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Flash photo-set courtesy of
Yaxkin
Spa, Chichen
Itza, Yucatan, Mexico
Yucatan
Adventure's Interview with a
certified Maya Holistic Spa Therapist
Mayan Senior Healers,
Beatriz Correa and J-Men Idelfonso
want to share with you all some
basic understandings of the Maya Cosmo-vision especially in the healing arts and
the sacred rituals that are performed by her as an Ix’men (Maya female
healer and priestess) and as a certified Holistic Maya Therapist. Mrs.
Beatriz Correa has trained many Mayan young females with utmost care to
detail and respect to traditional Mayan holistic rituals.
You may adapt for your
home a Mayan ritual U TS’ÍITS J’AIL
TS’ONO’OT. Mrs. Beatriz Correa directs
Yaxkin Spa,
an authentic Maya wellness center and best Mayan Eco-Spa in Yucatan, Mexico.
 DID
YOU
KNOW: Nature and
Wellness Destination is an avant-garde trend in Eco-Tourism, spreading
worldwide. In Yucatan,
Hacienda Chichen & Yaxkin
Spa are listed in National Geographic
Travel web-site among the
Top
Wellness Centers and Nature Destinations of North-America
for the excellence in service and commitment to embrace
the Maya cultural traditions, as part of the experiences offered
to travelers and guests. Yaxkin Spa is Mexico's best
Eco-Spa Wellness Getaway within Mexico's most acclaimed Green
boutique hotels: Hacienda Chichen Resort located near the Mayan
temples of Chichen Itza, Yucatan, Mexico. Come and enjoy a
Mayan algae Spa treat.
"The Essential Elements of Maya
Holistic Healing"
PRAYER
is the most powerful tool any Mayan
healer has, and it is offered to
Junab K’uj (God’s Spirit) and to the
Yuumtsiloób (gods) as a spiritual request for assistance to the
healer in his or her work. Prayer opens the channel of healing and aids in bringing
balance to the person’s Ch’ulel or life energy force between the physical
and spiritual worlds. Prayer, the spoken word in reverence and in a deep state
of meditation, is the power that unites us with the universe and the divine.
Prayers are always repeated in numerical sequences and are normally accompanied
by aromatherapy or incense burning of copal and other sacred resins.
 BLESSING
OF THE WATER
is of utmost importance
to a Mayan healer, especially to the Ix’men (female healer) because of
the connection blessed water has with Ix-chel, the
Mayan Moon Goddess
of medicine,
and with the human body and the energy that flows within it. Blessed water,
especially from Maya Sacred Cenotes, is a powerful element that purifies
and cleans the energy within. In a Spa ritual at
Yaxkin Spa, water is
the link to health and balance.
SACRED NEW FIRE
follows the blessing of the water as the symbol of light and energy. Fire is
the element that unites us with life forces and the spiritual realm. Sacred
Copal must be harvested during a full moon and is burned to aid healing,
cleansing, and releasing that which blocks a person's healthy balance and
energy. New Fire is offered to Junab K’uj prior to initiating a Spa
ritual or ceremony at Yaxkin Spa.
EARTH,
Mayan clays, herbal remedies, and stones,
gems, sacred wood and trees, honey, and corn are all part of the spiritual
connection that help the Mayan healer cure and restore the flow of life energy
in each of us. The ancient Maya Corn Ceremony honors the Spirit of the Earth
and Mother Nature, as well as reminds the participants where they come from,
with the help of Ix-chel, also regarded as a powerful healer, the
Ix’men performs mystical rituals and healing ceremonies where the spiritual
and physical worlds meet.
AIR
is the element that carries vital energy and
the spirit of life. Sound travels through air and bonds with it to bring the
powerful vibrations of sacred words that can heal mind, emotions, and body. The
healer’s words are spoken in harmony with peaceful breathing to directly provide
the rhythm of health and balance. The spiritual power of wind, sound, and
sahumados (copal smoke and other burning aromas) release harmony and unblock
the effects of stress, blocked energy, and emotional trauma.
SPIRITUAL GUIDES, ALUXES,
AND OTHER NON-PHYSICAL HELPERS,
communicate with the Mayan Priests and Healers through intuition, insight
vision, dreams, and sometimes even through physical manifestations that act as
conduits to instruct and guide the Mayan healer. J’men and Ix’men
perform an important sacred ceremony known as K’eek to purify the soul
which has a powerful spiritual connection with deities, Mayan spirits such as
Aluxes, and Nature that provide the right path to bring balance, harmony,
and health to all the bodies that embrace the life force of a person.
