Our Story
Four years ago, I was lost.
Spiritually, physically, and emotionally.
Then the plants found me.
What followed was a journey of healing and transformation that changed the direction of my life. I began looking differently at my body, at nature, and at what I was putting into myself.
The lessons didn’t come from books alone.
They came through experience. Through plant medicines. Through time in nature. Through self-exploration and discipline. Through people and traditions that made me question things I had previously taken for granted.
The deeper I went, the more attention I began paying to something very simple:
**What is this? Where did it come from? And what happened to it before it reached me?**
What Kokopelli Became
Kokopelli didn’t begin with a business plan.
It slowly took shape around the things I was discovering and using myself — plant medicines, traditional tools, natural products and supplements.
But as it grew, the direction became clearer.
I didn’t want Kokopelli to become a shop filled with hundreds of products simply because they could be sold.
I wanted to search for a small number of things that genuinely stood apart.
Things whose origin mattered.
Things whose preparation mattered.
Things I could understand, question and compare.
And things worth sharing.
One idea kept returning:
**The more a natural material is processed, altered, flavoured or reformulated, the further it can move from its original nature.**
That principle now sits at the heart of Kokopelli.
And Then CBD
CBD came through the same door.
Not because Kokopelli needed another product category, but because it fitted the same search.
Rather than filling the range with different strengths, flavours and formats, I was drawn toward a concentrated full-spectrum extract — something that retained a broader profile of the hemp plant rather than reducing it to isolated CBD.
The CBD we chose is a **45% full-spectrum extract, produced in the EU using CO₂ extraction and independently laboratory tested.**
Different plant. Different tradition. Different preparation.
But the question behind the choice remains the same:
**How much of the original material can we respect while still creating something practical for modern life?**
Why Shilajit Resin
That is why I am drawn to Shilajit resin.
Because it remains closer to its original form and undergoes very little processing.
Finding the resin we offer today wasn’t simply a matter of finding a supplier.
I tried different sources and different grades.
Some cost much less. Then I found another producer, high in the Himalayan region, whose resin cost almost twice as much.
I tried it.
The difference was clear.
But my own experience wasn’t the only measure. Friends and experienced Shilajit resin users tested and compared it alongside me.
Again and again, the same resin kept standing out.
Some things can only be understood through direct experience.
This was one of them.
I chose the resin that felt rare.
The resin that felt real.The resin I wanted to share.
Where We Are Going
Kokopelli is still young.
And I don’t want it to grow by simply adding more.
I want it to grow by becoming more selective.
Shilajit and CBD are where we are today. Tomorrow there may be other plants, extracts or natural supplements — but they will have to earn their place.
I want people to eventually recognise the Kokopelli name and understand something before they even look at the product:
**Someone has already questioned it.**
Someone has looked at where it came from.
Someone has compared it.
Someone cared about what was changed — and what was left alone.
Because trust isn’t something I can print on a label.
It has to be earned slowly.
That is what I want Kokopelli to become.