The Cacao Salon: Success Starts in the Body
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April 13 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Cost: $40
From Somatics to Success: how your nervous system shapes the way you show up, lead, connect, and create.
Monday, April 13 • 6:30 PM
FABRIK, DUMBO
30 people only
”You can have the strategy, the ambition, the vision. But if your nervous system is stuck in survival mode — none of it flows the way it should.”
You know how to achieve. You know how to perform.
But maybe you’re tired of having to.
Tired of overthinking before you speak. Of holding back when you know you have something to say. Of pushing to be seen instead of simply being magnetic.
The problem is almost never a lack of strategy, ambition, or intelligence. It’s something subtler — and more physical. It’s the state you’re in when you walk into the room.
This evening is for founders, creatives, and ambitious people who are ready to lead, speak, and take up space from a completely different place. Not through more hustle. Through presence.
Through ceremonial cacao, somatics, embodied movement, meditation, and live sound — we’ll explore how to become more grounded, magnetic, and fully yourself. Not by changing who you are, but by changing the state you lead from.
What We’ll Explore
Why your nervous system — not just your mindset — shapes your confidence, leadership, and relationships
The difference between performing, pushing, and truly showing up
How stillness and meditation change the way you think, speak, and move through the world
How somatic work unlocks presence, magnetism, and creative agency
What it feels like to lead, create, and take up space from a place of grounded authenticity — and why people follow you differently when you do
This is not networking. Not therapy. Not another self-help talk.
It is a modern salon for people who are successful on paper — and who sense there’s another level of aliveness, confidence, and agency available to them.
The Evening
6:15 PM: Doors open
Arrive early and settle in. We begin promptly at 6:30.
6:30 PM: Ceremonial cacao with Sasha Sakhar — Soul & Spirit whole-bean cacao, sourced from a small family farm in Guatemala. Nothing added, nothing removed. A gentle, heart-opening opener.
7:00 PM: Gal Bepole on visibility and the nervous system — why so many intelligent, capable people still hold themselves back, and what the body has to do with it.
7:15 PM: Embodied practice — a high-energy somatic and movement experience to help you feel more expressed, visible, and fully yourself.
7:50 PM: Live sound journey with Julius V. Betila — immersive sound to quiet the mind and regulate the nervous system.
8:15 PM: Julius on meditation and the centered state — why inner stillness is the foundation of real agency, and how the way you relate to your thoughts shapes everything: confidence, clarity, creativity, and ease
8:30: Sharing circle + mingling
About the Hosts
All three facilitators have spent years inside tech, corporate, and high-performance startup environments before finding their way into transformational work. They’re not teaching from theory — they’ve lived the pressure, the performance, the burnout. And they found another way.
Sasha Sakhar Founder of SUGARHAUS and Soul & Spirit cacao. She spent years inside media, tech, and corporate New York before discovering ceremonial cacao and an intentional life in nature — and realizing that what most people are starving for isn’t more stimulation, but genuine presence. She sources whole-bean cacao directly from a small family farm in Guatemala, prepares it the traditional way, and builds experiences for people who want to actually feel something.
Gal Bepole Visibility expert, somatic coach, and movement guide. Works with high-caliber founders and leaders who want to stop performing and start radiating — by changing the state they lead from, not pushing harder.
Formerly in tech startups and high-performance client work.
Her work helps people stop performing and start radiating — not by pushing harder, but by changing the state they lead from.
Julius V. Betila Meditation guide and sound practitioner. His work sits at the intersection of stillness and sound — helping founders, creatives, and professionals move from overthinking and pressure into clarity, groundedness, and presence.
Formerly in tech — he discovered that the most powerful state wasn’t one you could optimize your way into.