#BEST SHAMAN FREE#
With rooms starting at $550, Paradero touts its staff-guided adventures that work off your free breakfast burritos. The hats and water bottles are gifts for guests the hanging rod is the closet. Rooms at the Paradero Hotel are described as sanctuary-like and places to reflect in. Evidently, “nature calls” is a double entendre here.
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But when I stepped into the chilly dark, my sleepy eyes widened - a luminous full moon fabulously glowed straight ahead and dozens of flying nighthawks appeared fluorescent streaking past me on the terrace.
You bet I cursed when I awoke at 2:30 a.m. All the suites’ private bathrooms are separate, requiring guests to pace a few feet outdoors to access the john. To communicate with the extremely friendly front desk, you need to use WhatsApp. On one side was my concrete, rustic-chic neutral-hued room with no TV, phone or clock. Near the center is the round temazcal and to the right, the yoga tent. The grounds of the Paradero Hotel as seen from a suite’s rooftop deck. Suddenly, I was in the breezy fresh air gazing at a vast magnificent view - sprawling poblano pepper fields, the granite Sierra de la Laguna mountains and an opal silver of the Pacific. At ground level, my suites’s oversized rusty steel door ominously slammed shut behind me before I climbed a dim bare interior stairway reminiscent of an old castle (or cell) to my second floor room. (Architectural Digest lauded Paradero for being “at one with the land.”) Brutalist buildings became popular in the 1950s, are largely monolithic, and include housing projects, universities and, yes, prisons. Debuting in February 2021, its 41 suites are encased in twin two-story rippling beige concrete structures designed in the architectural “brutalist” style and melding into sands that coat the cacti- and yucca-specked property. Visually, the stunning Paradero looks like an earth-sprouted fortress. A guest stands on her private rooftop terrace in the brutalist-style Paradero Hotel, built to look like it was chiseled by desert gusts. While hungover tourists scrimmaged for pool lounge chairs in Cabo, I serenely chanted “Om, shanti, shanti” in Paradero’s yoga class amid chirping yellow orioles, found my “inner light” through a serape-blanketed group meditation, and vibrated from bronze bowls perched atop my chakras during a sound healing inside a mud-and-clay igloo. Most notably, Paradero is the anti-Cabo, 45 miles and a Zen galaxy apart. Soft-spoken Jorge is the resident shaman of the minimalist boutique, remarkably unique, adults-only Paradero Hotel, about 15 minutes from the laid-back boho surf haven of Todo Santos in Baja California Sur. He also placed a sprig of cleansing sage in my belly button and covered it with a hot volcanic stone to seal in good juju. Soon we crossed a shallow creek to a thatched hut where, during an A-plus ancestral massage, Jorge realigned my hips by twisting them in a sling and opened my cranium without surgery. Jorge Cano is Paradero’s in-house shaman and heads the wellness program that emphasizes Mexican family traditions. Earlier I had to write down negative stuff I wanted to shed (uh, my crippling dentist phobia?) so I chucked that paper too into the flaming basin after Jorge, attired in all white, summoned Mother Nature and blessed me near swishing banana palms. “These plants contain your bad energies and you will put them in the fire,” instructed Jorge Cano, who grew up in the Mexican state of Veracruz and learned this sacred two-hour yenekamu ritual from his shaman grandmother by the way, she lived to age 100. At the moment, a barefoot shaman was wafting a chalice of smoking copal incense around my bathrobe-clad standing body and wiping me head to toe with a bouquet of lemongrass and other purifying herbs. I, on the other hand, remained peacefully ensconced at my “brutalist” eco-lodge, ringed by 160 acres of family-owned farmland in Mexico’s secluded Baja desert. An hour away, boozy vacationers wore T-shirts emblazoned, “Chase me like a shot of tequila” in hard-partying, colossal Cabo San Lucas resorts.
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