About La Mezquita
A home for healing, breath, music, community, and transformation.
La Mezquita is a psychedelic retreat centre on the coast in El Campello, Alicante — founded not as a business, but as a way of life.
Our Story
La Mezquita did not begin as a business. It began as a way of life.
It was a home, a gathering place, and a space for healing work, community, music, ceremony, and inner exploration. In the beginning, the project was closer to psychedelic activism than to the idea of becoming a retreat centre. It came from a belief that these medicines, when approached with respect and care, can help people reconnect with themselves, with each other, and with something deeper.
Over time, as more people began searching for safe and meaningful psychedelic experiences, La Mezquita naturally evolved into a retreat centre. We stepped into this work because there was a genuine need: people were looking for places where they could be held with honesty, humanity, and care.
Today, La Mezquita remains what it has always been at its heart: a home for healing, breath, music, community, and transformation.
The Place
La Mezquita is in an urbanised coastal area of El Campello, Alicante. It is not a hotel, and it is not a clinical facility. It is a human place where people come together, eat together, share together, and slowly begin to feel part of a temporary community.
The house, the sea air, the shared meals, the music, the conversations, the garden, the nearby mountains, and the simple rhythm of the place all form part of the retreat. We believe the environment matters. Healing does not happen only in the ceremony. It happens in the way people are received, the way they are listened to, the way the group begins to trust each other, and the way music helps people soften, open, and feel.
La Mezquita feels like home because it is a home. It is lived in, cared for, imperfect, warm, and real. People are not treated like clients moving through a system. They are welcomed as human beings entering a shared space of care, respect, and presence.
The Philosophy
We do not see plant medicine as a quick fix or a spiritual performance. We see it as a serious and sacred form of inner work that requires preparation, respect, honesty, and care. Spiritual well-being is one of the three pillars of overall health — alongside physical and mental well-being — and it is the part of healing that is most often overlooked.
We believe music is medicine. We believe breath is a doorway. We believe the soul knows what it needs, and our role is to create the conditions for it to find out.
The Name
La Mezquita means “the mosque” in Spanish. The name also comes from the local area, Las Mezquitas, where the centre is located. In that sense, we wanted to be La Mezquita of Las Mezquitas.
Before La Mezquita became what it is today, the building had also been connected to Moroccan culture and hospitality. We wanted to respect the people who had lived, worked, cooked, served, and shared inside the space before us, and to honour the Arabic and Mediterranean feeling already present in the building.
La Mezquita has no affiliation with Islam or any single religion. The name is used in the spirit of sacred space: a place of prayer, silence, devotion, music, beauty, surrender, and inner listening.
We welcome people from all faiths, and people with no formal faith at all, as long as they come with sincerity, respect, and an honest intention.
The People
La Mezquita was founded by Babaji, as part of a wider path of healing, community, activism, and spiritual work.
Over the years, La Mezquita has been home to many facilitators, therapists, psychologists, musicians, artists, volunteers, friends, and travellers. Each person has contributed something different: their art, their magic, their touch, their presence, their breath, their positivity, and their care.
The core of La Mezquita is not one person. It is the field created by the team, the guests, the music, the space, the breath, and the medicine itself. We work with people we trust, and with people who understand that this work requires humility, presence, responsibility, and genuine care.
Some people stay for a season, some for a ceremony, and some become part of the family of the place. In this way, La Mezquita continues to evolve as a living community.
Come and see for yourself
If something here feels right, the next step is a conversation.