# IKARA IBOGA RETREAT

> Ikara Iboga Retreat Centre in Costa Rica is a place for spiritual advancement and healing. We offer traditional Bwiti Iboga retreats different from other retreat centres in the west. We focus on the sovereignty of the self.

## Pages
- [A Letter about Gabon](https://www.ikararetreat.com/a-letter-about-gabon): This is a letter written by Commander Jacques-Yves Cousteau where he tells of his experiences with pygmies in Gabon and pleads with the Pope to ensure the world protects the spiritual heartland of Gabon
- [Contact](https://www.ikararetreat.com/about): We offer a range of retreats in Costa Rica Southern Zone- Ikara is a boutique retreat centre hosting no more 12 participants at any one time. Unique secluded location in the hills with ocean views everywhere.
- [Discourse](https://www.ikararetreat.com/discourse): A selection of articles written by Ikara Retreat Centre on concepts which we hold close to our heart. A free flowing expression of ideals important to the evolution of humanity.
- [Facebook](https://www.ikararetreat.com/facebook): A live feed of all our interesting facecbook posts on IKARA IBOGA RETREAT
- [Faq](https://www.ikararetreat.com/faq): Frequently Asked Questions about IBOGA and traveling to Costa Rica
- [GHIENO A NDZAMBE Costa Rica](https://www.ikararetreat.com/iboga): Iboga knows you, Bwete knows you, become yourself, take what is yours, generate your freedom. Ikara is an IBOGA retreat centre that supports the first nations people of Gabon, the Babongo Pygmies, those that originated the tradition.
- [Heartofiboga](https://www.ikararetreat.com/heartofiboga): There can be fear relating to the processes of the heart when choosing to take iboga. Iboga is heart.
- [Home](https://www.ikararetreat.com/)
- [Iboga-newzealand](https://www.ikararetreat.com/iboga-newzealand): We offer retreats like no other in the west. It is not a retreat, it is a workshop and with Iboga´s guidance, you can work through physical, emotional and spiritual states that seem to bind you. Iboga is a spirit, not a plant medicine.
- [Ibogafirmament](https://www.ikararetreat.com/ibogafirmament): Ikara wishes all those in dis ease, all of our support and encouragement in reclaiming what is yours.
- [Ibogaintelligence](https://www.ikararetreat.com/ibogaintelligence): Becoming what you already are is the myth and poetry of the universe. That you don't see all that you cannot see all, is the propensity to see, is the driving force, the search, the wanting, the improving, the growing, the expanding, the integrating, the
- [Ikara Gallery](https://www.ikararetreat.com/gallery): A selection of photos showcasing the retreat centre in Costa Rica, our location and our magnificent view.
- [Intake Form](https://www.ikararetreat.com/ibogaintake): Please fill out the attached form to assess your suitability to take part in an Iboga Plant Medicine Healing Ceremony
- [King Adumangana](https://www.ikararetreat.com/adumangana): A Tribute to his Majesty Adumangana, King of Primates. Beyond the powerful and evocative imagery of His Majesty Adumangana, King of Primates, is a man eternally becoming of NZIAMBE's will. A son of NZIAMBE embodied through the divine and beyond human rea
- [Kuma Bwenze](https://www.ikararetreat.com/kumabwenze): I have been trained as a Nganga Na Somba in the Miobe branch of Bwete. I work with the people´s of Mboka a Nzambe (The Universal Village of God). The Bwete branch called Miobe is a healing branch and it is devoted to traditional medicine from the forest.
- [Lowerlevel](https://www.ikararetreat.com/lowerlevel): We are a spiritual retreat centre located in Southen Costa Rica. Our retreat focus on personal development and healing through tools such as iboga or yoga.
- [Manga](https://www.ikararetreat.com/melindaatherton): Ikara retreat centre is my new home, my new direction and within it I hope to provide a space for individuals to develop and further their understanding of themselves.
