Host a retreat in Mexico, in the Riviera Maya jungle

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Host your retreat in Mexico: the short answer

Lunita Jungle Retreat is a private jungle retreat center in Puerto Morelos, Quintana Roo, 40 minutes from Cancún International Airport (not Tulum), that retreat leaders rent whole for their dates. One group at a time: eight cabanas and a private mini apartment sleep up to 20 guests. The Crystal Shala, an open-air meditation area, a cenote-fed pool, a temazcal, an ice bath and a private cenote ten minutes away come with the venue. For three nights or more, four Sacred Gifts are included: a shamanic blessing, a one-hour photoshoot, a hug ceremony and a tree planting. Since opening in 2022, Lunita has hosted more than 120 retreats, and 16 leaders have come back to host again. There is no minimum stay and no minimum group size.

Not a venue.
A partner.

Most retreat venues hand you the keys and disappear. You do the worrying: the flow, the food, the facilitators, the thousand small things, alone.

Lunita is the opposite. When you host here, you get a partner who's done this more than a hundred times. We help you shape the days, hold the ceremonies, feed your people, and carry the logistics that have nothing to do with why you became a leader. The whole center is yours, and so are we, for the length of your retreat.

You hold your community. We hold you.

The whole place,
just for your group.

Hosting at Lunita means the full center is yours for your dates: no other groups, no strangers at breakfast, no sharing the pool with a wedding party.

Eight cabanas and a private mini apartment sleep up to twenty guests. Everyone gathers in the Crystal Shala, the open-air meditation area, around the cenote-fed pool that doubles as a sound-bath venue. There's a temazcal, a gym, an ice bath, and a private cenote ten minutes away. A 5,000 m² property inside more than 80,000 m² of surrounding preserved jungle, with two walking paths that never reach a road.

Forty minutes from Cancún. A hundred percent solar. Quiet enough to hear the trees.

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The spaces your retreat uses

Every part of the day has a room here. This is each space, what it is for, and how many people it holds.

Capacity: up to 20 yoga mats

The Crystal Shala

An octagonal glass pavilion by the pool, open to the jungle or closed for ceremony, with a professional sound system and props on request.

Capacity: confirmed with your dates

The meditation area

An open-air pavilion beside the Grandfather tree, the oldest on the property, where group meditations and private ceremonies often happen.

Capacity: confirmed with your dates

The ceremony and fire area

The fire pit just outside the shala and the ceremonial ground, where the Maya ceremonies and the fire rituals happen.

Capacity: confirmed with your dates

The temazcal

A domed sweat lodge heated with volcanic stones and ancestral plants, guided by a temazcalero trained in the ceremony.

Capacity: confirmed with your dates

The dining pavilion

Roofed and open on all sides, with long tables, beside the pool. This is where every meal and the hours after them happen.

Capacity: confirmed with your dates

The pool

Cenote-fed and chlorine free, with hammocks around it. At night the surface mirrors the sky, and sound healers play at the water's edge.

Where your retreat goes

Your group works alongside local facilitators, people from here who know this jungle.

Your retreat also supports the communities around Lunita.

The center was built by hand around the trees. None were cut.

The whole property runs on solar power.

The four Sacred Gifts,
included on stays of three nights or more.

When you host at Lunita for three nights or more, four ceremonies come with your booking. We don't upsell them. We don't add them to the invoice. We hold them for your group because they're part of what it means to host here, small acts of love, given freely.

We call them the Sacred Gifts. Here's what they are.

The four Sacred Gifts are included for stays of three nights or more.

How we partner
with you.

From the first email to the final closing circle, you're never doing this alone. Most venues hand you keys. We help you fill the rooms, run the days, and close the circle.

Before your retreat: we help you fill it.

A beautiful retreat that no one knows about doesn't happen. So we put our experience and our reach behind yours:

During, and whatever your retreat needs.

Once you're here, we carry the rest, and if there's something your retreat needs that you don't see, we'll find it.

You came to lead. We're here so you can.

The full documentation of every support stream:

What's included,
and how it works.

There's no fixed price list. Every retreat is priced to its length, group size, and what you want included. So after our call, we send you a clear, detailed estimate built around exactly what you're envisioning: the investment for your dates and group, the cost per participant, and content you can use to start promoting your retreat right away. No guesswork, no surprises, just a real plan you can hold.

Ceremonies, photography, excursions, a private cenote: add what your retreat needs. Priced in your estimate. See the Experiences page →

One page for your participants, ready to forward: getting here, what to pack, house rules, and what to expect. Send this to your participants

16 leaders have
come back.

We've hosted more than 120 retreats. The number we hold closest is smaller: sixteen.

Sixteen retreat leaders came to Lunita, ran their retreat, went home, and then chose to come back and do it again.

That's the proof we trust most. A five-star review is one good week. A leader returning is someone who ran the numbers, felt the experience from the inside, carried the weight of their own community's trust here, and still decided Lunita was where they wanted to do it again. You can't fake that, and you can't buy it.

The number is real, it's growing, and it's the clearest answer we can give to the only question that matters: does hosting here actually work?

It does. Sixteen times over, and counting.

If you want the rest of the numbers: 4.9 stars on Google and Tripadvisor, a Travelers' Choice award in 2024, and more than 660 days of retreats held in this jungle since November 2022.

What leaders say

Questions
leaders ask.

House rules

What we ask of every group, so the jungle and the week stay calm.

• Alcohol stays in the areas we agree before arrival.
• Plant medicine is taken only inside ceremony.
• Quiet hours are from 10 pm to 7 am.
• Smoking is only in the areas we mark.
• Nothing is cut, picked or taken from the jungle.
• Phones stay silent in ceremony and at the table.

Whenever you're ready.

You don't have to have it all figured out. You don't need a finished plan or a full guest list. You just need the sense that this might be the place, and a willingness to start the conversation.

Book a call and we'll talk it through: your vision, your dates, what you need. Or if you already know, apply to host and we'll begin.

The jungle has held more than 120 retreats. We'd be honored to hold yours.

A short video call with Nico, before you commit to dates.

Not ready for the whole center?
Another way in.

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