Moon Soma
Iboga is the root bark of spirit.
Private iboga ceremonies with medical screening and 90-day integration. Thailand · Vietnam · Europe · Oregon · Gabon.
You've done the work. Therapy, maybe coaching, maybe other plant medicines. Some of it helped. None of it finished the job.
There's a layer underneath that hasn't moved, and you can feel it running things. You keep thinking you should be able to figure this out. You've figured out harder things. But this one doesn't respond to effort, or logic, or willpower.
From the outside, you look like you have it together. That's part of what makes it hard to talk about.
You're not broken. You're here because something in you already knows the next move isn't lateral.
Iboga is a doorway.
Most psychedelics turn the volume up. More feeling, more vision, more connection. Iboga does something different. It has its own intelligence, and it's not interested in showing you more. It's interested in showing you what's already there. The patterns running beneath your conscious decisions, the ones you can't normally access because they're buried under decades of coping.
Ibogaine interacts with multiple receptor systems simultaneously: dopamine, serotonin, NMDA, opioid receptors. Researchers call it a neurological reset. Not a high. Not a trip. Most people describe a long, clear, sober review of their own operating system.
The experience lasts 18–36 hours. It's not recreational. It's not fun. People describe seeing root causes with a clarity that years of talk therapy didn't produce. Not because therapy failed. Because some things are stored below where conversation can reach.
What Moon Soma Is
Moon Soma is an individual iboga practice.
It's built around a simple idea: that the medicine asks for the same depth of care that's been offered to it for generations. We focus on you completely within the container.
Everything here (the lineage, the locations, the screening, the integration window) is shaped around that.
Moon Soma grew out of years of working with iboga in the Bwiti tradition through the Ebando lineage of Gabon, and sitting with people on the other side of that work in the US, Gabon, and Thailand.
The name carries the practice. Soma is the body, the vessel. Moon is the timing. Ceremonies unfold in the evening around the lunar cycles, when consciousness unfurls and the medicine does its deepest work.
Two facilitators
One of us is initiated in the Bwiti tradition through the Ebando lineage in Gabon. Background in philosophy and the psychology of religion. Over a decade of working with plant medicines, from acacia in Taiwan to iboga ceremonies across the US, Thailand, and West Africa.
The other holds the body side of the practice. Over ten years of somatic massage, breathwork, and an expansive yoga practice that she brings into preparation and integration.
Moon Soma is both of them. Two people, fully present, for the duration.
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Four steps to Ceremony
You reach out
Through someone you trust, or through this site. We have a conversation. No pitch. Just two people talking honestly about where you are and whether this is right for you. Before we go further, you do medical screening: EKG and a health questionnaire. If anything comes up, we don't proceed. That part isn't negotiable.
You choose the place
This isn't a retreat center. You pick the geography. Somewhere that pulls you. The location is part of the work. Where you choose to do this says something about what you're ready to face. We travel. We'll meet you there.
One person. One ceremony.
Just you and us. No group. No strangers. No schedule someone else built. On iboga, every defense dissolves. What anyone else processes enters your open field. The one person, one ceremony container exists because your experience shouldn't be contaminated by someone else's.
90 days of integration
The ceremony opens something. Integration is how it actually changes your life. For up to 90 days afterward, we stay in contact — structured by the facilitator based on what the process requires. Most people say that's where the value lands.
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This isn't for everyone.
Iboga is serious medicine. It's not the next thing to try because the last thing didn't work. I turn people away regularly, and I'd rather do that than put someone somewhere they shouldn't be.
This is for you if:
- ✓ You've done inner work before and something specific still hasn't shifted
- ✓ You're in good physical health and willing to do medical screening
- ✓ You can commit to 90 days of integration, not just the ceremony night
- ✓ You're looking for one deep reset, not a psychedelic practice
- ✓ You want direct communication, privacy, and zero performance
This is NOT for you if:
- ✕ You're in active crisis with opiates, amphetamines, or other hard substances. Iboga has serious interactions, and there are better first steps
- ✕ You're not willing to complete medical screening
- ✕ You're looking for a recreational experience or spiritual tourism
- ✕ You want someone to fix you. Iboga shows you what needs to change, you still have to do the changing
- ✕ You have certain cardiac conditions or are on contraindicated medications
Most ceremonies span one week: two ceremony evenings with preparation days before and integration days after. Exact scope depends on location and number of evenings, confirmed on the first call.