- [Mboka A Ndzambe](https://www.ikararetreat.com/mbokaanzambe): Mboka A Nzambe is the Universal Village of God which is run by the Ebota A Maghanga NGO in Gabon. It is a traditional village which runs the Le Don De Vie (Gift of Life Hospital)
- [Middle-level](https://www.ikararetreat.com/middle-level)
- [MOSUSU A NDZAMBE Gabon](https://www.ikararetreat.com/mosusu): This is a rare opportunity for you to visit the traditional village of MBOKA A NZIAMBE (The Universal Village of God) in Gabon, Africa to participate in an ancient BWETE ceremony of spiritual cleansing and rebirth. MOSUSU A NZIAMBE is an ancient process
- [Myths & Truths](https://www.ikararetreat.com/myths--truths): Here we work towards dispelling popular myths about Iboga that are starting to infiltrate the western construct known as the internet. Our information comes from the source, the first nations people, the Babongo's, the originators of the tradition of BW
- [News](https://www.ikararetreat.com/news): Current news from Ikara Retreat Centre detailing retreats and workshops currently on offer. Reasons why you should visit beautiful Costa Rica
- [News-feed](https://www.ikararetreat.com/news-feed): Current news from Ikara IBOGA Retreat Centre detailing retreats and workshops currently on offer. Reasons why you should visit us in beautiful Costa Rica
- [Nganga](https://www.ikararetreat.com/nganga): The Nganga being a man of God must know and embody Bwiti, meaning he lives without the need to control. He relinquishes to the divine connection to God entirely. He does not live outside of the self in material image. He does not live in ego or material g
- [NGO Ebota A Maghanga](https://www.ikararetreat.com/ngo)
- [Our Ethos](https://www.ikararetreat.com/ethos): We work towards the preservation and protection of Indigenous knowledge. Ikara is a retreat centre located in the southern zone of Costa Rica. We are the representative for the NGO EBOTA A MAGHANGA which is the cornerstone of The Universal Village of God
- [Positivedeficit](https://www.ikararetreat.com/positivedeficit): A portal is open for all those seeking release, liberation and to develop apprehension of life skills that will enable one to learn control, to reclaim your will, to reorientate yourself with what you have always been and let go to truth.
- [Retreat Calendar](https://www.ikararetreat.com/retreat-calendar)
- [Short Thoughts](https://www.ikararetreat.com/shortthoughts): Short Anecdotes from ikara Iboga Retreat Centre. Our material keeps coming everyday. Uniquely from ourselves, to you. This material is endless and we are glad to be able to express creatively our views on life.
- [Shortthoughtsfeed](https://www.ikararetreat.com/shortthoughtsfeed): Short Anecdotes from ikara Iboga Retreat Centre.
- [Sponsorship Program](https://www.ikararetreat.com/sponsorship)
- [Stay](https://www.ikararetreat.com/stay): We are a retreat centre location in Costa Rica. Accommodation is available to rent. ew specialize in wellness retreats, spiritual retreats, in particular yoga retreats and iboga retreats.
- [Testimonials](https://www.ikararetreat.com/testimonials): Testimonials from people who have visited Ikara Retreat Centre.
- [Videos](https://www.ikararetreat.com/videos): A selection of videos and interviews from Ikara Retreat Centre. Iboga interviews and dialogues plus videos of the location.
- [What is Iboga?](https://www.ikararetreat.com/whatisiboga): In BWETE, no man or woman describes Iboga to another, compartmentalises Iboga, make fractions of Iboga and list all of things Iboga can do because what Iboga does for one individual is different from the next, for Iboga is us and clearly we are not other

## Blog Posts
- [Iboga and the Firmament](https://www.ikararetreat.com/discourse/iboga-and-the-firmament)
- [Iboga Intelligence](https://www.ikararetreat.com/discourse/iboga-intelligence): An article on the use of the itelligent plant medicine Iboga to heal. Iboga is ap lant medicine that aids spiritual growth and healing. Ikara Retreat Centre Costa Rica offers traditional plant medicine headling retreats.
- [To the heart of Iboga](https://www.ikararetreat.com/discourse/to-the-heart-of-iboga): Iboga - using your heart to heal trauma at our wellness retreat in Costa Rica.
- [Positive Deficit Rearrangement](https://www.ikararetreat.com/discourse/positive-deficit-rearrangement)
- [The Road to the Eternal](https://www.ikararetreat.com/discourse/the-road-to-the-eternal): We do not have the same skin on our body every 14-28 days, not one iota is the same, yet you still have the skin you 'thought' you always had....are we stopping here to ask how the cells continue to know how to produce exactly that skin we perceive to be
- [What are we actually stretching?](https://www.ikararetreat.com/discourse/what-are-we-actually-stretching): The third commandment of Yama self restraint is an important one in our current materially orientated world today, especially in business and amongst the trappings of social media,
- [Universal Truths of Yoga and Iboga](https://www.ikararetreat.com/discourse/universal-truths-of-yoga-and-iboga): The abundant flow of nature´s energy brings about a transformation in one´s birth, aiding the process of evolution
- [Helen Keller took Iboga?](https://www.ikararetreat.com/discourse/helen-keller-took-iboga): Well no. But the transformational experience she went through could be likened to that which can be achieved through an Iboga experience. How? Read our article to hear our connections with this concept.
