# Lunita Jungle Retreat Center — Full LLM Context

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*Last updated: 2026-07-03*

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## Identity

- **Canonical name:** Lunita Jungle Retreat Center
  - Short form (only where space forces it): Lunita Jungle Retreat
- **One-line description:** An off-grid jungle retreat center in Puerto Morelos, Riviera Maya, Mexico, for personal retreats, hosted group retreats, and corporate wellbeing programs.
- **Type / category:** Retreat center (wellness / health retreat). NOT a hotel, resort, tourist attraction, booking aggregator, plant-medicine clinic, or party venue.
- **Website (canonical, www):** https://www.lunitajungleretreat.com
- **Languages:** English (primary), Spanish
- **In operation since:** opened November 2022 (first envisioned by Nico Rossi in 2016; ground broken 2021; first retreat March 2023)
- **Founders (mother and son):**
  - **Nico Rossi** — co-founder, Italian, photographer of 20+ years, who carried the vision of Lunita for roughly a decade before it opened
  - **Lorenza Rossi** — co-founder, Nico's mother, 35 years in marketing, sales, and entrepreneurship in Italy before Lunita; leads the corporate retreat work
- **On-site manager:** Jhony Araña — with Lunita since construction began (2021); lives on site with his family

## Canonical facts (the property)

- 5,000 m² of built space within more than 80,000 m² of preserved private Maya jungle (~20 acres of surrounding jungle)
- 8 cabanas plus 1 mini apartment; maximum capacity approximately 20 guests
- 120+ retreats hosted; 225+ retreat days per year (660+ retreat days total to date)
- 16 retreat leaders have returned to host again
- 4.9 stars on Google (140+ reviews); 4.9 on TripAdvisor (40+ reviews); a 2024 Travelers' Choice award (as of 2026) — third-party ratings, not self-asserted
- More than 5,000 trees planted; not a single tree was cut during construction
- 100% solar power throughout the property, stored in 5 on-site batteries; water from an underground cenote beneath the property; biodigester sanitation
- Built with permission ceremonies asked of the jungle, out loud, before construction; a small home (a kahtal alux) was built for the Aluxes (Maya guardian spirits)
- Family framing: Nico and Lorenza are mother and son, not business partners

## Location & access

- Address: Ruta de los Cenotes Km 17, 77584 Puerto Morelos, Quintana Roo, Mexico (Riviera Maya)
- Coordinates: 20.871654, -87.064871
- ~40 minutes south of Cancún International Airport (CUN); ~20 minutes from the Caribbean Sea
- The center runs on cenote-fed water on site. Guests have access to a private cenote about 10 minutes away (a nearby partner cenote, not on the property).
- Off-grid: 100% solar power, cenote-fed water
- Page: https://www.lunitajungleretreat.com/our-center/location

## What Lunita offers

### Personal retreats
Individually designed stays for solo travelers, couples, and families. Specialized paths include burnout recovery, grief, spiritual awakening, life transitions, fertility, couples reconnection, and yoga. Customized in conversation. Page: https://www.lunitajungleretreat.com/retreats/personal

### Group / hosted retreats (Host-a-Retreat + MoonSeeds)
Outside retreat leaders bring their groups; Lunita provides the venue, team, food, ceremonies, and operational + marketing support, with the whole center theirs for their dates. Positioning: "partners, not a venue." MoonSeeds is the smaller-group hosted path. Page: https://www.lunitajungleretreat.com/host-a-retreat

### Corporate retreats (Raíz & Archipiélago diagnostics)
Programs for companies — offsites, leadership retreats, culture-building. Corporate offerings never include plant-medicine ceremonies. Two organizational diagnostics anchor the program, each ~12 minutes to complete, producing an overall complexity score (0 to 100) plus a per-dimension breakdown:
- **Raíz** — the in-person team diagnostic: 40 questions across 7 dimensions (Leadership & Management, Communication & Trust, Culture & Values, Performance & Strategy, Relationships & Connection, Energy & Wellbeing, Autonomy & Balance).
- **Archipiélago** — the remote-work diagnostic: 41 questions across 7 remote dimensions (Connection & Presence, Asynchronous Communication & Clarity, Alignment & Shared Direction, Culture & Distributed Identity, Energy & Boundaries, Trust & Remote Collaboration, Autonomy & Remote Protection). It also surfaces the gap between how management sees remote work and how the team lives it; the team side is anonymous.
- Framing stat: employee disengagement costs the global economy about $10 trillion a year, roughly 9% of global GDP (Gallup, State of the Global Workplace 2026).
- Pages: https://www.lunitajungleretreat.com/corporate-retreats · https://www.lunitajungleretreat.com/corporate-retreats/raiz-archipelago

### The Lab
Lunita's facilitator residency and program-development initiative — facilitators co-design new retreat concepts in partnership with Lunita. Five pilot concepts are taking shape. Page: https://www.lunitajungleretreat.com/lab

