NEW Cacao Master Plant Medicine Day Retreat & Practitioner Training: July 13-17 in Silver City, New Mexico
Be initiated into the wisdom of cacao by exploring her magic, science and nutrition, ancient history and modern-day practices and ceremonies.
Come into right relationship with cacao as a master plant teacher through personal practice and ceremony, which are foundational to embodying the medicine of cacao.
Allow yourself to remember who you truly are….
Experience how to hold space with sacred intention and safety to receive and serve this medicine with clarity, confidence, authenticity and integrity.
Day Retreat Schedule
July 13-17 from 10am-3pm each day | Private residence in Silver City, NM
Space limited to 8 participants
Monday: Opening: Initiation with a Cacao Medicine Journey
Tuesday: Ceremonial Cacao & its History and Cultural Awareness
Wednesday: Science of Cacao & its Nutritional and Spiritual BenefIts
Thursday: Creating Sacred Space & Holding Safe Space
Friday: Closing: Student-Led Cacao Sharing Practicum
Cost: $555 (includes 1 bar of cacao)
Does not include accommodation, travel or meals; snacks provided
Optional Practitioner Training Online Course & Certificate
Access to Keith’s Cacao Power of Cacao Practitioner Training online course and course completion certificate. Required to become a Keith’s Cacao Practitioner.
Add-on cost: $333
Become a Keith’s Cacao Practitioner & Join the Practitioner Program
Complete the Practitioner Training & Orientation Call to join the Practitioner Program to receive discounts on cacao and courses and become part of a global practitioner community. Cacao purchase required.
Email Nicole to find out more and register.
2026 JOURNEY GUIDE TRAINING
Become a Sacred Plant Medicine Holder and Guide for Journeys with Sacred Mushroom (Psilocybin) Medicine | 2026 TBA | By Application Only
Plant and earth medicines are returning from being “exiled” to support, deepen and co-facilitate our healing, allowing us to let go of what is in our way consciously or unconsciously and reconnect to who we truly are, so we feel more vibrant and whole, live more consciously and make aligned choices from a place of inner knowing.
This sacred medicine and the work of guiding others on a healing journey in a sacred and safe way to heal is so needed now.
We have all witnessed how traditional therapies and Western medicine cannot access the depth of healing needed, especially when limiting beliefs, patterns and triggers are deeply ingrained from childhood or are pre-verbal (before 4 years old or in the womb), held in the subconscious and unconscious or handed down in ancestral lines.
In your practice as an energy healer, shamanic practitioner, herbalist or functional medicine practitioner, coach or therapist, you and your clients are seeking a path that reaches below surface symptoms to root or unconscious causes and creates new neural pathways that allow for more conscious choices and healthy responses, while enhancing creativity, joy and vitality. You feel deeply called to learn how plant and earth medicines can support them.
This extensive training includes theory, personal practice and self-guided journeys, mentoring and conversations about your direct experience, which is often missing from more clinical trainings; and provides what’s needed for you to hold sacred and safe healing journeys with sacred mushroom medicine with integrity, confidence and optimal results.
Training candidates are asked to apply and will be interviewed. The application process ensures that this path is for you as it requires a level of capacity to hold sacred and safe space; deep listening and wisdom; emotional maturity and experience to address what comes up in journey sessions; and commitment to your own inner work and healing.
Please contact Nicole for more information.
Testimonials from Recent Training Graduates
“For anyone sincerely called to be a sacred plant medicine guide, I believe you will find no better trainer and mentor than Nicole. From our first interaction and my first glance at her materials, I could tell that she is the real deal; highly-organized, precise and articulate, well-researched, experienced, poised and generous with her time and guidance. Nicole is clearly committed to excellence, and I deeply appreciate the opportunity to learn from someone with such high integrity. I feel so grateful to have been in such good hands during my training with Nicole. I now have the confidence and skills to enrich my shamanic offerings to include healing journeys with plant medicine.” – Sonya Jason
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“The sacred call to be a carrier of this medicine can be overwhelming. I had no idea where to start or who I could turn to for guidance. The universe had connected me with Nicole in another class and when she announced this opportunity I knew she was the one. Her reverence for the ninos and cacao is palatable. Her knowledge is beyond deep, in fact almost instinctual. She navigates every conceivable aspect, both expected and unexpected. Her guidance has no other option other than to put your soul at ease.
