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September 24, 2026
Traditional raw root bark Iboga ceremonies held with reverence, intention and care. A grounded space to become still, listen deeply and meet the medicine in your own way. Be still. Listen.
Iboga Journey offers intimate, noble silence ceremonies in Alberta, held with intention, reverence and care. Working with traditional raw Iboga root bark, each ceremony creates space to quiet the outside world and turn deeply inward.
Ceremonies are intentionally kept small, allowing each person to be supported as an individual while sharing the experience within a connected group. Silence is an important part of the journey, giving the medicine space to work without distraction or influence from the experiences of others.
Every journey begins with a personal consultation with Treenz. This is an opportunity to connect, ask questions and explore whether Iboga Journey feels aligned for you before moving forward.
For more than a decade, Iboga Journey has welcomed hundreds of people from Alberta, across Canada and around the world.
This is not simply a ceremony to attend. It is an invitation into relationship, with the medicine, with yourself, and with a community that continues beyond the ceremony.
Iboga Journey ceremonies are held in carefully chosen spaces throughout Alberta, each selected to support stillness, safety, connection and transformation.
Our primary ceremony space is nestled within a quiet residential setting, with a private walk-out level close to the earth. There is something beautifully fitting about receiving Iboga, a powerful root medicine, in a space that feels grounded, peaceful and connected to the land.
For larger ceremonies and retreats, we work with beautiful private venues surrounded by the expansive landscape of Alberta. Wide-open skies, prairie, forest and views toward the Rocky Mountains offer a powerful backdrop for stepping away from everyday life and turning inward.
Depending on the ceremony and location, private rooms may be available on site, or nearby accommodations can be arranged. Guests travelling from outside the area are encouraged to arrive at least one day before ceremony, allowing time to settle, rest and arrive fully. Whenever possible, we also recommend leaving space for an additional night afterward rather than rushing immediately back into everyday life.
Transportation options and accommodation recommendations will be discussed during your consultation so that your arrival and departure can feel as easeful as possible.
This is more than a place where ceremony happens. It is a space intentionally prepared for you to slow down, listen deeply, and meet the medicine.
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Iboga Journey’s focus is meditation. It is a ceremony that encourages deep, internal exploration. By removing external stimulus, the deeply conditioned, reactionary role is left mute. This environment helps break down analysis and move into acceptance, not only for guests but for providers as well. It is a letting go of knowledge and expectation.
In silence, Iboga can relate to each person in its own language, free of interpretation and the limitations of speech. Though the ceremony is not guided verbally, it has a warm feeling of nurturing and care, with acute attention to the physical needs of every guest. The space is held with love and reverence for the process and the plant.
Here, Iboga is a tool to reveal connection, healing potential and existential intelligence. Iboga Journey promotes self-empowerment, using this incredible medicine to cleanse and purify while never mistaking it for the source of lasting realization and change, which can only come from within. In consultations, guests are reminded that so much can be accomplished with a dedication to wellness. The momentum created leading up to the ceremony makes all the difference. Iboga is an incredible tool, and it is exponentially more effective when combined with a journeyer’s dedication to daily inquiry and truth, before and after the journey.
Guests arrive Friday afternoon, choose a mat and settle in. As dusk falls the circle opens with gratitude, intention and each person’s story, then moves into silence. Raw Iboga root bark is offered gradually, roughly every hour for eight hours, with amounts adjusted to each guest’s sensitivity.
All ceremonies run Friday afternoon to Sunday afternoon at the Alberta ceremony house.
A 30-minute consultation is required before placing a deposit. A deposit confirms your place; deposits are not refundable or transferable. Full pricing is shared during your consultation.
My path into this work was not something I planned. It unfolded through my own healing, my willingness to meet the parts of myself I had spent a lifetime protecting, and an ever-deepening relationship with the medicines, teachers and traditions that have changed the way I understand what it means to be human.
Before stepping fully into this work, I spent more than two decades as a dental hygienist, grounded in healthcare, human connection and service. Over time, my path began leading me somewhere deeper, from caring for the physical body into exploring the emotional, spiritual and unseen dimensions of healing.
Iboga became one of my greatest teachers.
My relationship with this medicine eventually led me to Cameroon, where I underwent a Bwiti initiation and was given the title of Nganga. This experience deepened my reverence for the medicine, for lineage and for the responsibility that comes with holding sacred space.
Today, through Iboga Journey, I work with individuals who feel called to explore themselves more deeply through Iboga, Kambo, Jaguar Medicine, sound, ceremony and integration.
Kambo has also become an important teaching path for me. In addition to holding Kambo ceremonies, I teach Self-Application Kambo, supporting people in learning to work with the medicine themselves with knowledge, respect, responsibility and sovereignty.
My work continues to evolve through ongoing shamanic study, ceremony and relationship with the medicines and traditions that have shaped my path. I remain a student first. The deeper I travel, the more I understand that there is always more to learn, more to listen to and more to honour.
The way I hold space has been shaped just as deeply by my own humanity, through love, loss, motherhood, relationships, fear, grief, mistakes, forgiveness, rebuilding and the ongoing practice of coming home to myself.
I don’t believe healing asks us to become perfect.
