About SANNAS™
Why We Started
Walk with Life is Dr. Dan Engle's vision for scaled, plant-based wellness with integrity. Sitting with co-founderRichBelsky overlooking a flowing stream in Sedona, Dr. Dan put into words the desire in his heart: to offer the world a legal, plant-based supplement that supports feelings of connection, presence, and joy, without the devastating consequences often associated with alternative substances and medications. A product as enjoyable and effective in ceremony as it is on your morning walk. Dr. Dan believes SANNAS™, is that offering.
Walk with Life expresses the ethos that Sannas exists to support people as they walk through all phases of life. SANNAS™, a proprietary Walk With Life creation, is crafted with ethically sourced and crafted kanna; a South African botanical adaptogen with centuries of traditional use. SANNAS™ offers something remarkable: natural mood support, calm focus, and a heightened sense of connection. Walk With Life and SANNAS™ were born from a simple conviction that people deserve options they can actually feel good about. That serve the whole person in radiant health, optimal vitality and a harmonious connection to all our relations.
What is SANNAS™?
The Plant Behind the Product
SANNAS™ is built around Sceletium tortuosum, known as kanna, a South African botanical with deep roots in traditional use and growing recognition in modern science. For generations, kanna has been used to support mood, ease stress, and encourage social connection. Today, researchers are beginning to understand why.
Kanna interacts with pathways associated with mood regulation, cognitive function, and stress resilience. The science is still evolving, and we take that seriously. We speak carefully, formulate responsibly, and let the research guide us.
SANNAS™ is our commitment to bringing this plant to people who care: plant-based, precisely formulated, and built for those who want better mood without numbness, cleaner energy without the crash, and calm without sedation.
Rooted in Respect
Sourcing With Integrity
Our sourcing begins at the origin. Kanna has been part of South African life, and the lives of the San and Khoikhoi peoples, for longer than recorded history. That lineage is not a marketing story. It is a responsibility.
We work to source with integrity from South Africa, building relationships that honor the plant's cultural roots and the communities connected to them. We believe that if a plant has carried value for generations, it deserves to be handled with care, from soil to formulation to the person who trusts it with their wellbeing.
Formulated With Medical Guidance
Meet Our Medical Director
Walk With Life is guided by Dr. Dan Engle, our Medical Director, a board-certified psychiatrist whose work spans integrative psychiatry, neurocognitive restoration, peak performance medicine, and psychedelic research.
Dr. Engle's training includes a medical degree from the University of Texas Health Sciences Center at San Antonio, residency training in adult psychiatry and neurology at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, and a child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship at Oregon Health & Science University. He is the founder of Full Spectrum Medicine, co-founder of the nonprofit Thank You Life, and the author of The Concussion Repair Manual and A Dose of Hope.
His involvement in SANNAS™ is not advisory in name only. Dr. Engle helps guide formulation standards, reviews the evolving research on kanna, and ensures that what we bring to market is both aspirational and grounded: scientifically informed, responsibly dosed, and built to support how people actually feel and function.
"Kanna is one of the more interesting plants I have encountered in my work at the intersection of psychiatry and integrative medicine. The traditional use is centuries deep and compelling. What drew me to Walk With Life was the commitment to doing this correctly: sourcing with care, formulating with intention, and testing rigorously rather than relying on the word 'natural' as a substitute for accountability. I joined because I believe in what this product can do for people, and because the standard being held here is one I can put my name behind."
Dr. Dan Engle, Medical Director
Tested for Trust
Our Standard for Quality
We do not believe 'natural' is enough. Natural means nothing without verification, and in wellness, the gap between what a label says and what a product contains can be significant. That is why we have chosen a different standard. Trust is not a claim. It is a discipline built through careful sourcing, formulation oversight, and repeat testing at every stage.
Every batch of SANNAS™ is tested three times throughout the production process by ACS Laboratory. We test for:
Potency and botanical content accuracy
Heavy metals and contaminant screening
Microbial and pesticide safety
Purity and consistency across batches
Why We Exist
The Problem We Set Out to Solve
Too many people are looking for support in the same places that leave them depleted. They want better mood without numbness. Cleaner energy without the crash. Calm without sedation. Support for vitality, connection, and the parts of life that matter most.
The options available, pharmaceutical, synthetic, stimulant-based, often come with tradeoffs that do not feel worth it. People want to feel like themselves, only better. They want wellness that adds to their life, not subtracts from it.
That is exactly who SANNAS™ was made for.
The science around kanna is still evolving. We take that seriously. The literature is promising, but our commitment is to speak carefully, formulate responsibly, and let integrity lead, not trend cycles, not hype, not what the market will tolerate. We exist because we believe there is a better way to support how people feel and function every day.
Customer Voices
From People Walking With Life
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Our Promise
A Higher Standard in Wellness
We are committed to a higher standard in wellness, one rooted in the integrity of source, formulation, testing, and message. Not because we have to be, but because we believe the people who trust us deserve nothing less.
That means sourcing with respect. Formulating with care. Testing beyond what is required. And speaking honestly about what we know, what we are learning, and what we will never compromise on.
Our goal is simple: products that support a more balanced, vibrant, and conscious way of living.
Walk With Life
Our Name is Our Philosophy
To walk with life is to meet it with presence, energy, steadiness, and respect for both body and mind.
SANNAS™ was created for those who want more intention, more integrity, and a better relationship with how they feel each day.
We invite you to walk a different path.
