About Casa Cacao
At Casa Cacao, we create pre-alchemised ceremonial cacao (pure, medicinal hot chocolate) for every-day ritual. We also create other products made from cacao including bean-to-bar chocolate, cacao husk tea, and body butters. Head to our shop to browse our products.
Find us in the community around New Zealand offering cacao circles, collaborating with other wellness practitioners, or at a market near you - head to our events page to find our latest offerings.
We work with Pacific cacao - every sip or bite of your Casa Cacao directly impacts the lives of our brothers and sisters in the islands.
Our Story
Jenna Joan, Casa Cacao’s founder and alchemist, first fell in love with cacao in Costa Rica. Nestled in the in the jungle between the ocean and mountains drinking tree-to-cup ceremonial cacao, she learned the "way of cacao" in the Americas with a medicine woman in the Dominical province. With a background in the wellness industry and wholefoods catering, she found herself expanding her personal daily cacao ritual into becoming a 'Cacao Alchemist’. Inspired to create food as medicine, Jenna now stone-grinds cacao into accessible cacao and chocolate products to bring JOY and UNITY into homes and every-day ritual among the community throughout New Zealand. Jenna also practices as a yoga teacher, ceremony facilitator, and private 'Heart Space' lifestyle coach and weaves the magic of cacao into all of her offerings.
Pacific Cacao
Casa Cacao chooses to partner with The Cacao Ambassador and Pacific cacao farming communities because of the impact we can make together and our aligned values. The emphasis on collaboration in the industry and keeping the farming communities at the heart of our ‘work’ means that we can create and serve honest cacao/chocolate that empowers and uplifts our brothers and sisters across the ocean while delivering quality, heart-opening medicine on our own shores. With hearts cracked open by the potency of cacao we are able to connect more deeply to the energy of love and act as ambassadors for all life on this earth.
