Surf town turned wellness hub on the Oaxacan coast.
Guide to sound healing, yoga and ceremony in Puerto Escondido — the surf town on the Oaxacan Pacific coast where wellness practices have grown alongside the surf and digital-nomad scene.
Modalities offered by the 4 practitioners listed here, ranked by how many work with each.
Alex Romero — known professionally as Alex Shambori — is an E-RYT 500 yoga teacher, sound healer and ceremony facilitator based in Puerto Escondido. She holds more than 700 hours of training and runs sound baths with Tibetan bowls, handpan, shamanic drums and Koshi chimes, plus monthly cacao ceremonies, Reiki, ecstatic-dance DJ sets and her own Soul Sanctuary retreats on the Oaxacan coast.
Alexi Cecchini Bravo is the founder of Holistic Living, a sanctuary that splits time between Puerto Escondido and Luzern, Switzerland. With roots in Mexican traditions and Western nervous-system science, she weaves yin yoga, sound healing with singing bowls, breathwork, somatic bodywork and cacao ceremony. She holds a weekly Yin + Sound class at Marea Yoga Studio in Puerto Escondido and runs monthly cacao and sound circles.
Floriane Brossaud runs Go With The Flo Yoga in Puerto Escondido, weaving yoga, sound healing and cacao ceremony into a single integrated practice. Her sound work uses Tibetan and crystal bowls alongside other instruments. She offers private 1-hour sound therapy sessions with meditation, body harmonization and aura cleansing, plus group sessions, online sound baths, and bespoke offerings for retreats and bachelorette parties on the Oaxacan coast.
Sofia Martinez runs Propósito del Alma in Puerto Escondido, where she leads weekly Sounds Healing sessions at Centro Holístico Rinconada with crystal bowls, drum, chimes and voice. Argentine by birth, she trained in holistic nutrition, Reiki, ontological coaching, family constellations and somatic work before developing her Embodied Soul Method. She also offers 1:1 sessions, Light Language teaching and ocean-based somatic regulation work.
Puerto Escondido is a surf town on the Oaxacan Pacific coast that has become a meeting point for sound healing, yoga and ceremony work. La Punta and Zicatela are where most of the wellness scene clusters — beachfront yoga shalas, hotel-based spas, and small studios running cacao circles, ice baths and sound baths in the same week.
La Punta has the densest concentration of yoga and sound work — most of it walking distance to the beach. Zicatela has more boutique wellness hotels offering sound healing alongside their spa menus.
Puerto Escondido is roughly an hour from Mazunte. Many practitioners travel between the two for retreats and special events. If you can’t find a session here, the Mazunte coast is the natural next stop.
Most sessions blend sound with movement — yoga + sound bath, breathwork + sound, or cacao + sound. Pure 60-minute sound baths exist but are less common than the integrated formats.
Practitioners often travel between these places. If a session here doesn't fit, try one of these next.
