First photo is of the outfit I made, second photo is of me all made up for the Tantra DVD with MAKE UP ON! YIKES!!! The rest are the limo, my room and my view!!!
Hola Lovely Ones,
How are you? I hope you are well, your heart is happy and your soul is dancing in every moment!
I AM IN MEXICO!!!! On “business”! Funny that, what does a work holiday look like. I’ll try to describe this place to you throughout this, but hummmm….except for being here I’m not sure if it will come across but maybe it will!
So much to catch you up on! The past weeks at home have been really amazing! Intense but amazing! Many new things showing up in my life- more work with incredible people, met a colon hydrotherapist that is just incredible, she allowed me to sit in on a session with a regular client of hers, that was really fun and showed me a lot of how everything works in that industry-all kinds of lovely ideas now swimming around my brain!!! I have started back sewing again and that has just been so much fun, I sewed my first dance outfit, it’s been years since my last one. I taught a class on Blissful Connections the Friday before I left, it focused on touch, it went swimmingly. No one wanted to leave. But I finally had to gently nudge them out at 11:30pm as I had a 9 hour day work the next day. I love being busy but sometimes it gets a little hairy!
The past week I was at home was especially crazy, have you ever had one of those times that time is flying by and you hardly any time to really realize what is going on, since life just says “I need to get this done, now this and this”. I am finally getting to stop and breathe now. I am in Mexico now. Oh how wonderful down here.
The flight down was great, I left at 12:25am, arrived Mexico City at 6am (a 3 hour flight with a 2 or 3 hour time change), I had a 5 hour lay over, by this time I hadn’t gotten any sleep but rest. I got on the plane to Cancun, 2 hours away and arrived there at 1:34pm (my body time 11:30am), so I’d been traveling for 11 hours by this time, I went looking for my ride, this cute little Mexican guy showed me the way to this other guy and he directed me through the heat of the Mexican humidity to a long silver limo. I stood their thinking “this is for me, wow!” Talk about style! I sat in the back with all the mirrors on the ceiling and on the side of limo with the bar on it, alcohol, sodas, grey upholstery, jamming out with the driver to all kinds of great music. The driver was great, he saw me back there taking photos of the back of the limo, yes like a little kid, he stopped the limo and took some photos of me. He was a lovely man and a lot of fun.
I watched the flat, green, lush Mexico go by, people looking at the limo as we drove by and about 45 minutes to an hour later we arrived, with me almost asleep in the back at the hotel. Here there are lots of coconut trees, the air is filled with the perfect amount of water, the heat was just luscious to my skin and everything seemed calm, relaxed and mellow.
They took my bags, I hugged my driver, he asked when I would leave and when I told him July 15th he was surprised. I do hope I get him on the way back to the airport!
I got in to the desk and they had no idea who I was. I sat there waiting until they found the right person to know where I go, sleep, and who knows who I am and why I’m here. Oh it was funny, though I was pooped. By this time I was wiped out, sweaty and in dire need of a nap and bath.
Finally the manager came by and knew exactly where I went. So I went from the clothed side of the resort, through the guarded gates of the nudist side, and then the thickness of lush, wet, greenery was all around me, trees, grass, fruit trees…such beauty…
Wow, right now this moment lightning just struck, it’s 8am, it’s stunning looking out over the dark blue and light green waters as the lightning rod comes down through the grey/blue clouds!
Back to when I arrived. It was 2:30pm. I couldn’t get my room yet so I was shown around. This is interesting. First the nudist side and where I would be teaching. So loving feeling, people bonded, sat in small groups playing games, laughing, sharing, having fun and touching each other on the back. Going to the clothed side, which I am welcome to go to, everyone was separate, lonely, in their own worlds. What is it about clothes that keeps all of our walls up, our protection and boundaries up? Is it because we are dressed as the lawyer, hair stylist, doctor, that we just can’t get past that and into our playful, fun, down to earth selves? I’ve seen this before, it’s pretty amazing to feel. So very lonely over there and it was nice to be back on the other side.
Though I sat there eating my first meal with my clothes on and burning up, but I was much to tired and sweaty to go take off my clothes, so I just sat there, as the nudist tried not to look over at me-later I realized they were wondering if I was in the wrong place or if I was writing a book, or on business there or if I was a single not ready to be naked. Oh it was great hearing what they thought of me and the stories they made up. Our minds are so vivid.
I had asked the manager how it was to work around nudists all day and he said, “After a while you don’t even notice they are nude”…..later he said “see, you don’t even see it any more”. I got what he was saying…it is true. Well, except when you get talking to them and they make direct conversation of their particular body parts-tell more on this later.