MASSAGE TECHNIQUES, HERBAL
BATHS, RUBS, ORGANIC WRAPS, GEMS, STONES, SACRED SOUNDS, HERBAL CURES, and OILS,
are some of the tools Mayan
Healers commonly use to treat physical, emotional, and spiritual ailments. Yet,
it is the inner attuning with God’s Spirit and Love that is the most precious
tool used by the Maya J’men and Ix’men healers. Love, kindness,
intuitive compassion, and listening in peace are important parts of the healing
process and health care. 
TEMPERATURE CHANGE
is of great importance to the Maya philosophy of healing.
Maya people believe
that rapid change in temperature is the cause of many bone pains and muscle
spasms; arthritis, rheumatism, and other disorders are believed to be linked to
inadequate changes of temperature through one’s daily routines. All illnesses
are treated by their cold or hot relationship with energy flow levels.
RITUALS AND CEREMONIES
have tremendous spiritual and healing
power. They provide the frame in which mind, emotions, soul, and spirit become
one, where the purification of ch’ulel can be relieved and the invasive
energy can be transformed; thus, healing take place.
Yaxkin Spa rituals are
focused on balancing the inner energy flow of each person by releasing stress,
anxiety, and other toxic emotions (or physical ailments) from the self. Each
ritual calls upon different aspects of the self to be restored to health and
harmonious balance.
At Yaxkin Spa,
each holistic Maya ritual
and ceremony starts with a prayer in the presence of
light, aromatherapy with sacred incenses, and the blessing of pure, fresh
cenote water. Fire and Air dance together in the harmonious flow of candle
light, while sacred musical rhythms (conch or drums) and chants help set the spa
ambiance into the frame of a Maya Ritual site. Our healers use therapeutic
organic wraps combined with gem-stone energy purification; Sastuns,
blessed pure energy stones that have been charged with the moon or sun energy,
are cleansed with pure, raw sea salt after each ritual.
 Herbal medicine and
natural remedies used in Yaxkin Spa
are 100% organically grown on
Hacienda
Chichen’s property by our own staff,
ensuring quality (no sprayed pesticides) and freshness. Ix'men Beatriz
Correa personally
prepares the herbal mixes,
Kakaw Spa paste, Mayan
blue-green algae wraps, spa mud clays, and
fresh herb blends for the sancochos, or herbal fusion,
applied at the end of each ritual onto the skin; the sancochos clean the
impurities of the skin and remove any organic pastes or excess oils from the
body.
Come enjoy our
acclaimed "Ya'ax
Tun Skin Care Treatment" the ultimate full body and skin nourishment
Spa therapy sure to help your skin cells restore their natural beauty and
healthy grown with our 100% organic grown blue-green cenote algae known as Mayan
Jade Algae with rich Spirulina algae nutrients that restore skin cells overall
health, prevent premature skin cell aging with their rich mineral and vitamin
nutrient concentration; a truly deluxe Mayan jade algae treatment and green Spa
full body skin cells therapy.
To
learn more about the holistic Maya rituals and ceremonies offered at
Yaxkin Spa, please click
here.
If
you would like to reserve and pre-pay your Spa holistic experience at
Yaxkin Spa, please visit
Chichen Services
today.
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MAYA RITUALS
AND HOME SPA CARE
Home Spa sessions of any kind are highly
recommended, especially during times of mild stress and tension. You can highly
intensify their effect by integrating a few holistic caring routines, essential
to one’s health and personal welfare. Maya Rituals can enhance your Home Spa
pampering care when performed with reverence and in a holistic frame of mind.
A holistic Maya ritual, such as U TS’ÍITS J’AIL
TS’ONO’OT or the water
blessing ritual, can ignite powerful chemical changes in the water that has been
blessed; such water when drank with reverence, will bring the purifying energy
benefits that revitalize a person’s ch’ulel, our vital life force, and
restore a healthy equilibrium within.
Here is a ritual full of Ancient Maya Wisdom that is offered at Yaxkin
Spa and can be adapted to your home environment; but first take care to set your
own Spa spot at home by:
 SET THE PLACE:
Start each ritual at home by choosing a peaceful place, such as your bedroom or
bathroom, and choosing a comfortable sofa or chair, best if near a window that
overlooks nature in a peaceful setting. Next, begin to create a harmonious
setting by placing an unleaded clay bowl full of fresh, pure water (avoid
chlorine water such as city tap-water, instead try bottled spring water that has
not had any minerals added) in a table covered with a white linen. Then place
soft lighted candles with the aroma that calms you most, a few fresh flowers
that match (violets with lavender smells, orange blooms with citrus smells,
copal with wildflowers, etc).
Add serene, rhythmic meditation music, along
with incense that blends with the aroma of the candles and a few gemstones of
your choice: jade, rose quartz, obsidian, tiger eye, etc. If you have little
knowledge of stone’s energy and characteristics, browse the Internet for
information and create a small list to keep for future reference on their energy
charges.
