Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu
Stay composed under pressure
Think clearly when you are cornered, challenged, or out of options.

Why Lions Gate Retreats
An intense, focused retreat for a handful of exceptional men. Fourteen or thirty days in Tulum, supported by a hand-selected team of practitioners, to transform how you live and lead and prepare you for the highest level of sustained performance.
Secure your place
To the man everyone relies on
Lions Gate Retreats brings together a handful of men who have already built something. They know achievement is not a finish line. They are ready to raise their standard in business, health, relationships, and life.
For fourteen or thirty days in Tulum, you train with elite athletes, fighters, and coaches. You strengthen your body, sharpen your focus, and confront the habits holding you back.
Then you build the discipline to carry that level home.
Break old patterns. Build a higher standard. Arrive and leave with intention.
This is where strength becomes mastery.
You train hard, recover well, and think clearly. You build habits that hold when you return home.
You leave with greater capacity for the life you lead.
You leave ready for what comes next.

HOW IT WORKS
When was the last time you took time for yourself and locked in on your health, your well-being, and the person you are becoming? This is your chance to act on it. Thirty days to train, recover, and build a higher standard you can carry for the rest of your life. The decision starts here; the change goes home with you.
Between training and scheduled sessions, the time is yours. Work, recover, explore, or keep building from Tulum. Every Tuesday and Thursday, you step into the coworking and AI Club community, surrounded by exceptional founders, operators, and technologists. You are not stepping away from momentum. You are changing who you build beside.
What's included
Your environment is handled. Training, recovery, and nourishment are built into each day. You show up ready to do the work. Every guest gets a private villa.
*DOI Gold members receive 25% off every Lions Gate Retreat.
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Your own luxury private villa — a space to recover, reset, and begin your day without distraction.
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Private and group sessions with the best coaches in Latin America.
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Three chef-prepared meals plus snacks, built to support training, recovery, and clear energy throughout the day.
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Discover Tulum while working from its most exclusive co-working spaces.
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As your personal amenity, enjoy an idyllic cenote just steps from your villa. Rejuvenate in the Mayan healing waters of your own wellness sanctuary. Discover the white sand beaches of Sian Ka’an, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and the natural beauty of Tulum.
What you take home
Seven disciplines. Seven advantages that return home with you.

Vesica Tulum · Cenote Club
Inside Lions Gate
Training, recovery, focused work, and time inside Tulum's builder community. Each day has a purpose and each one moves you forward.

A day inside Lions Gate Retreats balances hard training, focused work, recovery, community, and consistent sleep. The goal is not to escape your business — it is to perform at a higher level while rebuilding the habits that support you.

Training day · Muay Thai
We select the best.
You cannot book your way in. Every place begins with a private conversation.
Tell us what you have built and why this month matters.
We look for candor, readiness, and fit with the men already in the room.
If the room is right for you, and you are right for the room, your place is confirmed.
Built for men whose decisions carry weight, whose time is scarce, and who are ready to be challenged by their peers.
Who sits beside you is part of the program.
The origin

I’m Wafi Bayou. I’m thirty-four, and I’m the founder and CEO of Digital Oro International. I have built businesses across real estate, banking, cryptocurrency, cybersecurity, accounting, and international project development. I consider myself a visionary, not a dreamer. A dreamer waits. A visionary builds. But this story is not about what I built. It is about what it cost me. Living like a rock star and on constant heavy adrenaline, can have horrible consequences on your brain, body, and relationships. Burning both ends at the same time, will cost you your success. Being performant without being aligned will cost you your wellbeing. A successful business does not make you automatically a great man. Lions Gate Retreats will permit you to become that greater man.
Life corrected me more than once. It forced me to confront what ambition had allowed me to ignore. The pressure. The damage. The man beneath the title.
Running companies across countries, industries, and time zones requires more than ambition. It requires a body that can carry the pressure, a mind that can remain clear, and a spirit that cannot be broken. Most entrepreneurs build the business. Very few build the man capable of sustaining it. Lions Gate is the infrastructure I wish I had from the beginning and is the gift I give to you.
It is a thirty-day physical, mental, spiritual, and financial reset for entrepreneurs, operators, and high performers who carry the weight of leadership. This retreat was designed for you to become the beast that you are by staying grounded, present, and strong enough to face any obstacles with ease.
You will train your body. Sharpen your mind. Confront what is no longer serving you. Reconnect with the discipline, strength, and purpose required to lead at the highest level. Everything it took me years to discover has been brought together in one place, with one purpose with the people that I love and have helped me grow. To optimize the man behind the mission. Step through the gates. We will send you back home like a lion.
Lion's Gates is that process, compressed. Everything it took me years and a great deal of money to assemble — in one villa, in fourteen or thirty days.
Wafi Bayou · Founder, Lion's Gates & DOI


Are you ready?
One cohort a month. Ten men in each. November 1st. When the room is right, it closes.
Request your spotA team member calls you within two hours. Not a sales call — a conversation. At the end of it, either this is for you or it is not, and both of us will know.
“As soon as you pass the Lion's Gates, we send you back a lion.”
FAQs
Fourteen days is a great way to get moving. Thirty days goes deeper. It gives you enough time to break the old cycle, build the new routines, and live them long enough for the higher standard to start feeling normal.
The people behind the retreat
This roster was assembled one practitioner at a time. Some of Latin America’s most exceptional professionals. Chosen because they know how to push people past their limits and build real strength under pressure. At Lions Gate Retreats, they work as one team around you. Your goals. Your weaknesses. Your next level. No generic schedule. No going through the motions. A protocol built to challenge you, sharpen you, and show you what you are capable of.
Our recovery practitioners help you let go of what no longer serves you, so you can level up faster.
Choose your path
Choose how you arrive. The standard stays the same.

Entrena como un campeon. Leave like one.
Your own villa room. Private sessions with Magnus, Juan and Lionel. The full athletic stack, built around your body and nothing else.
For the founder, the operator, the man who already trains and wants to find out what happens when it's all he does.
12.000 US$per person
DOI Gold · 9000 US$ per person

A month. A decade off.
Come with your partner. Same faculty, same table, same cenote. The days are yours to shape together. Chef Mefi cooks. Belu comes to the villa.
For the couple who have been meaning to do this for three years.
9500 US$per person
DOI Gold · 7125 US$ per person

Nobody should do this alone.
Bring two friends. Three of you in one villa, each with your own room. You move through the same work together, and carry it home together.
For three men who have been saying they should do something like this for years.
8500 US$per person
DOI Gold · 6375 US$ per person
Membership is reviewed separately. Ask how to qualify when you request your place.
Standard pricing is shown above.