The idea of TerraWatu was conceived over 20 years ago. In 1999, Tanya Pergola completed a PhD in sociology in the United States and headed to Tanzania to climb Mt. Kilimanjaro and go on her first African wildlife safari. She was not a typical tourist. Tanya had studied anthropology as a university student and has had a life-long passion for exploring and understanding other cultures, indigenous consciousness, and living in harmony with nature. She had also ‘taken the baton’ from her late father, trained in pharmacy, to run the next leg of the race towards integrating traditional healing wisdom with cutting-edge science.