Discover the transformative power of Iboga with our unique program approach. Optimize brain health, reset the nervous system, and access Self-realized states. Our programs cater to those seeking healing and advanced spiritual development.
We provide comprehensive, hands-on training for those committed to safely and effectively facilitating plant medicine experiences, blending online learning, live coaching and in-person training into one thoughtfully designed program.
Annually, we help women travel to Africa to learn about the Bwete culture. Our goal is to provide a safe and supportive experience and to offer integrative support when they return home.
At Root and Wisdom, we breathe new life into the traditional retreat model, shifting it away from the all-too-common, and quite honestly colonized, approach that sees Iboga narrowly as a plant medicine focused solely on trauma and healing.
In reality, there is so much more to this plant than its incredible medicinal properties, something many indigenous wisdom lineages understood very well, but the West has unfortunately forgotten.
This is why we offer a tiered program designed to meet individuals of all types, from those seeking genuine healing to the spiritual seekers drawn toward higher states of awareness and the mastery of their own perception.
Beginning at Level 1, your plant medicine entry point, through Level 2, with initiation level doses meeting a master plant teacher.
In Level 3 we work with Iboga and Tepezcohuite independently as power plants in a shamanic experience, and finally Level 4, where Iboga becomes a true ally that lives with you and guides your life forward.
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Our facilitator training program is for those who feel called to serve in the plant medicine space but have not yet found a place that offers both ceremonial immersion and the rigorous therapeutic and academic grounding required to show up fully in this vital role.
Weaving together graduate-level clinical insights, academic research, and indigenous spiritual approaches, this program acts as both a facilitator training and a personal development opportunity. Beginning with online self-study through a nine-module course, supported by live one-on-one coaching with Joaly and Troy throughout, and culminating in a full month immersed with us in the jungle.
Upon completion, you will be qualified to facilitate across a variety of ceremonial and therapeutic containers and invited to join us as part of our rotational staff at Root and Wisdom.
A wise medicine man once told us: caring cannot simply be taught, it is innate. Iboga, which means “to care for,” encapsulates this beautifully. We invite you to train with us and discover what it truly means to care for another.
Do you “feel called” to serve Iboga and guide others through its profound transformational journey? If so, we invite you to read what follows with an open heart and mind.
In recent years, we have watched a troubling pattern emerge. Individuals from the West sit with Iboga, take a brief trip to Gabon without any real commitment to the culture or lineage, and return home with a self-appointed blessing, claiming they “feel called” to serve. Something that traditionally takes years of time, trust and relationship building to earn. This has caused real harm while perpetuating the extraction from Africa without reciprocity or reverence.
At Root and Wisdom, we recognize a difficult reality: people are going to serve Iboga regardless, and in that truth, harm reduction becomes an obligation we simply cannot ignore.
We do not claim the authority to grant anyone the blessing to serve, but we created the Iboga Provider Training to ensure that those who choose to walk this path do so with integrity, safety and reverence. True service is not born of ego or desire. It must be rooted in humility, selflessness and a deep relationship with the Bwiti people, the land of Gabon and Iboga’s profound teachings.
If this resonates with something real inside of you, not the ego, but the heart, we would love to connect. Reach out and let us explore together whether this path is truly calling you forward.
