The Ancient Art of Mayan Hot Stone Therapy
Mayan Hot Stone Therapy
Experience or Learn the Ancient Art of Mayan Hot Stone Therapy
Wikipedia
Learn why the Mayan Calender ends December, 21st 2012.
Ancient Maya were intimately connected with the natural balance of the environment
Ancient Maya performed body beautification rituals with meditation periods to awaken the pure essence of the self
Since ancient times, Mayan shamans have believed that jade and quartz are sacred due to their metaphysical properties, purifying qualities, and energy benefits. Our hot stone massage therapy, Hydroflexology, combines the vigorous healing energy accumulated in hot stones with aromatic oils. This ritual will ensure the release of tension, anxiety, and the toxins these emotions create by renewing the energy of the body and mind. Once each stone is used, it is then cleansed, purified, and placed on Maya sacred ground to renew its pure energy flow.
Pampering beauty ritual created for Maya kings to release the negative energies of stress and fatigue. It includes shoulder, neck, and scalp massages; plus, a deluxe facial care treatment rooted in sacred Maya healing practices
Experience the mystical power of Mayan traditions and beauty rituals his treatment is extremely beneficial to hair exposed to salt water, chlorine, and/or hair coloring by restoring the pH balance of your hair.
The Maya word for butterfly is "pepen" the perfect name for this ritual of grace and beauty The supreme Maya therapy created to renew your spirit; clean and invigorate your body; and restore the equilibrium and serenity of your mind; thus, bringing into physical manifestation the true nature of your spirit. This holistic ceremony will align the energies of earth, water, fire, and air in you. Anointing the body with Xunan Kab royal pure payaya oil, delicately mixed in a sacred Maya clay body wrap, the healer will unblock your energy flow with a gentle facial, aromatherapy, reflexology, Maya crystal and gemstone therapy.
Medicine of the Maya is a system of knowledge and practices using a holistic, approach. Similarities of Mayan and Chinese medicine apparent in cosmology, concepts of the human body, disease and causality, and therapeutic methods. Mayan medicine has, like Chinese medicine though less extensively, its own patterns of systematic correspondence. There are, for example, nearly 50 points used by indigenous Mayan practitioners which correspond in location and therapeutic use to Chinese points, specifically in their local effects.
The ancient Mayan civilization ruled over Central America up until the time of the Spanish invasion. The Mayans based their healing practices on herbal remedies, crystals and divine intervention. Today, their descendants still live in parts of Central America. Prayer and home remedies are prevalent among these people, as access to modern medicine is limited.
The Maya believe that nightmares and night terrors are common symptoms of children who have experienced shock or grief, which they consider spiritual illnesses. They say that children, because of their tender years and lack of emotional barriers, are especially vulnerable to these illnesses which along with fear, envy, and depression can cause the loss of chuílel - the Mayan word for soul force or life energy. Maya shamans believe that a gentle sacred bath refreshes the electro-magnetic energy field surrounding our bodies, restoring the harmony of body, mind, emotion, and spirit.
Mayan Guidance
Mayan Astrology
Time & Destiny
From ancient times there are cultures in the world with deep knowledge of life and its cycles. For the respect and love that nurtured their relations with nature, they created great civilizations. One of these cultures is the Galactic Mayans. With their knowledge of the nature of time, they developed a variety of instruments to measure it and study it.
The system we present is based on the sacred count of the 260 days called the Tzolkin. The Tzolkin clearly describes the rhythms, relations, and development of the earth, solar, and lunar energies, day by day. The 260 days is the result of 13 times 20; 13 tones or types of lunar energy, the feminine part of the creation, and 20 solar essences, the masculine part. Together, they bring us the necessary information to understand the global energy of a day, year, person, or group. Its name is Kin.
When we know the kin of a person, we can elaborate the oracle of destiny, formed by five powers (kins) of destiny: destiny power, guide power, friend power, hidden power, and challenge power. These powers guide and help us in the fulfillment of each individual's mission on earth.
The Tzolkin, a beautiful tool for healing, self knowledge, and reconnection of our heart with the heart of our mother Earth and all living creatures, comes to your hands.