- [Ibogascape](https://www.ikararetreat.com/discourse/ibogascape)
- [Release the past from the imprisoned present.](https://www.ikararetreat.com/discourse/release-the-past-from-the-imprisoned-present): Release from Trauma with Iboga. We are all of the same nature, in equilibrium, generating and radiating our physical structures from the one divine source without separation. Without beginning or end. The past exists now and its potentials to change remai
- [Are you a servant or a provider? An injunction into those who put themselves in a position of offering Iboga.](https://www.ikararetreat.com/discourse/are-you-a-servant-or-a-provider-an-injunction-into-those-who-put-themselves-in-a-position-of-offering-iboga)
- [The Demonization of Nganga](https://www.ikararetreat.com/discourse/the-demonization-of-nganga)
- [Why do we want to be initiated into a tradition that we have no possibility of knowing anything about?](https://www.ikararetreat.com/discourse/why-do-we-want-to-be-initiated-into-a-tradition-that-we-have-no-possibility-of-knowing-anything-about)
- [Welcome - Bienvenidos to Ikara](https://www.ikararetreat.com/news-feed/welcome-bienvenidos-to-ikara)
- [Yoga in the rain!](https://www.ikararetreat.com/news-feed/yoga-in-the-rain)
- [We Love Costa Rica!](https://www.ikararetreat.com/news-feed/we-love-costa-rica)
- [Weekend Workshop: Introduction to Yogic Science](https://www.ikararetreat.com/news-feed/weekend-workshop-introduction-to-yogic-science)
- [Iyengar Yoga Intensive with Vaya](https://www.ikararetreat.com/news-feed/iyengar-yoga-intensive-with-vaya)
- [Iboga Retreat March 2021](https://www.ikararetreat.com/news-feed/iboga-retreat-march-2021)
- [To all the providers of ancient wisdom.....](https://www.ikararetreat.com/news-feed/to-all-the-providers-of-ancient-wisdom)
- [Iboga is one of the clues](https://www.ikararetreat.com/news-feed/iboga-is-one-of-the-clues)
- [Another deserted beach....](https://www.ikararetreat.com/news-feed/another-deserted-beach)
- [All Realities Exist!](https://www.ikararetreat.com/news-feed/all-realities-exist)
- [Costa Rican Entry Requirements for International Travelers](https://www.ikararetreat.com/news-feed/costa-rican-entry-requirements-for-international-travelers)
- [Our Mission](https://www.ikararetreat.com/news-feed/our-mission)
- [The reality I see through my eyes.....](https://www.ikararetreat.com/news-feed/the-reality-i-see-through-my-eyes)
- [Unifying the Simulacra](https://www.ikararetreat.com/news-feed/unifying-the-simulacra)
- [Iboga vs nothing.....](https://www.ikararetreat.com/news-feed/iboga-vs-nothing): Iboga vs nothing. Iboga is not in competition with Ayahuasca. They are friends. They are all from the one divine source and this is what their injunction remains.
- [Iboga Scape](https://www.ikararetreat.com/news-feed/iboga-scape)
- [Experience the true creative nature of consciousness.](https://www.ikararetreat.com/news-feed/experience-the-true-creative-nature-of-consciousness): consciousness, spirutality, iboga retreat, iboga, bwiti, spirit, plant medicine, PTSD, OCD, anxiety, depression, epigenetics
- [Farewell](https://www.ikararetreat.com/news-feed/farewell)
- [WHAT IS IBOGA?](https://www.ikararetreat.com/news-feed/what-is-iboga)
- [Iboga Retreats Costa Rica](https://www.ikararetreat.com/news-feed/iboga-retreats-costa-rica)
- [Women's Babongo Initiation](https://www.ikararetreat.com/news-feed/womens-babongo-initiation)
- [Entry to Costa Rica becomes easier - July 2022 retreat scheduled.](https://www.ikararetreat.com/news-feed/entry-to-costa-rica-becomes-easier-july-2022-retreat-scheduled)
- [Ikara Retreat Centre recommended in the 9 best Iboga Retreat Centres for 2022.](https://www.ikararetreat.com/news-feed/ikara-retreat-centre-recommended-in-the-9-best-iboga-retreat-centres-for-2022)
- [Teta Nzambe, king Adumangana & Gods Village](https://www.ikararetreat.com/news-feed/teta-nzambe-king-adumangana-gods-village)
- [Jamie Lands in Gabon](https://www.ikararetreat.com/news-feed/jamie-lands-in-gabon)
- [Séance de Vision - Vision Ceremony](https://www.ikararetreat.com/news-feed/seance-de-vision-vision-ceremony)
- [Experience the true nature of your being with Iboga](https://www.ikararetreat.com/news-feed/experience-the-true-nature-of-your-being-with-iboga)
- [Bwete is the reflection of God](https://www.ikararetreat.com/news-feed/bwete-is-the-reflection-of-god)
- [Why our retreats are different!](https://www.ikararetreat.com/news-feed/why-our-retreats-are-different)
- [Iboga is a State of Being](https://www.ikararetreat.com/news-feed/iboga-is-a-state-of-being): Iboga is a state of being. It is everything and through the connection that Iboga provides, you will naturally heal yourself through freedom of thought. Iboga should not be defined, for in doing so, we will limit the efficacy of the plant.
