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Summit Garden Wellness

About Summit Garden Wellness Center

SUMMIT GARDEN WELLNESS

Our Story

At Summit Garden we are rooted in a holistic philosophy in which we observe how our health is influenced by our individual actions, we combine old wisdom with new science to support you to live the happiest lives, with the most longevity possible. It is a space where transformational shifts may be made, we focus on making traditional teachings simplified and adapted so they may be of use to modern peoples from all walks of life. We are focusing on physical, mental and spiritual health as interconnected and wish to encourage quality movement and diet. SGW is a place you can come to work on yourself and leave feeling recharged, empowered and with a fresh perspective!
See below to learn more about our team!
*We retain privacy in our location. I wish to be as transparent as possible while both protecting ourselves, our families, our land and our client base. Thanks for understanding and for your confidence!
Summit Garden was founded with the intention of giving people the most potent self empowerment tools.
We are a spiritual community that follows, Bwiti and other traditional value systems. Spiritual sacraments are not for sale and are fully optional, you are welcome to attend an wellness retreat in our sanctuary and if our safety criteria are met you can experience our spiritual sacrament Iboga.
See more about out team below:

Summit Garden Team

James Mbela - Founder/Lead Facilitator

James Mbela is a gifted artist and musician who studied classical music at university in the conservatory style, with a minor in nutrition and psychology. He is deeply versed in yogic and Buddhist philosophy and has spent years implementing it in practical, lived ways rather than as abstract theory.

He holds a long-standing, well-established relationship with psychedelics, used responsibly in the contexts of personal development and healing. His work draws on mindfulness training and trauma-informed psychology, alongside therapeutic methods including CBT, EMDR, and somatic therapy. He is a trained holistic nutritionist and lifestyle coach, a holistic psychedelic integration coach, and a teacher of qigong and Taoist healing arts.

James completed a three-year apprenticeship as an iboga provider and was initiated into the Bwiti tradition. As a professional journey facilitator with over five years of experience, he has guided nearly a thousand people through their process with consistent healing results and deep reverence for these medicines. He has served as a volunteer firekeeper for indigenous elders, listening closely to their message and teachings.

He is the founder of La Luz de Vida Church in Costa Rica, and a donor and organizer of charitable giving to local indigenous communities and to communities in Gabon. He is also the founder of Summit Garden Wellness, a multimodality healing retreat built to combine many different forms of retreat work into one space, supported by carefully devised protocols and systems. The intention behind it is simple: to help people heal safely, to stay clear of the noise of the ego, and to remain humbly in service.

MEDICAL

SGW has an involved pre screening and medical exam plus recent EKG before hand. If you are elderly or would like round the clock medical staff onsite we can offer this.

We have never had any health complications, our protocols are very safe and reliable.

Staff

SGW team includes our highly trained facilitators, local doctors, chefs, musicians, cleaners, gardeners and drivers.

Advisors

The advisor board contains doctors, psychologists, neuro-scientists, tech entrepreneurs, elder shamans, and spiritual teachers.

FACILITATORS

Our facilitators are formally trained in their offerings and offer high level consistency and professionalism.

Trauma-informed certified facilitator.

INTEGRATION

We have a small vetted network of psychologists, and coaches who have worked with the medicine extensively and can be contacted directly for additional help before and/or after a retreat.

DISCLAIMER

Summit Garden does not claim to diagnose, treat or cure any disease. We focus on holistic lifestyle and wellness through lifestyle change and grounded spiritual pactice. If you visit our center all wellness, nature excursion or spiritual activities are fully optional, such as exercising, meditating or taking spiritual sacrements. We make sure to do our best to create the safest space and protocols, everyones wellbeing is our biggest priority.