Sunday Reset & Restore: Cacao + Restorative Yin

🌿Sunday Reset & Restore: Cacao + Restorative Yin Nidra - Online Class 🌿

Each session begins with a warm cup of Cacao (instructions provided) to awaken the heart energy, moves into Restorative Yin fully supported with props to release tensions and align with your heart energy, and finishes with Yoga Nidra to integrate the practice and invite deep rest.

There’s little to no “stretch”—the focus is on nervous system regulation, deep relaxation, and renewal.

🌿 Set your intention for a balanced week ahead — make Sundays your sacred reset!

Who can attend this workshop:

All. Please advise if you are pregnant or if you are allergic to Cacao.

What you will need:

• your cup of Cacao, freshly prepared (instructions for making it will be provided). You may opt out if you prefer to participate in only the Restorative Yin Nidra.
• mat
• bolster (or a lot of pillows)
• yoga blocks (or a lot of pillows)
• water
• blanket
• eye pillow (optional)

Disclaimer:

Sometimes, yoga can trigger strong emotions and reactions. If this happens and you feel you need additional support, please seek advice from your counsellor, therapist or medical professional. Nothing offered is a replacement for medical care.

Yoga Nidra is not suitable for people with schizophrenia or other mental health conditions where there may be disassociation.

Please get in touch if you have any existing health conditions, are sensitive to imagery suggestions or are not sure if Yoga Nidra is suitable for you.

Please avoid consuming Cacao if:

• you are taking anti-depressants (as the natural chemicals interact with the active component in anti-depressants)
• you have a heart condition or are on high blood pressure medications
• you are pregnant
• you are caffeine sensitive (if you are well drinking coffee, you should feel well drinking Cacao)
• you are allergic to Cacao.

🌿 CACAO

The Cacao Spirit creates a ceremonial centre, a sacred circle in and around which energy harmonises and flows. In its natural form, Cacao is an amazingly powerful Plant Medicine that helps us to release emotional blockages, and find forgiveness for ourselves and others. Cacao is a medicine for the heart, but its physiological benefits are for the whole body and mind. Cacao is the number one natural mood enhancer due to the abundance of uplifting phytonutrients it contains.

🌿 CACAO & YOGA

Through cacao and yoga, tension within the physical, mental, and emotional layers can be gently released. Cacao provides clarity and guidance, supporting the release of emotional barriers, letting go of the past, setting meaningful intentions, fostering creativity, and navigating future steps with a renewed sense of purpose.

🌿 RESTORATIVE YIN YOGA

Restorative Yin is a gentle practice that combines the stillness and depth of Yin with the support of Restorative yoga. In this class, you’ll be guided into longer-held postures using props to support the body, allowing the muscles to fully soften and the nervous system to settle.

This practice is less about stretching and more about creating space for release, regulation, and relaxation. It works on the deeper layers of the body — fascia, joints, and connective tissue — while also creating space for rest and renewal. Restorative Yin offers the opportunity to slow down, release tension, and restore balance in both body and mind.

🌿 YOGA NIDRA

Yoga Nidra is a sacred yogic process of deep relaxation mixed with contemporary, evidence-based mind-body techniques from the fields of neuroscience; it is an awakened sleep state of consciousness. It is a technique that is scientifically proven to recharge your brain. When quieting the mind and withdrawing from sensory sensations, a blissful experience of timeless spaciousness occurs. This state of restful awareness accelerates healing and improves energy levels and vitality.

Yoga Nidra is a highly therapeutic and very transformational practice, inherently adapting itself to the needs of the individual.

🌿 IREN MERDINYAN

Iren, the founder and guardian of Cacao Connexion, is a Cacao Medicine Woman and Yoga teacher, deeply committed to the art of working with Ceremonial Cacao, sharing the healing benefits of Yoga and relaxation and crafting raw chocolate. Iren teaches various types of yoga in embodied way (Yin yoga, Yoga Nidra, Vinyasa and Kriya Yoga), and each of these styles brings its own unique way of relaxing the body and sinking the mind into the heart.

“I work with the Cacao Plant Medicine with love, respect and integrity and in harmony with Mother Earth’s rhythm. I deeply appreciate and honour the wisdom of the Toltecs and the European medicine wheel ancestry and the embodied Yoga movement while uniting traditions and spaces to incorporate this wisdom into our daily lives.”

~ Iren A Merdinyan