Saturday 11 Nov, 6.00pm – 7.30pm, NEW HARVEST, 111B Nepean Highway, Seaford, VIC, 3198

In Samoa, Koko (Cacao ) is offered to deepen social connection – with deep listening to your community, your tino (body), fatu (heart) & māfaufau (thoughts)

The Koko & Konnect is a sensory experience created by Fipe Preuss from Living Koko.  We will take you on a heart led journey through the Pacific Islands taking some time too gently check in with ourselves, connect with our breath and mindfully taste the true offerings of our Samoan plant medicines. Cacao and Kava. This event is a wellness event, that connects our stories, helps us reflect gently on our own stories and our families stories. 

Sampling a variety of cacao products created by Living Koko, a zero waste cacao manufacturing space based in Melbourne that has a family lineage for over 8 generations in Cacao farming and processing in Samoa, over 170 years documented. You will not only get to try the Living Koko cacao creations we will also share the deep stories of cacao from our homelands and indigenous cultivation practises still used today.

Join us for a night of cacao, connection and deeper understanding on fa’a Samoa (the Samoan way of life.

Saturday 14 Oct, 1.30pm – more info and tickets here

Come join Fipe and Freya for an afternoon of Heart nourishment with Living Koko Cacao + Pasifika Dance + Yin Yoga + Meditation

To nourish the heart is to return to the body and our true self. We invite you to join us for a day of nourishment from the inside out. You hold the key to your journey, to releasing emotions that no longer serve you, and to your healing.

Combining Pacific Island plant medicine cacao with chant and movement we will open our heart centres and release what no longer serves us. A slow and healing Yin yoga sequence will nourish our Heart meridians and help us to turn ‘yinside’. We will connect through cacao, poetry, chant, mindful movement, and meditation. We will attune to a state of soul rejuvenation & elevation.

This Heart Nourishing Workshop is for those looking for a deeper connection with self and community. Let us all learn and practice how to walk, talk and dance gently and graciously in alignment with our planets seasons.

❤️ Fipe Preuss – Cacao Cultivator, Creative, Artist, Activist ❤️

Co-founder of Living Koko, a no-waste cacao/chocolate manufacturing space that supports rural economic opportunities in her homelands of Samoa. Fipe shares cultural knowledge and understanding of kincentric relationships through Traditional Pasifika movement and natural resources.

A Community Cultural Development Practitioner, Pasifika movement guide, Space Holder and Cacao Creative with intergenerational connections with our cacao offering.

❤️ Freya Bennett-Overstall – Mother, Teacher, Author, Creative, Chiropractor ❤️

Freya has been practising various forms of mindfulness and meditation for over 40 years. She started with a regular practice of yoga, dance, and tai chi as a child. She is a registered yoga teacher and a registered mindfulness & meditation teacher.

Author of “Wonder Full Women. Attune & Bloom. Eat, Move & Meditate with the Seasons.”, Chiropractor, a mother of 2 boys, a grateful gardener, and an eternal student.