"I came to iboga because I needed help processing my grief after losing a loved one. Some months prior, several friends had spoken about their experiences with iboga, and after my loved one passed, I started looking for providers. 

I found Michael, after an extensive search, and everything fell into place. During our first phone call, I felt completely at ease. Michael radiates warmth and compassion and is both knowledgable and accessible - things I highly value in a guide.

Once at the retreat, I felt completely safe and supported. It was wonderful meeting other seekers also on their unique journeys. The space was beautiful and inspiring. The food was delicious. Michael was a beacon of light throughout the process. My ceremonies were profound and transformative. In my first ceremony, I spent the night fighting myself and it took a few days for me to realize just how much emotional negativity I had to purge from my life. I went into my second ceremony feeling renewed, open, and ready for the medicine to show me what I needed see, which it indeed did and there is still so much to learn. Months later I am still integrating the magic.

The ceremonies were amazing, yes, but even more beautiful and amazing is what happens after you return home: You realize that you are not the same person anymore in the best ways possible. I could not be more grateful for Michael's many kindnesses before, during, and after the process. I would recommend iboga for healing, and Michael as a provider/guide without hesitation. In fact, I plan to go to Gabon with him on his summer trip.

Thank you, thank you, thank you!"

— Kristen B.

“This medicine can heal generational trauma.

I highly recommend it for people in the diaspora. Having gone through the healing process myself. I can honestly say it really really works. It is not only a healing medicine, but a spiritual tradition and way of life. As old as mankind. And much needed at this time in this dispensation. This medicine is for all people of all backgrounds and walks of life. Those that are ready and willing to do the personal work necessary for themselves. With the loving support of the Bwiti healing team, and the expert leadership of the Bwiti man, growth healing and transformation is not only possible, but available and accessible on an individual level with group support. Profound and powerful, yet gentle and kind. For any one struggling with deep wounds invisible to the naked eye, this is a path that works. Basè Basè. I am truly grateful to the dancing eagle for bringing this medicine to the people. One Love every time”

— Ras Groundation

“The Iboga Spirit is One. This is a dream-miracle. Trust the root. Follow the Wood.”

— Blue Star

“I have to write to you guys because what you are doing is sacred.

My partner attended the August retreat (2018), and his life has changed 180 degrees thanks to you. Firstly, more than a couple of retreats declined his application because of his Narcolepsy. To be honest, I find it ignorant and disappointing.

It is hard to describe in words how appreciative I am that you guys took the challenge, while understanding what Narcolepsy is and what a great opportunity to change a life you have here.

He attended this retreat as his last resort, after more than 10 years of night horrors, less than 5 nights of good sleep a month (!!!!), over 150mg of Ritalin a day in the past 6 years !  He returned home knowing that he will never take Ritalin again, and so it was. 5 months later, not a single pill. He is sleeping full nights, like a normal person, in normal hours. He does still have some days where he is more tired and needs a nap, but most days he is just like every other normal person with no sleeping disorder.

To us, this is a miracle.

If there is any place where we can share a review that can help promote this retreat, please let us know, we would love to share this.

THANK YOU”

— G.M.

“I attended at the Bwiti Healing course on December 10, 2018. I had no idea what to expect, and although I had ingested Iboga before, I was uncertain of working with Michael DancingEagle.

