About us · Grupo Tulum Temazcal

The idea

Reconnecting with the roots of what is Mexico today

We are a project in motion. We take the ancestral temazcal ceremony wherever it is needed, and we build temazcales meant to stay.

A temazcal is not a tourist attraction. It is a wellbeing practice, and what we want is to give it back the place it deserves in life today.

It is not esoteric either, and it is not a matter of faith. Heat and steam do something very concrete: they bring you back into your body, they make you breathe slowly, and they let you be grateful for what you can actually see — the earth, the water, the fire, and the people sitting beside you.

Everything else follows from that. If the earth regenerates after every cycle, so do we. Understanding the cycle you are living is the beginning of understanding yourself. You do not have to believe in anything: what the temazcal does for you, you will notice yourself.

We share this for a concrete reason: knowledge that is not passed on gets lost. So every ceremony is also an explanation — where it comes from, what each part means, and why it is done this way. Not to make it sound mysterious, but so it can be understood and taken home.

That is the point: that the temazcal is explained well, practised well, and becomes part of the social fabric again.

And above all, so that we reconnect with the ancestral roots of what is Mexico today.

Our mission

Bringing traditional medicine back into daily life

We work alongside social and educational initiatives, and we picture a society where the wisdom of the native peoples is part of the social fabric again, within reach of everyone.

We offer holistic consulting for homes, offices and spas, and for anyone who wants to develop, create and carry out holistic projects. And we create educational and training workshops for those who want to learn more about these practices and how to bring them into daily life.

«Tú eres tu propio enemigo, y tu propia medicina.» You are your own enemy, and your own medicine.A phrase the original peoples of Mexico taught us. Every decision carries a responsibility.

Our social contribution

Who is behind this

Tulum Temazcal is a project founded by Octavio Sabanero, Mexican by birth. It comes from one clear intention: to make the wellbeing side of ancestral practices known, and to put it within reach of anyone who wants to know it.

The project grew with the participation and the experience of Emilio Zanetti, from Brazil. Today they are married, they are real estate advisors in the Riviera Maya, and they decided to make this their social contribution: to welcome whoever comes wanting to know the ancestral practices of our original peoples.

For a long time these traditions stayed in the hands of a few, as though permission were needed to share them, or as though they were not meant to be known by everyone. We work for the opposite: to reconnect with the wisdom of our roots, to expand it and pass it on so that it becomes part of today’s society again — recognised, and in the place it deserves in its own land — and so that it stops being seen as something alternative. Making a tradition ordinary again also takes the pedestal away from those who exploit these wellbeing practices for esoteric ends.

We are supported by Aho Realty Group, the agency we work from, focused on projects with soul: regenerative communities with wellbeing amenities such as the temazcal, in conscious living spaces in harmony with nature.

That is why we plant temazcales as permanent altars, and not as a seasonal attraction.

See how we plant temazcales