Calm Cocoa: Hot chocolate to take time over

special range of hot chocolate designed to help you create little moments of mindfulness and connection.

WORDS FROM CALM COCOA:

Calm Cocoa is all about slowing down and taking a breath - while enjoying some delicious hot chocolate.

Why hot chocolate?

Hot chocolate is a wonderful sensory filled hug in a mug. It’s best made and enjoyed slowly to savour the experience and the flavour, especially when it’s full of beautiful single origin dark chocolate like ours is.

CONNECTING WITH THE SENSES

Chocolate is at the heart of what we do. But what’s the connection with mindfulness?

When our founder Meredith started her journey into meditation and mindfulness she was struck by the natural connection with the sensory approach of chocolate tasting and mindfulness. Many tastings and many chocolates later, she started to combine the two things both in her personal and professional life.

Tasting chocolate professionally (yes this is a thing!) involves using all of the senses in a very focussed way. It includes taking in the look, feel, sound, smell and taste of chocolate. In fact, it’s very similar to the very ancient Buddhist tradition of a mindful eating meditation.

Chocolate tasting also brings to life how mindfulness can be incorporated in everyday life. The formal practices and meditations of mindfulness are of course important, but mindfulness is ultimately also about how elements of focus, connection and awareness can be incorporated into everyday living.

And what better way to experience this than through chocolate?

Chocolate is the perfect ingredient for exploring mindful eating as it’s one of the most complex foods we can taste when it comes to flavour.

There are over 400 potential flavour compounds you could detect across chocolate types; it’s even more complex than wine! And it’s the dark stuff that has the most flavour complexity, which is why we use dark chocolate in our blends.

From green grasses to smoky peat or fruity berries, there are so many different flavours you might detect across different chocolates. And it’s lots of fun exploring what you taste.

Not only this, but good chocolate is an incredibly uplifting ingredient and warming it up into hot chocolate helps hit all the sensory bliss buttons. Hot chocolate is also a nod to the sacred South American origins of chocolate as a drink. So give yourself the time to sip and savour…

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WHAT YOU CAN FIND AT CALM COCOA: ORIGINAL RICH MIX, SALTED MADAGASCAR, GINGERY JAMAICA, SPCIDY DARK ECUADOR, PURE 100% DARK, JAR OF CALM COCOA, THREE PACK, TASTER POUCH, CALM COCOA TRIO, SUBSCRIPTION, GIFT CARD, COOKIE BOX, BICKIES BOX, GIFT COLLECTION, AND GINGER BOX.