- [Life is an Illusion](https://www.ikararetreat.com/news-feed/life-is-an-illusion)
- [Visit to Mboka A Nzambe for MOSOSO and Inititation](https://www.ikararetreat.com/news-feed/visit-to-mboka-a-nzambe-for-mososo-and-inititation)
- [Your chance to visit Mboka A Nzambe for the MOSUSU Process](https://www.ikararetreat.com/news-feed/your-chance-to-visit-mboka-a-nzambe-for-the-mosusu-process)
- [More on MOSUSU A NZIAMBE](https://www.ikararetreat.com/news-feed/more-on-mosusu-a-nziambe): Iboga, mosusu, mboka a nzambe, gabon, africa, iboga retreat gabon, initiation
- [Recap on our Mission Statement](https://www.ikararetreat.com/news-feed/recap-on-our-mission-statement)
- [THE AFRICAN REVOLUTION](https://www.ikararetreat.com/news-feed/the-african-revolution)
- [Young BWETE MIOBE NGANGA's wait to go to the forest](https://www.ikararetreat.com/news-feed/young-bwete-miobe-ngangas-wait-to-go-to-the-forest)
- [NGO EBOTA A MAGHANGA](https://www.ikararetreat.com/news-feed/ngo-ebota-a-maghanga): iboga, gabon, babongo, african, bwete, bwiti, wisdomkeepers, initation
- [Interview with Kuma on The End of the Road Podcast](https://www.ikararetreat.com/news-feed/interview-with-kuma-on-the-end-of-the-road-podcast)
- [Life is only ever going to be as hard as you make it....](https://www.ikararetreat.com/news-feed/life-is-only-ever-going-to-be-as-hard-as-you-make-it): Wouldn't it be nice to wake up every morning, full of joy, happy to be alive and seeing that there is only choice for everything that you do on this day, including the choice to go to work. Do everything with love and there will be no obstacles.
- [The MOABE Temple at MBOKA A NDZAMBE](https://www.ikararetreat.com/news-feed/the-moabe-temple-at-mboka-a-ndzambe): Bwekayé! Construction of the Universal Village MBOKA A NDZAMBE, headquarters of the NGO EBOTA A MAGHANGA. The opportunity exists for those who are culturally sensitive to visit the traditional village @mboka_a_nzambe and partake in a 2 week process of pu
- [The benevolent King Adumangana.](https://www.ikararetreat.com/news-feed/the-benevolent-king-adumangana)
- [Do you know of the dormant soul within you?](https://www.ikararetreat.com/news-feed/do-you-know-of-the-dormant-soul-within-you)
- [An IBOGA Retreat leads to Self Realization](https://www.ikararetreat.com/news-feed/an-iboga-retreat-leads-to-self-realization): At our iboga retreat you are given the gift of awareness and the ability to see the truth. IBOGA has a reputation for being the most challenging plant but the reality is IBOGA works on resistance so it will only ever be as hard as you are on yourself ever
- [What does an IBOGA retreat look like at IKARA?](https://www.ikararetreat.com/news-feed/what-does-an-iboga-retreat-look-like-at-ikara): A short video showing the beauty of attending an IBOGA retreat with us.