Wash your feet and hands, wear a loose white
wrap that is comfortable and has a simple elegance (this will help your emotions
flow into a spa-like home ambiance and inspire your senses to relax and feel
good). Check the temperature of the fresh water for comfort: not too hot or too
cold. Barefooted and with clean feet and hands, stand facing the table where
the water bowl was set. Place a gem of your choice in your hands and close your
eyes; slowly breath with a deep, peaceful rhythm, think positive and kind
thoughts; then start your prayer invoking
Junab K’uj, God, or your Higher
Power. Lift your spirit and feel life flowing in your breathing; calmly bless
the water with heart-felt words forming a brief prayer of purification to
restore peace, health, and inner joy.
 Gently drop the gem into the water bowl
which now has absorbed your loving essence; dip a flower into the water and mist
the air around you as you bless the area. Place slowly your hands four times,
for this water is blessed and carries now the four vital elements of life. Give
thanks to Junab K’uj for his gift of love to
humankind. You just concluded the ritual
of U TS’ÍITS J’AIL TS’ONO’OT,
or the water blessing ritual, to release toxic stress energy from
your own body (water), mind, and soul.
The ritual of
U TS’ÍITS J’AIL TS’ONO’OT,
to release toxic stress and negative energies from your own body (water), mind,
and soul, is primordial to the healing process in the treatment of all types of
diseases. The sacred, pure life force energy in water is acknowledge as the
cleansing media and the connection of mind-over-body and thought-spiritual
energy-power over physical-emotional energies manifested as diseases and
illnesses. This deep understanding of the human multi-level interconnection is
finally being rediscovered in modern medicine after psychotherapy has proven to
help the shatter spiritual nature of humans. Today, physicians are beginning to
understand the important inner connection of mind-body and the psycho-emotional
roots manifested in the physical form (body).
 Fear, stress, as well as negative mental and
physical environments or energy fields are all causes of spiritual disconnection
of the soul and mind. Maya healing recognizes the interconnection of natural
energy of the human’s multiple bodies (mental, spiritual, and emotional) and
energy fields. Like other ancient, refined
civilizations, the Maya have long
recognized the nature of disease, which flows within the soul as well as the
physical and emotional bodies of a person; this causes all types of illness and
discomforts due to the imbalance or trauma in the energy field, or ch’ulel,
in a person’s inner-self. Physical sites or locales where great collective
conscious energy has been impregnated with abuses, evil spirits such as war
experiences, mayor human spiritual shattering traumas, and collective fears can
affect and pollute even Mother Nature and the planet Earth’s energy field’s
equilibrium.
Shattered or lost soul energy can weaken the
entire immune system, impair the nervous system, and bring about chronic
diseases. Shattered or lost soul energy can be restored, however, and regained
through holistic healing rituals, sacred spiritual ceremonies, and purifying
body treatments such as those offered at
Yaxkin Spa replenish the person’s
ch’ulel harmonious flow and restore the pure vital life force in a person.
Since at home you will not have the benefit of
a Maya healer, deep meditation
and prayer with reverence are truly needed to aid you into the spiritual
realm of faith. Thus, none of the healing rituals described by Ix'men Beatriz
Correa will accomplish their true force, unless the person performing them at home
understands the importance of faith as the catalyst chemical changer in cellular
energy and experience reverence in the powerful healing energy of love.
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An interview with Ix-men Beatriz Correa,
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Chichen Itza, Yucatan, Mexico
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U BEJIL
MAYAOOB
EL CAMINO DE
LOS MAYAS
Certificación:
Terapeutas Holísticos Mayas y Diplomado a Terapeutas de Spas,
Impartido en Chichen Itza, Yucatán,
México
La Cosmovisión Maya de la salud nos brinda
el conocimiento de la comunión con los reinos vegetal, animal,
mineral y por supuesto con los seres humanos. Los guardianes de
las antiguas tradiciones holísticas y terapéuticas de sanción
Mayas, nos abren su sabiduría y comparten su conocimiento en
este diplomado con certificado de Terapeuta Holístico Maya
Este Diplomado
incorporara elementos de la Cosmovisión Maya, medulares para la medicina tradicional
holística maya,
así como los conocimientos
sobre simbología maya y la diferencia entre bendiciones,
curaciones, herbolaria, rituales holísticos y ceremonia s
de purificación; todos ellos elementos indispensables que
debemos saber para así respetar y brindar nuestros servicios en
armonía con el cosmos para purificar cuerpo, mente, emociones,
pensamientos, nuestra energía vital.
