Ryan "Ghenigho" Rich

He is not your healer. You are. This is the first thing Ryan will tell you, and it shapes everything that follows. His role is to share the knowledge, experience, and support you need to find your own way forward — not to position himself as the authority on your life. As he puts it, the work is simply supporting people on their own path of liberation.

The relationship begins before you arrive. Ryan and the Root Healing team are personally involved from the first conversation. Every prospective guest completes an application and a thorough medical intake, including cardiac screening, reviewed by the medical team. Preparation calls follow, where Ryan and the team help you clarify your intentions and the questions you want to bring into ceremony. This preparation is not administrative — clear intention is a working part of the ceremony itself.

He holds the container personally. Ryan leads fire talks, where the tradition is taught and shared before the medicine is taken, and stays present through the ceremony itself — a candle-lit night held with Bwiti song and music, with facilitators working with each person as needed. Guests describe him as someone who will push you, but with care, and who holds space in a way that keeps both the depth and the safety intact.

Counseling and processing are where much of the work lands. In the days following ceremony, Ryan works one-on-one with guests as they process what surfaced. He is direct. He works with what is actually there rather than what is comfortable, and the Bwiti tradition gives him a flexible framework to meet each person where they are rather than fitting them into a protocol.

Integration continues long after the retreat. Ryan and the team provide integration coaching calls, practical homework tied to each guest's original goals, and ongoing access to the Root Healing community. Iboga's neuroplastic window stays open for months afterward, and he treats that period as the part of the work where discoveries either take root in daily life or don't.

He also offers pre-initiation ceremonies for men and women, along with private ceremonies, Iboga preparation and integration counseling, and mentorship for other providers and facilitators in the field.

Bwiti Indigenous Sciences and Western professional standards, together. This is the founding premise of Ryan's work. He does not treat the tradition as a decorative layer on a clinical protocol, nor does he treat medical rigor as an intrusion on the ceremony. Guests move through comprehensive cardiac and contraindication screening, EKG review, and continuous medical monitoring — and that entire framework sits inside a Bwiti container held by facilitators who are also trained in basic life support. Ryan built it this way because he believes the tradition and the medical standard each make the other more trustworthy.

Whole-plant Iboga, held within lineage. Ryan works with whole root bark and total alkaloid preparations rather than isolated ibogaine, which allows profound work at a lower and safer ibogaine concentration while preserving the full alkaloid synergy of the plant. Just as importantly, he holds that Iboga carries its own intelligent spirit, and that the ceremonies, songs, fire, and rituals of Bwiti are the conditions in which that spirit can be safely received. He practices under direct lineage and blessing from his Missoko elders, and does not adapt or soften the tradition for Western comfort.

Liberation from conditioning, not transcendence. Ryan's focus is helping people break free from inherited programming — the beliefs and behaviors absorbed from family, school, and society that were built to please others rather than honor the authentic self. He is explicit that this is not about reaching some lofty transcendent state. It is the opposite: radical grounding, a return to human nature and to reality, and rediscovering meaning in simply being rather than chasing an external sense of purpose.

A non-pathologizing frame. Bwiti treats each person as whole rather than broken, and locates healing in the person's own innate power rather than in an external expert. Ryan works from that position deliberately, in contrast to clinical models that place the problem inside the person as a disorder to be managed and create dependency on the practitioner.

The medicine gives, but it asks you to meet it. Ryan is direct with guests that Iboga is not a passive cure. It opens the door, shows you your life with real clarity, and creates the neurological and spiritual conditions for change — but the work of walking through that door, accepting what you're shown, and integrating it belongs to you. The willingness to accept the truth and let go is, in his experience, the single clearest marker of who is ready.

Areas of focus: substance dependence and Iboga Assisted Detox, trauma and PTSD, behavioral addiction, neuroregenerative and physical healing (including Parkinson's disease, traumatic brain injury, and autoimmune conditions), depression and anxiety, psycho-spiritual reconnection, pre-initiation, and integration counseling.