Guides & stories from the jungle
Plant medicine, ceremony, retreat life, and the Riviera Maya, written from the jungle outside Puerto Morelos.
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You have done the cognitive work and something still will not move. Katie Bellamy, LCPC, on why the body needs its own approach, and what a somatic week in the jungle does about it.
Not a yoga week and not therapy. Katie Bellamy, LCPC, on what a somatic wellness retreat involves, who HEAL is for, and what five days in the jungle look like.
Six body-based practices for grief and heaviness, from body awareness to riding the wave, by Katie Bellamy, LCPC. Start at home; go deeper at HEAL in the jungle.
Seven days in the Mayan jungle, seven chakras embodied through yoga, breath, cenote water and sound, guided by Leslie of Wellness Defined. February 21 to 27, 2027.
Thirty years of yoga, meditation, Ayurveda and coaching, and one belief that shapes all of it. Meet Leslie of Wellness Defined, who guides Coming Home to Yourself at Lunita in February 2027.
Mexico's jungle, cenotes, and ceremonial lineages make it ideal for a meditation retreat. Lunita sits 40 minutes from Cancún on the Ruta de los Cenotes.
An ayahuasca retreat in Mexico's Riviera Maya, held by Edgar in the Amazonian tradition: who it suits, who it does not, how intake works, the days after.
Is ayahuasca legal in Mexico? It's a tolerated grey area: the brew isn't prohibited, DMT is scheduled, and ceremonial use has run without prosecution.
Design an immersive Mexico wellness retreat by building backward from the transformation. Lunita's solar jungle center sits 40 minutes from Cancún airport.
The retreat begins the moment you decide. What the traditional dieta asks, how to ready your mind and heart, and what to bring to the jungle.
Nico sat the training himself. What bufo facilitator training actually involves, who it is for, and how to tell a real one from a certificate.
A couples retreat at Lunita is not therapy, and it is not a vacation. It is time, in a quiet place, to remember each other without the noise of normal life. For couples who want to reconnect, the jun…
The clearest thing we can tell you about hosting at Lunita is this: 16 leaders who came once came back. Not because we asked them to, but because the ground held, the room worked, and they wanted to…
Lunita is a retreat center that also runs a small incubator we call the Lab, where crafts like photography and tai chi are taught in the jungle. It might sound like a tangent. It is not. The Lab is w…
After hosting more than a hundred retreats, we have watched a lot of first-time leaders hit the same few walls. Almost none of them are about the teaching. They are about logistics, pricing, and trus…
When retreat centers say small group, they often mean forty people. We mean a handful. Lunita keeps groups genuinely small, and that single choice changes everything about how a week here feels.
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…
A couples retreat at Lunita is private and shaped around the two of you. What it includes, and when in the year to come.
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…
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.
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…
Is a temazcal safe for beginners? Usually yes, when guided well. Who should be cautious, contraindications, what a safe setting looks like, and how to prepare.
A bufo ceremony is a guided 5-MeO-DMT ritual lasting 15 to 45 minutes. What happens step by step, how long it takes, who it is not for, and how screening works.
A private sound healing retreat in the Riviera Maya at Lunita: why privacy deepens the work, what sound healing honestly supports.
A couples healing retreat with ceremony and massage at Lunita: how ritual and bodywork help two people soften, speak honestly, and reconnect in the Mayan jungle.
Temazcal etiquette in Mexico: what to wear and bring, how to behave before, during, and after, photography rules, and the cultural respect that matters most.
Why Black people deserve to rest, rest is not a luxury but a fundamental human need, and a restorative act.
What happens at TRU Reset, day by day, a thoughtfully paced healing retreat at Lunita, moving from grounding through deep inner work toward integration.
Meet your TRU Reset facilitators, Joe Corley, LPC, founder of Real U Behavioral Health Consulting, and co-facilitator Ramsses.
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