So I finally got into my room at 5pm or a little past. I wasn’t even aware of how tired I was any more, I was past it. But this room….Oh what a room!!!! How romantic! White cloth hanging from each corner of my bed, the bathtub was the best, it’s a huge Jacuzzi tub filled with bubbles and with flower petals shaped in a heart. The temperature was perfect to just glide into and wash away the past 17ish hours of travel. From the room and the bathtub I can see the whole resort that has a pool and a river that goes in front of all the rooms on the bottom floor. And the beautiful ocean, the lovely ocean that laid out there to feast my eyes upon so scrumptiously. Perfection really. There are little huts for people to lay outside without getting burned right on the ocean, you can get a massage right out there looking out onto the ocean as well, what deliciousness!
So I sunk into the bathtub and just let everything just drain off me. The trip, the tiredness, the nervousness of what this was going to be like and how I was going to connect with these new people. I drifted into a zone between consciousness and sleep, until I felt my head drifting back and further back and I came to realizing I was about to sleep in the tub. So I got out, looking out all the windows to the outside, the blue green ocean, the sun hitting it just perfectly at sunset, though we don’t get the sunset side, the clouds were stunning. Bright whites against the blue sky that was dimming.
I had an amazing salmon dinner that night, walked on the beach and went to bed at 10 and woke up at 9:30am. I was pretty darn pooped! The sleep was just what I needed.
I got up and went down to talk with the yoga teacher, who she teaches everyday at 9am. Then I went for a walk, over to breakfast of yogurt and fruit and granola, while they played traditional Mexican music.
The waiters and everyone was just so friendly. I could feel their warmth and heart in their service, eye contact and one of them actually touched my shoulder-YES! Touch, Yummy!
I had a woman come up and start talking with me, telling me how everyone wanted her to come up to me and ask why I was here, and what I was doing here all clothed the day before and if I was in the wrong place. Another woman told me later if she’d known that I was waiting for my room she would have let me sleep in her room. Man oh man, how kind, I told them it’s because I had clothes on, untouchable and unspeakable. Pretty funny!!!
This first day luckily I just got to relax, adjust and do a bit of nothing but catch up on rest, talk with everyone, play water volleyball, none of them wanted to leave me alone-all of them wanted to talk to me about my work, bummed they were leaving in the morning, maybe they’d come back before I left and how they loved I was teaching this work. The funny thing is they all feel that the other side, as they call it, “the dark side” or the clothed side, needed my work much more….which as the day went by and the stories kept coming I think they are right.
Some of them were soft swingers, or doing all kinds of things that you just don’t think you might do in your 60’s and 70’s. But then that goes to tell you we can do anything at any age.
One man was great, he told this joke, he pushes out his belly and says, “See my baby elephant…….you want to see it’s trunk”, pretty funny!!!! He says some people can’t handle that joke but this crowd is different, he’s right there. They talk about their tan lines, well everything really…I’ll just leave it at that. It’s funny.
I had a few women start promoting my work, it was great, they already want me to come back, how beautiful! So nice to be wanted and feel so warmly welcomed. What a great first day. Volleyball was just heaven, how fun it was to play in the water. That was a blast.
People pat each others bottoms, one guy pats a woman’s breasts, she says “that’s not my bottom” as she giggles. I love that being nude makes them more touchy feely, the women hug the waiters, though I haven’t seen any of the nudist hug other nudists…but it’s only day one and the great thing is everything is taken in love and fun. People sit on each others laps…groups of people come together.
Some of the people here come 1-3 times a year, they come at certain times to catch certain people and other times to avoid certain groups. I’ve already been warned that Saturday a group called the Rowdies come in and they are hard partiers. I’ll see how that goes. They will fill the whole resort practically. There are 43 rooms and they’ll take up 30 rooms and 10 other rooms will be filled with other guests. So I’ll go from peaceful, quiet guests to partiers.
So that has been my experience thus far. I’m sure I could tell you oh so much more but I’m sure this enough for now.
I’d love to hear from you. Hear how you are? Anything up and new for you? Live your bliss!
For me this past week I have woken up in a place of gratitude, for the people in my life, the places life is taking me, the connections I have made in my life and just how life is. It’s powerful to feel gratitude so strongly, it’s a beautiful feeling to open to so much too. I love this expansive feeling of gratitude.
I feel this place will be a good place to meditate, go in and give some of what I know to people that can really enjoy it. That feels really good.
Today I teach my first class. Should be fun!
I send you hugs and love, Heather
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