TEMAZCAL HA TULUM, Colonia Triunfadores segunda calle al final Casa, Carretera federal Cancun, Tulum, Q.R., México
Up to 10 in group
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About this Retreat
Ceremonial Guide · Temazcalero · Sun Dancer · Founder of Tulum Temazcal
Emilio is a ceremonial guide, temazcalero, and therapist with many years of experience holding ancestral ceremonies, personalized retreats, and private healing processes rooted in Indigenous Mesoamerican traditions.
He is the founder of Tulum Temazcal and the leader of the Moon Dance Mujer Arcoíris, a ceremonial path dedicated to honoring the feminine, the Earth, and collective healing. Emilio is also a Sun Dancer, having completed eight Sun Dances, a path that reflects deep commitment, discipline, and service within ceremonial tradition.
As a temazcalero, Emilio holds traditional temazcal ceremonies with presence, humility, and respect for lineage. His work understands the temazcal as a living medicine — a ceremonial space for purification, prayer, emotional release, and renewal — rather than a physical endurance practice.
In addition to his ceremonial path, Emilio is trained as a therapist and family constellation facilitator, allowing him to support participants with emotional insight, relational awareness, and integration before and after ceremonies. This integration of therapeutic understanding and ancestral wisdom allows him to hold spaces that are both deep and grounded.
Emilio has extensive experience facilitating private ceremonies, small-group retreats, and personalized healing processes, adapting each experience to the needs, readiness, and intention of the individual or group. His work emphasizes safety, respect, consent, and integration, honoring both the ceremonial container and the human process unfolding within it.
Through his leadership at Tulum Temazcal and Mujer Arcoíris, Emilio continues to serve as a bridge between ancestral traditions and contemporary seekers, offering spaces of healing held with integrity, responsibility, and heart.
Ceremonial Guide · Temazcalero · Sun Dancer · Songs Chief · Co-Founder of Tulum Temazcal & Mujer Arcoíris Moon Dance
Octavio Sabanero is a ceremonial guide and temazcalero with a deep commitment to ancestral ceremonial traditions and many years of experience holding sacred space for collective and individual healing.
He is a co-founder of Tulum Temazcal and Mujer Arcoíris Moon Dance, a ceremonial path dedicated to honoring the feminine, the Earth, and community healing. Within the Moon Dance, Octavio serves as Songs Chief, carrying and guiding ceremonial songs that hold the rhythm, prayer, and energetic integrity of the dance.
Octavio is both a Moon Dancer and Sun Dancer, paths that require discipline, devotion, and service. His experience as a Sun Dancer reflects years of ceremonial commitment, endurance, and prayer, while his role within Moon Dance emphasizes listening, holding collective energy, and supporting the ceremonial field through song.
As a temazcalero, Octavio facilitates traditional temazcal ceremonies with presence, respect for lineage, and strong energetic awareness. He understands the temazcal as a living ceremonial space for purification, grounding, prayer, and renewal, held with care rather than force.
His work as a ceremonial guide is grounded in humility, responsibility, and deep respect for tradition. Octavio supports retreats, private ceremonies, and group processes, adapting each experience to the intention and readiness of the participants.
Through his leadership at Tulum Temazcal and Mujer Arcoíris, Octavio continues to serve as a carrier of song, prayer, and ancestral wisdom, offering ceremonial spaces held with integrity, devotion, and heart.
Integrative Psychotherapist · Trauma-Informed Practitioner · Retreat Facilitator
Ariela Milstein is a clinical psychologist and integrative psychotherapist whose work bridges depth psychotherapy, somatic awareness, and holistic wellbeing. Her approach is grounded, relational, and trauma-informed, supporting people in reconnecting with their bodies, emotions, and inner wisdom.
She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology and a Master’s degree in Community Development, and has extensive postgraduate training in Gestalt psychotherapy, somatic and trauma-informed therapy, dreamwork, expressive and art-based approaches, and the preparation and integration of expanded states of consciousness.
Ariela has worked in diverse international and community-based contexts, including psychosocial and community development projects in Latin America, the Middle East, and Africa. These experiences deeply shaped her understanding of healing as both an individual and relational process, influenced by culture, environment, and community.
Her retreat work focuses on creating safe, ethical, and embodied containers where participants can explore emotional processes, regulate the nervous system, and integrate meaningful experiences into daily life. She places strong emphasis on preparation, pacing, consent, and integration, ensuring that retreats support lasting change rather than temporary insight.
Ariela also studies and practices ancestral ceremonial traditions, including temazcal, which she approaches with humility and responsibility, integrating these practices within a therapeutic and trauma-informed framework.
Ariela offers retreats and sessions in English and Spanish, and collaborates closely with somatic practitioners and ceremonial facilitators to provide integrative, multidisciplinary care.
Somatic Practitioner · Lifestyle Medicine & Nutrition · Embodiment Guide
Kinsey Williams is a somatic practitioner and wellness facilitator whose work centers on nervous system regulation, embodied healing, and sustainable wellbeing. His approach integrates trauma-informed bodywork, breathwork, and lifestyle medicine to support resilience, presence, and long-term health.
He is trained in Lifestyle Medicine through Harvard Medical School Executive Education, with a focus on nutrition, movement, sleep, stress resilience, and behavior change. Kinsey’s work emphasizes practical, realistic strategies that support health without rigidity or performance pressure.
Kinsey’s somatic practice is grounded in trauma-informed bodywork and nervous system awareness, offering a safe and attuned space for releasing chronic tension, restoring regulation, and reconnecting with the body. Consent, pacing, and presence are central to his work.
In addition to his clinical and wellness training, Kinsey is an apprentice of ancestral temazcal tradition, a Moon Dancer, and has participated in vision quest experiences. These ceremonial paths deepen his embodied understanding of endurance, intention, and ritual space, informing his ability to hold group and individual processes with humility and ethical care.
Kinsey works closely with psychotherapists and ceremonial facilitators to support preparation and integration around retreats and transformative experiences. He works primarily with expats, remote professionals, and individuals navigating burnout, transition, or prolonged stress.
Kinsey offers retreats and sessions in English, in person and online, and supports individuals and groups through embodied, grounded, and sustainable approaches to wellbeing.
Details of this retreat
This private Temazcal Ceremony is an ancestral healing and purification experience rooted in Mesoamerican tradition and held with deep respect for lineage, land, and ceremonial responsibility. The temazcal is traditionally understood as the womb of the Earth — a sacred space of darkness, heat, and steam where physical, emotional, and energetic layers can be cleansed, released, and renewed. This offering is not a spa experience, but a ceremonial process guided with intention, prayer, and presence.
The ceremony is offered in a private format for individuals, couples, or small groups, allowing for personalized pacing, attentive facilitation, and a safe, contained environment. Guided by experienced temazcaleros, participants are supported throughout the process with continuous presence and care. Herbal infusions, ceremonial song, silence, and prayer may be used to support grounding, emotional release, and reconnection with the body’s natural rhythms.
The temazcal works through the elements of fire, water, earth, and air, creating a powerful environment for nervous system regulation, detoxification, and inner reflection. Each round of the ceremony is intentionally guided, with space to rest, hydrate, and integrate between rounds. The experience is adapted to the needs and readiness of each participant, emphasizing consent and safety rather than endurance.
This ceremony is especially supportive for those seeking emotional release, grounding, closure of life cycles, preparation or integration for deeper inner work, or reconnection with ancestral and Earth-based wisdom. Time is included after the ceremony for rest and gentle integration, allowing participants to return to daily life feeling centered, present, and renewed.