From the second I arrived at Rosewood Mayakoba and my welcome boat glided towards my suite, I had a way of calm and a powerful suspicion that one thing exceptional was across the nook for me.
This self-marriage program combines the 4 components that we’re: water, wind, earth, and hearth. In accordance with Emmanuel Arroyo, the regional director of spas and wellness at Rosewood Mayakoba, the act of recognizing oneself by way of connections with pure components as a path to success stems from Mayan tradition. Fernanda Montiel, an Indigenous third-generation shaman, guides you thru every step.
Whereas the precise course of may be personalized relying on what you need as a part of your bridal ceremony, typically over the 4 days a person will do issues like align their chakras, take pleasure in some unbelievable remedies, be taught to breathe, and cleanse their thoughts, physique, and spirit as they symbolically burn all of the issues they want to expunge from their life in an igloo-shaped temazcal lodge, the place I’m advised individuals usually sing and cry. This expertise culminates with a graduation-like “bridal ceremony” on the fourth day with the attractive spa cenote as the marriage venue.
I used to be excited to satisfy Fernanda, which I did for the primary time throughout a dawn gratitude stroll alongside the seaside. She was slight with waist-length raven locks and a smile that totally put me relaxed. She known as me hermanita (“little sister” in Spanish), and I immediately trusted her.
This got here in helpful as, for certainly one of our first workouts collectively, she was about to make me observe her in pretending to be a sequence of animals. I shapeshifted from a butterfly with flapping arms to hunching like a jaguar. Passersby regarded on in bewilderment as I linked to the earth whereas operating, strolling, and leaping on the seaside. Fernanda knowledgeable me that this was additionally an train in shedding self-judgments. “For those who do not choose your self, no one else can both,” she stated. “And should you choose your self, you’ll choose others, too, as a result of this can be a reflection.”
Sufficiently fatigued from my quasi-jungle journey, we moved over to a quiet nook of the seaside for a gratitude follow. We provided because of the solar, our strongest supply of vitality; we requested the moon to assist us keep in mind our goals; we expressed gratitude for our breath, which balances and nourishes us; and we gave because of our mother and father who cared for us lengthy earlier than we may take care of ourselves. Now, it was my flip to take over from them and present myself unconditional love.
Throughout our gratitude circle, Fernanda emphasised that we’re unbiased of our mother and father and family members, and we needn’t supply pleasure or ache from them. We’re to take duty for our personal happiness, maintain our personal hearts, and select ourselves with a view to be proud of different individuals. I started to see that this entire journey of marrying myself was very a lot about prioritizing self-care, forgiving myself, and accepting my light and dark sides as a result of I’m “the one” and the one fixed in my life. Relationships could come and go, however I’ll all the time have myself, and what a wonderful prospect that’s.
The beneficiant helpings of meals for thought that Fernanda offered helped put together me for my wedding ceremony ceremony on the fourth and closing day.
