Beach, jungle, cenotes and a lot of sound.
Guide to sound healing in Tulum. Sound baths, crystal bowls and sessions that support nervous system recovery after parties and festivals.
Modalities offered by the 15 practitioners listed here, ranked by how many work with each.
Alessandra is an Italian-born, Tulum-based yoga teacher and certified sound therapist and gong practitioner. She curates the yoga and sound program at Sanara Tulum, working with gongs, Himalayan and crystal bowls, crystal pyramids and harmonium. She trained in Vinyasa and Bhakti yoga with teachers including Shiva Rea and Mark Whitwell, and studies gong mastery with Don Conreaux.
Chris is a Mexican sound healing facilitator with more than fifteen years of experience, specialising in ancestral and ethnic instruments — didgeridoo, native flutes, shamanic drums and mouth harps. He is a regular sound facilitator at Holistika Tulum and also teaches an online ancestral sound healing course. His practice is built around indigenous and ceremonial sound rather than crystal-bowl-led sessions.
Coralee is a Native ancestral sound and energy healer and a Holy Fire III Reiki Master with more than 20 years of experience in Reiki, meditation and energy work. She trained and built her practice in Canada before establishing Sacred Space With Coralee in Playa del Carmen, where she now leads ceremonial sound journeys and ancestral healing sessions.
Cynthia is a vibrational sound healing and crystal-bowl practitioner based in Tulum. She frames her work as creating sacred space, and offers individual sessions, group concerts and retreat collaborations using crystal singing bowls, crystal lyre and essential oils. Her work has appeared at venues including Mezzanine Hotel and across Tulum's full-moon yoga circuit.
Javier is a Mexican sound healer and musician who runs the Sadahaka Healing Sounds retreats hosted at Holistika Tulum. His retreats combine sound healing and breathwork with meditation, power yoga, dance, shamanic energy work, kirtan circles and traditional ceremonies — framed around what he calls integridad de la unidad (wholeness). He also releases recorded sound healing music under Javier Bautista & Sadahaka Healing Sounds.
Joey is a sound practitioner who has been working with sound since 2008. She and her husband relocated from Seattle to the jungle outside Tulum, where they built a sound temple and host ceremonies in a private cave and cenote. Her work centers on alchemy crystal singing bowls and planetary gongs, often in collaboration with other musicians.
Lizeth, who carries the ceremonial name Quetzalli, is the founder of Medicine Wheel Tulum. She left a corporate marketing career in Mexico City in 2005 to study Buddhism and Vipassana, then reconnected with her indigenous Mexican heritage through the Moon Dance and trained as a Temazcalera. Medicine Wheel runs ancestral ceremonies including temazcal, cacao, sound healing, Janzu, ice baths and Mayan clay rebirth rituals.
Magdalena founded The Sound Healing Institute in Playa del Carmen in 2010. She holds a Master's in philosophy from the University of Warsaw and is certified in sound therapy by the Peter Hess Institute in Germany, as well as in Reiki and Hatha Yoga (RYT 200). She also records sound healing music under the artist name Shankari.
Maria Akal is a cacao ceremony leader who works with private retreats and beach homes along the Tulum hotel zone, including Zorba Beach Homes. She holds heart-opening cacao circles paired with sound healing instruments and meditation, drawing on ancestral Mayan lineage of the cacao plant.
Mayte is a Tulum-based sound and ceremony facilitator who works under the name Mayan Mystic. She combines drums, shakers, harp and crystal bowls with regional Mayan therapies such as clay rituals, Janzu water massage and herbal medicine. Her offering blends sound healing with breathwork and elemental immersions rather than focusing on a single modality.
Meliya is a sound healer, music producer and artist who splits her time between Tulum and Berlin. She blends classical sound healing — singing bowls, acoustic instruments — with elements of electronic music to create what she calls electronic sound journeys. Alongside in-person sessions she releases her own meditation and electronic music as MELIYA.
Olivia is the founder of Sound Healing to Oneness, a sound healing practice that runs sessions across Tulum, Playa del Carmen and Cancún, as well as Ibiza and Mallorca in Spain. She works with a wide spectrum of high-frequency instruments — quartz crystal singing bowls, alchemy bowls, Tibetan bowls, symphonic gongs and crystal pyramids.
Osvaldo presents himself as a spiritual mentor and medicine musician working out of Tulum. He offers private sound and ceremonial experiences focused on emotional and energetic release, drawing on ancestral Mexican sound traditions. With a substantial public following on Instagram, he is one of the more visible solo sound facilitators in town.
René is a Mexican multi-instrumentalist, sound therapist and gong master who created The Medicine of Sound, a multidisciplinary music and sound healing project. He began meditating in 2010 and has since traveled internationally collecting ethnic instruments, eventually certifying as a sound therapist and gong master. He is the resident sound facilitator at Palmaïa, The House of AïA in Playa del Carmen.
Taran is a certified gong master and sound alchemist with more than a decade of work in holistic wellness, based on the Riviera Maya around Playa del Carmen and Puerto Morelos. He runs Taran Sound Healing Experiences (also known as Taran Zensory Experiences), curating immersive gong baths, sound ceremonies and intuitive healing sessions that blend Mayan ancestral elements with sound alchemy.
After long nights, festivals or deep ceremonies, many people look for something that is gentle but effective. Sound healing sessions can help you:
For some people, a sound bath the day after a big night works better than pushing through with more stimulation.
Note: sound healing is not a medical or emergency service. If you feel unwell after substances or lack of sleep, please seek professional help first.
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