MAYA Healing Resort
Paz Mundo
At 2,200 metres above sea level, high above Lake Atitlán, Western thinking meets the healing art of the ancient MAYA. For 30 years a place of peace and regeneration — open to everyone, whatever their faith or background.
The heart of Central America beats in MAYA
The centre lives by the MAYA philosophy of life and carefully connects it with Western thinking, Western spirituality and Western healing.
An ancient, sacred MAYA place of healing and peace, where cultures, religions and old Maya healing methods come together.
Illness as an expression of imbalance
The ancient MAYA healing art does not only ask about the complaints, but about what lies behind them. We guide you back into balance with targeted treatments from alternative medicine, natural remedies, the TAMAZCAL sweat lodge and age-old, traditional MAYA healing methods and rituals.
What is MAYA healing?
Healing according to the MAYA principle follows Indigenous medicine and its holistic philosophy of life. Illness is seen as an expression of emotional and physical imbalance — which is why the MAYA look not only at the symptoms, but at what lies behind them.
Balance is restored with targeted treatments from alternative medicine, natural remedies, cures and traditional MAYA rituals. Every person is different: your constitution and your spiritual orientation shape what your program looks like.
How MAYA and Western medicine work together
For more than 30 years the PAZ MUNDO team has worked on the basis of ancient MAYA healing methods — combined with conventional medicine. Through therapists and healers from Guatemala and Europe, a wealth of experience in bringing both sides together has grown over the years.
On request, the Paz Mundo hospital on site provides an initial examination, care based on medical reports you bring with you, general medicine, dialysis, operating theatres, maternity ward, dental practice, X-ray department, homeopathy, pain and neural therapy, and naturopathy.
Who a stay is for
People come with exhaustion and burnout, with inner restlessness, sleeplessness and mood swings, with back problems, with strokes of fate they have not yet come to terms with. The more time you allow yourself, the deeper the stay can work.
Alongside this, Paz Mundo runs its own program for children and young people with disabilities.
A stay is no substitute for ongoing medical treatment. If you are in therapy or take medication, please discuss your stay with your doctor beforehand.
Social program of the Paz Mundo Foundation (Spanish) →
A place that makes you slow down
The grounds lie alone on the hillside above the lake. Rooms, pyramid, sweat lodge and garden belong together — no walk takes longer than two minutes, and in the evening all you hear is the wind.
Houses, temples and pyramids
The temples and pyramids stand on ancient MAYA temple sites.
- Casa KAWOQ — Treatment house for healing therapies
- Casa IXCHEL — Modern apartments and rooms for 26 people
- Casa XAMAN — Accommodation for 4 people with shared bathroom
- Pyramid “PORTON MUNDO” — Meditation pyramid of the spirit
- Pyramid “PAZ MUNDO” — Healing pyramid
- Temple “CORAZON MUNDO” — Prayer room, heart temple, meditation room
- Temple “XIBALBA-KIVA” — Dark room of the united guardians of the underworlds — for peace with the dark parts of the soul and the work for deceased ancestors
- TAMAZCAL — Traditional MAYA healing room
- Sauna — Finnish sauna overlooking Lake Atitlán
- Restaurant — Vegetarian and international cuisine
Meals are shared, with a view of the lake
Mixed fare with fish and chicken or vegetarian, local Guatemalan or international cuisine — tell us beforehand what suits you, and that is what you get. For longer stays we adapt your meals to your healing program.
Led by traditional MAYA shamans
MAYA shamanism, MAYA natural medicine, therapy, alternative and conventional medicine — at the centre they work side by side, not against each other.
If needed, the Paz Mundo hospital also provides support.
