Calmed Breathing: An important skill to master Meditation
For beginners, it is very important to start their meditation in a quiet serene place such as your own room (turn off: TV, all phones including your cellular, or anything that will distract your mind. Once you have stopped all distractions, sit in a comfortable straight position (don't lay down as you may end up sleeping rather than meditating), start breathing with your nostrils in a calm rhythmic manner, clearing your mind from all thoughts, let it stay still with a natural lucid vision of what makes you feel deeply a spiritual serenity, breath slowly concentrating in the rhythmic flow of air in and out of your nostrils, this will help you stay in the moment and calmly develop inner peace and a connection with your soul energy. Keep a silence mind to feel your own true self, not the ego materialized self, but your energy holistic self. Develop a daily habit to meditate for at least 10 minutes every day, twice a day will increase your healthy energy flow and bust your immune system by helping your mind learn to avoid stressful energy build-up.
Those beginning meditation will notice at first it will be very difficult to quiet the mind, to stop thoughts arising, this brings an awareness of how busy our mind tends to be; but with daily practice the mind will drop all they busy thoughts and ideas from interrupting our awareness of the calmed silent breathing rhythm flow of our body with no mental busy thoughts plaguing our mind.
When the turbulence of distracting thoughts and ideas subside and we are able to keep a still mind, most of the stress and anticipating energy flow of our life will come to an end, we will learn to live in the moment: in the Now; an important skill to master in this current global cultural mesh we live in. Such is the way of the Maya Healers and Wiseman: meditation helps us live healthy lifes.
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The Essential Elements of Maya
Holistic Healing We had the pleasure of interviewing Yaxkin Spa's new generation of wellness personal care visionaries, its Spa Consultant, Holistic Wellness Coach, and Maya Healers. The experience left us in awe! This unique intergenerational Spa team is composed of four proactive professional females filled with enchantment, wisdom, and respect for Mother Nature. They are focus on bringing their Maya Spa guests the best holistic wellness care imagined..
We started the interview with its youngest member, Isabel Gutierrez (right top photo), a Marine Biologist and Anthropologist dedicated to the Maya. Her youthful glow comes from her years of careful health and wellness personal care and her dedication to understand her body, mind, and spiritual needs at a deep level. "To be healthy is a goal we all should aim to," she explains with a healthy gentle smile that tells a lot about her approach to live, no wonder she is the new holistic wellness coach at Yaxkin Spa.
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.
Prayers carry a pure energy when made during
daily meditation.
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 cosmic living 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.
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.
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 organic 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 wild fresh herbs and pure essential oils, spa mud clays, and fresh fruit 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. Our Maya Spa is certified by the Mayan Elders and Healers.
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 Wellness skin care treatment and green Spa full body skin cells therapy.
Maya Spa 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:
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.
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).
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.
An interview with
the Holistic WellnessConsultants
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