Markers
- 78
- Optimal
- 12
- Borderline
- 9
- Needs work
Medically supervised iboga retreats since 2012 - The Mayan Riviera near Cancun, Mexico
Seven to fourteen days on the Mayan Riviera near Cancun, Mexico. Traditional Missoko Bwiti ceremonies, held by practitioners initiated and trained at Bwiti House in Gabon. Deep healing with ancestral wisdom, a medical team on site around the clock, 110+ biomarkers screened before you arrive and three months of care after you leave.
Helped 7,677 people
Heart rate variability
68 ms
Improving
Brain mapping
Kidney mapping
Liver mapping
ECG
Biological age
32 years
Stress level
24Low
Physician-led, 24/7
Pre-arrival medical screening with 110+ biomarkers, reviewed by our clinical team; vitals monitored on site throughout your stay
Bwiti Practitioners
Graduated from Bwiti House Training Program in Gabon
Stanford cardiac protocol
Magnesium and electrolytes to reduce cardiotoxicity
The doctors who screen you, watch over every ceremony, and guide it. You always know who is in charge of your safety.
General physician
Graduated from Universidad Autónoma de Durango, Mexico. Reviews every application, decides who is cleared, and leads the protocol. She signs the safety declaration, and takes your call.
Missoko Bwiti traditional practitioner
Graduated with distinction from the Bwiti House Training Program in 2012, trained by a tenth-generation Missoko Bwiti shaman in Gabon, with fourteen years of practice and thousands of participants guided. Present at every ceremony: he hosts the fire talks, guides your life review, watches your vitals and offers counseling before, during and after the retreat.
Former U.S. Navy SEAL, Bwiti provider
A former U.S. Navy SEAL with ten years of service, Cory came to iboga after living the hard transition out of the military himself. Initiated into the Bwiti tradition in Gabon and a graduate of the Bwiti House Training Program, he holds ceremonies and retreats in Mexico with respect for the tradition, personal accountability and practical integration: for him, healing is as much the work that follows as the experience itself.
Psychologist
Psychologist in addiction and behavioral health, with close to a decade at the National Institute of Psychiatry in Mexico. She holds the psychological arc of the retreat, from screening and preparation to integration, and meets people quietly, without pressure.
Lead provider, Bwiti House graduate
Her first ceremony ten years ago changed her life; she then apprenticed beside experienced providers through hundreds of ceremonies and graduated from the Bwiti House Iboga Provider Training in Gabon. A Certified Peer and Family Support Specialist in the United States for seven years, she bridges lived experience and professional care, grounded, ethical and nurturing.
Guest onboarding
Lisa is your point of contact from the first inquiry to the end of integration. She coordinates guest care, retreat logistics and preparation, keeps you informed at every step and stays close after you return home. Her approach is warm and grounded: every guest should feel seen, prepared and cared for throughout their journey.
You've done the work. The therapy, the medication, the optimization. Your labs say you're fine. You know you're not. Longevity clinics have the science and no soul. Iboga retreats have the soul and no safety net. Bwiti Life offers the best of both worlds: ancestral ceremony and 24/7 medical care, in one place.
Measures and optimized the body. The soul is left untouched
Heals the soul. The body goes unmeasured, before and after.
The best of both worlds.
Bwiti Life Protocol
Ancestral ceremony, clinical longevity science, one structured path over three months. Heal your soul, transform your body, and see it in your data.
Blood work, 12-lead ECG and daily vitals: the tests we require, read by a physician before you are cleared.
Ancestral ceremonies under 24/7 medical supervision.
180
Days in a row
Three months by your side, making your transformation last.
What we treat
PTSD, addiction, burnout and all the weight you've carried too long.
Navigate and heal from past traumatic experiences in a safe, supported environment.
Find freedom from substance dependence with comprehensive support and aftercare.
Discover tools and insights to manage anxiety and cultivate inner peace.