Mayan Healing
Mayan healing treatments differentiate between physical and spiritual causes of illness. Treatments like cupping (a form of acupuncture) and bone-setting, work with physical illnesses, from fever to diabetes and broken bones. Spiritual illnesses are discovered in the pulse and in behavioral change. Primary spiritual illnesses are: Mal de Ojo (evil eye), Susto (fright), Pesar (grief), Tristeza (sadness), and Envy. Treatments for spiritual illnesses include Prayers, Faith, Herbal Baths, Teas, Laughter, Burning Copal, Amulets, and the Primicia Ceremony. Mayan healing also includes massage of the neck, feet, back, and abdomen, including uterine massage for women.
Plant Spirit Prayer
The spirit of the plant will follow you home to strengthen your healing if you remember to ask for help and to give thanks, otherwise the plant spirit will stay in the ground. When gathering medicine, give your complete confidence in the plants and faith in God that the plants will heal. With faith, everything is possible. In the book Sastun, this prayer is called the Ensalmo and goes:
"I am the one who walks in the mountains seeking the medicine to heal the people. I give thanks to the Spirit of this plant and I have faith with all my heart that this plant will heal the sickness of the people.
This is the prayer that Mayans gave us and made us repeat to her.
"I am [name yourself], walking through the hills, the valleys, the creeks [name the place where you are], collecting [name the plants] to heal ["the people", or a particular person].
I give thanks to the spirit of this plant and I have faith with all my heart that it is going to heal [this person]. I give thanks to the spirit of these plants.
Asking permission and spending time sending positive intention to the harvested plants as you are mish-mashing them for teas or baths or tinctures is also part of how this works. Without the prayers, the spirit of the plant will stay with the plant; if you would like its healing properties, you must ask it to help heal. When you have worked with the plants, be sure to give them back to the earth.
Copal
"like calling the guardian angels"… Copal is the resin from a sacred tree, crumbled and burned on charcoal burner discs as incense to help treat spiritual illnesses, and for purification and prayer.
Black Copal to ward off or banish bad juju and negative things, to clear the energy after a fight or fright, or if lots of people have been visiting [you can mix it with rosemary, dried basil, and garlic peel]
White, Amber, Grainy Copal to bring good luck, peace, happiness, for dream visions and new projects, to bring benevolence and to call upon the positive.
Amulets
Offering protection against evil spirit beings or evil sent by human beings, including hexes, envy, and the evil eye. A piece of black cloth and black thread sewed up around: *Grainy and Amber Copal, *3 Herbs of Grace *Crystal
After the wearing or keeping for three months, remove the crystal and place it out under the full moon in a clear glass container bath of water, white rum or other clear alcohol, and sea salt for cleansing. Burn or bury the bag with herbs and copal, which will have absorbed the negative energy.
Primicia
An old Mayan ritual to give thanks to, worship, and ask favors of the 9 Mayan spirits and God. A Primicia may be held on full moon nights, or nine times throughout the year for planting, harvesting, rain, sick people, and to show love for the spirits – it is through Primicias that spirit are invited to the world of mortals, and prayers are answered. Participants in the ceremony traditionally dressed in white.
The formal prayers to the four cardinal points are made through call and response singing, and special prayers may be written on slips of paper and placed upon the table. Participants may make many prayers for others, but only one prayer is made for the self. Afterwards, the people drink the atole, a sweet corn mashed beverage, and burned the prayer papers over a candle outside.
4 Cardinal Points
Mayan mythology lays the world square, and there is someone called a 'bacab' holding each of the corners of the world. In the rare event of an earthquake, perhaps one of the bacab got tired and let go… Mayan mythology shared the following about the 4 cardinal points and the 4 doors of purification:
East where the sun rises, the beginning, the color white, consciousness
West where the sun sets, the feminine energy rising, the color Red, the womb of the earth and the telling of fears
North the silence, the color black, forgiveness
South the manifestation, the color blue, the energy of hope and joy
Sasturn has this to offer in the way of the holiness of 4: the 4 virgins of Carmen, Guadelupe, Fatima, and Lourdes, the 4 domains of Ixchel, goddess of medicine, Lady Rainbow, guardian of the plant spirits: childbirth, weaving, medicine, and the moon.
"The 3 Herbs of Grace"
Marigold, Basil, and Rue.
Or Calendula, Basil, and St John's Wort in Western climates.
-Peppermint, Cloves, Garlic, Chamomile, Rosemary, and Yarrow are right up there too, in the little book of essential herbs –
These herbs are the foundation of much spiritual healing work with the emotions, as well providing relief from physical illness and pain.
