part of your process has been a bit tough, you’ll leave feeling connected to others, grounded in your body, and having cracked a smile.

WHO IS YOUR FACILITATOR?

My name is Katie and I’ve been on the healing and consciousness path for almost a decade… still going!

At the beginning of last year, I spent three months living in the Amazon jungle beginning my training in Plant Medicine Shamanism, Sound Healing, and Energy Work. When I wasn’t on strict dieta, I drank cacao, danced around the maloka, sang, and drummed almost every day. These practices became my rock during this intense and transformational period. They’ve helped me to expand the shakti which was ignited during my Tantra Teacher Training in Rishikesh, India back in 2019.

Since 2019, I’ve also trained in:

  • IIN Integrative Nutrition Health Coaching

  • Fertility Counselling

  • Hypnotherapy

  • Grade 6 Distinction in Musical Theatre

I’m currently studying MSc Psychology.

I’m a trauma-informed practitioner and am confident that should anything come up for you, I will be able to help you process and integrate it.

Thank you for reading this and feeling into if the ceremony is for you. It’s a courageous and transformative space to step in to. Please reach out to me if you have any questions or things you’d like me to know!

Email: katie@matrizan.com
Instagram: @katie_matrizan
Website: matrizan.com


I’ll see you for a boogie…


With all my love,
Katie
xx

Kind words…

Katie’s classes will not only leave you feeling sexy and full of energy but can help you connect to and heal deeper parts of yourself. She guides you with her knowledge and passion which creates a space that feels fun and safe. Definitely would recommend for anyone interested in learning about tantra!

~ Meadow

I felt held and listened to. Her warmth and loving presence made me feel extremely grounded and comfortable. I felt free to express myself, be open and vulnerable.

~ Tash

A Kali meditation led by Katie during a women's circle I attended was huge for me in releasing some residual shame I was holding in relation to sex and my own sexual nature. I was able to see it for what it was, without shaming the shame, and subsequently release it. Katie's drumming and leading of meditation and chanting enabled that to happen.

~ Abby