Mira Alvarez

Mira Alvarez

Retreat Guide
📍 Tulum, Mexico
Sound Healing · Tibetan Bowls · Trauma-Informed Ceremony · Bilingual Spanish-English
For adults navigating something — grief, transition, burnout, recovery — who are open to non-verbal work. The retreats specifically welcome people working with trauma, with the support that requires.
"Sound Healing"
Tibetan bowl ceremonies and sound retreats in Tulum.
Guiding since 2017 · 18 retreats · 280+ participants Max 12 per retreat

What I Do & Why It's Different

Tibetan bowl ceremonies and five-day sound retreats in Tulum. Mexico-City-trained therapist with three-year apprenticeship under a Nepalese bowl master. Combines clinical trauma awareness with traditional sound ceremony. Bilingual Spanish-English throughout.

Weekly Sunday Ceremonies

Twenty-Four Nepalese Bowls

Five-Day Retreats Twice a Year

Trauma-Informed Clinical Training

Bilingual Spanish-English

Private One-on-One Sessions

Three-Year Full-Time Apprenticeship

Clinical Psychology Foundation

Twenty-Four-Bowl Setup

Bilingual From Day One

A weekend course is not a sound healing certification. There are practitioners doing real work — and there are practitioners who are not. You deserve to know the difference.

What Actually Happens

The open-walled palapa just before sunset Sunday session The open-walled palapa just before sunset Sunday session
Twenty-four-bowl setup, Saturday morning Twenty-four-bowl setup, Saturday morning
Mid-ceremony, third evening of November retreat Mid-ceremony, third evening of November retreat
Mallets and bowls before opening intention Mallets and bowls before opening intention
Group integration, after Sunday session Group integration, after Sunday session

"I have been showing up on Sunday for two years. Mira holds a quality of attention I have not found elsewhere. The Spanish-English fluidity is part of what makes it work."

Camila Reyes · Sunday Evening Series

"I came after a year I would rather not describe. Mira held me without saying much. The bowls did the rest. I am still finding new layers of what happened."

Daniela Cortez · November Sound Retreat

"I am skeptical of most things in this category. Mira is different. The clinical training shows up everywhere — in how she sets the room, in how she holds difficulty, in how she ends."

Antonio Mendoza · Sunday Evening Series

"Five days in Tulum with twenty-four bowls and a teacher who actually trained for years. The depth is impossible to fake. Bring tissues."

Sofia Padilla · November Sound Retreat

"The private session was the most useful ninety minutes of my year. Mira saw exactly where I was stuck and worked there."

Eduardo Ramos · Private Sound Session

"I came after my divorce. Five days in Tulum with twenty-four bowls and Mira's holding put me back together in a way I cannot fully explain. I will be back."

Marisol Vega · November Sound Retreat

"I drove three hours each Sunday for six months to attend Mira's sessions. Worth every kilometer. The work she is doing is rare, and the bilingual format reaches parts of me that English alone never has."

Teresa Bianchi · Sunday Evening Series

"I am a trauma therapist myself. The clinical framing Mira brings to sound work is the missing piece in this field. I have referred several of my own clients to her since."

Robert Chen · November Sound Retreat

What It's Like to Be Here

Sunday-evening sessions begin at sunset. You arrive thirty minutes early, settle in the palapa with a blanket. The session itself is ninety minutes — opening intention, ceremony, integration. The retreats add personal one-on-one sessions, integration journaling, and a slower pace. Tulum's beach is fifteen minutes away. Most participants walk to the morning sessions. Spanish and English throughout.

Who Comes to My Retreats

Therapists themselves, looking for their own restoration. Trauma survivors who have done other modalities and want a non-verbal one. People navigating major life transitions. About forty percent are mothers between thirty-five and fifty.

Not for people in active psychiatric crisis. The work is gentle but goes deep, and the support — while skilled — is not a substitute for ongoing care. Mira will recommend pre-retreat consultation if she has any concerns.

Upcoming Retreats

I run a few retreats a year. Leave your email and I'll let you know when the next one opens.

Five-Day Sound Retreat — May

Five-Day Sound Retreat — May

May 18-22, 2026 · Tulum, Mexico
Five-Day Sound Retreat — November

Five-Day Sound Retreat — November

November 4-8, 2026 · Tulum, Mexico

If you have a question, want to discuss a private group, or just want to say hi — I read every message.

There is a Sunday-evening session this week. The next retreat is in November. The work meets you wherever you are.
"Sound goes where words can't. That's the whole secret."
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