Doctrine of Signature
Plants look like what they're good for.
Not all the time, but there is a metaphorical or intuitive connection. For example, when a leaf crosses a branch it is a sign that the plant has medicinal powers. A plant with heart shaped leaves may be good for blood and heart related treatments. Ms Beatrice repeatedly pointed out purple flowered plants that were good for nerves, yellow flowered plants for infection, or for their liver cleansing properties, and red flowered plants for either building blood or to stop bleeding. A red Hibiscus flower, eaten raw to help stop cramping, for example. Plant healing power is down in the roots until the sun calls it up to the leaves. So an intuitive gathering would find roots in the morning, and leaves in the warmth of day.
Or try asking the plants themselves; opening up the intuitive sense that allows your mind to receive information from sources outside of technology or human interface is what allows wisdom to ripen in you. Dreaming with the plants: lying down to sleep with them and asking to know them, is a fine and faith-filled practice of meeting plant energy in a realm where the human psyche and the archetypal energy of the plant can relate.
Pregnancy
Candied Ginger, and orange peel, either chewed upon or boiled for tea, will help with morning sickness. Avoid the allspice if your pregnancy feels weak.
Childbirth goes according to the moon; a woman will give deliver during the same moon in which she became pregnant.
After Childbirth & Breastfeeding
Use golden seal root powder, and almond, olive, or balsam bark oil around the umbilicus.
After childbirth, stay away from fried food, tomatoes, ginger, and onion (causes colic) for a moon cycle, if not longer. Black pepper, cumin, garlic, and cloves are good for you though, during this time.
Breast milk is a good way for a child to receive antibiotics during the first three months, and the bond between mom and child is built and strengthened beyond its foundation in the womb through breastfeeding. Mayans used breastfeeding as birth control, but insisted that it must be full-on breastfeeding, and that if the baby's feeding rhythm is interrupted for even a day, that some other birth control would be needed.
Menopause
Headaches, diarrhea, pain in joints and the low back, and moodiness and tiredness are symptoms of the beginnings of menopause, which may begin around the age of 38. Steam baths come highly recommended during this time. Lime juice, which is cooling, and red hibiscus tea, as well as honey, bee pollen, and seafood, are all ways of balancing temperature in the body and providing the iron and iodine that the body needs. No ginger or allspice during menopause. The Female Tonic, which is good for hot flashes as well as uterine conditions, she recommends using every day for 3 months at a time, on and off.
When the menses has stopped, but the body may still be experiencing its hormonal signals, she recommends abdominal massage to keep the uterus and the solar plexus supple and engaged.
Steam baths
Mayan recommending steam baths to prepare and assist the uterus in the shedding of one moon's cycle, and to ease some of the passing of menopause. For each steam bath, drink one cup of the water you are steaming, so that the herbs reach both inside and outside. Make the steam bath as the last thing at night before sleep, 5 days before menses and again 5 days after. Do not do steam baths if you are pregnant or for the first 5 days after giving birth.
Using the plant medicine prayer, collect 3 sprigs of 3 herbs, 6" in length if they are fresh, or one handful dried, of each herb you are using. Mish-mash the herbs, and then boil the herbs in a large pot of water for about 10 minutes. Sit naked from the waist down on a slotted chair over the pot of steaming herbs and wrap a blanket around your legs to hold the steam. Do the steam bath on the chair for about 10 minutes, until you can feel the steam entering and you start sweating.
Good herbs to use for steam baths are mint, red clover, basil, rosemary, plantain, rosemary, and calendula.
Tinctures
There was some discussion among the herbalists about different tincture possibilities. Clear alcohol works well – everclear has the highest alcohol content and therefore may draw the most potent dose from the herbs, but it may be a bit much for everybody…potato vodka is a good bet, brandy is also nice, and red shiso vinegar is a great non-alcoholic option for tincture medium.
Gather the plants with permission and prayer, mish mash them, and place them into a quart jar or some such equivalent, and make sure that they are completely submerged in alcohol. Then cap the jar and let the mixture steep for a least a moon cycle, shaking it up occasionally. Strain the herbs through cheesecloth, squeezing gently to retain as much of the concoction as possible, and you're all set.