- [​We are spirit, not the body.](https://www.ikararetreat.com/news-feed/we-are-spirit-not-the-body): iboga retreat, costa rica, ibogaine, iboga, spiritual retreat
- [You get what you concentrate upon. Do not dwell anywhere.](https://www.ikararetreat.com/news-feed/you-get-what-you-concentrate-upon-do-not-dwell-anywhere): iboga, ibogaretreat, iboga retreat, costa rica, Iboga retreat costa rica,
- [Our Universe is electric and our body is a battery.](https://www.ikararetreat.com/news-feed/our-universe-is-electric-and-our-body-is-a-battery): We live in a Universe that is a. record of God's Electric Mind-thinking (not thinking-mind). Our Universe is electric and our body is a battery. We are but one part of the Universal circuit connected to all others. Every cell in our body is a unit of cons
- [Clarity through IBOGA can allow you to perceive wholeness](https://www.ikararetreat.com/news-feed/clarity-through-iboga-can-allow-you-to-perceive-wholeness): #iboga #wholeness #ibogaretreat #consciousness #Costarica
- [Retreat Scheule Changes: March Retreat Cancelled](https://www.ikararetreat.com/news-feed/retreat-scheule-changes-march-retreat-cancelled)
- [A recent testimonial from a guest describing his profound changes.](https://www.ikararetreat.com/news-feed/a-recent-testimonial-from-a-guest-describing-his-profound-changes)
- [No Man owns Spirit](https://www.ikararetreat.com/shortthoughtsfeed/no-man-owns-spirit): Our sensing is changing all the time but our knowing remains unchanged. LOVE crushes FEAR, it brings it back to balance, to the bosom of its origin in LOVE. Thank you Iboga, thank you Bwiti. Thank you to all those whom believe and do not. We are all one.
- [Collective Wisdom is the Death of Knowledge](https://www.ikararetreat.com/shortthoughtsfeed/collective-wisdom-is-the-death-of-knowledge)
- [To Find Spirit](https://www.ikararetreat.com/shortthoughtsfeed/to-find-spirit)
- [A Creating Universe](https://www.ikararetreat.com/shortthoughtsfeed/a-creating-universe)
- [Everything Exists](https://www.ikararetreat.com/shortthoughtsfeed/everything-exists): existence, philosophy, iboga, process, biological, electrical realities
- [Iboga is your tool](https://www.ikararetreat.com/shortthoughtsfeed/iboga-is-your-tool)
- [Bwiti is God](https://www.ikararetreat.com/shortthoughtsfeed/bwiti-is-god)
- [Use Iboga to focus in the spiritual realm and heal.](https://www.ikararetreat.com/shortthoughtsfeed/use-iboga-to-focus-in-the-spiritual-realm-and-heal)
- [The labyrinthine nature of Iboga](https://www.ikararetreat.com/shortthoughtsfeed/the-labyrinthine-nature-of-iboga)
- [The purpose of Iboga is to expose your truth.](https://www.ikararetreat.com/shortthoughtsfeed/the-purpose-of-iboga-is-to-expose-your-truth): The purpose of Iboga is to expose your truth. You can’t hide from Iboga. Although people try to control their experiences, it’s virtually impossible. You will fail miserably and suffer the consequences. Iboga is a spirit that deserves respect.
- [The Root of Iboga](https://www.ikararetreat.com/shortthoughtsfeed/the-root-of-iboga)
- [How to choose an Iboga Retreat?](https://www.ikararetreat.com/shortthoughtsfeed/how-to-choose-an-iboga-retreat)
- [Physical illnesses are a manifestation of conflict within the self.](https://www.ikararetreat.com/shortthoughtsfeed/physical-illnesses-are-a-manifestation-of-conflict-within-the-self)
- [Creating in this realm](https://www.ikararetreat.com/shortthoughtsfeed/creating-in-this-realm)
- [Explore your Psychology](https://www.ikararetreat.com/shortthoughtsfeed/explore-your-psychology)
- [Unbalanced thinking brings disease](https://www.ikararetreat.com/shortthoughtsfeed/unbalanced-thinking-brings-disease)
- [Without action there are only words](https://www.ikararetreat.com/shortthoughtsfeed/without-action-there-are-only-words)
- [Bwete is joy.](https://www.ikararetreat.com/shortthoughtsfeed/bwete-is-joy)
- [The Ability to Change](https://www.ikararetreat.com/shortthoughtsfeed/the-ability-to-change)
- [Projection of Consciousness](https://www.ikararetreat.com/shortthoughtsfeed/projection-of-consciousness)
- [You were born into this existence from a Cosmic Seed.](https://www.ikararetreat.com/shortthoughtsfeed/you-were-born-into-this-existence-from-a-cosmic-seed): Iboga Costa Rica
- [We are free conscious beings](https://www.ikararetreat.com/shortthoughtsfeed/we-are-free-conscious-beings): iboga, trauma, iboga retreat