What Is IbogA?
An ancestral medicine with roots in Central Africa.
Iboga Tabernanthe is a sacred shrub native to the rainforests of Central Africa, where it has been used for generations within traditional Bwiti spiritual practice as a tool for initiation, self-inquiry, ancestral connection, and spiritual development.
The root bark of the plant has long been regarded as a teacher. Traditionally, it is approached within ceremonial frameworks that emphasize preparation, guidance, community responsibility, and reverence for the wisdom it carries.
Unlike many substances sought for escape or temporary relief, Iboga has earned a reputation for inviting individuals into direct relationship with themselves, illuminating patterns, beliefs, memories, and behaviors that may otherwise remain unseen.
For this reason, it has been respected by generations of practitioners as a medicine of truth, accountability, and remembrance.
Walking With Iboga
My relationship with Iboga deepened through pilgrimage and initiation in Gabon, where I was welcomed into a lineage that profoundly reshaped my understanding of ceremony, responsibility, and ancestral stewardship.
What stayed with me most was the understanding that this work asks something of us. It asks for preparation. It asks for honesty. It asks for responsibility. Those lessons continue to shape the way I walk with the medicine today.
Through that experience, I came to understand that restoration is not something we receive from the outside. The body is already working toward balance. Much of the work is learning to recognize and remove the patterns, habits, and interference that pull us away from our natural state of coherence.
This understanding continues to shape how I approach ceremonial work today. My role is not to force an outcome; I'm here to help create the conditions for this work to be approached with preparation, education, structure, and care.
For me, Iboga has always been about restoring relationship, with the body, with the ancestors, and with the deeper truths that guide our lives.
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1. Consultation
Every journey begins with a private consultation. Together we assess readiness, intentions, health considerations, and determine the most aligned pathway forward.
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2. Therapeutic Dose Initiation
For individuals who are new to the medicine, a therapeutic dose provides an opportunity to establish relationship with Iboga in a measured and intentional way.
Recommended Commitment: 5 Days
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3. Flood Dose Ceremony
A more immersive experience that invites deeper layers of memory, behavior, perception, identity, and ancestral connection while receiving structured support throughout.
Recommended Commitment: 2-7 Days
The Pathway of engagement
Lineage • Preparation • Integration
My role is not to direct your experience or determine what you should receive from the medicine.
My responsibility is to help create the conditions for this work to be approached with preparation, integrity, and appropriate support.
That includes participant screening, ceremonial structure, nutritional support, nervous system preparation, safety protocols, and integration practices designed to help participants carry what is revealed into everyday life.
Within the Bwiti tradition, preparation and integration are not separate from the ceremony. They are part of the ceremony.
The medicine does the teaching...the responsibility is learning how to listen.
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