About Ruan Living
A Return To Your Nature
Ruan Living is a healing ecosystem designed to help you detox every layer and dimension of your life—home, body, mind, outlook, and energy—with awareness, elegance, and truth.
Founded by Sophia Ruan Gushée—author of A to Z of D-Toxing, host of the Practical Nontoxic Living™ podcast, and a certified yoga teacher—Ruan Living offers a science-backed, soulful framework for reducing toxic exposures: from chemicals, heavy metals, and EMFs to emotional overwhelm and digital fatigue.
But this is not a rigid system. It’s a rhythmic lifestyle. One that meets you where you are, and gently guides you back to where you belong.
Here, detoxing isn’t deprivation—it’s reconnection. It’s a return.
What Guides Us
To live in harmony with nature’s rhythms.
To protect life across generations.
To awaken ourselves—and our communities—through mindful living.
Guided by wisdom—both ancient and emerging—we pursue clarity over comfort, consciousness over convention, and balance over excess.
As guardians, thinkers, and healers, we walk the path of awareness—detoxing our homes, our habits, and our hearts—so we may return to ourselves and help others do the same.
We are here to elevate daily life into sacred practice.
We are Ruan. We protect what matters.
Our Living Legacy
Our story begins long before the wellness industry—even long before electricity.
My ancestors were known as protectors, rebels, and deep thinkers. Two of them, Ruan Ji and Ruan Xian, were among the Seven Scholars in the Bamboo Grove—sage philosophers, during the 3rd century CE, who resisted the corruption of their time and chose an authentic life.Â
Ruan Wengzhong, one of the most iconic figures in my lineage, was immortalized by Qin Shi Huang, the first Emperor of China, who built a giant bronze statue of Ruan Wengzhong to place at imperial sites to protect the emperor for eternity. In fact, for centuries, it has been customary in Chinese tradition to be buried with a small statue of Ruan Wengzhong. He is believed to protect your spirit during the transition from this life to the next. Ruan Wengzhong was not just a warrior, but a symbol of intergenerational protection.Â
But I didn’t know any of this when I founded Ruan Living.
After nearly a decade of writing A to Z of D-Toxing—mostly alone—and several more quiet years building what would become the Ruan Living ecosystem, I named the company to honor my birth family. “Ruan” felt like a meaningful tribute to the lineage I came from, even though I knew little of it at the time.
Years later, I discovered the remarkable stories of my ancestors—and I was stunned. Among them: warriors of emperors, scholars, philosophers, musicians, guardians of the everyday, and protectors of legacy.
As I got to know their histories, it felt as though I was uncovering fabric of my own drive and inner compass. Their values echoed my own—though I had been walking this path without knowing they had walked it too.
As a mother—often pregnant or nursing—navigating emerging science on toxic exposures, I was both alarmed and confused. The research on endocrine-disrupting chemicals and early-life vulnerabilities was clear: precaution was needed. And yet, the medical world was largely silent. The people around me weren’t concerned. That disconnect made me question myself.
Was I being too cautious? Irresponsible for raising awareness? Could I cause unnecessary worry?
But the more I learned, the clearer it became: this wasn’t about overreacting—it was about protecting what matters most. Not just personal health, but generational health.
I couldn’t ignore the science—or the families who deserved to know what could affect their fertility, development, long-term well-being, and even future grandchildren.
Today, epigenetics confirms what cultures have intuited for centuries: how we care for ourselves becomes part of our legacy.
Ruan Living exists to protect that legacy—with wisdom, humility, awareness, and fierce compassion.
When I learned that my ancestors were guardians—who also challenged the dominant systems of their time—I felt a deeper sense of belonging. Their courage in answering a higher calling helped me better understand my own.
Each year, new scholarly insights continue to illuminate their legacy—validating the spirit and mission behind Ruan Living.
From the sage thinkers and fierce guardians of my lineage, through to my science-driven wellness stewardship, the ethos remains:
Protect one’s community through knowledge, integrity, and unwavering vigilance.
That ancestral spirit—of courage, guardianship, wisdom, and an endless curiosity for truth, what’s best for society, and the art of living a meaningful life—lives on through Ruan Living.
Today, we protect homes from a quieter, more invisible threat: the toxicants woven into everyday life that can undermine our health, fertility, and longevity.
Ruan Living Is Yoga
It’s about reclaiming sovereignty over your well-being.
It’s about turning your home into a healing space
It’s about honoring your story—and your legacy—with every conscious choice.
And it’s about living life in yoga.
My work—especially the 40-Day Home Detox—is deeply influenced by my yoga practice. As a yogi for almost 30 years and a certified yoga teacher, to me, detoxing isn't just about reducing exposures. It's about living consciously, with greater awareness, acceptance of truth, and balance.
Just like in yoga, we stretch—without harm.
We explore discomfort—with curiosity.
We embrace imperfections—without judgment.
We observe—without reacting.
And we return, again and again, to the breath of awareness, the steadiness of the Earth beneath us.
Ruan Living invites you to carry this off the mat—into your home, your habits, your life.
To me, Practical Nontoxic Living™ is yoga off the mat:
- It asks us to live with greater awareness.
- It challenges us to observe without judgment.
- It reminds us to stretch without strain, and to return—again and again—to our center.
Whether you’re swapping out a toxic cleaning product or rethinking your relationship with technology, you’re practicing yoga in its truest form: living consciously, with balance and compassion.
Who We Serve: Detox Warriors
If you’re here, you’re already a Detox Warrior. You’re seeking truth, choosing awareness, and protecting what matters most.
At Ruan Living, we honor this courage. Whether you’re just starting to detox or you’ve completed our 40-Day program, you’re part of a growing global community that believes your daily choices shape your legacy.
Graduates of the 40-Day Home Detox earn the title Ruan Detox Warrior™—a modern continuation of my family’s tradition of protectors and guardians. It's more than a name. It’s a way of living.
BECOME A RUAN DETOX WARRIOR™ ➔After following Sophia’s detox guidance, I went from 88% above the national average in one toxic chemical… to undetectable.
— Alexa Lardieri, Deputy Health Editor, DailyMail
(Ruan Detox Warrior)
The Spirit of Ruan Living
Ruan Living is more than a brand—it’s a return.
A return to what your body already knows. A reconnection to the quiet intelligence of nature. A lifestyle that doesn’t force or strive, but flows.
Without realizing it at first, I created Ruan Living in deep alignment with the rhythms that guided my ancestors—like Ruan Ji, Ruan Xi, and Ruan Wengzhong—poets, protectors, and philosophers who lived in harmony with the Dao, the natural way of things. They questioned false authority, withdrew from noisy systems, fought for their beliefs, and turned to nature, observation, and introspection as their path.
Ruan Living was born from that same instinct.
Our offerings are not about harsh rules or rigid routines. They're invitations—
To breathe more deeply.
To trust your body’s wisdom.
To live in tune with the seasons of your space, your life, your transitions.
Here, detoxing is not about control.
It’s not about rejecting modern life—but discerning how you embrace it.
It’s about enlightenment.
It’s about listening again.
Letting go.
Living mindfully.
This is the spirit of Ruan Living.
And you are already part of it.
Come Home to Yourself
Wherever you are in your journey, Ruan Living is here to support you—through science-based, practical wisdom. Explore our Home Detox Ecosystem to find your next step.
- Start with the Free Starter Pack
- Begin the 40-Day Home Detox
- Join D-Tox Academy
- Explore Ruan Books
- Book Coaching with Sophia
