At Lunita Jungle Retreat in the Riviera Maya, many people meet the mushrooms, the Niños Santos, the Holy Children, for the first time in the grounded, reverent presence of Savannah, a facilitator whose way of holding a mushroom ceremony is steady, unhurried, and rooted in lineage. This is her path, her ceremonial approach, and the ways you can sit with her during a stay. (For the medicine itself, start with what psilocybin mushrooms are.)
Meeting Savannah
The mushroom medicine has walked with Savannah through some of the most honest seasons of her life, helping her soften where she once braced and listen where she once defended. Her relationship with the mushrooms began nearly fifteen years ago; an earlier chapter included recovery and the slow building of a new foundation, and it was on sacred land in Colorado that her relationship with the Niños Santos deepened from curiosity into devotion. Through them she later found ayahuasca, but the mushrooms were her first true initiation. As she puts it: if you're here exploring, curious, or unsure, you're already in the right place.
The lineages that shape her path
Savannah's preparation and energy work are shaped by the teachers who walked before her, the Self-Realization Fellowship lineage of Paramahansa Yogananda (devotion, breath, and conscious energy work) and her time with the Yawanawá in the Amazon (prayer, energy, and the unseen architecture beneath the physical world). Alongside a BA in Psychology and EFT Tapping training, these traditions, and the medicines themselves, inform how she holds space: through devotion, humility, and presence.
How a ceremony unfolds
Ceremony can't be fully explained, only experienced, but structure creates safety, and safety creates spaciousness:
- Arrival and settling, the group talks, asks questions, and shares intentions; nothing is rushed.
- Opening the space, copal smoke, breathwork, or prayer, intuitively guided, marking the shift into sacred time.
- Sharing the Niños Santos, offered through ceremonial cacao or a warm lemon-ginger infusion.
- Breathwork as the bridge, a guided journey from thinking into feeling.
- The unfolding, introspection, emotional release, clarity, movement, silence, or joy; no correct order, no performance.
- Closing with gratitude, to the medicine, the land, and the body.
- Integration the next day, giving language to the experience and identifying simple, embodied next steps.
A note on safety
Savannah works gently with first-timers, but this is real medicine: screening matters, and it's contraindicated for 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. Sharing your full health history and medications during consultation is part of keeping the journey safe, and the clinical research is clear that preparation, support, and integration are what make this work land.
Ways to sit with Savannah
During a stay you can join a private ceremony, a group community ceremony, a conscious microdose gathering, or have mushroom work woven into a hosted retreat. Whether it's your first ceremony or a continuation, you're welcome where you are. To begin, reach out for a discovery call to explore which path fits your intention.
See how we hold ceremony at Lunita.