New Shaman Chocolates Gift Box - a Sweet Organic Gift that Gives All Profits Back

The new organic chocolate Gift Boxes from Shaman Chocolates don't just make another sweet gift for loved ones on special occasions like Valentine's Day, they also offer consumers a socially responsible alternative. All profits from the sale of the certified organic and Fair Trade Shaman Chocolates help support the Huichol Indians, a tribe living in central western Mexico in the Sierra Madre Mountains, considered by many to be the last Indigenous Tribe in North America to have maintained their pre-Columbian traditions intact.

The new Gift Box features beautiful, flower-shaped solid chocolates in a variety of flavors. For dark chocolate lovers, the Dark Variety Box includes Dark Chocolate with Ruby Raspberries, Dark Chocolate with Coconut, Dark Chocolate with Acai, Lemon and Orange and Dark Chocolate with Green Tea & Ginger. Shoppers can also choose a combination of two unique tastes - Extra Dark Chocolate and Milk Chocolate with Macadamia Nuts and Hawaiian Pink Sea Salt.

Chocolate lovers can also customize their order by choosing from the following selections (8 delicious bites of one flavor per box): Milk Chocolate, Dark Chocolate with Ruby Raspberries, Dark Chocolate with Coconut; Dark Chocolate with Green Tea & Ginger; Dark Chocolate with Acai, Lemon and Orange or Extra Dark Chocolate.

Shaman Chocolates blends only the purest certified organic and Fair Trade chocolate with the finest organic ingredients and superfoods available to offer nine delicious, rich chocolate bars: Dark Chocolate with Acai, Lemon and Orange, Dark Chocolate with Green Tea and Ginger, Extra Dark Chocolate, Milk Chocolate with Macadamia Nuts & Hawaiian Pink Sea Salt, Dark Chocolate, Dark Chocolate with Ruby Raspberries, Dark Chocolate with Coconut, Milk Chocolate and Milk Chocolate with Hazelnuts.

The Gift Boxes and Shaman Chocolate bars are adorned with new packaging featuring images of the Huichol Indians and their amazing artwork and imagery. They are available at hundreds of retailers nationwide and can also be purchased on the company's new website at www.shamanchocolates.com.

"The Huichol Indians consider chocolate a sacred gift from paradise and have used it in ceremonies since time immemorial, leaving it as offerings to show their love for Mother Earth," says Shaman Chocolates Founder Brant Secunda. "The Huichols know that gifts of chocolate help people develop and strengthen a mutual love with the earth and with each other," adds Secunda.

The Huichols, who were recognized by former Mexican President Vicente Fox as a national treasure of Mexico, are under tremendous economic and social pressure to assimilate with modern society, to leave their traditional villages and go to work in cities or on tobacco plantations where they are often exposed to harmful pesticides. By providing an outlet for their visionary yarn paintings and beaded artwork, by donating a portion of the tuition from each seminar and pilgrimage he leads, and donating all profits from the sale of Shaman Chocolates, Secunda provides continuing economic support that enables the Huichols to continue to live in their traditional ways and to continue being Indian. Three villages and approximately 500 people are directly helped through these efforts.