Goop: A Beach Vacation at Mexico’s Etéreo, Auberge Resorts Collection

I knew I wanted a tropical beach vacation. What I couldn’t have known was how a Mayan sacred-stone massage would somehow be more pampering, more life-affirming, and more of a body tune-up than a massage void of sacred Mayan stones. Or that a spiritual jewelry-making class led by a congenial shaman would be just the sort of inadvertent meditation my frenetic New Yorker nerves needed to soften. Or that I’d daydream about sitting on a sun-drenched patio, sipping café de olla, long after I’d flown home from Etéreo, Auberge Resorts Collection’s oceanfront paradise that sits atop a lush stretch of mangrove gardens on Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula.