Sean Hamman

founder and N’Ganga

Sean Hamman initiated into Bwiti in 2007 in Gabon. He is Bwiti N’ganga in the Mitsogo tradition. His formal apprenticeship included thorough practice and study of the traditional songs, dances, spells and healing rites of Bwiti. Since then, he has shared the practice of awakening through satsang and Bwiti animist teachings. His daily life is living ceremonial practice energised and potentiated over many ceremonies and many years. Sean continues to follow the way of a spiritual warrior; applying prayer, cleansing, ritual seamlessly with Buddhist emptiness and compassion. Over the years thousands of participants have transformed their challenges and limitations through the reset, grounding and the simplicity of Bwiti and mindfulness.

From 2004 - 2008, Sean pursued an extensive traditional apprenticeship with Adamus, a French-Gabonese Bwiti organisation and spiritual community. Adamus disbanded in 2008 and following on from their work Sean continued to facilitate Iboga ceremony as WorldBridgers, in the U.K with his practice partner, Steve Dyer until the beginning of 2018.

Prior to his Bwiti apprenticeship, Sean facilitated an Ayahuasca practice in the U.K. and the Czech Republic from 2004 - present.

He has shared instruction with long-standing apprentices with their own medicine practices throughout Europe including U.K., Czech Republic, Holland, Switzerland, Sweden and Spain.

Drawing on extensive and various shamanic teachings and training throughout the past 20 years. Including, but not limited to Metamorphic Technique, Merkaba trainings according to Drunvalo Melchizedek, The Four Winds - an international program founded by Alberto Vilolldo of the Institute for Energy Medicine, 5 year study under Rolando Monteiro of the ayahuasca church of the Santo Daime.

Throughout his study with Rolando and the Santo Daime church, Sean was being prepared to set up a Santo Daime practice in South Africa at the time. This fate did not happen as the Bwiti calling came for Sean. The message was given by his other main teacher, Gaston Saint-Pierre (co-founder of the Metamorphic Technique) who shared the message for Sean from the Bwiti, received during his own Iboga ceremony.

Kambo Journey

In 2009, Sean had the calling to work with Kambo to resolve chronic respiratory illness. Following the initial Kambo treatment course over 6 months he resolved his lifelong vulnerability to chronic respiratory illness. After that, he invited Brazilian curandero,  Cesar Carvalhoto to the U.K. and began study of the administering of Kambo . From 2010, with direction from Cesar he was instructed to continue training with Mauro Santili. Sean developed his practice with Kambo in the Katukina style with Cesar and Mauro. Followed by further training with Giovanni Lattanzi to develop an understanding of the meridian point systems and Matses style of application.

Sean, like most leading edge pioneers pursued an unique course learning course in Kambo facilitation. He was later recognised for his professionalism and accountability when he was listed as one of a handful of Master Practitioners on the IAKP’s (International Association of Kambo Practitioners) website. This was until identifying certain risks in the training protocols of the IAKP, which led him to distance his practice from the Association and he asked to take his name down from the their website.

He continues to practice Kambo and Kambo as a preparation for Iboga with his apprentices and participants to this day and has seen a wide spectrum of physical and psycho-spiritual conditions treated successfully with Kambo.

Nicole Hermes

ceremonialist, kambo facilitator, carer

I began my journey with Bwiti in 2013. I was introduced to Iboga by a close family friend. Iboga was both a catalyst for renewal and a revelation of root patterns, which despite a opening up a journey in somatic awareness, meditation and mindbody practices to support my mental and emotional wellbeing, when I met the Bwiti and the Wood it was able to go to the core of issue and restructure my entire being to undertake the next steps of growth in my life. In 2015, I began my apprenticeship to Bwiti with Sean Hamman, assisting Kambo and Iboga ceremonies in southern England. Since 2017, I have been in full time ceremonial support of the community and the participants.

Over the past 19 years, I have been a keen study of ordeal pathways and ritual. And I am very comfortable taking people through uncomfortable processes kindly, carefully, with skillful support for the psychosomatic process and the nervous system through body mind practices for greater self awareness, mental clarity and emotional resiliency.