Process loss and find pathways to healing and acceptance.
Gain clarity and direction during major life changes and personal evolution.
Unlock new perspectives and accelerate your journey of self-discovery.
Phase 1
Diagnostic
Phase 2
Retreat
Phase 3
Continued care
Diagnostic
We map who you actually are. 110+ biomarkers, your brain, your heart, your sleep. One honest starting point, so every change afterward is a fact, not a feeling.
Not a report you read once. Every signal feeds one living model of you. Your twin re-computes every marker from your real data. See where you're heading, and what changes if you act.
110+ biomarkers across 11 body systems, drawn before you travel and read by a physician: hormones, inflammation, metabolic and cardiac markers, micronutrients. Not a range on a lab sheet, but where you stand and what it means for the ceremony and for the months after.
At the center, the same measurements every day: blood pressure, heart rate and heart-rate variability, weight and body composition, a six-lead ECG. The same measure taken again and again turns a snapshot into a trend.
A qEEG brain map before and after the retreat shows how your brain actually works: where activity is over- or under-active, how it regulates stress and sleep. Your practitioners read it, and so do you.
Markers
Brain mappingKidney mappingLiver mapping
Beats per minuteECGThe retreat
Seven days on the Mayan Riviera near Cancun, Mexico. The depth of an ancestral tradition, held to the standards of a clinic, at the same time, in the same room.
Iboga ceremonies held by traditional practitioners trained in Gabon by Moughenda Mikala, a tenth-generation Missoko Bwiti shaman and founder of Bwiti House, in a healing tradition carried across generations. Missoko Bwiti Music and sacred Songs accompany the ceremony all night, in the rhythms practitioners say guide the traveler; trained providers watch every hour.
Vitals, ECG, sleep and stress markers are recorded before the first ceremony and after the last one. What changed is written down, so integration builds on facts rather than impressions.
A private center in the jungle on the Mayan Riviera near Cancun, Mexico, twenty minutes from Cancún airport: seven private rooms, a cenote-fed pool, a fire circle and a dining palapa. Small groups, never dormitories.
A physician is on site 24/7. Continuous cardiac telemetry during ceremonies, IV access placed before any dose, and IV fluids, electrolytes, magnesium and vitamins given according to each guest's needs. We can stop at any time.
The clinic
Seven private rooms, a cenote-fed pool, a fire circle and a dining palapa in the jungle, twenty minutes from Cancún airport. The ceremonies, the medical station and your bed are all in the same garden. Discover the center
Activites
Events and activites will provide support, motivation, and a sense of community to help sustain new habits.
A quiet place made for healing: the pool fed by the cenote, the garden, the fire circle under the trees. Between ceremonies you rest, swim and let the calm of the jungle do part of the work.
Massages relax your muscles and improve blood flow, easing tension and promoting healing. They help reduce stress and leave you feeling refreshed and rejuvenated.
Discussions open the door to new ideas and perspectives. They help us understand different viewpoints and find better solutions together.
Continued care
What happens on the Mayan Riviera near Cancun, Mexico shouldn't stay a memory. For three months, medical follow-up turns what you feel into what your data shows.
Nutrition, training and supplementation, re-tuned to your data week after week. You even learn to cook for your 11 body systems, an education you keep for life.
Every week for three months, a call with your medical team or counselor: your wearable data, your goals, what to adjust. Video or audio, at the time you choose.
Why the numbers move: it starts in ceremony, not in a spreadsheet.
You see your patterns from the outside: where the stress comes from, what you have been running from, and that you are worth taking care of.
Toxic habits lose their grip: alcohol, sugar, overwork, the phone at 2 am. Sleep, movement, real food and self-respect take their place, with a plan and weekly calls.
Within three months the body shows it: stress down, heart-rate variability up, weight and cholesterol down, deeper sleep. You feel it first; then you can measure it.
