About Ruan Living

A Return to Your Nature

Ruan Living is a healing ecosystem created to help you detox every layer and dimension of your life—home, body, mind, and spirit—with awareness, elegance, and truth.

Founded by Sophia Ruan Gushée, Ruan Living offers a practical and powerful framework for reducing toxic exposures—from chemicals and heavy metals to EMFs and emotional overwhelm. But this is not a rigid system. It’s a rhythmic lifestyle. One that meets you where you are, and gently guides you toward where you want to be.

Here, detoxing is not a punishment. It’s a return.

A 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 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. Another ancestor is a general among the famed Terracotta Warriors, created to guard emperors for eternity.

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. 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.

But I didn’t know any of this when I founded Ruan Living.

It was years later that I learned about my lineage. After spending nearly a solitary decade writing A to Z of D-Toxing and several more isolating years creating Ruan Living’s ecosystem, the discovery stunned me.

As a mother (often pregnant or nursing) and social entrepreneur uncovering emerging science—especially around endocrine-disrupting chemicals and early-life exposures—I was alarmed and confused. The evidence clearly urged precaution. And yet, many physicians weren’t concerned. No one around me seemed concerned. That disconnect made me question myself. Was I being too cautious? Was I being irresponsible by raising awareness? Could I be causing unnecessary worry? I feared sharing information that was scientifically valid, but not yet mainstream.

But the more I learned, the more clear it became: this wasn’t just about individual health—it was about generational health. I couldn't ignore the data—or the families who deserved to know what could affect their fertility, development, and future health. What we’re exposed to today can shape the biology of our children and grandchildren. The science of epigenetics now proves what cultures have intuited for centuries: how we care for ourselves becomes part of our legacy.

So when I learned that my ancestors were guardians—who also challenged the dominant systems of their time—I felt belonging. Their courage in following a calling helped me understand my path. And learning about my ancestors’ legacies through emerging (every year, even centuries later) scholarly analyses of their contributions has solidified Ruan Living’s.

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, and wisdom lives on through Ruan Living.

Today, we protect homes from a different kind of threat: the silent toxicants in everyday life that can compromise our health, fertility, and longevity.

What Ruan Living Really Offers

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 future—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. I'm a certified yoga teacher, and 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.

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)

BECOME A RUAN DETOX WARRIOR™ ➔

Offerings Inside the Ruan Living Ecosystem

Whether you're just starting or ready for a full transformation, Ruan Living offers an ecosystem of support to embrace you where you are:

Private Coaching

Concierge-style detox support from Sophia, tailored to your priorities and pace

40-Day Home Detox (Flagship Program)

A daily, guided transformation to detox your home room by room—with scientific insights, lifestyle strategies, and flexible pacing

D-Tox Academy Membership

Alumni of 40-Day Home Detox can sustain and refine their Ultimate Home Detox™ with ongoing guidance from the Practical Nontoxic Living™ library and community support

Ruan Books

A to Z of D-Toxing and EMF Detox Workbook

Ultimate Home Detox™ Starter Pack (Free)

Essential detox checklists for nontoxic cleaning, cookware, EMFs, fertility, and kitchen toolsp

Everything we offer is built to support your rhythms—not override them.

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 attuned to the seasons of your space, your life, your emotions, and 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.

Our Mission

To live in harmony with nature’s rhythms, to protect life across generations, and 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.

Come Home to Yourself

Wherever you are in your journey, Ruan Living is here to support you—through science-based, practical wisdom.

Let Us Help You Craft Your Ultimate Home Detox™ →