Hi! My name is Ice Inkhamwong and I am the founder of Australian Ceremonial Cacao!
I enjoyed a free and adventurous childhood in the rice paddies of northern Thailand. I then spent 2 years in Adelaide (when I travelled to Uluru), northern Borneo and eventually ended up in Brisbane, Australia. I am a Thai, Irish, English, German, Russian, Vietnamese, Philippino and Baltic woman.
I feel deeply connected to this land and am here to help heal anyone who is prepared to take self-responsibility to also heal who you are no matter what race, culture, label or creed.
So start with the heart, and then everything else will come.
I work in the spirit of Wirritjin Dreaming.
Let me tell you the story of how this all came to be.
It all started when I was 7 years old and my father took me to Uluru during Easter holidays, and what did we do when we got there? We climbed it. I did not know that in doing so, this was very disrespectful and also believed to be very BAD LUCK!
Fast forward to me at 29 years old, I went back. I had originally bought the trip as a birthday present for someone else but little did I know, this trip was also meant for me. As the plane flew over Uluru, I heard a voice in my head saying, “You’ve come back to apologise, and only when you have done this, will you be shown the next phase of your life”. So, as I sat on that seat, I felt excited! What phase of my life?! What’s going to happen?! What do you mean? I had no idea!
So the first day I was there, I didn’t visit the rock itself. See I had this idea in my head that I had to be standing right next to it to apologise to the Ancestors & Spirits for having climbed it when I was a young child, but they knew. The Spirits and Ancestors and Guardians of the land knew I was there alright! That night I had the craziest dreams; I was shown every single naughty thing I had ever done in my entire life. I felt them, they were waiting for me.
When I woke up the next morning, I thought RIGHT! It’s happening today!
So I went on the rock tour that day and as I stood right next to it, I swear I could see it gently breathing. I could feel all eyes of all the Ancestors & Spirits there watching me. So many of them. Generations of Aboriginal spirits, so protective of the site and of the people visiting. I stood there and apologised to them in my mind. I said, “If you do forgive me, you know where to find me, come visit me in my dreams”. After this moment, I just started balling my eyes out. All of this emotion that must have been bottled up for years just all came out. I felt so relieved.
So, 10 days later, I dream…
That I am next to Uluru and I am with about 30 aboriginal women sitting around a fire. Two women stood out to me. One is a younger girl who looked about 18 years old and she explains to me that the women are preparing Emu for me and point at how it is cut into 6 pieces. The women are all looking at me with love. I spend time with them by the fire but I don’t remember every detail as I am not meant to share it all, but when we have done all talking and gathering, I am looking at the young woman in a blue t-shirt and an Elder who is painted all over her breasts and body with only a dry long grass skirt on. She holds a coolamon in front of one breast and they both smile at me with love as I float out of the scene. I woke up, with emotions that I just cannot put words to.
Then a chain of events happened: I attended a Cacao Ceremony 2 months later and I started ceremonying with Cacao at home. I also went to Reiki share where I was worked on by an Aboriginal and a Maori elder woman. That very first night, the Aboriginal elder tells me she can see two women in the room and described them EXACTLY how I saw them in my dream. She explains that they are my family from my past life. The young woman is my sister. I start balling my eyes out again. It was confirmation, others could see what I saw!
“And the older woman has a gift for you, it’s a coolamon” (a bowl made from the bark of a tree used to carry bush tucker and babies in).
I thought, Oh great! I wonder what I can use a spiritual bowl for? Too bad I can’t actually use it as a fruit bowl or put actual practical use to it!