Before the retreat
Stress level
78
High
Biological Age
47 years
Heart rate variability32 ms
Low resilience
Weight94 kg
Above target
LDL cholesterol165 mg/dL
High
Resting heart rate74 bpm
Elevated
Sleep5.4 hours
Fragmented
Blood pressure138/88 mmHg
Elevated
Inflammation (hs-CRP)3.8 mg/L
High
VO₂ max31 mL/kg/min
Below average
HbA1c5.9 %
Prediabetic range
Fasting glucose104 mg/dL
Elevated
Triglycerides190 mg/dL
High
Body fat28 %
Above target
Deep sleep48 min a night
Short
Alcohol12 drinks a week
Daily habit
Morning cortisol22 µg/dL
High
Vitamin D22 ng/mL
Insufficient
Grip strength34 kg
Below age norm
Steps a day4,200 steps
Sedentary
Waist98 cm
Above risk line
After three months
Stress level
24
Low
Biological Age
39 years
Heart rate variability68 ms
+112%
Weight86 kg
8 kg lighter
LDL cholesterol118 mg/dL
Down 28%
Resting heart rate58 bpm
16 bpm lower
Sleep7.6 hours
+2.2 hours a night
Blood pressure121/78 mmHg
Normal
Inflammation (hs-CRP)1.1 mg/L
Low
VO₂ max39 mL/kg/min
Fitness age 8 years younger
HbA1c5.3 %
Normal
Fasting glucose88 mg/dL
Optimal
Triglycerides110 mg/dL
Down 42%
Body fat21 %
7 points lower
Deep sleep92 min a night
Nearly doubled
Alcohol0 drinks a week
Free of it
Morning cortisol14 µg/dL
Optimal
Vitamin D41 ng/mL
Optimal
Grip strength41 kg
Above age norm
Steps a day9,800 steps
Active
Waist89 cm
9 cm less
Illustrative values from a typical guest profile. Your own baseline and progress come from your wearable and lab data.
Testimonials
I arrived with an anxiety I had carried for twelve years and a list of medications. Four months later my baseline is calm, and my data shows it.
After two tours I had tried therapy, EMDR and every supplement on the market. The ceremony gave me back the night. The doctor followed my heart monitor the whole time, and the integration calls afterwards are what made it last.
I did not come for a miracle. I came because nothing else had moved the weight. The care was clinical without being cold: bloodwork before, vitals during, a real plan after. I have not felt this steady in years.
I was a founder running on four hours of sleep and cortisol. The diagnostic showed me what my body was actually doing. Seven days on the Mayan Riviera near Cancun, Mexico, then three months of weekly calls, and I sleep, eat and think like a person again.
I lost my mother and then myself. The providers held the ceremony with a respect I did not expect, and the medical team never left. I grieved properly for the first time. The follow-up calls helped me carry it home.
What convinced me was the honesty: they declined a friend of mine because of his heart. When I was cleared, I trusted every step. The biomarkers before and after are the proof I needed, not just a feeling.
Ten years of broken sleep, every clinic, every app. The retreat reset something the trackers can now measure. My sleep score doubled, and the counselors still check in on my goals every week.
I came terrified of the ceremony itself. The panic attacks stopped. Two months on, they have not come back.
Programs and investment
Every place begins with a medical screening: your safety decides who joins, not your budget. Eight guests maximum per retreat.
All prices in US dollars, all inclusive. All payments are final and non-refundable, see our terms and conditions.
$6,500US dollars, private room
Two iboga ceremonies
The complete protocol in one week: medical screening, two ceremonies, 24/7 supervision.
Apply for a retreat$8,900US dollars, private room
Three iboga ceremonies
Three days more to reach the ancestors and let the medicine settle.
Apply for a retreat$12,900US dollars, private room
Up to four iboga ceremonies
Two weeks: detox, life review, ancestors and a clear look at what comes next. Four ceremonies, or three with microdosing, depending on the guest's needs.
