Spiritual Retreats
What Is a Women's Retreat in Mexico? A Sacred Sisterhood in the Mayan Jungle
What is a women's retreat in Mexico? A gathering where women rest, reflect, and reconnect in sacred sisterhood and the Mayan jungle.
Guides & stories from the jungle
The Journal.
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Holistic Healing
Where to Find a Yoga Retreat in Mexico
Where to find a yoga retreat in Mexico: at Lunita in the Mayan jungle near Cancún, plus why the jungle deepens practice and how to choose the right retreat.
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Choosing a Cacao Ceremony Retreat in Mexico
How to choose a cacao ceremony retreat in Mexico that's built for real healing: what facilitators, container, and setting to look for, and the questions to ask.
Spiritual Retreats
Temazcal Retreat in Mexico: What to Expect
A temazcal retreat in Mexico holds the sweat-lodge ceremony inside a wider healing container. What it really is, what to expect, and how to choose one well.
Retreat Leader Resources
Best Mexico Retreat Venues for Small Groups
Best Mexico retreat venues for small groups, a small retreat changes everything: you feel each person and build the trust that lets real transformation unfold.
Retreat Leader Resources
A Guide to Hosting Retreats in the Riviera Maya
A guide to hosting retreats in the Riviera Maya, the region shapes the experience as much as your teaching. Designing with care so place, pace, and support create depth.
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What Solo Healing Retreats Should Include
What solo healing retreats should include, more than privacy: a safe container. The setting, the people, and the rhythm matter as much as the treatments themselves.
Spiritual Retreats
Ayahuasca and Healing: How the Sacred Vine Transforms Lives
How ayahuasca supports healing, trauma, depression (incl. a randomized controlled trial), and spiritual growth, and why integration decides the outcome.
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Bufo Alvarius Ceremony in Mexico: A Sacred Experience at Lunita
Experience a bufo (5-MeO-DMT) ceremony in Mexico's Riviera Maya at Lunita, screened, facilitated, and integrated in the jungle near Cancún.
Spiritual Retreats
Sacred Mushroom Ceremonies in Mexico: What to Know
Sacred mushroom ceremonies in Mexico at Lunita: the teonanácatl tradition, the legal grey area, how Lunita holds them, and how to prepare. With screening.
Spiritual Retreats
What Is Ayahuasca? The Sacred Vine of the Amazon, Explained
Ayahuasca is an Amazonian plant medicine (B. caapi + DMT) used in ceremony for healing. What it is, what it feels like, safety, and how Lunita holds it.
Retreat Leader Resources
How to Plan a Retreat That Transforms
How to plan a retreat that transforms, the difference isn't the view or the welcome drink, it's the care behind the container. Design for human complexity.
Holistic Healing
How to Choose a Wellness Retreat in the Mexico Jungle
How to choose a wellness retreat in the Mexico jungle: look past the photos to what can truly hold your transformation, pacing, privacy, facilitation, and presence.
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How to Prepare for Your Fertility Retreat: A Gentle Pre-Retreat Guide
How to prepare for your fertility retreat, rest, set an intention, communicate with your partner, and arrive open. A gentle wellness experience, not medical treatment.
Retreat Leader Resources
What Makes a Retreat Venue Truly Mission-Driven
What makes a retreat venue truly mission-driven, not stronger Wi-Fi or a prettier room, but a space that changes how people relate. Values you can feel on arrival.
Retreat Leader Resources
How to Design a Sacred Ceremony Retreat Program
How to design a sacred ceremony retreat program, not stacking activities, but asking what transformation you're holding and whether you can hold it with integrity.
Holistic Healing
What a Jungle Somatic Retreat Can Heal
What a jungle somatic retreat can heal: how body-based work releases what lives below language, why the setting matters, and honest expectations for the journey.
Retreat Leader Resources
How to Choose a Retreat Venue in Mexico
How to choose a retreat venue in Mexico, a values decision, not just logistics. The setting tells guests whether they can exhale and be held; choose the care you sense.
Retreat Leader Resources
What Leaders Need in Retreat Hosting
What leaders need in retreat hosting, the strain hits weeks before the opening circle, as the pieces multiply. Turnkey hosting holds them all.
Retreat Leader Resources
Jungle Retreat Venues Facilitators Actually Trust
What makes a jungle retreat venue facilitators actually trust, the land softens people on contact, and steady logistics let you stay present, not run operations.
Spiritual Retreats
The History of Sacred Mushrooms Across Cultures
Sacred mushroom history across cultures: teonanácatl and the Aztec/Mixtec codices, global echoes from Tassili to Eleusis, and the modern psychedelic renaissance.
Spiritual Retreats
María Sabina: The Mazatec Healer Who Shared the Sacred Mushroom
María Sabina, the Mazatec curandera whose veladas introduced the world to sacred mushrooms, her life, the 1957 Life article, and the lesson in cultural respect.
Spiritual Retreats
Peyote and Healing: The Therapeutic Potential of Mescaline
What's really known about peyote and mescaline for healing: the thin-but-real evidence (incl. a 2005 study), what people report, safety, and honest caveats.
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Peyote Ceremonies in Mexico: The Tradition, the Law, and the Ethics
Peyote ceremonies in Mexico explained: the Wixárika tradition, the legal reality, why an Indigenous-led model is the respectful one, and how Lunita hosts it.
Spiritual Retreats
Peyote Through the Ages: The Wixárika Tradition
The history of peyote through the Wixárika (Huichol) people: Hikuri the sacred cactus, the Wirikuta pilgrimage, the mara'akame, and peyote in Huichol art.
Spiritual Retreats
The Healing Power of Psilocybin: What the Science Shows
What research really shows about psilocybin for healing: landmark depression trials (Davis 2021, Griffiths 2016), how it works, the honest caveats, and safety.
Holistic Healing
Wellness Retreat with a Chef in Mexico: What Changes
A wellness retreat with a chef in Mexico changes everything: nourishment stops being a side quest and becomes part of the healing container, steady and intentional.
Spiritual Retreats
What Are Psilocybin Mushrooms? A Guide to Sacred Fungi
Psilocybin mushrooms ('teonanácatl') contain psilocybin and psilocin. What they are, how they work, their effects, the legal grey area, and the science.
Spiritual Retreats
What Is Peyote? The Sacred Cactus of the Desert
Peyote (Lophophora williamsii) is a mescaline-containing cactus sacred to the Wixárika. What it is, how mescaline works, its legal and ecological reality, and more.
Local Experiences
Mixed Media Magic: Exploring Diverse Art Forms at Creative Retreats
Mixed media magic, a creative retreat to explore diverse art forms where disciplines dissolve. A sanctuary to rediscover your artistic essence, no experience needed.
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