Ryan "Ghenigho" Rich is the founder of Root Healing
He is a traditional Missoko Bwiti Iboga provider who was trained and empowered to lead retreats and also offer preinitiations to men and women. His work with Iboga includes Traditional Bwiti Iboga Ceremonies, Iboga Assisted Detox, Pre-initiations, Iboga Preparation, and Iboga Integration Counseling. Ryan is a lead providers at most of the Root Healing ceremonies and our Detox program. Ryan also studies/practices Tantra, Engaged Buddhism, and of course Bwiti. In addition to his Bwiti/Iboga work, Ryan is a meditation teacher, counselor, and mentor. Ryan loves to help people liberate themselves from their conditioning, and their fear, and actualize a more full, engaged, life.
“Those stress hormones destroy us … [Iboga] also even helps on the level of hormones and balancing the brain and bringing it back to normal. Because a lot of time those are patterns, something triggers you or reminds you of a traumatic experience, the stress response or the hormonal response on the brain is going to be the same as it was when it almost just happened a lot of time.”
On today’s podcast Nicolette and Ryan discuss Ryan’s Iboga retreats in Portugal and the process of integration and ceremony that they perform. He talks us through the effects that iboga has on people and that the key to healing is the truth. They also discuss plant medicine and the profound effects they can have on your body and mind and talk about the true path of colonization. The Iboga plant can help people with addictions, ancestral trauma, autoimmune and chronic disease by breaking the old patterns by balancing hormones and the brain. Ryan teaches us the difference between Iboga and Ibogaine, and how he has learnt the practice of Bwiti in Gabon, which is so different from the Western world that takes everything and tries to change nature. Ryan expands on the research that needs to be done and how they are seeing Iboga’s effects on MS, Parkinson’s, herpes, and HIV.