Los cursos se
impartirán en el idioma español, con introducción al maya. Es
importante tener las bases de la lengua maya, su herbolaria,
fruto terapia, numerología y astronomía; al mismo tiempo conocer
como las vibración de la música y los colores nos llevan a la
armonía del Ser.
El diplomado U BEJIL MAYAOOB te
ofrece introducirte al fascinante mundo de la sanción maya
holística, a descubrir
de los misterios la Cosmovisión, cultura y sabiduría maya.
Diplomado
Impartido por Beatriz Correa, Directora General del SPA
YAXKIN, considerado dentro de los 10 mejores spas ecológicos del
mundo. Así como dentro de los 10 mejores eco-spas de destino de
Latinoamérica. Así como un grupo de expertos en la lengua maya,
herbolaria, numerología maya y spa.
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Este diplomado es autorizado por los
cuidadores de las tradiciones mayas que trabajan en conjunto
con la Fundación Maya In Laakeech A.C.
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Dirigido a Directores de SPA,
supervisores, terapeutas y Público en General.
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Duración: 4 fines de semana al mes.
Julio a octubre 2009 Jueves, viernes, sábado y medio día
domingo.
 Fechas
de los Cursos para el Diplomado y Certificado:
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Julio del 30 al 2 de Agosto, 2009
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A
gosto del
27 al 30, 2009
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Septiembre del 24 al 27, 2009
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Octubre
del 22 al 25, 2009
Almuerzo de Gala y
Entrega de Diplomas y Certificados: Oct. 25, 2009
Inversión:
Cosmovisión Maya de
la Salud y Terapia Holística
Diplomado que será impartido en Chichen Itza, Yucatán, México
Los guardines de las
antiguas tradiciones Mayas, nos abren su sabiduría y
comparten su conocimiento al mundo en este primer diplomado
oficial de la Fundación Maya In Laakeech en colaboración con
Yaxkin Spa, y con la participación especial de
Ancianos y Sacerdotes Mayas: J-Men, sanadores mayas,
cuidadores de las tradiciones holísticas y Cosmovisión Maya.
TEMARIO DEL DIPLOMADO:
•Calendario
Maya Solar y Lunar.
•Vórtices
de Energía.
•Numerología.
•Usos
y Costumbres Mayas:
Tradiciones
curativas holísticas mayas.
•Introducción
a la Herbolaria Maya-Plantas curativas.
•Elementos
de Sanación: Simbología Maya, limpias, masaje corporal.
•Bendiciones,
rituales de sanación, masaje corporal holístico
maya.
•Aplicaciones
a la vida diaria y a las funciones de sanación en un SPA.
Informes e inscripciones abiertas a un grupo limitado de
participantes; reserve su participación antes de Julio 1, 2009 y
obtenga un 20% de descuento del costo total del diplomado.
Diplomado ideal para Terapeutas y Masajistas de la Industria
SPA.
Inscríbase ya via email y confirme su asistencia.
Diplomado
Impartido por:
 M.H.S.T.
Beatriz Correa, Terapeuta de Sanación Holística Maya, Senior
Mayan Healer y Consejera y miembro activo de la Mesa Directiva
de la Fundación Maya In Laakeech A.C. Instructora Terapeuta,
Consejera de Desarrollos Eco-Spa, Directora General y co-dueña
de Yaxkin Spa, Centro de Salud y Bienestar Maya reconocido
Internacionalmente dentro entre los 10 mejores Spas ecológicos
del mundo:
Condé Nast Traveler
on Concierge.Com:
The World 10 Best Eco-Spas.
National Geographic Travel:
10 Top Wellness
Destinations in North America.
Spa Magazine: Seek Out
Eco-Innovators, 2009 Ten Spa's Good List
 H.S.T.
Bertha Castillo.
Terapeuta Holística y Representante de la
Asociación Latino-Americana de Spas A.C. en Q.Roo, Directora y
Gerente de varios Spas Corporativos y hoteleros en la Rivera
Maya durante los últimos 8 años. Coordinadora de los Diplomados
y talleres Spa de terapias mayas autorizados por la Fundación
Maya In Laakeech, A.C.
 S.M.
Jose Tamay, Sacerdote Maya, Director de la Difusión Cultural
y Cosmovisión Maya. de la Fundación Maya In Laakeech A.C. y
Coordinador Maya de Programas Educativos voluntarios culturales
y bienestar social en comunidades rurales mayas y Miembro de la
Asociación de Ancianos y Sacerdotes Mayas A.C.
Otros Invitados a los Talleres
del Programa: Masajistas y Terapeutas
Mayas, Marcela y Manuela; Guía Cultural Maya, Jose Luis Pech.
January 2007
Updated May 2008 / January, May 2009
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