“Could I be part Taino?”
That’s what I’m wondering as I exhale and recline, my body slathered in a warm mud mask that encourages every muscle to relax as I sink further into a sensuously curved chaise.
This is just the beginning of the Taino Bathing Ritual at the Zemi Thai House Spa at Anguilla’s Zemi Beach Club, a swanky resort on the island’s Shoal Bay East. But I’m already convinced that if this is how the indigenous Caribbean people relaxed, I must have some connection to the tribe, because this process feels so natural, so ...