In fact, I told him I didn’t want to take the course, thinking that it’s not going to be any different than other Iboga sessions I had had in the past. How could it be? The wood is an extremely powerful medicine from Gabon, Central West Africa, and what could be made of it? How could I stomach the possibility again, knowing what I had gone through before, and I certainly didn’t want to retrace my steps? The whole point of spiritual work is to move forward, isn’t it? It’s to evolve and gain understandings, to discover and ascertain meaning within one’s life—and to move forward with grace…always moving forward. In my late 20s, I remember meeting a man of spiritual alliance at a health conference. He told me about the difficulties of the spiritual path, since I was describing how hard life had been for me. He looked at me and said, “No one said it was going to be easy.” I was startled. Why not? Why wasn’t it easier, more enjoyable—less stress filled with anxiety, anguish and doubt? For that matter, I was committed to evolving, to burning the seed of karma in the fire of knowledge, so why wasn’t the Creator providing penance, giving me a break? Why wasn’t the journey filled with bliss? Needless to say, I wasn’t sure how to respond, except that I was dissatisfied with the answers provided by the status quo, so I began searching. I began at a young age, and the intricacy of working through issues within my family and self has been extraordinary, expanding the consciousness of understanding, which eventually led me to the wood. Insofar as I was “experienced” in the process of ingesting psychedelics of various characteristics and powers, I attempted to drop any expectations, short of superfluous anxieties and concerns I envisioned prior to this work. The trip, I speculated, would do it—source the contested trauma held in my chest and dissolve it—could resolve the complexity of my horrid upbringing, growing up in an abusive family, and allow me to transcend the inner conflict that I grovelled with each day—would at least give me the power to relieve the animosity I felt towards myself and others. I might even have fun, share a few laughs and make a new friend. If anything, the blessing of being alive could provide an opportunity to touch others in love, in the delicacy of feeling connected, in intimate moments of laughter, not feeling subjected to the angst of being raped at a young age, turned inside out and stripped to the bone of inner joy. To that extent, the design of the course was brilliant. It was so different from anything I had participated in, in the past…so fresh and reassuring that as the course progressed, it was clear that Michael had given the components of this specific course a great deal of thought. It was also evident that he holds formidable respect for working with this sacred medicine, and to holding people’s fears and distresses to heart, so to dissolve the anxieties that one feels subjected to, in the battle of one’s mind. Michael is a man of specific intelligence and prowess and is committed to alleviating the distresses of those engaged, of the issues that inflict Westerners today. In short and ecstatic glimpses, the weeklong course gave an intense opportunity of being with truer aspects of myself—and how often does one sit within one’s consciousness and observe its power and expansiveness moving throughout one’s universe? That might seem odd, frightening, or even plain boring, but the stillness of feeling connected was phenomenal, and the anguish of separateness diminished to null. I was latent upon an existential grace that I hadn’t experienced before, and to refuse it would have been pure idiocy. In retrospect, Iboga offers an opportunity to penetrate the stubbornness and aversion to facing oneself: it stirs the unfathomable depths of self and allows one to observe the complexity of issues within, breaking them down into simpler formats so that a clarity arises that wasn’t permissible in the past. Then one has a chance to act on subtler levels of thought, in order to rectify the ambiguity and doubt that plagued one so arduously in the past. You will awake the next day and quite possibly the anxiety and displeasure, the intensity of feeling torn inside out, may have shifted, and one then has the chance to be playful in the field of magic. In short Iboga holds within itself the awareness and simplicity of being alive. On a final note, Michael’s staff was incredible: the intake process was thorough, and one understands that attention is given to finer details. The support during the course was guided with care and manifold opportunities existed to discuss concerns. Even the food was prepared with an aesthetic approach that allowed the wood to traverse any obstructions with divine providence. After course care is available and certainly suggested, in order to support and process the finer details of the wood’s ongoing presence. If I am to consider the intricacy of coming to this course, at this time in my life, I am grateful for Michael’s vision to receive the rare opportunity of his instruction and guidance. On that note, give into the power of the medicine, and enjoy the perplexity of the Bwiti tribal music, which in itself connects one to a deeper sensation of Self, and no greater bliss arises than the thankfulness of being loved and alive.”

— Grace

“ My name is Tia. I’m 39 years young. I’ve been consciously and deliberately on my spiritual journey for around 10 years.

