The body's fastest doorway into a changed state — held with sound.
Breathwork uses conscious breathing patterns to shift the nervous system. In Mexico it is often run as a guided journey on a mat, layered with music, drums or live sound.
Cities where listed practitioners hold breathwork, ranked by how many work there.
Each works with breathwork as a real part of their practice. Reach out directly — no middleman, no paid placement.
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.
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.
Ana Korff is a Mexico City-based breathwork and mindfulness facilitator with over four years in breathwork and ten-plus years working with people in individual and group settings. She co-hosts Breath In Sound at Luna Studio CDMX with sound therapist Julia Klykova — a 3-hour journey combining breathwork, a live DJ set and a closing sound bath. Her work focuses on nervous system regulation and embodied presence for expats and seekers.
Carmela Carlyle is a Certified Integrative Yoga Therapy Teacher and licensed psychotherapist with over twenty years of sound healing experience across medical, yoga, retreat and organizational settings. Her acoustically-optimized home studio in San Miguel de Allende holds a complete set of alchemical crystal bowls tuned to the seven chakras, paired with binaural-beat guided meditation and Goddess card readings. She works locally in San Miguel and worldwide via Zoom — and integrates psychotherapy with sound work in a way that's still rare in Mexico.
Cris Beasley is a former tech executive turned trauma-informed sound and voice practitioner, based on land in San Felipe del Agua just outside Oaxaca de Juárez. Since age 15 she has used voice and instruments for energetic and emotional healing; her training spans Hatha Yogic Tantra, Emotional Freedom Technique, somatic trauma work studied with Bessel van der Kolk and Peter Levine, Enneagram, Human Design and astrology. She gathers small groups for sound ceremonies that blend deep listening, vocal toning and shadow work.
Diana Bolaños is the creator of AguaQiFlow — a restorative aquatic therapy that blends QiGong's flowing movements with sacred waters, energy work and Mayan spiritual traditions. Her sessions take place in the mineral-rich, gently floating waters of the Bacalar lagoon, where the buoyancy and silence of the water carry tones, breath and bodywork in a way no studio can. The work supports nervous-system regulation, emotional release and womb healing rather than peak experience.
Enicia Fisher is the founder of Sanadora Sanctuary and Sanadora Yoga International, holding sacred space for healing retreats in Mexico and the US since 2012. She is the creator of Heart Alignment Yoga and a heartfulness meditation practice that pairs gentle yoga, breath and sound journeys to recalibrate the nervous system. Sanadora's home base is a 7,500 sq ft private residence in central San Miguel de Allende.
Iseo runs Camino del Sonido in Mexico City, blending sound healing with conscious breathwork. Sessions range from 1:1 sittings to private group ceremonies for couples and families, plus open group sessions and floating water sessions held at Spa Marquis-Reforma. She also designs corporate wellness programs and ceremony work for special events.
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.
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.
Julia Allshouse is the founder of Vikara Wellness, a sober holistic retreat brand running nervous-system reset programs in San Miguel de Allende, Yelapa, Oaxaca and Bacalar since 2012. Originally from Pittsburgh and over a decade in Mexico, she pairs yoga, sound, TRE® and Shaking Medicine with collaborator-led sound baths to support trauma-informed healing. Her San Miguel programming brings in local sound practitioners to round out the work.
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.
Lucia Diez founded LUZYA / Holistic Wellness Cancun and guides participants through sound healing, meditation and breathwork. Her sessions feature authentic singing bowls brought from Nepal alongside crystal and metal bowls tuned to therapeutic frequencies. She works across private bookings, weddings, corporate retreats and catamaran experiences along the Caribbean coast.
Lucy Sessions is the founder of Voice Medicine and of Casa Ixchel Retreats, set in cloud forest at 2,700 meters in a Tzotzil village twenty minutes outside San Cristóbal de las Casas. UK-born and ten-plus years in Chiapas, she is a professional singer and Theta-healing practitioner whose work centres on the human voice as the core healing instrument, layered with harp, drum and bowls. Sessions feel more like guided improvisation than a passive sound bath.
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.
Paulina Landa is a certified sound healing practitioner who founded Encalma Healing Studio in Lomas del Chamizal, Mexico City. She trained in sound therapy with Sacred Science of Sound (Los Angeles) and in gong with Vikrampal, and complements her work with Reiki, breathwork and Access Consciousness Bars. Her practice blends crystal singing bowls, Reiki, breathwork and guided meditation into immersive sessions designed to regulate the nervous system.
Steff Fink is the founder of Amor Adentro, a Mexico City sound healing project offering sound, breathwork, cacao and Reiki. She also serves as Editor in Chief of Local.mx. Amor Adentro runs both group sessions — historically hosted at MŪLA — and personalized 1:1 sessions across CDMX.
Breathwork is one of the fastest ways to change how the body and mind feel without anything external — which is why it sits so naturally alongside sound. Across Mexico, many sound practitioners open or close a session with breath, and a growing number run dedicated breath journeys with full musical or live-sound accompaniment.
Neither is better; they do different things. Each practitioner profile on this directory states which they work with.
Strong active breathwork is powerful and not for everyone. Avoid intense/circular breathwork if you are pregnant, have cardiovascular disease, uncontrolled high blood pressure, epilepsy, glaucoma or retinal detachment, a history of aneurysm, or are in acute psychiatric care. Always disclose your health history first. A responsible facilitator screens for this, never pressures the pace, and stays with you throughout. This is not a medical treatment.
Choose someone who screens health history, explains contraindications plainly, and offers a gentler option if active breathwork isn’t right for you. Every practitioner below is independently verified and works with breath as part of their practice — contact them directly and ask how they run a session before booking.