“I joined the course with Nicole to feel more comfortable in medicine ceremonies, primarily as a participant, for both individual and group settings. I had received several requests from friends to facilitate with different medicines and I didn’t feel like I was deeply connected enough to any medicine to support someone else’s journey. So I stepped in to deepen my relationship with the medicine directly, and learn best practices, and how to embody the respect I felt.
Throughout the course, the theme of hygiene came up repeatedly. To name a few: Ceremonial structure, energetic sovereignty, mental health, self-care, diet, dialogue with the medicine itself, intention. All of these concepts, for me right now, are deeply resonant of my understanding of the Native American phrase “Come in a good way.”
As well as anyone I’ve seen in the medicine spaces, Nicole exemplifies integrity, gentleness, precision, respect, skill, and deep empathy. She has a special connection with the medicines she serves and that relationship is the foundation on which her ceremonies occur. The course was built on it, and it was inspiring and clarifying to see clearly how those relational dynamics work with a master teacher.
If you are curious to connect more fully with the medicine and be healed and held, or if you want to take your facilitation to a more grounded, cleaner level, or whatever your intention, Nicole is an expert that I recommend fully. She is an archetypal mentor.
I am deeply grateful for the wisdom I’ve remembered under her guidance, and blessed for the time I’ve committed to follow her lead. I now have much greater clarity about my path forward in serving others.” —Chris
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My first experience with Nicole was over two years ago when I participated in a healing journey session she facilitated. I came out of it thinking, “Thank the universe for people like her.” It takes a very special being to hold space with Los Niños [“the children” as mushrooms are known in Mexico].
Fast forward, the signs started showing up again to return to Los Ninos—I felt the calling, though I was confused as it seemed to be a calling to explore space holding and not just sitting with the sacred medicine. I’d never seen myself as one of those “special beings,” even though I’ve been holding space for years as a coach, energy worker, and cacao practitioner.
But once the calling came, I realized: there’s really no such thing as a “maybe.” If you’re called, you’re called. The work is just to sit with the hesitation. And luckily, I didn’t sit with it long. What helped me leap into the unknown was Nicole’s deep connection to both Cacao and Los Niños—an immediate resonance for me.
Whether it was for my own healing or to eventually hold space for others didn’t really matter. The calling was clear. I jumped into Nicole’s Journey Guide Training with trust. Nicole brings immense wisdom and experience, yet she honors every participant’s unique rhythm. Our group had varied range of reasons, experience and pacing, and she held it all with spacious grace.
Nicole weaves a container of trust, deep connection to the sacred medicine, and true community. She brings her wisdom and experience, loving acceptance, and openness to continue learning alongside our experiences. I now feel part of a Los Niños family I’ll carry with me always.
If you’re reading this? You’re probably already called. Be curious. Be brave. Be open. The Niños are already working in your favor. –Sarah
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You may already be a practitioner or guide with plant and earth medicines and feel that something fundamental is missing from your training or you find yourself being confronted or triggered by new, challenging experiences in 1:1 or group journeys and need expert guidance and support. 
In my 1:1 sessions, you can share your challenges and ask questions in a safe and sacred container with a mentor who understands right and sacred relationship with the medicine, how to hold safe and sacred space while optimizing client and participant healing outcomes.
1:1 Mentoring Sessions. Contact Nicole for an Exploration Call.
CACAO PRACTITIONER TRAINING
Power of Cacao Practitioner Training. As Director of Training for Keith’s Cacao, I designed and co-developed this experiential training program for new and experienced Cacao Practitioners that shares detailed research, instructional videos and live classes about ceremonial cacao; history, myth and cultural awareness of cacao; science and nutritional benefits of cacao; and how to hold sacred and safe space.
“Find your magic,” as Keith would say, and find out more here. Rolling enrollment. Start anytime! Choose the class that fits your timezone.
