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Beatriz Correa wants 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 graduated Holistic Maya Therapist. To see how to adapt the Maya ritual U TS’ÍITS J’AIL TS’ONO’OT for your home, please click here. Mrs. Beatriz Correa directs Yaxkin Spa, an authentic Mayan wellness center and best Maya Spa in Yucatan, Mexico.
These are 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.
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.
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 pure, raw sea salt after each ritual. Herbal medicine and remedies used in Yaxkin Spa are organically grown on Hacienda Chichen’s property or by our own staff, ensuring quality (no sprayed pesticides) and freshness. Ix'men Beatriz Correa personally prepares the herbal mix at 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.
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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. Sip slowly from 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. 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.
An interview with Ix-men Beatriz Correa,
January 2007
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