Faith in the Body

Alana Falzon

Ritually Rooted is Faith-Based & Private 

We are not a school or a course.

At Ritually Rooted, we believe that true holistic health is sacred — and that honoring it is part of our faith-based mission. By organizing ourselves as a private, faith-based membership, we’re able to share our work freely, without needing permission from outside institutions that don’t understand what we do. This allows us (and our members) to stay aligned with what we truly believe in — and to practice without compromise.

We guide holistic entrepreneurs in doing the same: structuring their practice in a way that keeps it protected, sovereign, and outside the reach of unnecessary regulation. If you’ve ever felt like the system doesn’t fit what you're here to offer, there’s another way. And you can do this too.

History Time

Let’s reflect on the times throughout history when spirituality and medicine were one in the same. There was a time when healing was considered holy. Before clinics and credentials, before the language of science replaced the language of spirit, healing belonged to the people. It was prayer, ritual, nature, and nourishment. The midwives, herbalists, and medicine men listened to the signs our bodies gave them, they supported, and they trusted in the divine intelligence woven through all of life.

At Ritually Rooted, we believe that this faith in the body is sacred and that honoring it is part of our spiritual mission. We are a faith-based, private organization grounded in the principle of vitalism, the understanding that the body can heal itself when given the right support and conditions. To us, this isn’t just biology; it’s faith in action. Every cell, every mineral, every breath is a reflection of divine design.

By operating within this framework, we’re able to preserve that truth free from external systems that often misunderstand or restrict holistic practice. This sovereignty allows us (and our members) to serve from a place of alignment, integrity, and devotion. We don’t need permission to honor what we know is true: that healing and sovereignty are sacred rights, not privileges.

For centuries, religious and spiritual communities were the keepers of medicine. Healing was never separate from faith but an expression of it. Somewhere along the way, that connection was lost replaced by profitable systems that treat symptoms.

This topic reminds me of a book that I read that blends faith and health. The Physician, by Noah Gordon. I had chosen this for a book report in high school, because I knew there was a movie adaptation…but my laziness worked out because it had an impact! The protagonist is in 11th-century England, and he travels across continents to Persia to study medicine with the great Avicenna (a real historical figure), discovering that true medicine honors both science and spirit. The book’s setting mirrors real history: in medieval Europe, healing was often restricted to clergy, while in the Islamic world, scholars saw the study of the body as a form of devotion to God. It reminds us that the separation of spirituality and medicine is a modern invention and that the original healers served both the body and the soul. There has always been tension between faith, science, and institutional control. For centuries, religious and spiritual communities were the keepers of medicine. Healing has been viewed as a sacred duty for centuries… healers often saw themselves as instruments of divine will and may have never been separate from faith; healing requires both science and spirit. 

Across cultures, this truth echoes. Ancient Egyptian priests served as both spiritual guides and physicians, believing that disease arose from spiritual imbalance. In Traditional Chinese Medicine, harmony between body, spirit, and nature was seen as essential to health, a belief mirrored by Ayurvedic practitioners in India, who viewed the body as an instrument of divine energy. Even early Christian monasteries kept herb gardens and healing rooms, tending to the sick as an act of faith.

Somewhere along the way, this sacred relationship was fractured. As medicine became institutionalized (and profitable), the language of spirit was replaced with the language of systems, and symptoms were managed, not understood. 

Ritually Rooted exists to bring that connection back.

Our mission is to restore harmony between body, mind, spirit, and nature to guide holistic practitioners in reclaiming their right to teach, to serve, and to heal in alignment with their deepest values. We believe the body’s wisdom is not something to control or fully understand, but something to revere. In our community, we don’t separate science from spirituality; we see them as reflections of the same divine order. Through mineral balancing, nourishing traditional foods, herbal energetics, and the art of medicine making, our practitioners are reviving an ancient truth: healing is both a science and a sacrament.

More than 300 certified holistic practitioners now call Ritually Rooted home.

Together, we are rebuilding a faith-based lineage of healers. One that celebrates sovereignty, community, and the sacred responsibility of remembering what we’ve always known: the body is holy, and health is our birthright.

Faith in the body is faith in creation itself. And that’s the root of all healing.