Rooted Healing. Embodied Leadership. Sacred Becoming.

We believe that sustainable power is not built in the head alone. It rises from a regulated nervous system, ancestral remembrance, and embodied voice. We empower leaders, families, and mission-driven workplaces into deeper alignment.

Where HUMANs are whole & their ROOTs can be Radical

OUR ECOSYSTEM

Rooted Healing. Embodied Leadership. Sacred Becoming.

TO WORK WITH US IS TO BE A PART OF OUR ECOSYSTEM:

Healing must be intellectual, spiritual, and embodied. Our work is an ecosystem and rests on three pillars:

Coaching and Leadership for sustainable power

The Leadership & Liberation arm of The Human Root exists for individuals and institutions ready to practice power differently. We meet you where you are with Organizational Consulting, Executive Coaching and Trainings/ Workshops that are custom to your needs.

LEADERSHIP & LIBERATION

EMBODIED HEALING

Plant Medicine & Nervous System Restoration.

Sage & Joy Co. by The Human Root is a Sacred Integration that provides personalized Herbal Consultations, immersive Workshops & Education, and carefully crafted Small-Batch Herbal Formulations designed to support restoration at the root.

Doula Care for Families & Sacred Beginnings

Sacred beginnings deserve advocacy, regulation, and ancestral grounding. Pregnancy and birth are not just medical events. It is a threshold. This Liberation-Centered Care is is the doula care arm of The Human Root. We approach birth as both a physiological process and a spiritual passage.

SACRED FAMILY & BIRTH

Choose Your Path

Who We Serve

Supporting seekers on their journey to wholeness

I Am Seeking Community

I Am Seeking Embodied Healing

I Am Preparing For Birth

I Am a Leader

Meet ANYANWU

With over 28 years of experience in education, healing, and liberation-centered work, I created The Human Root to bring integrated wisdom to our community. It is an ecosystem devoted to embodied leadership and sustainable power.

My work rests on a simple but radical premise shaped by my own lived healing: power that is not regulated will eventually fragment. Leadership that is not embodied will eventually burn out. Healing that is not communal will eventually isolate.

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Sage & Joy Co. is the botanical and product-based expression of THE HUMAN ROOT. As an herbalist and educator, ANYANWU integrates plant medicine, nervous system literacy, and ancestral wisdom to support emotional resilience, reproductive health, and somatic restoration.

Her work honors lineage while maintaining safety, compliance, and responsible practice. Through consultations, workshops, and curated formulations, she helps clients return to the body as a site of authority rather than survival.

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MEDIA

THE HUMAN ROOT in Forbes Women by Molly Sprayregen February 16, 2019
Anyanwu is proud she made the decision to prioritize her values over more business, even though many people told her she was wrong. “I’ve had people say this business will never thrive because you’re not out there doing it the way everyone else is doing it,” she says. She believes her identity as a gender nonconforming, masculine of center, Black, gay woman helped give her this boldness. “I think being an entrepreneur you have to have a lot of courage, and you have to be unapologetic in a lot of ways. Unlike many companies with similar missions who visit schools and workplaces for a few hours or days, The Human Root spends two to three years working with clients to help implement cultural and policy changes that last. “Our goal is to redistribute power based on the context of different forms of bias that show up,” Continue Reading
Celebrating Brooklyn Entrepreneurship, May 31st at BRIC in downtown Brooklyn the human root is highlighted the accomplishments of the entrepreneurs who have advanced their businesses and achieved success with the support of SBS and our partner nonprofits, including Business Outreach Center (BOC), the Brooklyn Public Library, Bedford-Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation, the Center for Family Life and the Local Development Corporation of East New York (LDCNY).
Brooklyn Public Library’s PowerUP! Business Plan Competition Award December 7, 2016
A judging panel of business owners, advisors and funders selected THE HUMANROOT from a field of twelve finalists. The 2016 first-place prize is awarded to winner THE HUMANROOT, Professional Development Consulting Firm that serves schools, universities, non-profit organizations and businesses.