How Luxury Resorts Use Numerology for Personalized Healing and Life Path Alignment

It’s hard to progress along your wellness journey if life feels off-kilter. That’s where numerology—a practice that harnesses the distinct vibration of each number to predict a person’s personality, life path and strengths—can play a major role.

Numerology looks at numbers in your life, such as your birth date or the sum of your name’s letters (each letter correlates with a set number), to help you better understand who you are and how to harness your traits. Kymberley Griffin, a wellness practitioner at luxe Sedona resort Mii Amo, says her first forays into numerology changed her life.

Edge Sanctuary / Photo: Courtesy of The Lodge at Blue Sky

“I realized my married name was not as highly energetically aligned as my maiden name,” says Griffin. “I changed my name back and my life changed. I got a divorce, and I went to school to become a biologist.” Griffin now helps Mii Amo guests interpret and understand their own numerology. She hopes patrons leave with a heightened sense of self, and an action plan for their lives.

“If your life is flowing in a blessed way, then you would use numerology to understand why it is aligned so as not to change your frequency or to enhance your life experience and take it higher,” Griffin says. “If your life continuously keeps hitting bumps and spiraling downward, we can use numerology as well as astrology to learn what external energies are affecting your life and rectify them for the better.”

The beliefs surrounding numerology have a long-standing history. For millennia, cultures around the world have incorporated numerical patterns and alignment, such as the appearance of 11:11—you know, that 60 seconds when you see the clock strike 11:11 and you cast a dream wish. Numerology though can transform wishfulness into results.

Today’s practice is largely based on the ideas of Pythagoras, the Ancient Greek philosopher who helped inspire geometry’s Pythagorean theorem. He believed that numbers had energetic vibrations and could help explain the patterns of the universe.

Can the sum of your chosen name, or your birth date, really explain who you are? After my own numerology experience, I’d vote yes. In 2024, I sat down for my numerology reading and was astonished by how accurate the insights were. For example, my existence is largely rooted in the number one—a sign of confidence, willingness to take on challenges, and a love for the road less traveled. In 2015, I decided that, one day, I would quit my communications office job to trot the globe as a travel journalist. It took three years of side-hustling, but I made it happen in 2018.

Recognizing how I got here, and how my numbers are built into my ethos, helped me brainstorm my 2025 career and life goals in a different and better aligned way. That’s why I think anyone would benefit from a numerology reading. Fortunately, you can pair it with a dreamy getaway, as resorts around the country and world now offer expert-led numerology sessions. Mii Amo, set beneath Sedona’s towering red rocks, takes the guesswork out of the practice by incorporating readings into numerous mindfulness experiences, including tarot or oracle card sessions, astrology and past-life regression therapies that “may make use of numbers while the guest is experiencing a past-life journey,” says Griffin.

Another Arizona desert escape, Civana Wellness Resort & Spa, welcomes wellness seekers with introspection workshops, group meditation, sound healing and numerology classes. The resort also runs human design classes to teach patrons which energy type they are and how to use this knowledge to gain more life harmony.

The Lodge at Blue Sky in Wanship, Utah, includes numerology in its energy journeys‚ which are designed to go a step beyond wellness by fostering self-reflection and a deeper knowledge. In the property’s serene and aspen-flanked Edge Sanctuary, an energy healer leads sound baths, tea ceremonies, chakra balancing and master numerology readings—all with the calming crackle of a woodburning fire to foster relaxation. And in 2024, Avani Hotels & Resorts introduced AvaniWell, which incorporates numerology, astrology and components of Thai traditional medicine into its wellness clinic at Avani+ Hua Hin Resort, a seaside escape just under three hours from Bangkok.