Come down, slowly

What is a burnout retreat at Lunita?

Built for you, not chosen from a menu

There's no standard burnout program, because there's no standard burnout. Yours might be the body's (you can't sleep, or can't stop), the heart's (you stopped feeling the work you used to love), or the kind that has no story yet, just a tank that won't fill.

So every retreat starts with a conversation with Nico, and the week gets built from there: which hands, which sessions, which rhythm. Lunita works with more than twenty facilitators across bodywork, breath, energy work, and ceremony. The week draws on whoever your situation actually calls for. How personal retreats work · The full menu of sessions

What the days hold

Temazcal.

The Mexican sweat lodge: heat, steam, song, darkness, a return to the womb of the earth. For many guests this is the week's turning point: the place the body finally lets go of what the mind couldn't put down. The temazcal at Lunita

Quantum healing hypnosis.

A long, practitioner-guided hypnosis session, hours, not minutes, in profound relaxation, exploring what its practitioners describe as the layers beneath the conscious mind. You lie down. The session does the traveling. Whatever you make of the framework, it is among the deepest rest most guests have had in years.

Yoga and meditation.

Gentle, daily, and shaped to a tired body. This is restoration, not performance. Nobody corrects your posture into achievement here.

The cenote.

A visit to a private cenote ten minutes from Lunita, cool, ancient water in a quiet cavern. The jungle's own argument for stillness.

Time for rest, as a feature, not a leftover.

Long unscheduled afternoons. Hammocks that expect you. Meals that take as long as they take, made for exactly you by Lunita's kitchen. The schedule protects emptiness on purpose, because filling every hour is how you got here.

Your phone.

Our recommendation is a drawer, for most of the day. It's a recommendation. Nobody checks, nobody confiscates. Most guests find the drawer on day two without being asked.

And to close: the Tree Planting.

Hands in the soil, a tree settled into the jungle, a living mark of the week you stopped. The Tree Planting

The medicines, optional, never default

Some burnout carries something underneath it that a sacred plant ceremony can meet, and some weeks, with the right guest and the right preparation, one belongs. It is always optional, never assumed, and approached exactly the way every ceremony at Lunita is: with screening, preparation, an experienced ceremony holder, and real integration afterward. Most burnout retreats don't include one. The ones that do, include it deliberately. How ceremony works at Lunita

What this isn't

Not a productivity bootcamp. Nobody here will optimize you. There's no morning routine to adopt, no framework, no journal prompts about your “next chapter” unless you bring them yourself.

Not career coaching. We won't ask what's next. Rest first; clarity tends to arrive on its own schedule, usually somewhere between the second long meal and the cenote.

Not therapy or medical treatment. Burnout can sit close to depression and other conditions that deserve professional care. This retreat doesn't diagnose or treat anything, and it isn't a substitute for your doctor or therapist. If you're in acute crisis, the right first step is them, not a flight.

What it costs

Food and accommodation are 220 USD per night for one person, 360 for two sharing a room. That covers your room and three meals a day, made around what your body needs while it recovers. The shape of the days, the rest, the sessions, the facilitators, is designed with you in the call, so the rest follows what you actually want. For longer stays, just ask.

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