Tag: temazcal

Spa Experience: Náay Spa, El Dorado Seaside Suites, Mexico

Náay Spa at El Dorado Seaside Suites is home to the Balam Experience, a unique evening experience where guests begin with the spa hydrotherapy circuit; enjoying the sauna, steam room, and mud room. In the mud room, clay is applied over the body, and guests relax while seated in individual tiled alcoves in the steam […]

A Wellness Experience: Caribe Sis

As ice baths gain popularity around the world; in the region of Riviera Maya, Caribe Sis brings a variety of ice and heat therapy experiences to the community of locals, expats and visitors to the region. With a small location in the town of Playa del Carmen offering a shaded space for the preliminary breathwork, two large concrete bathtubs for the ice bath experience and a sauna cabin incorporating elements of the traditional Mayan Temazcal chamber such as volcanic rocks that heat the space from a central pit and herb infused water poured over the glowing rocks, creating aromatic steam.

Energy Healing and Spirituality in Mexico

In Mexico, as in many other Meso American regions, rituals are an important part of the ancestral heritage left by pre-Hispanic cultures (Mayans, Aztecs, Otomies, Incas etc.), who used herbalism and other spiritual elements to heal the body and soul.

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Surf’s Up! The New Wave of Wellness

“Let’s go surfin’ now, everybody’s learning how, come on a safari with me.” – The Beach Boys, 1962 It’s hardly breaking news that surf culture has been established as the apex of cool. The worship of surfing “style” took off in the ‘60s when the Beach Boys harmonized about a world where “everybody’d be surfin’ like Californ-i-a, and Bruce Brown’s documentary The Endless Summer brought images of boy-tribes on their globe-trotting quest for perfect waves to the world.