Our Founding Principles
An Awakened Transformational Model of Healing
The Maya Center's principles of delivering health and wellness care are founded on the wisdom that we are complex physical-mental-emotional-spiritual beings; and that true well-being requires the interplay of healing body, mind, and spirit. We believe that each individual carries a unique innate higher wisdom, a deep inner strength, and exceptional human potential. These are all resources we awaken and strengthen to facilitate the Self in healing, inner growth, and self-discovery.
On a greater scale, healing of body, mind, and spirit must also incorporate lifestyle and the environmental conditions we place ourselves
within. We believe that the environment strongly influences health and well-being, and all of our healing programs address environmental conditions. To
fully understand our conceptual framework for healing, we look to the nautilus shell. Our model of healing is symbolically represented by the divine
perfection found in the nautilus shell. The shell of the chambered nautilus is a symbol of beauty and proportional perfection; a proportion which is
consistent throughout all of the relationships of the nautilus shell. The inner core of the shell uniquely and divinely serves to represent the inner core of our
being; the spiritual core from which the Maya Center bases all of its healing programs. Each subsequent layer that unfolds represents another layer of or
being, our physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual layers. The outer layer or shell of the chambered nautilus represents the environment we operate within.
We believe that our primary goal is to awaken the individual to the unique innate abilities within the Self, and to facilitate a complete healing process. Through a myriad of body-mind-spirit healing programs and services we assist each individual to reach into their own unlimited human potential, to learn to strengthen the spiritual core and create healing from within.
While we assist you in learning to heal the spiritual core within, we will help you to focus on healing the other complex layers of your whole being—the body and mind. To fully embrace your health and well-being, we will then help you to create a healing lifestyle and environmental conditions that will sustain your physical-mental-emotional-and spiritual balance.
Mind-Body-Spirit Medicine
Historically, the biomedical model has conceptualized health care as a response to a biological condition with medications,
treatments and surgical approaches as central therapies to the treatment of disease. The traditional biomedical model was not designed to incorporate a
broader perspective of the human condition, and as our understanding evolved; the biomedical model seemed inadequate to fully explain the components of true
health and well-being. 
Psychosocial approaches to health care and utilization of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) therapies only partially address
the complex approach now necessary to fully understand, treat, and assist in healing.
We believe that a higher consciousness approach to health care must be delivered: Mind-Body-Spirit Medicine; where self-discovery, self-healing, self-responsibility, a healthy lifestyle, and a conducive healing environment are the key components to achieving a complete state of physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being.
The Maya Center’s Mind-Body-Spirit Model of Health care is an integrated approach to health care delivery. We integrate the traditional biomedical therapies with complementary therapies, while we work with you to enhance and support your own innate healing process. All of our services, programs, and therapies address the complex demands of healing the mind-body-and spirit. All of the Maya Center’s services, programs, and therapies are offered by experienced, licensed, and trained health and wellness care practitioners.
The Chambered Nautilus
Year after year beheld the silent toil That spread his lustrous coil; Still, as the spiral grew, He left the past year’s dwelling for
the new, Stole with soft step its shining archway through, Built up its idle door, Stretched in his last-found home, and knew the old no more. Thanks for
the heavenly message brought by thee, Child of the wandering sea, Cast from her lap forlorn! From thy dead lips a clearer note is born Than ever Triton blew
from wreathed horn! While on mine ear it rings, Through the deep caves of thought I hear a voice that sings: Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul!
As the swift seasons roll! Leave thy low-vaulted past! Let each new temple, nobler than the last, Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, ‘Til; thou
at length art free, Leaving thine outgrown shell by life’s unresting sea! - Oliver Wendell Holmes