Before that I lived a relatively traumatic life from very early childhood through my teenage and into my adult years. Everything from physical, sexual, emotional, mental abuse. Had more than my fair share of drug and alcohol use and abuse. Alcoholism runs in my family. A wide variety of self-destructive behaviors. Including but not limited to participating in abusive relationships for long periods of time. At 17 I became a mother and my son was witness to a lot of those behaviors, despite my trying to hide it. Fast forward to my late 20’s. I looked at my life and said to myself “is this it? Is this what life is supposed to be? Is this all that life has to offer?” And so the deliberate spiritual portion of life began. I quit the drinking and the drugs, started with diet exercise, therapy (2-5 hours per week for 2 1/2 years) therapist said I was good and no longer needed therapy, but I still felt empty. This can’t be all that life has for me I said again. 2 years pasted I spiraled into depression. Then one day the Ayahuasca plant medicine just appeared on my front door step, literally! I didn’t even know anything about it but my soul knew it was my only hope, so I jumped on the opportunity, because the one thing I did know was that people had to fly to different countries to have this experience and I didn’t have to go anywhere, it came right to me. And boy did I need it’s help. It was the biggest blessing I had ever received at that point in my life next to my son. A month later I was drinking medicine in a church bi-weekly, and that continued for the next six years. I participated in so many ceremonies that it became a way of life for me. Many other plant medicines also came to me through this process. I participated in every plant medicine that came my way. I was seeking complete and total healing, mind body and spirt, and I was will to do anything or so I thought. Through it I learned so much it would take me years to put it on paper. Then in January of 2018 a friend of mine started to talk about an Iboga ceremony he wanted to participate in. I had heard of it but I had some fear the first few times it came up, and i had not ever come close enough to it for it to actually be a possibility at this point. By February he called me the day after his first Iboga ceremony and said “You have to do this!” Then the fear showed up LOL I had every excuse why it wasn’t possible for me but he eliminated all of them including the excuse of where the money was going to come from to make it happen. “I pay, you pay me back whenever.” He said. Right then I knew I had to go. Over the next three months I could feel the fear and the excitement the wonder grow and pressurize until I felt like I might actually burst at the seams. The night came and I entered the first ceremony with all of my feelings even the fear, and it was vastly different compared to what I had experienced with other plant medicines. All of the memories/visions I saw, I had totally forgotten about years ago. I fooled myself into believing so many things about what this experience would be but I was pleasantly surprised by what it actually was. A gentle giant as Sherry put it. It showed me the truth, the ways I was lying to myself even still, though I had thought I had worked through much of this already with other medicines. After the ceremony was over my soul spoke to me. Saying in a whisper “Hey! You are free!” I knew it was the truth. Free from all of the things that held me back, free from everything I held onto so tightly for so long that didn’t serve me. The days after I had no more “mindmare” you know the cyclical negative thoughts emotions and worry. It was all just...gone. I sat in silence and in awe. Then before the second ceremony began, the medicine was still working with me and it started to show me how to truly let go. Let go of the things that I was holding so tightly to for so long that weren’t serving but I just didn’t know how. It showed me how sick holding onto that stuff makes us. It showed me how I had demonstrated how to hold on for my own child. And then it even showed me how to teach him how to let things go now. I did my second ceremony. It was harder this time. But it was exactly what I needed. I was able to see my soul and connect with my soul in a way that I have never been able to before. I had difficulty because it was hard for me to believe that what was happening was real, facing my own doubt. Even though I had already seen so many “unbelievable” things with plant medicines. This was a whole new level of having to get out of my own damn way. This is why when people ask Michael “Is it real or am I making it up in my head?” He replies “Yes” LoL Michael’s guidance through these sessions (before during and after) was the most helpful blessing I could have asked for. I could not have received the miraculous healing that I received, without him. And it IS Miraculous!!! Before I left for this trip I saw my acupuncturist. He rates physical health issues on a scale of 0 to 5. All of my numbers were at about a 2-2 1/2, which is considered moderate or borderline full blown manifestation of disease. When I got home I waited about three weeks to go back and see him. And when I did, he was absolutely beside himself!!! Every single one of my numbers have dropped to a 1 or lower. The acupuncturist said to me, “ what did you do?” I told him. Then he said, “ I’ve been practicing acupuncture for almost 30 years. And this has never happened. The only way a person can achieve what you’ve achieved, is by having a change in spirit/soul. And in 30 years I’ve never seen it done, until now.” I’d like to add that this man is not your average acupuncturist he was trained in China and is held in high regard by his colleagues and peers all over the world due to his healing capabilities. The man is a master level healer. Though he would say he’s not a master. Lol I have never had a plant medicine do what the Iboga medicine has done for me. And when you consider the fact that I’ve done hundreds of plant medicine ceremonies, I’m no novice. With the help of the Iboga medicine, Michael, and his beautiful team of souls both on this plain there working with him, across the globe, and across the veil, I was able to receive the most monumental miracle I have ever received in my life! This is the greatest thing that has ever happened to me! I wish I had better words to really convey how incredible that week was for me, both during the week and the months following it. I did not even know or understand the depth of how healing it was for a few weeks afterwards. And In the interest of transparency, I don’t know if even now I understand the full gravity of its capability and what its done for me even today. But I am in appreciation and gratitude forever and always! The love and care I received from Michael and his team that week was AMAZING!!! Great food, beautiful scenery, comfy beds, wildlife, and the best company a girl could ask for! Thank you to everyone that was there that week April,23,2018 to April,29,2018!!! I love love love each and everyone of you!!! They say that you haven’t lived until you’ve done something for someone who can never repay you. Well that’s what all of you did for me!!! Eternally appreciative and grateful!!!”

— Tia