Massage
Mayans began massages by praying over pulses of patients with plants. They asked people to close their eyes and imagine "white light, white flowers, and guardian angels around you" and then held a few leaves at each wrist, and then at the solar plexus, and the third eye. For both men and women Mayans began the massage at the solar plexus, which she called "Pandora's Box" because of the amount of emotional energy stored here. When dealing with the updwelling of old fright or grief, she invited people to tell their troubles to an "old tree that can hold it".
TRANSFORMATION
The wisdom of the Mayans and "REVELATION"
Transformation is crossing the illusion of the third dimension and filling your aura with the bright colors of creation. It is transcending time, space, matter and energy, so that the emotions can be controlled and one can reach a higher consciousness.
Activating the amygdala gland through smell is the easiest way to achieve this. That is why the oils are important.
Like the Mayan Indians, one can enter the frontal lobe. From the time of birth, Mayan babies foreheads would be pushed in so that the amygdala and the frontal lobes would connect. T.D.A. Lingo did a lot of research on activating the amygdala gland. The gland is divided into two parts. The posterior part controls the emotions and the anterior part causes you access to your frontal lobes. By accessing the frontal lobes, one can fill their aura with the colors of the rainbow.
At the Mayan site of Chichen Itza, the artwork that remains shows how the babies foreheads were pushed in, so that the connection between the amygdala and the frontal lobes was more easily accessed. These pictures also depict Mayan babies and adults eyes as being crossed. This is because the Mayans, from an early age, were encouraged to focus on their frontal lobes and access their power.
Since ancient times, the Maya wedding ceremony has been a sacred and spiritual event in a couple's life. In order to prepare for such an important event, the couple undergoes many spiritual and physical activities filled with mystical sights, sounds, and smells. Ixchel bridal ceremony caters to the bride's emotions and beauty needs. A gentle massage with handmade clay spheres, filled with essential oils are rubbed through out the legs, back, and shoulders, as the clay releases the oils due to the warm body friction, the body relaxes and is ready for the next step. A body wrap with the rich nourishing elements found in organic honey and Ka't a refined Maya clay; the wrap will renew the bride's skin natural balance, leaving it with a beautiful, healthy, smooth glow.. Ixchel ends with a light cucumber or fruit facial and a soft lip gloss to grace the natural beauty in you. Beauty and grace are the spirit of this treatment, individually tailored to meet each bride's personal needs.
Experience or Learn the Ancient Art of Mayan Hot Stone Therapy
Wikipedia
Learn why the Mayan Calender ends December, 21st 2012.
Ancient Maya were intimately connected with the natural balance of the environment
Ancient Maya performed body beautification rituals with meditation periods to awaken the pure essence of the self
Since ancient times, Mayan shamans have believed that jade and quartz are sacred due to their metaphysical properties, purifying qualities, and energy benefits. Our hot stone massage therapy, Hydroflexology, combines the vigorous healing energy accumulated in hot stones with aromatic oils. This ritual will ensure the release of tension, anxiety, and the toxins these emotions create by renewing the energy of the body and mind. Once each stone is used, it is then cleansed, purified, and placed on Maya sacred ground to renew its pure energy flow.
Pampering beauty ritual created for Maya kings to release the negative energies of stress and fatigue. It includes shoulder, neck, and scalp massages; plus, a deluxe facial care treatment rooted in sacred Maya healing practices
Experience the mystical power of Mayan traditions and beauty rituals his treatment is extremely beneficial to hair exposed to salt water, chlorine, and/or hair coloring by restoring the pH balance of your hair.
The Maya word for butterfly is "pepen" the perfect name for this ritual of grace and beauty The supreme Maya therapy created to renew your spirit; clean and invigorate your body; and restore the equilibrium and serenity of your mind; thus, bringing into physical manifestation the true nature of your spirit. This holistic ceremony will align the energies of earth, water, fire, and air in you. Anointing the body with Xunan Kab royal pure payaya oil, delicately mixed in a sacred Maya clay body wrap, the healer will unblock your energy flow with a gentle facial, aromatherapy, reflexology, Maya crystal and gemstone therapy.
Medicine of the Maya is a system of knowledge and practices using a holistic, approach. Similarities of Mayan and Chinese medicine apparent in cosmology, concepts of the human body, disease and causality, and therapeutic methods. Mayan medicine has, like Chinese medicine though less extensively, its own patterns of systematic correspondence. There are, for example, nearly 50 points used by indigenous Mayan practitioners which correspond in location and therapeutic use to Chinese points, specifically in their local effects.
