Yoga, ocean and slower barefoot days.
Guide to Mazunte, San Agustinillo and Zipolite as relaxed, spiritual coastal towns in Oaxaca, Mexico.
Modalities offered by the 9 practitioners listed here, ranked by how many work with each.
Aimee Norton-Taylor landed in Mazunte in 2016 and has been a Hridaya Yoga teacher there ever since. She offers Hridaya Hatha Yoga, Hridaya Meditation, Self-Enquiry retreats and her signature Cranial Bliss Therapy — a touch-based modality that pairs cranial work with aromatherapy, breath and resonant vocal toning. Her workshops run at Hridaya's Mazunte campus and at the order's centre in Longeval, France.
Alia is a 500-hour certified yoga teacher and trauma bodyworker based in Mazunte, of Romanian-Palestinian heritage and shaped by years between Germany and Jordan. She hosts a weekly Yin Yoga and Sound Bath every Thursday at Kinam in central Mazunte, playing a full set of 432 Hz quartz crystal singing bowls and toning Om over them. She also leads multi-day yin and yang retreats on the Oaxacan coast.
Cale is a nomadic multi-instrumentalist, singer-songwriter, sound healer and yoga teacher behind the Inspiritana project, who has lived and recorded extensively in Mazunte and the surrounding coast. He has released improvisations recorded in Mazunte with Mašøn Töryęn and is a core member of the Aethernas sound-journey collective that performs residencies at Casa OM. His sessions feature Persian santur, guitar, percussion and voice.
Eve Marie is a Québec-born singer, certified massage therapist and sound healer with diplomas in Atlas balancing through song, sound therapy and therapeutic touch. She co-founded the Aethernas sound-journey project, which spent several months in residence at Casa OM Mazunte and recorded the album Waters of the Soul there in 2022. Her sessions weave voice, crystal bowls, Native American drum, flute, rattle and shruti box.
Felix is the resident music and sound facilitator at Casa OM Mazunte, a long-running yoga, music and dance hostal in the heart of town. He hosts a weekly sound healing session every Wednesday from 8 to 9pm in Casa OM's yoga shala, weaving Tibetan bowls, kalimbas, voice and sacred harmonies with downtempo synthesizer textures. Sessions are co-held with Giorgio, who guides the opening meditation and tuning.
Jessica is a New York-based healing artist, vocalist and sound facilitator who has graduated from the Open Center's Sound and Music Institute and guided hundreds of students through sound trainings and sound baths. She co-leads the annual five-day Sound School retreat in Mazunte, training participants in vocal embodiment, breathwork, nervous-system regulation and the theory of sound healing.
Katie Down is a licensed creative arts therapist, board-certified music therapist and EMDR practitioner who co-leads the annual five-day Sound School retreat in Mazunte alongside Jessica Caplan. She holds a master's in music psychotherapy from NYU and a composition degree from New England Conservatory, with post-graduate training in trauma studies and Deep Listening lineage with Rhiannon, Meredith Monk, Lisa Sokolov and Pauline Oliveros. A professional flutist and multi-instrumentalist, her work crosses classical, jazz, world music and clinical sound therapy.
Ricardo Mones Valverde is a Mexican sound healer and ceremonialist who has facilitated sound journeys at Casa Om Mazunte and other healing centres across Latin America. Born in Cancún, he left a decade-long corporate-marketing career at age 29 after a spiritual awakening and has spent the last ten years studying with master healers from yoga, Kirtan, Buddhism, Shamanism, the Red Path and temazcal traditions. He works primarily with voice and acoustic instruments, often paired with cacao.
Tasha is a US-born resident teacher at Hridaya Yoga Mazunte, where she has been part of the community since her first retreat in 2015. A lifelong musician with a background in Tibetan Buddhism and Kashmir Shaivism, she leads bhajans (Sanskrit devotional singing) at Hridaya's hilltop center and contributes voice and chant to community gatherings. She has completed the Hridaya Teacher Training Course and several solitary retreats.
On the Oaxacan Pacific coast, Mazunte and nearby beaches attract people looking for a slower, barefoot rhythm with yoga, meditation and ocean time.
These small beach towns have a mix of hostels, guesthouses and a few more structured retreat centers. Yoga and meditation classes are common; some places host sound-related events.
Known for its clothing-optional beach and alternative culture. Here you may find more eclectic mixes of spirituality, bodywork and nightlife.
Practitioners often travel between these places. If a session here doesn't fit, try one of these next.
