Holistic Healing
Jungle Retreat Mexico: The Best Meditation Retreats in Mexico
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.
Guides & stories from the jungle
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Plant medicine, ceremony, retreat life, and the Riviera Maya, written from the jungle outside Puerto Morelos.
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Spiritual Retreats
Ayahuasca Retreat in Mexico: Sacred Plant Medicine at Lunita
An ayahuasca retreat in Mexico's Riviera Maya at Lunita, held by Edgar, a Zapotec medicine man, 40 minutes from Cancún, with full intake and integration.
Spiritual Retreats
Is Ayahuasca Legal in Mexico? An Honest Answer
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.
Retreat Leader Resources
Designing an Immersive Mexico Wellness Retreat at Lunita
Design an immersive Mexico wellness retreat by building backward from the transformation. Lunita's solar jungle center sits 40 minutes from Cancún airport.
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.
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.
Spiritual Retreats
What Is a Bufo Ceremony? What It Is and What Happens
A bufo ceremony is a guided 5-MeO-DMT ritual that lasts 15 to 45 minutes. Learn what it feels like, safety, preparation, and how we hold it at Lunita.
Spiritual Retreats
Sacred Medicine Ceremony at Lunita: A Path to Deep Healing
Sacred medicine ceremonies at Lunita are led by Indigenous carriers like Edgar, a Zapotec medicine man, in the Riviera Maya jungle, 40 minutes from Cancún.
Holistic Healing
Corporate Retreat Locations: Why Mexico's Jungles Are the Future of Team Transformation
Mexico's jungle is a top corporate retreat location: secluded, restorative, with easy Cancún access. Lunita hosts full teams 40 minutes from the airport.
Ceremonies & Medicine
Couples at Lunita: reconnecting without the noise
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…
Hosting a Retreat
16 leaders came back. Here is what keeps them
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…
Spiritual Retreats
The Lab: why we teach photography and tai chi
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…
Hosting a Retreat
How to choose a retreat venue in Mexico
Choosing where to host your retreat shapes the whole experience, often more than the program itself. The right venue carries the logistics, fits your group, and feels like the work. Here is a practic…
Hosting a Retreat
Hosting your first retreat: where leaders get stuck
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…
Ceremonies & Medicine
What 'small group' really means here
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.
Ceremonies & Medicine
Mazatec mushrooms: the tradition behind the medicine
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…
Ceremonies & Medicine
Coming alone: what a solo retreat feels like
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…
Ceremonies & Medicine
A cacao and temazcal day, and how they fit
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…
Ceremonies & Medicine
The best months to come to the jungle
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…
Ceremonies & Medicine
Is Lunita right for you? An honest answer
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…
Ceremonies & Medicine
The cenotes of the Ruta de los Cenotes
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…
Ceremonies & Medicine
Kambo: what it is, and the honest safety picture
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…
Ceremonies & Medicine
Ayahuasca Retreat Near Cancun at Lunita
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.
Ceremonies & Medicine
Why we never cut a tree, and planted 5,000
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…
Ceremonies & Medicine
Ayahuasca Retreat Near Cancun at Lunita
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.
Ceremonies & Medicine
How to prepare for a plant-medicine retreat
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…
Ceremonies & Medicine
Ayahuasca vs psilocybin: how the journeys differ
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…
Ceremonies & Medicine
Temazcal explained: the Maya sweat lodge
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…
Ceremonies & Medicine
What a bufo (5-MeO-DMT) ceremony is actually like
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…
Ceremonies & Medicine
The Aluxes and the permission ceremony
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…
Spiritual Retreats
Is a Temazcal Safe for Beginners? An Honest Guide
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.
Holistic Healing
Private Sound Healing Retreat in the Riviera Maya
A private sound healing retreat in the Riviera Maya at Lunita: why privacy deepens the work, what sound healing honestly supports, and how to choose the right container.
Personal Retreats
Couples Healing Retreat with Ceremony and Massage
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.
Spiritual Retreats
Temazcal Ceremony Etiquette in Mexico: A Respectful Guide
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.
Holistic Healing
Meet Your TRU Reset Facilitators: Joe Corley, LPC, and Ramsses
Meet your TRU Reset facilitators, Joe Corley, LPC, founder of Real U Behavioral Health Consulting, and co-facilitator Ramsses.
Holistic Healing
What Happens at TRU Reset: The Day-by-Day Experience at Lunita
What happens at TRU Reset, day by day, a thoughtfully paced healing retreat at Lunita, moving from grounding through deep inner work toward integration.
Holistic Healing
Why Black People Deserve to Rest: A Healing Retreat in Mexico
Why Black people deserve to rest, rest is not a luxury but a fundamental human need, and a restorative act. A healing retreat holds protected space to rest and restore.
Spiritual Retreats
Wellness Retreat Mexico: Yoga, Plant Medicine & Jungle Healing at Lunita
A wellness retreat in Mexico that goes deep: yoga, temazcal, gentle plant medicine, a private cenote, and sound healing in the Puerto Morelos jungle at Lunita.
Retreat Leader Resources
Why Host Your Retreat in Mexico's Riviera Maya, and Why Now
Why host your retreat in Mexico's Riviera Maya, and why now, a purpose-built jungle venue 40 min from Cancún, in a region fast becoming a top retreat hub.
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