Iboga retreats in Tepoztlán, Mexico
Root Healing holds Iboga retreats in Tepoztlán, Morelos, Mexico, within the Missoko Bwiti tradition. Every guest completes cardiac and contraindication screening before arrival, and one team holds preparation, ceremony, and integration.
The Center in Tepoztlán
Our Mexico center is a private hillside compound outside Tepoztlán. Three buildings sit across five thousand square metres of gardens and terraces, with the Tepozteco cliffs across the valley. Mexico City airport is eighty minutes away and the town is eight minutes down the hill.
Where you'll sleep
Six bedrooms across the three buildings. Whitewashed adobe, exposed beams, and windows that open onto the gardens or the valley.
Where you'll eat
An open kitchen and two dining areas, one indoors and one under the palapa.
The grounds
Gardens, an open lawn, shaded decks, and terraces that run along the hillside. Most of the processing between ceremonies happens out here rather than indoors.
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Where you'll rest
An infinity pool and two hot tubs face the valley. The living room is there for the evenings, when the hill cools off quickly.
DAY BY DAY
A 5 to 7 day Retreat Schedule
The retreat runs six days, and the dates listed on our schedule are those six. You are welcome to arrive the evening before to settle in, which makes it seven.
Arrive and settle in
Orientation and first ceremony
Day of be-ing
Integration and second ceremony
Day of be-ing
Integration day
Departure (Optional)
Integration
Our retreat process
01
Application
Once we receive your request (through the form below, via email, or any channel), you'll get a link to our HIPAA-compliant application form. Please complete this before scheduling your discovery call.
Start Application02
Discovery Call
Schedule a call with one of the facilitators. They'll review your application beforehand so they're fully informed, and this is a chance to see if we're a good fit for this deeply personal work.
03
Preparation
We provide additional forms, a welcome packet, and supportive materials, collect a deposit, and gather necessary medical documents (such as an EKG) as we prepare for your retreat with us.
04
Program or Retreat
Your time to fully relax into our supportive container and let us take care of you, so you can focus on your work with Iboga, supported by the long unbroken lineage of the Bwiti tradition.
05
Integration
This is where you reconnect with life, empowered and self-aware, using Bwiti tradition tools and practices. Supported by Iboga's spirit, our team, and our integration program.
06
Community
Community is a key part of this tradition and something our society often lacks. All past guests become members of the Root Healing Community, with access to forums, online events, and in-person gatherings.
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Cutting-edge science meets lineage-led care
Safety at Root Healing
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Comprehensive experience
Our team brings decades of combined experience across spiritual care, mental health, and science — and deep specialization in Iboga and ibogaine. To date, Root Healing has worked with more than 1,000 people and facilitated hundreds of retreats and programs, refining our care with every person we hold.
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Extensive medical screening
Our medical team reviews your application and records individually to ensure safe and effective care.
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Traditional wisdom
Our facilitators are highly trained and experienced in Missoko Bwiti traditional safety, healing, and care — grounded in a lineage refined over generations.
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Medical team oversight
Our medical team oversees care and takes the lead when needed, primarily during detoxes.
Medical safety certified
At least one facilitator at every retreat is certified in Basic Life Support (BLS) and/or ACLS.
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State-of-the-art medical equipment
Every guest is checked or monitored with our advanced EKG/ECG equipment, configured to our protocols. We keep top-tier defibrillators on hand.
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Proprietary protocols
We've developed our protocols through years of experience and in partnership with leading experts in the field, to uphold the safety and success we're known for.
What a retreat costs, and where every dollar goes
What follows is an honest account of what you are paying for in coming to a truly professional retreat, rather than a ceremony with a hobbying (self-proclaimed) shaman or a treatment at an insanely priced Ibogaine clinic.
150+
hours our team spends per guest
10
minimum staff involved per retreat
8
guests per retreat, maximum
Where your payment goes
There is no weekend certification for this (nor should or could there be). Becoming and remaining a facilitator means initiations and training in Gabon, repeated travel there, and continuous study inside the lineage. That commitment is total, and it is ongoing — most of our facilitators make one to two trips to Gabon each year.
No rotating shifts, no night staff you have not met. We stay awake with you through ceremony and remain available every hour of your stay. Nothing else is happening in our lives that week.
Application review, intake calls, medical review, preparation calls, then integration and community support after you go home. Many of the hours attached to your retreat happen when you are not here.
Cardiac and contraindication screening led by our medical team, staff certified in BLS and ACLS, and advanced EKG monitoring and defibrillation equipment on a cardiac platform configured to the demands of Iboga work.
Funds, volunteered time, and ongoing support returned to the communities who carry this lineage, and Iboga sourced through them at a price that sustains them. Partnership is not a gesture, and it costs something.
We have chosen to work legally and in the open. Given the nature of this medicine, that carries real legal and compliance costs that quieter operations simply avoid.
The container is our team and the tradition we carry, never a building. But where that work happens still matters. We hold out for centers that are genuinely comfortable, close to nature, and reachable without a full day of transfers after a long flight. Places that meet all three are rare, and priced like it.
Mostly organic, local, and properly prepared. What you eat around ceremony is part of the work, not catering, and sourcing at that standard costs more every year. We have not been willing to trade down.
A retreat does not run on facilitators alone. Our administrative and operations team carries applications, scheduling, and logistics, and the people who clean and prepare the space between retreats are part of what makes the next one possible. All of them are paid properly for that work.
The website and the software behind it, travel between our locations, ceremonial and medical supplies, and keeping our team's certifications current. None of it is visible from the outside, and all of it comes due every month.
And a living for the people doing it
This is our sole work and our only income. We have families, and the world is not getting cheaper. For this to continue, the people doing it have to earn a real living — so their attention can be fully on supporting you, and on the more important work you came here to do.
2026-2027 Iboga Retreats Schedule
- Mexico
November 28 - December 3
- Mexico
December 12 - 17
- Mexico
January 9 - 14
- Mexico
January 23 - 28
- Mexico
February 6 - 11
- Mexico
February 20 - 25
- Mexico
March 6 - 11
- Mexico
March 20 - 25
- Bassé Root (Connecticut)
October 17 - 22
- Bassé Root (Connecticut)
- Europe
New Dates Coming Soon
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