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Sooth your body and soul with silky cocoa butter and fresh cacao!

Cold weather can make us feel down, chap skin, and cause achy muscles. Come connect with cacao for Self-Love to uplift your mind, body, and spirit through Valentine’s season and the remainder of Winter. 
Warm up with cacao!

• Sip ceremonial cacao in sacred circle to connect with cacao plant energy
• Mold your own cocoa butter massage bars with a choice of essential oils
• Learn about the many nutritional benefits of cacao while sipping on fresh cacao fruit smoothies
• Reiki guidance on meridian lines while practicing cocoa butter massage

Some of the most important health benefits of cocoa butter include its ability to improve skin health, boost the immune system, condition & strengthen hair, prevent signs of aging, and reduce inflammation.

Make & Take home:
• 1 foot bar
• 1 body massage bar
• 2 hand bars
• 2 hair conditioning bars
• 2 lip balms
• 7 nutritional cacao tablets


Hosted by:

• Heather Muse is a Reiki Master Teacher and Remedy Spiritualist, offering healing facilitation and ceremonies in Portland. Heather will open this event with cacao ceremony to connect with the essence of the spirit of the cacao plant. She will be guiding us as we run Reiki through our bodies and into our cocoa butter bars.
She will also share information about meridian lines in Chinese medicine as we practice nurturing ourselves with cocoa butter massage.

• Teresa Ulrich is the Chocolatier & Chocolate Maker of Chi Chocolate - offering healthy truffles, ceremonial drinking chocolate, and classes in Portland. She will guide you in molding massage bars while offering insight on the cacao tree, chocolate chemistry, and Mayan myths around cacao.


LIMITED TO 6 STUDENTS - sign up now!
Cost: $44

Make Payments through Eventbrite or Paypal.

Eventbrite:

https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/valentine-cacao-beauty-cocoa-butter-class-tickets-31760595797

Paypal:
Put $10 down to Hold your spot by making a payment to Paypal.

Here's how easy it is:

1. Log in to your account at PayPal.com and select the Send Money tab.

2. Select the “pay for goods and services” link then Enter my email address: tebu@comcast.net

Remainder of payment can be made through Paypal, cash, or check (made out to Teresa Ulrich) at time of class.

Contact: teresa@chichocolate.com with any questions
Sign up includes 25% off a Chi Chocolate/Portland Chocolate Mob class of your choice. https://www.portlandchocolatemob.com/classes/

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Sooth your body and soul with silky cocoa butter and fresh cacao!

Cold weather can make us feel down, chap skin, and cause achy muscles. Come connect with cacao for Self-Love to uplift your mind, body, and spirit through Valentine’s season and the remainder of Winter. 
Warm up with cacao!

• Sip ceremonial cacao in sacred circle to connect with cacao plant energy
• Mold your own cocoa butter massage bars with a choice of essential oils
• Learn about the many nutritional benefits of cacao while sipping on fresh cacao fruit smoothies
• Reiki guidance on meridian lines while practicing cocoa butter massage

Some of the most important health benefits of cocoa butter include its ability to improve skin health, boost the immune system, condition & strengthen hair, prevent signs of aging, and reduce inflammation.

Make & Take home:
• 1 foot bar
• 1 body massage bar
• 2 hand bars
• 2 hair conditioning bars
• 2 lip balms
• 7 nutritional cacao tablets


Hosted by:

• Heather Muse is a Reiki Master Teacher and Remedy Spiritualist, offering healing facilitation and ceremonies in Portland. Heather will open this event with cacao ceremony to connect with the essence of the spirit of the cacao plant. She will be guiding us as we run Reiki through our bodies and into our cocoa butter bars.
She will also share information about meridian lines in Chinese medicine as we practice nurturing ourselves with cocoa butter massage.

• Teresa Ulrich is the Chocolatier & Chocolate Maker of Chi Chocolate - offering healthy truffles, ceremonial drinking chocolate, and classes in Portland. She will guide you in molding massage bars while offering insight on the cacao tree, chocolate chemistry, and Mayan myths around cacao.


LIMITED TO 6 STUDENTS - sign up now!
Cost: $44

Make Payments through Eventbrite or Paypal.

Eventbrite:
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/valentine-cacao-beauty-cocoa-butter-class-tickets-31690213281

Paypal:
Put $10 down to Hold your spot by making a payment to Paypal.

Here's how easy it is:

1. Log in to your account at PayPal.com and select the Send Money tab.

2. Select the “pay for goods and services” link then Enter my email address: tebu@comcast.net

Remainder of payment can be made through Paypal, cash, or check (made out to Teresa Ulrich) at time of class.

Contact: teresa@chichocolate.com with any questions
Sign up includes 25% off a Chi Chocolate/Portland Chocolate Mob class of your choice. https://www.portlandchocolatemob.com/classes/

Saturday Jan 28th, 2017 from Noon – 5 PM Culmination Brewing will be hosting the second annual Artisinful - The Portland Beer and Chocolate Festival. Get your tickets here:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/artisinful-the-portland-beer-and-chocolate-festival-tickets-29863535639

Artisinful is a festival to celebrate chocolate and beer and the artisans who craft both of these delectable delights. We will have local Portland area chocolatiers on hand providing samples for you to enjoy as well as chocolate that you can purchase and take home for Valentine's Day happening just two weeks later.

