Our Story: Meet Lana & Her Mom
Welcome to Kanna Wellness, a Canadian family-owned business dedicated to providing premium Kanna extracts. Founded by mother-daughter duo Lana and Bahra, our mission is to share the ancient benefits of Sceletium tortuosum (Kanna) to enhance modern well-being.
Our Commitment to Well-being
At Kanna Wellness, we prioritize natural remedies for mental and physical well-being. Which is natural for us; 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.
In 2021, after overcoming cancer treatment, Bahra sought solutions for her lifelong anxiety. Trying Kanna extract provided a profound sense of relief, allowing her to breathe easier and find mental clarity.
Nothing else she has tried worked quite this well to ease her mind and open up space for presence (not even microdosing magic mushrooms). As Bahra, who is 65, says, the Kanna helps her to “organize her mind.”
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 at Kanna Wellness is to provide ethically sourced, high-potency Kanna extracts to support well-being and empower personal growth.
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Welcome Into Our Family.
There’s one rule at our dinner table: The more, the merrier.
Lana Pribic
Lana Pribic, M.Sc., is an ICF Professional Life Coach, co-founder of Kanna Wellness, and host of the Modern Psychedelics Podcast. With over 230 hours of professional training and four coaching certifications, Lana specializes in psychedelically-informed coaching, guiding individuals through profound inner transformation. Based in Ontario, she merges the power of psychedelics, consciousness, and self-discovery to facilitate deeply impactful experiences. When she's not immersed in her work, you'll likely find her dancing to electronic beats, creating art in the kitchen, practicing patience with her cat, curating her dream wardrobe, or diving into a book.
Bahra Pribic
Born in former Yugoslavia, Bahra arrived in Canada in 1995 with her husband and their two children, fleeing a war back home. Over their 30+ years in Canada, together they built a family-owned and operated fine jewellery store.
Now in retirement, Bahra looks forward to switching gears with a new venture in wellness with their daughter.
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.
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