The ancient Mayan civilization ruled over Central America up until the time of the Spanish invasion. The Mayans based their healing practices on herbal remedies, crystals and divine intervention. Today, their descendants still live in parts of Central America. Prayer and home remedies are prevalent among these people, as access to modern medicine is limited.
The Maya believe that nightmares and night terrors are common symptoms of children who have experienced shock or grief, which they consider spiritual illnesses. They say that children, because of their tender years and lack of emotional barriers, are especially vulnerable to these illnesses which along with fear, envy, and depression can cause the loss of chuílel - the Mayan word for soul force or life energy. Maya shamans believe that a gentle sacred bath refreshes the electro-magnetic energy field surrounding our bodies, restoring the harmony of body, mind, emotion, and spirit.
Mayan Guidance
Mayan Astrology
Time & Destiny
From ancient times there are cultures in the world with deep knowledge of life and its cycles. For the respect and love that nurtured their relations with nature, they created great civilizations. One of these cultures is the Galactic Mayans. With their knowledge of the nature of time, they developed a variety of instruments to measure it and study it.
The system we present is based on the sacred count of the 260 days called the Tzolkin. The Tzolkin clearly describes the rhythms, relations, and development of the earth, solar, and lunar energies, day by day. The 260 days is the result of 13 times 20; 13 tones or types of lunar energy, the feminine part of the creation, and 20 solar essences, the masculine part. Together, they bring us the necessary information to understand the global energy of a day, year, person, or group. Its name is Kin.
When we know the kin of a person, we can elaborate the oracle of destiny, formed by five powers (kins) of destiny: destiny power, guide power, friend power, hidden power, and challenge power. These powers guide and help us in the fulfillment of each individual's mission on earth.
The Tzolkin, a beautiful tool for healing, self knowledge, and reconnection of our heart with the heart of our mother Earth and all living creatures, comes to your hands.
Mayan Healing
Mayan healing treatments differentiate between physical and spiritual causes of illness. Treatments like cupping (a form of acupuncture) and bone-setting, work with physical illnesses, from fever to diabetes and broken bones. Spiritual illnesses are discovered in the pulse and in behavioral change. Primary spiritual illnesses are: Mal de Ojo (evil eye), Susto (fright), Pesar (grief), Tristeza (sadness), and Envy. Treatments for spiritual illnesses include Prayers, Faith, Herbal Baths, Teas, Laughter, Burning Copal, Amulets, and the Primicia Ceremony. Mayan healing also includes massage of the neck, feet, back, and abdomen, including uterine massage for women.
Plant Spirit Prayer
The spirit of the plant will follow you home to strengthen your healing if you remember to ask for help and to give thanks, otherwise the plant spirit will stay in the ground. When gathering medicine, give your complete confidence in the plants and faith in God that the plants will heal. With faith, everything is possible. In the book Sastun, this prayer is called the Ensalmo and goes:
"I am the one who walks in the mountains seeking the medicine to heal the people. I give thanks to the Spirit of this plant and I have faith with all my heart that this plant will heal the sickness of the people.
This is the prayer that Mayans gave us and made us repeat to her.
"I am [name yourself], walking through the hills, the valleys, the creeks [name the place where you are], collecting [name the plants] to heal ["the people", or a particular person].
I give thanks to the spirit of this plant and I have faith with all my heart that it is going to heal [this person]. I give thanks to the spirit of these plants.
Asking permission and spending time sending positive intention to the harvested plants as you are mish-mashing them for teas or baths or tinctures is also part of how this works. Without the prayers, the spirit of the plant will stay with the plant; if you would like its healing properties, you must ask it to help heal. When you have worked with the plants, be sure to give them back to the earth.
Copal
"like calling the guardian angels"… Copal is the resin from a sacred tree, crumbled and burned on charcoal burner discs as incense to help treat spiritual illnesses, and for purification and prayer.
Black Copal to ward off or banish bad juju and negative things, to clear the energy after a fight or fright, or if lots of people have been visiting [you can mix it with rosemary, dried basil, and garlic peel]
White, Amber, Grainy Copal to bring good luck, peace, happiness, for dream visions and new projects, to bring benevolence and to call upon the positive.
