Ryan "Ghenigho" Rich
Ryan is the Founder of Root Healing, a Co-founder of Bassé Root, a Co-founder/Co-organizer of "The Iboga Leadership Summit."
He continues to lead traditional Iboga ceremonies, develop novel treatment programs, and is a counselor and mentor to people in the Iboga and Ibogaine space.
Dedicated to supporting people in their path with Iboga and the Bwiti tradition
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First thing’s first,
Ryan’s not “your healer...” You Are.
Ryan's approach is about helping you reconnect with yourself and repattern your life using the powerful tools of Bwiti and iboga. He focuses on sharing the knowledge, experience, and support you need to find your own way forward, while he and the Root Healing team walk alongside you with aftercare and integration support—helping your discoveries take root in daily life.
Ryan "Ghenigho" Rich founded Root Healing with a clear intention: to thoughtfully bridge Bwiti Indigenous Sciences with Western practices and professional standards, creating a foundation of safety you'll experience from your very first conversation with us. This commitment now extends into novel programs that he is developing with the Root Healing team for treating more complex conditions like autoimmune, Parkinsons, Substance Abuse, TBI, PTSD and more.
Trained and empowered by his Missoko Bwiti elders, Ryan continues to lead retreats and offers pre-initiation ceremonies for both men and women.
He considers himself a lifelong student—someone whose understanding continues to deepen and evolve through direct experience. Over the years, he's had the privilege of supporting more than a thousand people and facilitating hundreds of ceremonies.
Ryan's Approach
A Message From Ryan
“In heart-led action, the work I do is simply supporting people on their own path of liberation. It’s about breaking free from the chains of programming – those deeply ingrained beliefs and behaviors we’ve absorbed from and created for family, school, friends, and society etc. Supporting you on a journey to untangle these threads, helping you shed patterns that were never truly yours, those designed to please others instead of honoring your authentic self.
This isn’t about ascending to some lofty, transcendent state. It’s the opposite – a path to radical grounding, a return to the raw beauty of our human nature, and our connection with nature, with reality. Forget about chasing external purpose; this journey is about rediscovering the profound meaning in simply being. When you embrace the essence of your existence, when you align with the wisdom of nature instead of clinging to illusions of control, your unique gifts will naturally overflow, enriching your world in ways you never imagined.
It’s a reclamation of life itself. We exist in an era where we have become disconnected from reality through hyper-connectivity, perpetually plugged in – but to the wrong sources. The internet has become our synthetic habitat, our phones, computers, and TVs serving as distorted windows into this digital realm. We’ve built ourselves an airtight, extremely faulty, smart home, a fortress against the uncertainties we can’t control, and in doing so, have isolated ourselves from the vibrant world that lies just beyond.
True freedom demands… we venture out into the untamed wilderness of our existence – to embrace our own wildness. It beckons us to encounter the world in its raw, unfiltered essence, to accept its breathtaking interconnectedness and the ephemeral nature of all things. It’s about recognizing the vast, boundless space within and without us, where all all rigid structures dissolve, and it’s about learning to dance with the rhythm of life itself …
To meet life in the most crazy, radical revolutionary way:
To
Just Be”
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As a small, heart-led team experiencing a high volume of inquiries, we must focus our personalized correspondence on those who have completed our Application Form. This form helps us ensure medical safety and alignment for the path ahead, but also helps us understand your needs better.
Once you submit your application, we will review it thoughtfully and personally reach out to guide you through the next steps.
If you don't hear from us right away, please know we are carefully working through requests in the order they were received. We appreciate your patience and your sincere interest in our community.
