In ceremony we sit around the fire and talk, and this sharing is a time to be near the spirits. Just as the moon and the water share a sacred feminine energy, the sun and the fire breathe forth masculinity.Like the essence of man, it is this masculine energy that makes fire a protector spirit. Around its […]

GABON, AFRICAFull InitiationsThe idea of being pushed through a Full Initiation in the heart of Gabon—home land of Iboga and the core of Bwiti tradition—can never be understood until one is in the middle of this life-changing ceremony. It is an experience founded on the medicine. Initiates ingest more Iboga than they have ever taken in […]

Once settled in Gabon, our team encountered its first challenge; to undergo one of the Bwiti’s most rigorous ceremonies—the Rites of Passage. Our men became one of 18 Western men in the world to ever experience this initiation, and our women are among only nine other Westerners in the world. For four days and four nights, […]

Gabon, Africa. Birthplace of the Iboga tree. The heartbeat of Bwiti tradition. A 1,000-year-old practice that is rooted in source; the beginning of humanity itself. Our team ventured here, to unite with the true essence of the medicine, to the origins of Iboga and the people who discovered it. As providers of the medicine, the purpose of […]