I believe it asks us to become present.
To inhabit our bodies.
To meet what we’ve been afraid to feel.
To question the beliefs that have quietly shaped our lives.
To release what is no longer ours to carry.
And to remember that the deepest wisdom does not come from someone outside of us telling us who to be.
There is no guru here.
I do not want you to become dependent upon me, my interpretation or any medicine. My intention is to create a space in which you can deepen your relationship with yourself, strengthen your own discernment and remember how to trust what you already carry within you.
My role is to walk beside you for a portion of your journey, to hold the container with care, reverence and integrity, and then to step back as you continue walking your own path.
Based in Alberta, Canada, I work with people who are called to this path from near and far.
This is the heart of Iboga Journey:
Your healing. Your relationship with the medicine. Your own knowing. Your Remembering
Every guest completes a screening consultation covering physical and psychological health, and all guests must be free of alcohol, drugs and medications for a period determined in that consultation. There is no strict diet, but limiting caffeine, processed foods and refined sugar is recommended, along with journaling, time in nature and daily self-inquiry.
An EKG is required.
Integration is an important part of allowing what was experienced, revealed or remembered during Iboga to become part of everyday life. Connection and support remain available long after you leave the ceremony space.
At Iboga Journey, the relationship is not transactional. Once you have journeyed with us, you are part of the Iboga Family. Whether it has been weeks or years since your ceremony, the door remains open.
Iboga Journey is based in Alberta, Canada, with ceremonies and retreats held in carefully selected private spaces in and around the Calgary area.
Depending on the ceremony, gatherings may take place in our intimate ceremony space or at larger retreat venues surrounded by the natural beauty of Alberta. Each location is chosen to provide a peaceful, grounded and supportive environment for the journey.
For guests travelling from outside Alberta, most locations are easily accessible from Calgary International Airport. Transportation and accommodation options will be discussed during your consultation, and the exact ceremony location is shared with confirmed guests.
Iboga Journey uses whole, dried, raw Iboga root bark, with no extracts such as Ibogaine HCl or TA (total alkaloids). The root bark is traditionally harvested in the Congo and shipped directly to Iboga Journey. Because raw root bark has no immediate onset and is offered slowly, providers can adjust amounts early for guests with higher sensitivity.
Yes. Every prospective guest completes a 30-minute consultation call with Treenz before placing a deposit. The call covers your health history, physical and psychological screening, how long you need to be free of alcohol, drugs and medications, and whether an Iboga Journey ceremony is the right fit for you.
A deposit confirms your place once your consultation is complete. Deposits are not refundable or transferable. Full retreat pricing is shared during the consultation call, and private integration sessions are $111 per hour.
No. Iboga Journey is not a clinical or medically supervised retreat, and it does not offer alcohol, drug or pharmaceutical detox. Detox requires a fast-acting form of Iboga such as Ibogaine or TA, immediate interruption of dependency and close supervision, which is not suited to a group ceremony. All guests must be free of alcohol, drugs and medications for a period set during screening.
Iboga root bark is the natural, whole form of the plant and contains the full spectrum of its alkaloids. Ibogaine is a single alkaloid extracted in a laboratory and used mainly in clinical detox settings, where it is given in one or two doses with rapid onset. Iboga Journey works only with raw root bark, offered gradually over many hours for a slower, deeper and more grounded journey.
There is no strict diet, but limiting caffeine, processed foods, chemicals and refined sugar in the weeks before is recommended. Stay active, spend time in nature, journal regularly and practise daily self-inquiry to clarify your intentions. All guests must be free of alcohol, drugs and medications for the period determined in their consultation, and everyone fasts after breakfast on the Friday of ceremony.
More information will be provided during the consultation on how to prepare.
Treenz offers ongoing love, connection and support as you integrate your experience and return to everyday life. Zoom integration calls are available, along with opportunities to stay connected with the Iboga Journey community.
At Iboga Journey, this work is not transactional. You are not simply coming for a ceremony and then being sent on your way. When you sit with us, you become part of the Iboga Family, a community rooted in care, connection, respect and genuine relationship.
Integration unfolds differently for everyone. Sometimes you may want to talk, ask questions or receive support. Other times, you may simply need space to allow what was revealed to settle into your life. Either way, the door remains open.
The ceremony may last a day. The relationship with the medicine,and the integration of what it shows you, can continue for a lifetime.
Iboga Journey has been in service for more than a decade, holding space for hundreds of individual journeys and welcoming guests from across Canada and around the world.
Founded by Jeremy and Deena, owned and led by Treenz for 5 yrs. Iboga Journey has grown and evolved alongside her own relationship with the medicine. Her path includes more than a decade of personal work with plant medicines, years of facilitating ceremony, and continued learning directly from the traditions and people who have carried these medicines for generations.
Today, Iboga Journey is rooted in experience, relationship, reverence and service. While the spaces and offerings have evolved over the years, the heart of the work remains the same: creating a safe, intentional space where each person is honoured in their own unique journey.
Iboga Journey holds silent, raw root bark ceremonies at its long-established ceremony house in Alberta, from Friday afternoon to Sunday afternoon, for two to eight guests. Every journey begins with a 30-minute consultation call with Treenz.