Amulets
Offering protection against evil spirit beings or evil sent by human beings, including hexes, envy, and the evil eye. A piece of black cloth and black thread sewed up around: *Grainy and Amber Copal, *3 Herbs of Grace *Crystal
After the wearing or keeping for three months, remove the crystal and place it out under the full moon in a clear glass container bath of water, white rum or other clear alcohol, and sea salt for cleansing. Burn or bury the bag with herbs and copal, which will have absorbed the negative energy.
Primicia
An old Mayan ritual to give thanks to, worship, and ask favors of the 9 Mayan spirits and God. A Primicia may be held on full moon nights, or nine times throughout the year for planting, harvesting, rain, sick people, and to show love for the spirits – it is through Primicias that spirit are invited to the world of mortals, and prayers are answered. Participants in the ceremony traditionally dressed in white.
The formal prayers to the four cardinal points are made through call and response singing, and special prayers may be written on slips of paper and placed upon the table. Participants may make many prayers for others, but only one prayer is made for the self. Afterwards, the people drink the atole, a sweet corn mashed beverage, and burned the prayer papers over a candle outside.
4 Cardinal Points
Mayan mythology lays the world square, and there is someone called a 'bacab' holding each of the corners of the world. In the rare event of an earthquake, perhaps one of the bacab got tired and let go… Mayan mythology shared the following about the 4 cardinal points and the 4 doors of purification:
East where the sun rises, the beginning, the color white, consciousness
West where the sun sets, the feminine energy rising, the color Red, the womb of the earth and the telling of fears
North the silence, the color black, forgiveness
South the manifestation, the color blue, the energy of hope and joy
Sasturn has this to offer in the way of the holiness of 4: the 4 virgins of Carmen, Guadelupe, Fatima, and Lourdes, the 4 domains of Ixchel, goddess of medicine, Lady Rainbow, guardian of the plant spirits: childbirth, weaving, medicine, and the moon.
"The 3 Herbs of Grace"
Marigold, Basil, and Rue.
Or Calendula, Basil, and St John's Wort in Western climates.
-Peppermint, Cloves, Garlic, Chamomile, Rosemary, and Yarrow are right up there too, in the little book of essential herbs –
These herbs are the foundation of much spiritual healing work with the emotions, as well providing relief from physical illness and pain.
Doctrine of Signature
Plants look like what they're good for.
Not all the time, but there is a metaphorical or intuitive connection. For example, when a leaf crosses a branch it is a sign that the plant has medicinal powers. A plant with heart shaped leaves may be good for blood and heart related treatments. Ms Beatrice repeatedly pointed out purple flowered plants that were good for nerves, yellow flowered plants for infection, or for their liver cleansing properties, and red flowered plants for either building blood or to stop bleeding. A red Hibiscus flower, eaten raw to help stop cramping, for example. Plant healing power is down in the roots until the sun calls it up to the leaves. So an intuitive gathering would find roots in the morning, and leaves in the warmth of day.
Or try asking the plants themselves; opening up the intuitive sense that allows your mind to receive information from sources outside of technology or human interface is what allows wisdom to ripen in you. Dreaming with the plants: lying down to sleep with them and asking to know them, is a fine and faith-filled practice of meeting plant energy in a realm where the human psyche and the archetypal energy of the plant can relate.
Pregnancy
Candied Ginger, and orange peel, either chewed upon or boiled for tea, will help with morning sickness. Avoid the allspice if your pregnancy feels weak.
Childbirth goes according to the moon; a woman will give deliver during the same moon in which she became pregnant.
After Childbirth & Breastfeeding
Use golden seal root powder, and almond, olive, or balsam bark oil around the umbilicus.
After childbirth, stay away from fried food, tomatoes, ginger, and onion (causes colic) for a moon cycle, if not longer. Black pepper, cumin, garlic, and cloves are good for you though, during this time.
Breast milk is a good way for a child to receive antibiotics during the first three months, and the bond between mom and child is built and strengthened beyond its foundation in the womb through breastfeeding. Mayans used breastfeeding as birth control, but insisted that it must be full-on breastfeeding, and that if the baby's feeding rhythm is interrupted for even a day, that some other birth control would be needed.
Menopause
Headaches, diarrhea, pain in joints and the low back, and moodiness and tiredness are symptoms of the beginnings of menopause, which may begin around the age of 38. Steam baths come highly recommended during this time. Lime juice, which is cooling, and red hibiscus tea, as well as honey, bee pollen, and seafood, are all ways of balancing temperature in the body and providing the iron and iodine that the body needs. No ginger or allspice during menopause. The Female Tonic, which is good for hot flashes as well as uterine conditions, she recommends using every day for 3 months at a time, on and off.
