Mayan Riviera's Temazcal: A Treatment for Physical and Spiritual Diseases The Yucatan Times | |
go to original July 27, 2014 |
Spirituality Riviera Maya - Temazcal Ceremonies (SpiritualityRM)
Getting stuck in a hot, fragrant stone dugout for two hours with a chanting shaman is much more therapeutic than it sounds.
You are locked inside a pitch-black concrete dugout in Mexico, sweating in unbearable heat. With you is a shaman who has been chanting ceaselessly for the past two hours as strange vapors swirl around them.
It may sound like a harrowing ordeal, but you actually volunteered for it.
This is the world of Temazcal, a practice dating back centuries to when Mexico’s Mayan Riviera was wilderness and the Mayan civilization was at the height of its power.
Temazcal entails entering a stone igloo with little or no clothing on and sweating it out to the sound of chanting and the fragrance of herbs.
Typically carried out for small groups by a shaman who’s usually a member of one of the Mayan communities in the surrounding area, the process lasts two hours and it can be a tough experience.
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