Contacto

Informes y reservaciones:
Tel. 13 15 97 54
Cel. 55 91 90 41 72
patricia_eugeniahs@yahoo.com.mx
Puedes reservar tu lugar en una sesión abierta o reunir a 6 personas para tener una sesión grupal.
Celebramos sesiones especiales para parejas.

Susana Harp - El Caracol

Mi corazón es un déposito de sueños.....

Susana Harp - La Llorona

Eugenia León & Lila Downs "LA BRUJA"

About healthful sweating

The practice of inducing sweat has long been known to be beneficial in sicknesses of the skin, liver and circulation. Rheumatism, arthritis, gout, as well as acute problems like muscular pains, colds and congestions are relieved in the temazcal. The list of conditions for which it has been used in the course of centuries is extensive.

During the bath, the body temperature may reach one hundred and four degrees, stimulating superficial and deep blood circulation. The mechanisms of thermal regulation are called into action, activating the metabolism. A great internal movement of energy and liquids is produced, bringing increased circulation to all the muscles, organs and tissues.

High heat and high humidity - the vapor is made from herbal teas- produce their healing effects as blood circulation is increased and the elimination of toxins is maximized. It is said that every liter of sweat lost in the temazcal is equivalent to a full days' work by the kidneys.

Once outside, a light massage follows and you get ready for relaxation. A glass of herbal tea and fresh fruit are handed, so you can start feeling energized. After a half hour -or an hour, up to you!- of serenity, your stomach will let you know its needs. So, you´re served with a temazcal soup -fresh vegetables and rice-, hand-made blue tortillas and avocado, and you´re then walking on clouds to go back home.

Give yourself this great gift!

Visit the Temazcal de la Magdalena.

The Traditional Sweat Bath

The name Temazcal is made of two nahuatl words; temas, which means bath, and calli, meaning house. The temazcal has been used as a therapeutic instrument, an arm of the medical practices that were developed by the ancestors in the area known by anthropologists as Mesoamerica. Although sweat baths are known and used by many cultures all around the world, the traditional Mexican sweat bath differs in many ways from the others.
This traditional sweat bath is usually a small, round stone or mud structure. It is not primarily used for ceremonial purposes, nor for relaxation or bodily cleansing or for general well-being, it integrates all the above. The temazcal incorporates all the elements of the ancient cosmology, both in the way it is constructed and the way in which it is used. Temazcaltoci, the grandmother of the baths, according to the nahuatl culture of central México, is the goddess of medicine and medicinal herbs, that was adored by doctors and surgeons, as well as by those who have a temazcal at home.
Aztec cosmology considers the temazcal as returning once again to the womb, Mother Earth, The entrance is low and small, and through it we enter a small, dark, warm and humid space, thar recreates the uterus. After a time inside, the rebirth takes place as we go out through this narrow opening. The darkness and silence of the womb allow us to leave the outside world for a while and give us the chance to look inside and find ourselves again.

Cuatro rumbos, cuatro puertas

Es muy recomendable que te prepares con anticipación para asistir a una sesión en el temazcal. Dos o tres días antes, puedes hacer ejercicios de introspección para formular una intención. Te aconsejo que el día del temazcal tomes un desayuno ligero -frutas y té o yogurt con cereal- si es celebrado a medio día. En caso de ser un temazcal nocturno, procura una comida ligera, sí puedes, evita las carnes rojas.

Te sugiero lleves un traje de baño o pareo de algodón para estar dentro del temazcal; una sábana y cobija viejos para el descanso fuera del mismo, así como ropa abrigadora para evitar enfriamentos cuando vayas de regreso a casa. El tiempo de la sesión es variable, puede ser de tres a cuatro horas; de una hora y media a dos horas dentro del temazcal y el resto del tiempo está destinado a la ceremonia de bienvenida y el descanso al finalizar.

Durante la ceremonia de bienvenida, te invito a que tengas muy presente tu intención. La primera limpieza antes de entrar al temazcal es hecha con copal, y entonces estás listo para volver al vientre de la madre tierra. Dentro del temazcal se honran los cuatro rumbos y sus elementos, durante las cuatro puertas del temazcal. Entonamos cantos y realizamos visualizaciones o ejercicios de meditación para dar cierre a la sesión con el agradecimiento a los ancestros y a todas las personas que hoy en día hacen posible este reencuentro con nuestra salud integral.

Eres entonces recibido amorosamente al salir, arropado cuidadosamente para descansar relajadamente, después de haber sido ajustada tu columna y de recibir un masaje ligero, por un lapso de media hora. Con la sensación de haber vuelto a nacer, te ofrecemos una sopa nutritiva y frutas de la estación para que tu regreso a casa sea óptimo.

Te invito a experimentar este encuentro contigo, es un gran regalo.