Chocolatiers:
Batch
Creo
Enchante
Missionary
Moonstruck
Pitch Dark
Ranger
Smitten
Woodblock

In the Chocolate Hall we will have 8 + local Portland area chocolatiers sampling and selling their chocolate as well as a few other fun vendors like Ole Latte Coffee.

A $5.00 Chocolate Certificate that you can redeem from one of the chocolatiers joining us at Artisinful for $5.00 of chocolate. This certificate will expire Saturday Jan 28th at 5 PM and it can only be redeemed for chocolate during Artisinful. You cannot buy beer with your Chocolate Certificate. We want to support the chocolatiers who are joining us at Artisinful.

Beers:
Breakside Brewery 2016 Bourbon Aztec
Culmination Brewing Company 2016 Kriek Mythology
Culmination 2016 Peche
Culmination 2016 Multnomah County Stout
Dragon's Gate Brewery Le’ Morte D'Arthur
Flat Tail Brewing 2014 Big Green Brett Saison
Logsdon Barrel House & Taproom Kriek Vier Cherry Quad
Oakshire Brewing Imperial Apple Spiced Porter
Ruse Brewing 2016 Kriek
The Commons Brewery Bourbon Little Brother
Upright Brewing 2015 Hearts Beat
Vanguard Brewing Lee's Coconut Snowballs
Yachats Brewing Vellela Black Currant Barrel Aged Mixed Culture Saison

Tickets for the 2017 edition of Artisinful are $21. You will need a ticket to attend Artisinful this year. No ticket, no entry. This event sold out last year and we expect the same to happen this year.

Artisinful Tickets include
Entry to the Chocolate Hall
$5.00 Chocolate Certificate
5 oz. Culmination Tasting Glass
4 Pour Tickets
Additional pours tickets will be $2.00 each.

Cheers!

Ecotrust Building - 721 NW 9th Ave, Ste 200, Portland, Oregon 97209

We are excited to present our 4th annual Holiday Bazaar showcasing the artist, carfts people and healers of our vibrant EW community! Plan on jumpstarting your holiday shopping choosing from the offerings of over 20 vendors. Enjoy light refreshments and join in the merry making while supporting local artisians! Stay tuned here for posts highlighting the vendors participating. 

Honor 'Day of the Dead' this year with your own sugar skulls! The spooky holidays are just around the corner. 
Time to play with chocolate!

This is a family friendly class, so bring your kids, friends, friend's kids, and enjoy an afternoon of creativity together.

• Watch how chocolate is molded into skulls
• Paint your own skulls, pumpkins, and spiders with a rainbow of cocoa colors
• Decorate your skulls with sweet candies and glitters
• Take your skulls home with you for spooky decorations!

...and learn about the history of the Day of the Dead holiday along with scary Halloween stories around the craft table.

Cost: $25.00 Donation

Details

As the essence of Halloween approaches, on this new moon we are honoring our ancestors. Cheers to the ones that were here before us, to the ones that paved the way for us to walk Mother Earth. Consciously, on this day we will honor the present and the ancestral moon cyles. We will sing, share stories and gather in ceremony. 

Come out and join us TODAY for our last Muse Den Community Lounge before our move! We're serving delicious cacao and other treats plus healing sessions, Reiki, and Visionary Shamanic Tarot! We'll be finishing with a 7:30pm Guided Shamanic Journey by Cedar & Alder.

Let’s follow a path into the trees and explore Cacao in all its glorious nature!
We may not be able to grow Cacao trees in this part of the world, but we can tap into the plant spirit by simply communing with all trees in Sam Walker Park:

• Sip on loving chocolate while strolling the nature trail
• Discover new tree & plant vibrations
• Drumming journey
• Meadow Meditation
• Bring poetry to share and words of wisdom
• Bond with new friends and find humor in our new exploration!

Where: Sams Walker Nature Park - A 1 mile beautiful and easy nature hike through a meadow, cedar grove, and blackberry bushes just waiting to be harvested. Bring a bag for picking fresh berries! 

Let’s follow a path into the trees and explore Cacao in all its glorious nature!
We may not be able to grow Cacao trees in this part of the world, but we can tap into the plant spirit by simply communing with trees in nearby Mt. Tabor Park:

• Sip on loving chocolate while strolling the trails of Mt. Tabor
• Discover new tree & plant vibrations
• Drumming journey
• Meadow Meditation
• Bring poetry to share and words of wisdom
• Bond with new friends and find humor in our new exploration!

Where: Mt. Tabor Park. Meet at the lower West Gate entrance of the park - at the gate. (Next to: 6215 SE Salmon St.)
Street parking is available below the gate or up on the right side of the road.

Donations $10-$20 (pay day of event), or trades welcomed.

Guided by: Teresa Ulrich of ‘Chi Chocolate’ - chocolates with life-force to help awaken your true essence. Chilled drinking chocolate & truffles provided on the hike.

Wear good walking shoes. We’ll be hiking up and around Mt. Tabor on less populated trails. A nature hike fueled by chocolate!