Root Healing Iboga Retreats

Reconnect with Bwiti and iboga…

With our online integration circle — open to everybody who has been a guest of or

Brought to you by our Spiritual Care Center and held by Ryan Rich and Sarah Siegel

A place to share stories, or just to listen and be welcomed.

A place to ask questions, among friendly faces. A place to reconnect directly with the fire at the heart of the Bwiti tradition, and with others who share this pathway — from wherever you are in the world.

📅: 25 November 2024 // 21:00 EST

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We're back at it in Thailand! Join us for an 8-day Traditional Iboga Retreat in Chiang Mai.

Upcoming Dates:

April 20-27 (fully booked)
May 3-10 (1 space)
May 15-22 (2 spaces)
June 15-22
June 26 - July 3
July 7-14
July 22-29
August 3-10
August 14-21
September 3-10
September 15-22

To learn more or book, please see links in bio or email us at [email protected]

It's not that we're asking you to focus on the food...

It's just that the locally-sourced, organically grown and freshly farmed ingredients used by our kitchen team at Root Healing (Thailand) naturally transform into meals that delight our guests - whatever your dietary requirements.

Even on processing days and in preparation for the ceremonies, when our menu is more delicately seasoned, lighter and simpler - in line with what best suits the body when it comes to experiencing iboga.

You can access sample meal plans to understand more about what you'll expect to eat when during your experience with iboga, and get in touch for a FREE CONSULTATION CALL where you can chat to our provider team about all aspects of joining us for one of our traditional Missoko Bwiti retreats via the link in our bio.

The proper way to follow any iboga ceremony…

Is with its own processing day, and its own integration day. Every time.

That’s why our Psychospiritual Retreats are 8 days long — because they contain two traditional Missoko Bwiti iboga ceremonies — each accompanied by the right setup, space and time to allow the iboga to work through you, as you get acclimatised to working with the new kinds of being and self-knowing potentiates by working with the iboga.

On your integration days, you’ll find that the realisations and deeper understandings keep coming — and you’ll be able to fully take them in, given that we’ve built these nature-centric days into the timetable of our retreats to enable you to do just that.

At Root Healing (Thailand), on-site Thai massages and individual Muay Thai and yoga sessions complement our excursion offerings, which include visits to the temples dotting the surrounding hilltops and visits to our local elephant sanctuary.

📸: Our brilliant January 2024 retreat at our center in Chiang Mai.

Questions about preparation, integration and the iboga experience itself? 🔗 in bio for a FREE CONSULTATION call!

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When you’re considering an experience with iboga, try asking yourself questions like…

❓Will the ceremony follow a particular tradition❓

How connected to the roots of the tradition are the people facilitating it?

Our ceremony providers at Root Healing have all been taught Missoko Bwiti teachings and wisdom in Gabon — where they have been empowered to share the tradition, taught to them in the exact same way they bring it to all Root Healing ceremonies.

Root Healing co-founders and .cullerton frequently return to Gabon for further training and to maintain our connection to the tradition.

Missoko Bwiti — the tradition we follow in our provision of Root Healing retreats — directly follows Dissumba, technically the original form of Bwiti, and its primary focus is healing.

📸: Lead provider Ghenigho on our January psychospiritual retreat at Root Healing (Thailand)

☎️ Find out more and book your free consultation call via the 🔗 in our bio!

Where does our iboga come from?

The most potent, healing iboga — the second layer of root bark in the tabernanthe iboga shrub — grows in the wild for over decades before it is harvested in keeping with the Bwiti tradition — and prepared the Bwiti way.

When you’re exploring possibilities for an experience with iboga, look out for iboga which:

❎ Has not been farmed — growing iboga as a crop and harvesting it results in a poorer quality product, both chemically and on a spiritual level (in either case meaning you’ll need to ingest more to feel the effects).

✅ Is sustainably sourced — the iboga in this picture — the same iboga you’ll encounter on retreat at Root Healing (Portugal) or Root Healing (Thailand) is left to grow for 80+ years before being prepared for ceremony.

✅ Is ceremonially prepared, by the Bwiti, for the purpose of traditional healing — our sister village in Gabon practice Missoko Bwiti — one of the oldest forms of the Bwiti tradition and the branch specifically dedicated to healing — and when you visit us in Portugal or Thailand for a traditional Bwiti iboga retreat, it is the intact teachings passed down to us by our teachers in Gabon that underpin the experience we provide for you.

"Where does your iboga come from?" is one of many(!) good questions to ask your iboga provider ahead of booking a retreat. Sign up to our newsletter (🔗 in bio) — for our top questions you might not think to ask, but probably will ask now!



📸: On a recent visit to our sister village in Gabon.

“How do I know if iboga is right for me?”

It’s a question only you can answer — and it’s very important that this is a decision you make for yourself.

This is especially important to consider in the light of iboga’s anti-addictive properties… Even if you are experiencing addiction — and even if you have been recommended to consider iboga to help with this by family or friends — the ultimate decision to book an iboga retreat must be 100% yours.

In the Bwiti tradition — which has been followed in the same way for thousands of years and is the ceremony format in which we provide iboga to our guests at Root Healing retreats — iboga is for everybody.

First offered to young adults in a coming-of-age ceremony that roots them in themselves, their community and the Bwiti tradition, the Bwiti can return to iboga when they need to course-correct their lives, helping them to reorientate on a healthy path.

In the spirit of the Bwiti tradition we share with all our guests, we welcome everybody who meets our medical screening criteria — (for a full breakdown of the screening assessment that means we can ensure iboga will be safe for you, you can find our screening handbook on our website).

A FREE CONSULTATION CALL (🔗 in bio!) with our providers after filling out our initial health questionnaire can help you decide when, how and whether to take your next step towards a traditional Bwiti healing experience with iboga.

How do Bwiti teachings combine with iboga?

Each of the Bwiti teachings we pass down to you around the fire at Root Healing retreats in our Iboga ceremonies themselves — and throughout the psychospiritual dimension of our retreats — is another mechanism you can use to:

🔥Sift through your experiences;
🔥Find your true self;
🔥And see your beliefs for what they are.

It is through this process, experiencing the Bwiti teachings combined with iboga, that you will find your freedom:

🔥In knowing, for the first time, how these beliefs and coping strategies formed;

AND, through the iboga…

🔥…you will start feeling into how your beliefs are separate from you.

Our eight-day psychospiritual retreats present a uniquely perfect opportunity — through the Bwiti teachings and iboga (the second layer of root bark found on the Tabernathe Iboga shrub) — to start seeing the wood for the trees.

We’re almost at wait-list stage for January at both centers — subscribe to our newsletter via 🔗 in bio for our seasonal discount offer for bookings in 2024! And to complete our initial health questionnaire and arrange your FREE CONSULTATION CALL.

📸: This photo was taken in the beautiful surroundings of our Sintra center, which await our guests for exploring on integration days.