14 posts · The Journal
Everything we've written on ceremonies & medicine, from the jungle outside Puerto Morelos.
Psilocybin mushrooms have been used in the Mazatec highlands of Oaxaca for generations, in quiet night ceremonies known as veladas. Before the medicine became famous, it was, and still is, a sacred t…
Most people who come to Lunita alone arrive a little nervous and leave glad they did. A solo retreat is not lonely here. The group is small, the days hold you, and being on your own turns out to be t…
Some of the most loved days at Lunita pair two gentle ceremonies: cacao in the morning to open the heart, and temazcal later to release and renew. Neither is psychedelic, and together they make a com…
There is no bad time to come to the Riviera Maya jungle, but the seasons each have a feel. Roughly, November to April is drier and a little cooler, and May to October is greener, warmer, and wetter…
Lunita is not for everyone, and we would rather tell you that honestly than sell you a week that does not fit. This is for the person weighing whether to come. Here is who tends to thrive here, and w…
Lunita sits on the Ruta de los Cenotes, the road of sacred sinkholes that threads through the Yucatan jungle. These cenotes are pools of clear, cool freshwater the Maya consider sacred, and they are…
Kambo is a traditional Amazonian practice using the secretion of a tree frog, applied to small points on the skin. It is not psychedelic. It is intense and physical, and the safety conversation is th…
An ayahuasca retreat near Cancun, but a world away from the party towns. Lunita sits in the jungle at Puerto Morelos, on the Ruta de los Cenotes, about 40 minutes from the airport.
When we built Lunita, we did not clear the jungle to make room for it. We built around the trees, and over the years we planted 5,000 more. Today the center is 5,000 square meters of built space held…
The week before a plant-medicine retreat matters as much as the ceremony itself. Preparation is mostly about simplifying: lighter food, less noise, an honest intention, and a conversation with your d…
Ayahuasca and psilocybin mushrooms are two very different doors into the same kind of inner work. Ayahuasca is a long, purging, visionary night led by a brew. Psilocybin is gentler to shape. Here is…
A temazcal is a traditional Mesoamerican sweat lodge, a low dome where heated volcanic stones and water make thick, cleansing steam. It is one of the oldest ceremonies in this part of the world, and…
A bufo ceremony is a short, very intense session with 5-MeO-DMT, a compound found in the secretion of the Sonoran Desert toad and also made synthetically. It lasts only minutes, yet people often desc…
Before Lunita welcomed a single guest, we asked the land for permission. On May 1, 2021, we held a ceremony with a kahtal alux to greet the Aluxes, the small guardian spirits the Maya say watch over…
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