When the menses has stopped, but the body may still be experiencing its hormonal signals, she recommends abdominal massage to keep the uterus and the solar plexus supple and engaged.
Steam baths
Mayan recommending steam baths to prepare and assist the uterus in the shedding of one moon's cycle, and to ease some of the passing of menopause. For each steam bath, drink one cup of the water you are steaming, so that the herbs reach both inside and outside. Make the steam bath as the last thing at night before sleep, 5 days before menses and again 5 days after. Do not do steam baths if you are pregnant or for the first 5 days after giving birth.
Using the plant medicine prayer, collect 3 sprigs of 3 herbs, 6" in length if they are fresh, or one handful dried, of each herb you are using. Mish-mash the herbs, and then boil the herbs in a large pot of water for about 10 minutes. Sit naked from the waist down on a slotted chair over the pot of steaming herbs and wrap a blanket around your legs to hold the steam. Do the steam bath on the chair for about 10 minutes, until you can feel the steam entering and you start sweating.
Good herbs to use for steam baths are mint, red clover, basil, rosemary, plantain, rosemary, and calendula.
Tinctures
There was some discussion among the herbalists about different tincture possibilities. Clear alcohol works well – everclear has the highest alcohol content and therefore may draw the most potent dose from the herbs, but it may be a bit much for everybody…potato vodka is a good bet, brandy is also nice, and red shiso vinegar is a great non-alcoholic option for tincture medium.
Gather the plants with permission and prayer, mish mash them, and place them into a quart jar or some such equivalent, and make sure that they are completely submerged in alcohol. Then cap the jar and let the mixture steep for a least a moon cycle, shaking it up occasionally. Strain the herbs through cheesecloth, squeezing gently to retain as much of the concoction as possible, and you're all set.
Massage
Mayans began massages by praying over pulses of patients with plants. They asked people to close their eyes and imagine "white light, white flowers, and guardian angels around you" and then held a few leaves at each wrist, and then at the solar plexus, and the third eye. For both men and women Mayans began the massage at the solar plexus, which she called "Pandora's Box" because of the amount of emotional energy stored here. When dealing with the updwelling of old fright or grief, she invited people to tell their troubles to an "old tree that can hold it".
TRANSFORMATION
The wisdom of the Mayans and "REVELATION"
Transformation is crossing the illusion of the third dimension and filling your aura with the bright colors of creation. It is transcending time, space, matter and energy, so that the emotions can be controlled and one can reach a higher consciousness.
Activating the amygdala gland through smell is the easiest way to achieve this. That is why the oils are important.
Like the Mayan Indians, one can enter the frontal lobe. From the time of birth, Mayan babies foreheads would be pushed in so that the amygdala and the frontal lobes would connect. T.D.A. Lingo did a lot of research on activating the amygdala gland. The gland is divided into two parts. The posterior part controls the emotions and the anterior part causes you access to your frontal lobes. By accessing the frontal lobes, one can fill their aura with the colors of the rainbow.
At the Mayan site of Chichen Itza, the artwork that remains shows how the babies foreheads were pushed in, so that the connection between the amygdala and the frontal lobes was more easily accessed. These pictures also depict Mayan babies and adults eyes as being crossed. This is because the Mayans, from an early age, were encouraged to focus on their frontal lobes and access their power.
Since ancient times, the Maya wedding ceremony has been a sacred and spiritual event in a couple's life. In order to prepare for such an important event, the couple undergoes many spiritual and physical activities filled with mystical sights, sounds, and smells. Ixchel bridal ceremony caters to the bride's emotions and beauty needs. A gentle massage with handmade clay spheres, filled with essential oils are rubbed through out the legs, back, and shoulders, as the clay releases the oils due to the warm body friction, the body relaxes and is ready for the next step. A body wrap with the rich nourishing elements found in organic honey and Ka't a refined Maya clay; the wrap will renew the bride's skin natural balance, leaving it with a beautiful, healthy, smooth glow.. Ixchel ends with a light cucumber or fruit facial and a soft lip gloss to grace the natural beauty in you. Beauty and grace are the spirit of this treatment, individually tailored to meet each bride's personal needs.
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