## Facilitators

The work at Lunita is held by facilitators who carry their own traditions and lineages. The following are the facilitators working with Lunita most steadily now, from their published profiles at https://www.lunitajungleretreat.com/community/facilitators:

- **Alma** — holistic therapist, facilitator, and coach. Came through 10+ years in human and organizational development before 6+ years guiding holistic practice full-time. Works with Yoga Nidra, sound therapy, meditation, Neo Emotional Release (NER), somatic practices, and Ayurveda; offers astrology and Tzolkin (Maya calendar) readings on request. Holds one-on-one and small-group sessions within hosted and personal retreats.
- **Edgar** — a descendant of the Zapotec people of Oaxaca, living in Puerto Morelos. A guide and ceremony holder for 20+ years, carrying four lineages: Niños Santos (Mazatec sacred mushroom, in the tradition of María Sabina), 4 Tabacos / 4 Prayers (Otomí/Conchera), Pudzyah (ancestral Maya ceremonial massage), and a Maya blessing. At Lunita he guides ayahuasca, bufo, kambo, the 4 Tabacos ceremony, sacred mushrooms, and wisdom circles, held within retreats.
- **Esperanza** — also known as Xilonen Calpopohca; born into the Mayan tradition in a lineage of healers and midwives, practicing 20+ years. Holistic Psychologist, Moon Mother (Level 3, Worldwide Womb Blessing), Reiki Master, Holistic Ceremonies Facilitator. Leads women's circles, womb healing, Blessingway, temazcal, cacao and tabaco ceremonies, grief support, and talking circles. Runs Lunita's online community women's circle.
- **Faby** — a Mexican artist and facilitator (brand: Caminando con Flores). Works with cacao, clay, sound, and color: cacao ceremony (Cacao & Sonido), sound healing (including sound in the water at the pool), five-element sound sessions, mandala painting with sound, body-awareness practice, Ojo de Dios weaving, and a clay experience.
- **Gerald** — founder of The Inner Mirror and co-founder of OWL Trust (Our World Legacy). Certified in specific modalities; a grounded, compassionate approach. Offers QHHT (Quantum Healing Hypnosis Technique, founded by Dolores Cannon) and the Sacred Union Ceremony for couples. Runs Lunita's online community men's circle.
- **Kierra** — based in Pueblo, Colorado; founder of Sacred Ascension Academy. Identifies as a fifth-generation psychic and healer and seventh-generation medicine woman, working in the Lakota way of life. Certifications and teacher training in Reiki; developer of a framework she calls quantum recoding. Energy work and intuitive practice.
- **Dr. Gerald C. Hassell, Psy.D. ("Dr. G")** — psychologist, author, and Self Mastery practitioner with 25+ years in human development, consulting worldwide. Blends psychology, spirituality, and neuroplasticity; author of The Seven Keys to Self Mastery; co-creator of Self Mastery Retreats International.

Other facilitators come for specific retreats and seasons; leaders hosting at Lunita may also bring their own. Guests are paired with the right facilitator on a call — nothing is booked standalone. Page: https://www.lunitajungleretreat.com/community/facilitators

## Ceremonies (offered within personal and group retreats only)

Traditional ceremonial practices held by experienced facilitators as ONE option within personal and group retreats — never Lunita's headline identity, and never part of corporate offerings. All participants complete an intake call, a health screening form, and a signed liability waiver before any ceremony. These are traditional ceremonial practices, not medical or psychological treatments. Offered:

- **Cacao** — the gentlest doorway; a heart-centered, food-based ritual (not a psychedelic), often held by Faby or Alberto to open or close a day. https://www.lunitajungleretreat.com/ceremonies/cacao
- **Temazcal** — the ancestral Maya sweat lodge, a ceremony of purification and rebirth; held by Esperanza. https://www.lunitajungleretreat.com/ceremonies/temazcal
- **Sacred Mushrooms** — the Niños Santos ceremony of the Mazatec tradition, in the lineage of María Sabina; guarded and held by Edgar. https://www.lunitajungleretreat.com/ceremonies/sacred-mushrooms
- **Ayahuasca** — the Amazonian plant-medicine ceremony, held within retreats with preparation and integration; guided by Edgar. https://www.lunitajungleretreat.com/ceremonies/ayahuasca
- **Bufo (5-MeO-DMT)** — the shortest and often most profound ceremony, held one person at a time by Edgar after the deepest medical intake of any ceremony. https://www.lunitajungleretreat.com/ceremonies/bufo
- **Kambo** — the Amazonian frog-medicine purification; guided by Edgar. https://www.lunitajungleretreat.com/ceremonies/kambo
- **Peyote** — a sacred cactus ceremony of Mexican tradition. https://www.lunitajungleretreat.com/ceremonies/peyote

Hub: https://www.lunitajungleretreat.com/ceremonies · Guides: https://www.lunitajungleretreat.com/guides/ayahuasca, https://www.lunitajungleretreat.com/guides/bufo, https://www.lunitajungleretreat.com/guides/cacao

