Nourish your mind, body, and spirit through a cacao ceremony, conscious breathwork, and sound healing for deep relaxation and renewal.
Clarity Breathwork & Cacao Ceremony
A Sacred Healing Experience
This is more than a workshop, it’s a heart-opening journey. In just two hours, you’ll be guided through a sacred cacao ceremony, advanced conscious breathwork, and sound healing integration, moving from the noise of everyday life into a place of deep inner stillness, emotional freedom, and renewed clarity.
This experience is especially powerful for anyone navigating burnout, chronic stress, or that quiet exhaustion that builds when you’ve been giving too much for too long. When the nervous system is depleted, words and willpower can only take you so far. Breathwork goes deeper, it speaks directly to the body, releasing what the mind alone cannot let go of.
The Experience
Cacao Ceremony
We open with high-quality ceremonial cacao sourced from Maya Moon, a sacred Mesoamerican tradition used for centuries to soften the heart, amplify intentions, and invite presence. The cacao acts as a gentle, loving guide for everything that follows.
Clarity Breathwork
A conscious connected breathing technique that bypasses the analytical mind and goes directly to where the body holds emotion, memory, and energy. Gentle yet profoundly powerful, it facilitates real release, real healing, and moments of unexpected clarity. This is not a common modality, there are only a handful of certified Clarity Breathwork facilitators in all of San Diego. Elka trained directly with the founders of the practice, Dharma Devi and Ashanna Solaris, and brings years of experience guiding individuals and groups through this transformative work.
Sound Healing & Integration
Vibrational frequencies guide the body into full integration, allowing every shift that occurred during the ceremony to settle deeply into your cells. You leave feeling grounded, spacious, and renewed.
What Becomes Possible:
• Release emotional blocks, old trauma, and limiting beliefs held in the body
• Deep nervous system healing — shift out of fight-or-flight and into true rest
• Begin genuine recovery from burnout and chronic depletion
• Expanded clarity, creativity, and self-awareness
• Cellular detoxification and a natural boost in vitality and energy
• Cultivate lasting inner peace and energetic alignment
• A genuine felt sense of heart-opening and presence
This practice is unlike other breathwork modalities — it is gentle, deeply intuitive, and profoundly healing, making it accessible to both beginners and experienced practitioners alike. If you’ve been running on empty, this is your invitation to return to yourself.
Ticket Price: $50
Facilitator Bio: Elka Haeckel Almeida has been a transformative presence in the San Diego wellness community since 2003 as founder of both Elka Yoga & Wellness Center and Namaste Yoga Center, and as the creator of a uniquely evolved yoga methodology that has grown into a recognized brand across the United States.
A certified Lifestyle & Wellness Coach through Harvard Medical School, an accredited Life Coach (Accomplishment Coaching), and a certified Clarity Breathwork facilitator trained directly by the founders of the practice, Elka brings a rare convergence of credentials, lived experience, and genuine heart to every session she leads. Her teachings draw from Ayurveda, Hatha, Vinyasa, Prana Flow, The Radiance Sutras, Tantra Meditation, Restorative Yoga, Yoga Nidra, and Thai Medical Massage, woven together with an intuitive, deeply personal approach that has transformed thousands of lives.
She has led more than 30 Yoga Teacher Training programs across the United States and Brazil, certifying over 300 teachers. Her reach extends globally through international workshops, retreats, and trainings held across multiple countries.
What makes Elka truly singular is not her list of credentials, but her presence. She carries the rare gift of making every person in the room feel seen, met, and gently invited into a bigger version of themselves.
“We are just getting started on this journey, so open your heart and your mind to see your true possibilities.”