At the heart of WANA HEY is ceremonial-grade cacao: wild strain, single-origin, and sourced directly from small family farms in the Piura region of Northern Peru.

The region's dry, sunny climate with minimal rainfall creates ideal conditions for careful fermentation and drying, allowing the cacao's natural complexity to shine through.

We collaborate directly with these farming communities, supporting micro-lot fermentation and sun-drying techniques that preserve the cacao’s sacred potency.

Our sourcing partner also teaches regenerative fermentation practices that minimize heavy metal accumulation and uplift local economies — with farmers paid well above market rate. 

In Quechua, WANA means to weave (ancestral language of the Andean lands of Peru, the same lands where WANA HEY cacao is grown).

In English, HEY is a call across realms — a greeting from the unseen.

WANA HEY is a bridge.

Between ancient memory and embodied devotion.

Between your heartbeat and the song of the cacao spirit.

The name is inspired by the song WANA HEY written by Ixchel Prisma and performed by Águila Real.

WANA HEY cacao is tested by accredited third-party labs to meet and exceed global safety standards — including California Prop 65 — ensuring undetectable or ultra-low levels of heavy metals like lead and cadmium.

This is cacao you can trust — energetically and physically.

Highlights:

1. Impeccable Safety: WANA HEY cacao consistently shows undetectable or extremely low levels of heavy metals.
2. Highest Purity: Our results surpass most brands on the market.
3. Microbial Cleanliness: Microbial and coliform counts remain exceptionally low.

"I created WANA HEY in one of the most challenging seasons of my life — as a single mother, rebuilding from the ground up. In the midst of heartbreak and unraveling, cacao showed me a way back to myself. It softened the noise in my head and awakened the truth in my body.

WANA HEY exists to carry that same medicine forward: to remind women everywhere that their softness is sacred, their feelings are wise, and their creativity is not optional — it’s their lifeline.

This chocolate is a bridge. Between past and future, between ritual and pleasure, between who you thought you had to be and the deeper rhythm of who you really are.

I've been working with ceremonial cacao for almost a decade, and WANA HEY is the most potent, wildly feminine, smooth, delicious cacao I've ever had the pleasure to sit with.

Thank you for joining me in this sacred unraveling.

May it melt away every illusion you’ve mistaken for safety."

– Ksenia Avdulova, WANA HEY Founder