Minanga Mussingi & M’Bilou

Both Minanga Mussingi & M’Bilou have a background in deep transformational shamanic work with African, Brazilian and Peruvian traditional healers.

They are very experienced workshop facilitators who have been in service and deep commitment to the teacher plant Iboga on its path around the world for the last 20 years. 15 years ago, they created their own set and setting to serve the sacred wood Iboga by respecting the essential rituals of the Bwiti tradition of Gabon. Their ceremonies are known by thousands of participants as "Bwitiful People Ceremonies”.

Minanga Mussingui

Minanga Mussingui was initiated twice in different tribes of the Bwiti tradition in Gabon, and after traveling back and forth to Gabon learning the ways of the Bwiti tradition and Iboga, received an initiation which gave her spiritual permission, guidance and protection to serve the ‘sacred wood’ Iboga. She is trained in hypnosis-therapy, energetic healing, Ayurvedic massage and using the IFS-method (internal family system) for bringing acceptance, compassion and safety to guide others to self leadership.

M’bilou

M’bilou has been an explorer of spiritual practices for the last 50 years. He has trained in pranic-therapy and meditation with a Tibetan teacher, also has done 5 years of shamanic healing training with a Sami-Shaman from Lapland and studied different types of massage and energetic healing. He was initiated into the Bwiti tradition in Gabon 18 years ago and has since combined his research with further studies of sacred Master teacher plants.

Reliba & Ndumu

Reliba

Reliba first began working with Iboga in 2013. Her first experience birthed an indelible change in her that led to a deep respect and appreciation for the sacred wood and her commitment to continuing her personal work with it. In 2020 she spent some months in Gabon where she was initiated. Since then, Her and her Husband Ndumu have begun serving wood to individuals, following the guidance of their mentors Minanga Mussingi and M’Bilou. Reliba has been working with plant medicines in a committed way since 2008, and began apprenticing in 2012 in the Shipibo Ayahuasca tradition of the Peruvian Amazon, completing many diets with numerous master plants. She has also trained with tobacco and trees under a Mestizo Tabaquero tradition. With over a decade of experience facilitating and running plant medicine retreats and ceremonies, Reliba is Passionate about bridging plant medicine and integrative practices. Her Background in yoga, Meditation, psychospiritual inquiry and somatic approach to working with trauma is a guiding source of inspiration in her work.

Ndumu

Ndumu began his journey of profound healing and work with plant medicines in 2006, which led him to the Peruvian Amazon in 2008 and apprenticeship with a Mestizo Tabaquero. This was followed by years of devotion to dieting master plants and beginning to work as a healer. When he first began working with Iboga in 2016, Ndumu was deeply touched by the degree of insight and healing he received and since then has been devoutly on a path of healing and learning with the sacred wood. This led him to Gabon in 2020 and initiation. He has continued on working with his wife Reliba, serving individuals the sacred wood under the guidance of their mentors Minanga Mussingi and M’Bilou. Having over a decade of experience working as a traditional plant medicine healer and facilitating plant medicine work, Ndumu also brings years of training in hypnotherapy and generative trance in addition to his deep sensitivity and sense of humor.

Mystère

Mystère, born in Cameroon, arrived in Gabon when she was 10 years old. She discovered the Bwiti tradition at a very young age there, which was inaccessible and only reserved for a closed circle of initiated Gabonese people. Mystère was profoundly touched by this tradition and she participated in many Bwiti ceremonies whenever she could over the course of many years. Later, in 1986 she participated in Bwiti Dissumba at the temple Engong Aroma Mba where she met Ebouma Nfonha (known as Tata Yo, the founder of the temple Ebando in Libreville), with whom she was partnered for many years. In 1992 she was initiated into the Maboundi at Komi near Lambarené. In 1994 she was the main Maboundi at the inauguration of the temple Eliba Mbongo (association Ebando) at Akanda in Gabon, and recently had been assisting Minanga and M’bilou in an Iboga retreat in South America. Mystère brings decades of experience in the Bwiti tradition and embodies the spirit of this tradition in a beautiful way.

Mongabenda

Mongabenda began sitting with Iboga in 2012 to complement years of shadow work and integration with other medicines and indigenous healing traditions. Having also trained in the dynamics of acting and theatre, he deeply understands the capacity of what we tell ourselves to shape our lives and worldview. Despite the intensity of these cleanings, there remained hidden aspects of his psyche untapped. Iboga not only unlocked the door, but helped him write a new story. He was subsequently initiated with the Bwiti in Gabon in February 2017. In healing work, so much emphasis is put on removing unwanted or unhelpful energies, yet Iboga taught Mongabenda that its purpose is really to uncover what had been there all along. The inherent quality of compassion informs his calling and desire to hold space for others and help them receive the same gifts he received: deeper love and clarity. He feels honored to serve in this spirit of sacred reciprocity.

Kengele

Kengele started his path in the healing arts through western medicine 30 years ago. He is a physician trained in psychiatry and neurology and weaves together the science of modern medicine with the art of traditional healing. His background in plant spirit shamanism began in 2006 with ayahuasca and gradually proceeded to sitting wtih many dietas through the Shipibo and the Mestizo lines while living in the Amazon. In 2012 he was introduced to Iboga, and through this powerful entry he eventually became the medical director of Ibogaine clinics and an initiate in the Bwiti tradition. In addition to his medical degree (MD), Kengele received his doctor of divinity (DD) degree, and he serves as a teaching physician to many doctors in training so to support the return of present day psychiatry to its root as a soul centered medical field.