An embodied, land-based sanctuary in service to Earth, Life and our wholeness. Together, we move from head-based awareness to practising the deep fullness of life affirming worlds our ancestors left maps to
The Curriculum Pathway
Stage 1 (Foundation)
Befriending Your Body
Nervous System Tools for Life and Liberation. Our entry-level container to ground into felt safety and somatic resilience.
Stage 2 (Deepening)
Tending Our Roots
Nourishing the foundations of regenerative life. A deepening space to tend your being, belonging, purpose and connection to beyond.
The Anchor (Sustaining)
fromtheroots community of practice
Our long-term ecosystem for continued collective remembering, integration, and shared ritual after completing our courses.
Bringing fromtheroots to your organisation
“Tailored transformational journeys and facilitation for teams, groups, and collectives.”
Are you looking to bring our methodologies of decoloniality, somatic resilience, and healing justice into your organisation?
We partner with values-aligned teams, institutions, and community organisations to design custom workshops, retreats, and long-term capacity-building accompaniment.
EMBODIED LINEAGE
Rooted at Serian Sanctuary
Transformation is an embodied, ecological and relational journey. While fromtheroots gathers a global ecosystem across digital borders, our work is unshakeably anchored in the soil. Serian Sanctuary is our physical home in East Afrika—a land-based space dedicated to resting, remembering, and reclaiming who we are in relationship with the earth. By weaving together digital learning containers with physical land-based residency, retreat, and ritual, we invite you to take off the armours of systemic exhaustion, touch Earth, and practice collective regeneration in real time
The Ecosystem Branches
fromtheroots weaves movement and movements across and beyond the continent
CO-CREATING THE ARCHIVE
- Researching ancestral practices alongside local knowledge holders.
- Co-creating a living archive of rituals and somatic tools.
- Making decolonial resources accessible beyond our physical walls.
ANCIENT-NEW WEAVING
- Cultivating solidarity between practitioners across different countries.
- Bridging geographic borders through collective encounters.
- Curating relational learning exchanges between rural and urban spaces.
MOVEMENT STEWARDSHIP
- Serving as a regional weaver for the global Ecoversities Alliance.
- Connecting un/learning innovators across the continent of Afrika.
- Coordinating regional gatherings and transformative encounters.
Reflections & Rememberings (our un/learnings)
my afrikanness is embodied and alive
When did you realise you were Afrikan? What does it mean to you?
Land, Dance and Finding a Way Through This Painful Life Together
Trusting one’s body, and one’s experience of the world is not celebrated or even tolerated in the formal education forced on Africa through missionary and colonial education. School and religion alienated me and us from ourselves, and from the Earth.
Agency, Possibilities, and Imagination: Countering Myths about Africa’s Past
Tracing African pasts through the interlinked lenses of agency, possibility and imagination allows us to counter-narratives of Africa as a blank slate, and to debunk myths about Africa as a place that did not innovate or create.