Apply for a retreat$100 /hour, US dollars
Integration sessions with our counselors and the traditional providers who held your ceremonies, for as long as you want them.
Joining the retreat
Our team is here to guide you every step of the way, making sure you feel confident and prepared for the experience ahead.
FAQ
About Bwiti retreat, medical assistance and the ceremonies. If you have any other question, feel free to book a call with the team.
Our medically supervised iboga retreat includes comprehensive pre-screening, 24/7 medical monitoring by licensed professionals, and strict adherence to clinical protocols. Your well-being is our highest priority.
Adults who pass our medical and psychological screening. Iboga affects the heart, so every applicant goes through an ECG review, a full medication check, a psychiatric review and a cardiologist's sign-off. Some heart conditions, some psychiatric diagnoses and some medications rule participation out. About a third of applicants are declined; if it is not safe for you, we will tell you.
It depends on the medication. Several common ones, including some antidepressants, heart medications and opioids, interact with iboga and must be reviewed before any date is confirmed. Send us your complete list during the application. Never stop or change a medication on your own: if a taper is needed, our physician builds it with your prescriber.
Ground transportation between Cancún airport and the center, seven days of accommodation and meals, two traditional Bwiti iboga ceremonies (four on the two-week program), full medical intake and daily vitals, 24/7 physician presence, electrolyte and magnesium support when needed, one preparation call and four integration calls. Flights and travel insurance are not included.
Before you are cleared, our medical team asks for five pre-diagnostic tests, done with your own doctor or lab:
Our cardiologist reviews the results with your history and medication list before any date is confirmed.
In the two weeks before you travel: no alcohol or recreational drugs, a simple diet with plenty of water, and rest. Your preparation call sets your intentions and answers the practical questions; the medical team may add instructions specific to you.
Four integration calls are included after every retreat (one right after, then one at the start of each month for three months), and the three-month continued-care program adds weekly consults, proactive alerts from your wearable data and a living plan for nutrition, training and sleep. Beyond that, alumni can book video or audio calls with our counselors and traditional iboga providers at $100 an hour.
Both come from the root bark of Tabernanthe iboga, a shrub native to the rainforests of Gabon. Ibogaine is a single alkaloid isolated from that bark and used mostly in clinics for substance-use disorders. Iboga, the whole root bark used in Bwiti ceremonies, carries the full spectrum of alkaloids and is worked with for a broader range of mental, emotional and spiritual questions.
We work with the traditional root bark inside a Bwiti ceremony, and we add what a clinic would: pre-arrival screening, a 12-lead ECG, magnesium and electrolytes, and a physician on site through the night. Read the ultimate guide to iboga.
Small. The center has seven rooms, private or shared, and a retreat never exceeds eight guests. Each ceremony is held by a lead practitioner graduated from the Bwiti House Iboga Provider Training Program in Gabon, with assistants and the medical team present. That ratio is what makes personalised counsel, close monitoring and a calm room possible.
Iboga is well tolerated by most healthy adults when the medicine is pure, the dose is set by a trained practitioner and the setting is medically supervised. It is not safe for everyone: cardiovascular disease, liver disease and several medications or substances can make it dangerous. That is why screening comes first: CBC, CMP, serum magnesium, a liver function panel, a 12-lead ECG and a full medication review, all reviewed by our physician before a date is confirmed.
If you are using drugs or alcohol daily, tell us: a detox needs a specific clinical protocol and we will advise you honestly on whether our program is the right place for it. More answers for first timers.
Yes. Your medical records are handled as clinical records and are never shared without your written consent. Groups are small and run on a first-name basis, no photographs are taken during ceremonies, and we only publish a testimonial if you ask us to.
At our center on the Mayan Riviera near Cancun, Mexico, twenty minutes from Cancún international airport (CUN). Fly into Cancún; our team picks you up at the airport and brings you back at the end of the retreat. Transportation is included in the program.
You've carried this long enough. Start with a conversation with our medical team.
