What Is Healing Roots?
Healing Roots is the wellness branch of TubmanWalker, a sanctuary for renewal and inner clarity. It is shaped by the life and practice of Rev. Dr. Shelley Best, an artist, minister, yogi, and mindfulness teacher formed through contemplative prayer, yoga training, sound healing, and study with teachers such as Amma the Hugging Saint, Tara Brach, and Jack Kornfield. Her work brings together art, meditation, movement, and community care to help people return to themselves and strengthen their resilience.
Healing Roots offers meditation sessions, yoga and mindful movement, healing retreats, conferences, meditative art experiences, and spiritual consultation. In the coming year it will expand to include Healing Roots teas, ritual oils, Pocket Sanctuary kits, wellness courses, and restorative retreats that support a life of balance and purpose.
Healing Roots exists because people are searching for places of stillness in a world that moves too quickly. It offers a way of living that honors the body, calms the mind, awakens the soul, and encourages a return to presence and wholeness. You are invited to join the Healing Roots Circle, a community of seekers and creators who receive teachings, guided meditations, early access to new offerings, and invitations to gatherings that support a more grounded and intentional life.
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Why Healing Roots Matters
In a world marked by speed, disruption, and overwhelm, Healing Roots offers a way back to what is essential. Our products and rituals are designed to support:
Grounded presence
Emotional clarity
Creative inspiration
Mind-body resilience
Spiritual renewalHealing Roots helps you find stillness in the midst of noise and feel connected in moments of uncertainty. It is a reminder that healing is not a luxury — it is a practice of returning to your deepest self.
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Ancestors, Lineage, and the Meaning of Healing Roots
Healing Roots is also a form of ancestral honoring. “Roots” speaks to lineage, memory, and the wisdom encoded in the people who came before us. It carries the truth that our resilience, creativity, and intuition did not begin with us — we inherited it.
Healing ourselves heals our lineage.
Healing our lineage strengthens our future.
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Philosophy
Healing Roots is where earth wisdom, ancestral practice, meditative art, and mindful ritual meet. Drawing from Indigenous and African American healing traditions, yogic practice, and my own mystical journey, Healing Roots offers teas, oils, and sacred tools that ground the body, calm the mind, and reconnect you with the wisdom of your lineage. Our meditative abstract artworks—rooted in geometric repetition shown to support the nervous system—bring stillness and clarity to homes, clinics, and healing spaces. Every blend and every canvas is crafted to restore balance, strengthen resilience, and return you to what is essential, ancient, and deeply human.