Meet The Team

Meet our very small team that makes it all happen!
Founder

Shane Cooke

Shane Cooke is the founder of The Jasper Cacao Project and The Jasper Community Space.

Through meditation, breathwork, Reiki, sound healing, and cacao ceremonies, Shane creates grounded, heart-led spaces for healing, transformation, and genuine human connection. His work is centred around helping people slow down, reconnect with themselves, release what no longer serves them, and return to a deeper sense of presence, clarity, and purpose.

Before stepping onto this path, Shane spent over 20 years working as a chef, a journey that brought both outward success and intense mental, emotional, and physical challenges. Those experiences became the catalyst for profound personal change, leading him towards spirituality, mindfulness, breathwork, and supporting others through his earlier coaching practice, Jasper Wellbeing.

Cacao entered Shane’s life during a powerful ceremony and sparked an immediate calling. After years of building a deep relationship with the plant and holding sacred spaces rooted in the teachings and traditions of cacao, The Jasper Cacao Project was born. A conscious business founded on integrity, ancestral respect, community, and the sharing of exceptional ceremonial cacao as a tool for connection, healing, and transformation.

A few years later, The Jasper Community Space was created in the heart of Teesside and has since grown into a thriving hub for ceremonies, workshops, music, healing, and conscious community gatherings. A space where people can come together, be seen, reconnect, and remember what truly matters.

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Shanes favourite cacao is Criollo and his favourite way to drink it is with water, chilli and a dash of rose water finished with a little touch Himalayan salt.

Shane Founder of Jasper Cacao
Customer Support

Leanne Mortimer: The wandering Yogini!

Leanne’s passions are Ashtanga yoga, meditation, mantra, and the healing arts. She loves spending time deep in nature — usually with a cup of Cacao in hand.

Leanne worked in the busy world of dentistry for many years, but after embarking on a spiritual journey to India to train as a yoga teacher, her life completely transformed.

She now shares her gifts through Ashtanga yoga, deep tissue massage, and sound healing — practices that help others reconnect with their bodies, release tension, and restore energetic balance.

Her yoga teaching style is energetic, synchronising breath with movement, while her massage and sound healing sessions offer a deeply restorative and grounding experience.

Leanne’s passion for Cacao came from this wonderful medicine being a big part of her own healing journey.

“I’m so happy to be at Jasper Cacao — it feels great to be able to share this wonderful medicine with the world.”

Leanne’s favourite way to drink the Cacao medicine is in her favourite mushroom mug with a dash of maple syrup!

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Leanne Events, Sales & Support
Face of the festival team

Breece Stewart

Breece is facilitator of Breathwork, Plant Medicine, and Sound healing.
She’s explored unique corners of the world, immersing herself in rituals and cultures that shape her teachings. She hosts retreats, online sessions and festival workshops. The core of her work is empowerment and aliveness. Full of energy and play, but her work is never just surface level.

Her no fluff approach guides you into depths of your inner strength, authenticity, and what makes you feel most alive.
With her passion for self expression, she believes the world needs more of you. Through reconnection and clarity, she helps you access that potential that from within.

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Breece loves to eat cacao raw but when she has a drink she likes it simple with oat milk and a pinch of cayenne.

Breece Festival Team Uk