In Pueblo language, “Tamaya” means each “the individuals” and “a quiet place,” each of which is able to resonate after a journey to The Hyatt Regency Tamaya Resort and Spa in Santa Ana, New Mexico. Tamaya is the phrase for the individuals of the Santa Ana Pueblo, often known as the Tamayame right here of their ancestral lands.
The resort, which is owned by the Santa Ana Pueblo and managed by Hyatt, sits on 550 acres of excessive desert, a brief half an hour drive from Albuquerque Worldwide Sunport airport.
Strolling into the house, you’ll instantly really feel the tribal connection. There’s a small museum within the entrance of the house with a standard Kiva (a spherical communal construction accessed by ladder) within the resort’s foremost entrance. The museum options artwork and historical past from the Pueblo’s historical past (courting from earlier than 1500). The resort’s foremost “lounge” includes a kiva fire and the earthen colours of conventional Pueblo pottery.
The resort’s newly renovated 327 king and double-queen visitor rooms even have grounded, Pueblo-inspired particulars like rounded, adobe model corners within the newly refreshed and enlarged loos and coloration schemes that echo the comb of the excessive desert outdoors. (The 15-million-dollar renovation was not too long ago accomplished so every little thing appears and feels out-of-the-box contemporary.)
Sequester your self in a room or suite going through the Sandia Mountains (which implies “watermelon” in Spanish) and also you’ll see how the vary received its title. When the solar units in crimson and gold, the rugged mountains flip an excellent watermelon pink, edged by the inexperienced line of Cottonwood bushes that edge the Rio Grande Valley.
You possibly can dine out on the balcony past the “Dwelling Room on the Rio Grande Lounge” and sip a margarita with chili on the rim when you see the watermelon impact for your self. It’s an exquisite method to put together your self for a journey to the Resort’s 16,000 sq. ft. Tamaya Mist Spa.
You’ll really feel the nice and cozy, earthen colours of the Pueblo right here (every little thing within the spa and the resort from design to therapies should be accepted by the Pueblo). Remedies embody the Historical Drumming ritual, an 80-minute reversal of all of your stress and worldly cares by way of an exfoliating therapy with “residing clay” sourced from Jemez Springs (an historic therapeutic website close by). The practitioner rhythmically “drums” your complete physique with handmade, sage-infused poultices. You’re then cocooned in consolation of a cosy thermal wrap when you experience a head and neck therapeutic massage and really feel a sizzling towel warming your arms and toes adopted by a heat bathe to finalize the cleaning properties of the whole expertise.
For anybody with an aversion to mud, or as a substitute for a full physique therapy, the 80-minute therapeutic massage is an analogous journey into the psychological “quiet place” that the phrase Tamaya evokes.
My practitioner was light and deliberate as she used over 10 totally different Eminence merchandise (the Hungarian spa line with natural botanicals as their basis). The assorted scents of the botanicals are paired with cool and warming procedures and as you’re paced by way of these rituals, your spa skilled offers a full again and neck therapeutic massage, a head therapeutic massage and a foot and ankle therapeutic massage that works as lymphatic drainage in addition to total de-stressing and de-toxing. The results of this therapy go away one limp with deep rest and glowing with the consequences of the botanical infusions within the product. (Plus, there’s by no means an try to promote you on something, though you might find yourself wanting every little thing used on you as a result of it feels and smells so heavenly). The spa additionally has labored with the Santa Ana Pueblo to create their very own physique lotion and cleaning soap product line infused with native sage—a standard supply of therapeutic and banishment of negativity so you may take house that peace within the type of that uplifting and moisturizing product.
After my therapy I spent an hour stress-free within the Kiva Pool: once more a “quiet place” of tranquility that’s surrounded Pueblo model by a heat, rounded adobe model wall. You lookup on the broad, New Mexican desert sky, punctuated by just a few puffy clouds floating in a deep cerulean blue sky and also you’ll know that the “quiet place” of the Pueblo phrase Tamaya additionally stands for deep peace, connectedness to the earth and a pleasure within the magnificence that surrounds you.
Guests staying for greater than an evening or two ought to get out and go to the Resort’s Stables at Tamaya the place rescue ponies and horses await your sugar cubes and strokes. There are additionally miles of guided trails alongside the Rio Grand the place the traditional Cottonwood Bushes will gracefully shade your stroll as you’re taking within the stark great thing about the Sandia Mountains past. And annually on July 26, you may go to the traditional Santa Ana Pueblo for his or her annual Feast Day in honor of their patroness, Saint Anne. Corn dances and different conventional rituals are held and shared with company from all around the world. It’s a annually likelihood to see the place the peace of the “quiet place” of the Tamaya Resort comes from: in its deepest, genuine supply.
