The best yoga & design hotels · Tulum
Habitas Tulum
Founded by Oliver Ripley, Kfir Levy, and Eduardo Castillo as a pop-up music retreat that became permanent in 2017, Habitas Tulum occupies a site where thirty-two rooms sit on stilts — elevated platforms that minimise ground contact — alongside indigenous materials and local carpenters. The structure was manufactured and 3D-printed in Habitas's own factory and assembled on-site in under nine months. Only the private beach on this stretch of the Zona Hotelera. Daily yoga on the elevated open-air deck, timed before the onshore wind arrives. Mayan clay rituals, cacao ceremonies, and sound healing run alongside the music programme. The RISE initiative directs concert and event revenue to a community-operated reforestation programme in Chiapas that has offset over twenty-five tonnes of CO₂. A separate partnership with SMEC funds plastic receptors throughout Tulum town. The building can, in principle, be disassembled and moved. Adults only (18+).
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The hotel
Yoga
Sustainability
THE SUSTAINABILITY
Built in a factory, assembled in nine months, designed to be taken down without adverse environmental impact. Most hotels cannot say that.
The structure was manufactured and 3D-printed in Habitas's own factory, then assembled on-site — total construction time under nine months. The RISE initiative directs concert and event revenue to a community-operated reforestation programme in Chiapas that has offset over twenty-five tonnes of CO₂; a separate partnership with SMEC funds plastic receptors throughout Tulum town, with collected plastic upcycled locally. The building can, in principle, be disassembled and moved. That is either reassuring or mildly unsettling depending on your attachment to permanence.
THE SUSTAINABILITY
Built in a factory, assembled in nine months, designed to be taken down without adverse environmental impact. Most hotels cannot say that.
The structure was manufactured and 3D-printed in Habitas's own factory, then assembled on-site — total construction time under nine months. The RISE initiative directs concert and event revenue to a community-operated reforestation programme in Chiapas that has offset over twenty-five tonnes of CO₂; a separate partnership with SMEC funds plastic receptors throughout Tulum town, with collected plastic upcycled locally. The building can, in principle, be disassembled and moved. That is either reassuring or mildly unsettling depending on your attachment to permanence.
THE YOGA
The yoga deck is elevated above the beach. The morning programme starts before the onshore wind arrives. The timing is not decorative.
Daily yoga on the elevated open-air deck at the time of day when the air is still. Mayan clay rituals, cacao ceremonies, and sound healing run through the week alongside the music programme. The wellness and the music are not two separate departments — at Habitas they are the same argument: that what happens outside the room is why you came.
THE YOGA
The yoga deck is elevated above the beach. The morning programme starts before the onshore wind arrives. The timing is not decorative.
Daily yoga on the elevated open-air deck at the time of day when the air is still. Mayan clay rituals, cacao ceremonies, and sound healing run through the week alongside the music programme. The wellness and the music are not two separate departments — at Habitas they are the same argument: that what happens outside the room is why you came.