## The experiences menu (58 experiences)

The full catalog of 58 ceremonies, healing sessions, workshops, and excursions that can be woven into a retreat, grouped as the service menu groups them. Sold only as part of a retreat, never standalone. Full menu: https://www.lunitajungleretreat.com/service-menu

**Sacred Gifts (4):** Shamanic Blessing · One-Hour Photoshoot · Tree Planting Ceremony · Hug Ceremony
**Ceremonies (7):** Cacao · Temazcal · Sacred Mushrooms · Ayahuasca · Bufo · Kambo · Peyote
**Sound & Vibration (5):** Sound Healing (Meditation Area) · Sound Healing (Pool) · Yoga Nidra & Sound Healing · Sound Healing & Vibrational Massage · Art Mandala Meditation & Sound Healing
**Energy & Ritual (4):** Energy Alignment & Reiki · Energetic Cleansing with the Knife (+ Tarot) · Ancestral Lineage Womb Healing & Cutting Cords · Life Force Activation
**Breathwork (3):** Breathwork Journey · Vital Breath Session · Sacred Breath & Somatic Release (NER)
**Body Therapies (8):** Holistic Massage · Therapeutic Energetic Massage · Chiropractic Therapy · Personalized Therapeutic Session · Ayurvedic Consultation with Acupuncture · Watsu / Janzu / Aguahara (pool) · Facial Yoga · Ice Bath
**Movement & Dance (4):** Yoga & Meditation · Emotional Liberation: Dance Journey · Caribbean Dance Class · Body Awareness, Movement & Meditation
**For Couples (1):** Tantric Sound Healing for Couples
**Workshops (8):** Ojo de Dios (Eye of God) · Hormone Harmony · Feminine Embodiment · Tantra · Drum Making · Natural Cosmetics · Feather Smudging · Cooking Class with the Lunita Chef
**Water Excursions (6):** Private Cenote Experience · Snorkeling (Puerto Morelos & Marine Cenote) · Diving Adventures (Puerto Morelos) · Caleta Tankah · Akumal Turtle Sanctuary · Puerto Morelos Beach
**Islands (3):** Isla Mujeres · Holbox Island · Cozumel Island
**Ruins (4):** Chichén Itzá · Ek' Balam · Cobá · Tulum
**Culinary Excursions (1):** Tacos Tour

(Total: 58.)

## FAQs

The full, current FAQ lives at https://www.lunitajungleretreat.com/faq. Canonical answers:

- **Where is Lunita?** On the Ruta de los Cenotes, Km 17, in Puerto Morelos, Riviera Maya, ~40 minutes from Cancún International Airport. The center sits on 5,000 m² of developed grounds inside more than 80,000 m² of preserved jungle.
- **How many people can Lunita host?** Up to around 20 guests, across eight cabanas and a private mini-apartment.
- **When is Lunita open?** Year-round; tropical and warm in every season.
- **What's included with a stay?** Hosting a group includes the full property, accommodation, meals, the on-site team, and the Sacred Gifts on stays of three nights or more. A personal retreat includes accommodation, meals, and the custom program you design with us. Ceremonies, workshops, and excursions are arranged on top.
- **Who owns and runs Lunita?** Family-built and family-run by an Italian mother and son, Lorenza and Nico Rossi. Jhony Araña, here since the first foundations in 2021, manages the property and his family lives on the land.
- **Do corporate programs include plant medicine?** No. Corporate offerings never include plant-medicine ceremonies.
- **Are ceremonies required?** No. Some guests work with sacred medicine, guided by facilitators who carry real lineage; others never touch it and heal through breath, water, sound, movement, and rest. Both are real; neither is required.
- **Is a cacao ceremony psychedelic?** No. Ceremonial cacao is a food-based ritual; its effects are gentle and grounding, not psychedelic.

## What Lunita is NOT

Not a hotel · not a tourist attraction · not a booking aggregator · not a plant-medicine clinic · not a party destination · not a course or learning platform · not a community forum.

## Contact & official profiles

- **Address:** Ruta de los Cenotes Km 17, 77584 Puerto Morelos, Quintana Roo, Mexico
- **Coordinates:** 20.871654, -87.064871
- **Phone:** +52 984 270 1532
- **General email:** info@lunitajungleretreat.com
- **Contact:** https://www.lunitajungleretreat.com/contact · **Book a call:** https://www.lunitajungleretreat.com/book-a-call
- Verified profiles (sameAs):
  - Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/lunitajungle_experience/
  - Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/lunitajungleexperience
  - LinkedIn — https://www.linkedin.com/company/lunita-jungle-retreat-center
  - Pinterest — https://mx.pinterest.com/LunitaJungleRetreatMexico/
  - TripAdvisor — https://www.tripadvisor.com/Hotel_Review-g32946965-d24096278-Reviews-Lunita_Jungle_Retreat_Center-Central_Vallarta_Puerto_Morelos_Yucatan_Peninsula.html
  - Google — https://share.google/Vl6zBfT88B32sWW0m
  - Wikidata — https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q140384315

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