A mushroom ceremony at Lunita is a guided psilocybin journey held in the Riviera Maya jungle, rooted in Mexico's Indigenous traditions and offered as a safe, screened, and supported experience for healing, growth, and spiritual expansion. The mushrooms, revered here as Niños Santos (Sacred Children) and as teonanácatl ("flesh of the gods"), are held with reverence by experienced facilitators. This is what a ceremony at Lunita involves, who it's for, and how to begin. (Background first: what psilocybin mushrooms are and the science.)
Those drawn to a different lineage often ask about our peyote ceremony.
Men who come for this work sometimes arrive first through our spiritual retreats for men.
An ancient Mexican tradition
The Mazatec, Mixtec, and Zapotec peoples have used these sacred fungi for thousands of years, and the tradition survived colonization in remote communities, carried into the modern era by the Mazatec healer María Sabina, whose veladas revealed psilocybin's healing potential to the world. Lunita honors that lineage rather than extracting from it. (More on the history.)
What to expect
Preparation: dietary guidance (no alcohol, processed foods, or stimulants beforehand), meditation and intention-setting, and a medical intake. The ceremony: led by experienced facilitators from evening into early morning, with a curated soundscape, a sharing circle, and the medicine unfolding gradually into introspection and emotional breakthroughs. Integration: journaling, grounding in nature, and support to carry insights into daily life, held within a personal retreat that can also include temazcal, cacao, or sound healing.
What people experience, honestly
Participants often describe emotional release, deep peace, clarity on life and purpose, ego dissolution, and a felt unity with nature. These are real, common reports, held honestly as personal experiences, not guaranteed results. Psilocybin is not an approved treatment; for the clinical picture, see the healing power of psilocybin.
Who should avoid it
A mushroom ceremony isn't for everyone. Please don't participate if you have a personal or family history of psychosis or schizophrenia, serious heart conditions or high blood pressure, SSRIs or other serotonergic medications, and pregnancy or breastfeeding. Lunita's screening exists to assess exactly this, and the team will be honest if it isn't right for you. Psilocybin sits in a tolerated legal grey area in Mexico, controlled in general, but its use within traditional Indigenous ceremonial contexts is widely respected, and the plants aren't scheduled in their natural form. This is not legal advice.
How to begin
If you feel called, the first step is a free discovery call to talk through your intentions and any medical considerations, followed by a pre-ceremony screening. You can also meet Savannah, who guides these ceremonies, or weigh Mexico against a US psilocybin program.
Choosing a mushroom retreat in Mexico
Three questions sort the field. Who holds the ceremony, and do they carry the Mazatec lineage the mushrooms belong to? Is there real preparation before and integration after, or are ceremonies stacked like activities? And is the setting built for the days around the ceremony, quiet, nature, rest, rather than for the ceremony alone? Retreats that answer all three specifically are rare; the rest are selling an experience without the tradition that makes it safe and meaningful.
You can read how we hold the sacred mushroom ceremony itself, from screening to integration, on our ceremony page.
If a private stay feels right, a personal retreat lets us shape the ceremony and the days around it just for you.