Our Story: Meet Lana & Her Mom
We are Lana and Bahra, the mother-daughter duo behind Kanna Wellness. Our journey here began with a shared lifelong commitment to nurturing health and wellness through nature’s offerings.
After experiencing the benefits of working with Kanna in both our everyday lives, a mission to bring the ancient benefits of Kanna to modern, everyday humans began.
Our Commitment to Well-being
Since Lana was a little girl, her mom always went to natural remedies first for ailments of the mind and body.
Bahra was (and still is) committed to cooking fresh meals daily for her family, turning to herbal remedies before pharmaceuticals, and advocating for one's own health.
After successfully going through a cancer treatment in 2021, Bahra realized that her lifelong anxiety needed to be addressed. When Lana gave her some Kanna to try, she was pleasantly surprised that she could finally–literally–breathe. Nothing else she has tried worked quite this well to ease her mind and open up space for presence (not even microdosing magic mushrooms).
Kanna Wellness is fuelled by the wisdom of ancient South African medicine while staying grounded in the health-promoting lifestyle of the Mediterranean region (our ancestral roots).
Our mission is to share this natural and effective plant ally for maintaining well-being while also igniting personal agency. We are in awe of nature’s power to empower lives, states of being, and human potential.
Welcome to Our Family.
Learn more about the people who make Kanna Wellness possible. From our dedicated Kanna farmers in South Africa to our expert product developers, we're all united by a passion for wellness.
Lana Pribic
Lana is at the intersection of personal development and psychedelics. Host of the top-charting podcast Modern Psychedelics, Lana has gained a trusted authority in the space.
After finishing her M.Sc in Food and Agricultural Economics, it took some time for Lana to find her calling as Life Coach. She partners with people to help them increase their levels of energy with the research validated Core Energy Coaching method.
Bahra & Rade Pribic
Bahra and Rade are wife and husband. Born in former Yugoslavia, they arrived in Canada in 1995 with their two children, fleeing a war back home. Over their 30+ years in Canada, they built a family-owned and operated fine jewellery store.
As both near retirement, they look forward to a new venture in wellness with their daughter, Lana.
Values-Driven: These Are Our Pillars
Nature First
We seek to understand nature in order to understand ourselves, because us humans are nature.
Inspired by the ancient cultures in South Africa and the people of the Mediterranean region, we turn to nature first for solutions to our problems. Whether it’s a physical ailment or a mental imbalance, we know nature has an abundance of solutions to support Life on Earth. Even answers to the most existential questions can be found in nature.
Sustainability
We are inspired by the Bwiti Law of Nature: If we harm nature, we harm ourselves. Nature has everything we will ever need, and we can take from nature but not more than we need.
All materials at Kanna Wellness (packaging, stickers, jars, etc) are eco-friendly and recyclable, with the exception of our pouches which we are actively looking to replace with a suitable eco-friendly option that also maintains product freshness.
Reverence & Respect
We stand on the shoulders of the giants who came before us. We recognize that Kanna wouldn’t be available to us in North America without the indigenous peoples of South Africa, namely the Khoi and San people.
We acknowledge Kanna as their ancestral medicine and a vital part of their culture to be preserved. To ensure that they benefit from any profits made at Kanna Wellness, we purchase our Kanna from a supplier who has direct benefit sharing agreements in place with these groups. As our company grows, we intend to create our own direct benefit-sharing agreements.
Self-Agency
In the pursuit of happiness and well-ness, every single human is responsible for their own life. This does not mean that we do not love, support and help one another. Rather, we empower one another to turn inwards and find the answers for themselves.