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Cacao & Sacred Song: A Celebration of Gratitude

Cacao & Sacred Song: A Celebration of Gratitude

with Avi Burnbaum and Carlos Marcús Capó

 

Gratitude is the oldest song there is — it was made for the voice, not the mind. Cacao opens the heart, the chant opens the throat, and together you'll find your own voice inside a chorus already holding it. Come brew, sing, and let your thanks be heard before another season passes with it unsung.

 

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21

 

9 AM PT (Los Angeles) | 12 PM ET (New York) | 5 PM GMT (London) | 4 AM Sunday NZT (Auckland)

 

Can't make it live? A recording will be shared with all who register — please allow up to 72 hours for delivery.

 

Please note: registration is final and non-refundable.

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Some things are easier to feel than to say. So we sing them instead.

There's a version of gratitude that lives in the chest, not the mind — the kind that doesn't come out right in words but moves easily through a hummed note or a held chord. This Thanksgiving, we're gathering online to drink cacao and sing it out loud together: mantras, medicine songs, a few originals, and whatever the room adds along the way. No stage, no audience... just voices finding each other.

Is this for you?

You don't need a good voice. You need a willing one.

  • Singing in a group sounds better to you than sitting in silence

  • You've felt the pull of kirtan or devotional chant before, even if you can't explain why

  • Thanksgiving usually leaves you wanting something more communal than a meal

  • You don't need to be "musical"; you just need to be willing
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the experience

Avi in a striped hoodie and teal bandana drinking ceremonial cacao from a mug inside the Palapa, a thatched-roof outdoor setting, in La Paz during Keith's Cacao Homecoming with other people blurred in the background.

Cacao opens the evening: a short ritual to settle the room and drop everyone into the same frequency before a single note is sung. From there, Avi and Carlos take the lead, weaving mantra, medicine song, and original composition into one continuous offering. If you've brought an instrument, there's space for it. If you haven't, your voice is the instrument.

It moves the way a good jam session moves: some structure, a lot of listening, and everyone building on what came before. By the end, the "audience" has disappeared; there's just a room full of people who sang together.

THE TRANSFORMATION

You'll likely notice it in your chest before your head catches up. A kind of loosening that happens when you stop holding a note in and let it out with a group of strangers. Singing together does something silence doesn't: it makes the connection audible, not just felt.

Expect gratitude to arrive less as a thought and more as a texture; something you're steeped in by the end rather than something you decided to feel. And don't be surprised if a phrase or melody from the evening stays with you for days, humming back up when you least expect it.

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your guides

  • Keith's Cacao practitioner Avi Burnbaum sits cross-legged indoors, wearing a black button-up shirt, white pants, a long white beaded necklace, and a green beaded bracelet. An acoustic guitar and a large metal gong are visible in the background of the room.

    Avi Burnbaum

    Therapist, Integration Coach, Cacao Practitioner, Instrumentalist
    @aviburn


    Before Avi held space for others, cacao held it for him. Power of Cacao was the training that first pulled him toward facilitation, a thread that eventually ran through a master's degree and a therapy license. Today he moves between those worlds fluidly: licensed therapist and psychedelic integration coach on one side, multi-instrumentalist and kirtan musician on the other. He helped found Shaktipat Kirtan, a devotional music ensemble born at Ananda Ashram in New York, and still treats music as something closer to devotion than performance — a way of coming home rather than putting on a show.

  • Keith's Cacao practitioner Carlos Marcus in a white short-sleeve button-up shirt and light pants sits on a patterned rug against a textured wall, holding a small cup of cacao to his lips. A drum and other objects are visible in the room

    Carlos Marcús Capó

    Ceremonialist, Alchemist, Sound Healer, Space Holder, Cacao Medicine Carrier
    @thepirateofthecacaobean · @thecacaovan ·     carlosmarcus.com


    Cacao found Carlos before he went looking for it. A voice in a London supermarket, of all places, that eventually led him to Keith Wilson's porch in Guatemala. He trained first as a sound engineer, so frequency has always been his language; now he carries that same ear for sound into ceremony, using voice and ritual to help people find what he calls their own "heart song." People tend to describe his spaces the same way: they arrive strangers and leave feeling like they've known everyone in the room for years.

WHY CACAO

Singing in front of others — even a friendly, faceless group on a screen — asks something of people. Cacao is what makes that ask feel smaller. It softens the self-consciousness that usually keeps a voice quiet, so by the time the songs start, most people are more ready to be heard than they expected to be.

BEFORE YOU BEGIN

Make sure you have:

  • Your prepared Keith's Cacao
  • Speakers or headphones (this one's easier to feel with real sound)
  • Any instrument you'd like to bring in — optional, not required
  • A willingness to be a little imperfect out loud

Come as you are. Leave a little more grateful.

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please note:

  • This is a paid event. Replay access will only be available to those who register. Please allow up to 72 hours for delivery.
  • No refunds or transfers for non-attendance. If an emergency arises, please email support at info@keithscacao.com