Trip facts
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1–8
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The Garifuna meal you cook
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English, Garifuna
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Year-round
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Our family, then a Maya healer
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Easy
About this day
The Garifuna Immersion & Maya Spiritual Healing day pairs Garifuna culture with our family in Hopkins, Belize, with an afternoon of Maya spiritual healing practice in southern Belize — about seven hours in all. The healing portion is cultural learning, not a medical treatment.
The first half is ours: drumming, dance, storytelling, and hudut cooked over the fire hearth on Kalipuna Cultural Heritage Island.
Then you sit with a Maya healer. There’s a herbal bath drawn with medicinal plants and a smudging with aromatic herbs, both explained before they begin — what the plants are, what the practice is for, and where it comes from.
Underneath it is the Maya approach to health: that mind, body and the land around you are connected.
What you'll do
- Garifuna drumming, dance and storytelling with our family
- Cook hudut over the open fire hearth
- A herbal bath drawn with medicinal plants
- A smudging with a Maya healer, explained beforehand
- How the Maya approach health and balance