On-site screening is EKG and blood pressure only. Liver panel, bloodwork, and additional pre-ceremony testing are not provided or arranged by us and must be completed by you before arrival. Medical forms and waivers are sent for completion prior to ceremony approval.
A deposit is required to hold your ceremony dates. 50% is non-refundable. The remaining balance must be paid in full before arrival.
Five phases. One arc.
Arrive After screening, medical clearance, and an honest conversation about what you're bringing, we agree on a location and you arrive. The first days are attunement. The place, the pace, a different clock than the one you've been running on. You've been moving fast for a long time. This is where that stops.
Prepare We work on the body. Breathwork, yoga, massage, meditation. Not as a program, but as clearing. Your nervous system has been holding things your mind has been managing, and the bodywork starts loosening what the medicine will later reach. Phones go away. Laptops close. Notifications stop. Everything nonessential falls off so what's essential becomes audible.
Consecrate Three days, two nights. Iboga is administered in the evenings and works through the night into morning. The day between is processing. Rest, quiet, letting what surfaced settle before the second night opens it further. The first night shows you the patterns. The second night makes sure nothing stayed buried. This is not gentle. It's not supposed to be.
Once ceremony is complete, we sit together and look at what came through. Not interpretation. Orientation. We work with your actual design, how your system operates, what it needs, what's been running it that was never yours. This is where the experience becomes something you can use, not just something that happened to you.
Integrate You go home. That's when the work starts. The day before you leave, we sit down and build a game plan together: what you saw, what's shifting, what needs attention first. For up to 90 days, we work together — weekly calls, structured at the facilitator's discretion based on what the process asks for. Not check-ins. Not therapy. We work with what's actually happening in your life now. The old patterns testing the new seeing, the moments where the clarity from ceremony meets the inertia of your habits. The integration container, like the ceremony itself, has a defined beginning and end.
How integration works →Investment
All ceremonies include medical screening, preparation, ceremony, and 90-day integration support.
Asia
Includes screening, preparation, ceremony, and 90-day integration. We discuss pricing on your consultation call.
USA & Europe
Includes screening, preparation, ceremony, and 90-day integration. We discuss pricing on your consultation call.
Gabon
Includes screening, preparation, ceremony, and 90-day integration. We discuss pricing on your consultation call.
Start a conversation
This isn't an application. It's a conversation. Be honest. That's what makes it useful for both of us.
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Questions you probably have.
Honest answers. If something isn't covered here, ask on the call.
Iboga has real medical risks, particularly cardiac. That's why screening is non-negotiable. I will turn you away if there's a concern. I lead with this because your safety matters more than your booking.
Different mechanism. Ayahuasca tends to show you things: visions, patterns, emotions. Psilocybin opens emotional and perceptual space. Iboga works at the neurological level. It resets something structural, beneath the story. Most people who come to me have done other plant medicines and found that the experience was powerful but didn't hold. Iboga tends to hold.
It might not. No honest facilitator guarantees transformation. What I can tell you is the one person, one ceremony format and the 90-day integration give iboga the best conditions to do its work. And if the discovery call suggests you're not ready, I'll tell you before you spend anything.
Because group ceremony forces compromise. The facilitator's attention is split. The timing follows a schedule, not your body's rhythm. And you're processing the most personal material of your life in a room full of strangers doing the same thing. One person, one ceremony means the entire experience is built around you. We're there for you and only you.
Iboga has a well-documented history with addiction interruption, particularly opioid dependence. But this isn't an addiction clinic. If you're in active addiction with opiates or amphetamines, iboga may eventually be right for you, but there are medical steps that need to happen first. I can point you in the right direction.
You go home. That's when the work starts. The ceremony shows you things clearly. Integration is where those insights become actual changes. We stay in contact for up to 90 days, guided by the facilitator based on what the process requires. Most people say that's where the value lands.