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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.

DID YOU KNOW: Nature and Wellness Destination Tourism is an avant-garde trend spreading worldwide.  In Yucatan,  Hacienda Chichen & Yaxkin Spa are listed among the Top Wellness Centers and Nature Destinations of North-America for their excellence in service and commitment to embrace the Maya cultural traditions, as part of the experiences offered to travelers and guests.

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.
 

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 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 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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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.


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An interview with Ix-men Beatriz Correa, 
    Director of Yaxkin Spa at Hacienda Chichen
    Chichen Itza, Yucatan, Mexico

January 2007
    Updated May 2008