Aqiyl Aniys: My Path to Whole-Person Restoration
At 58 years young, I continue to live and apply the principles that shape my work, experiencing their benefits in my own body and life. My work has grown through different stages of study and lived experience, but one thread has continued through all of them: an interest in understanding people and the conditions that shape how we live, function, change, and grow.
What conditions help us become healthier, more aware, more capable, and more fully alive?
Today, that question shapes my work as a Plant-Based Nutritionist, Body & Energy Alignment Coach, author, teacher, and speaker—bringing nourishment, movement, body awareness, energy, and spiritual connection into one whole-person approach.
MY EDUCATION
Understanding People, Behavior, and Change
My education gave me different ways of understanding people—how behavior and communication operate within systems, how our environments influence our lives, and how people learn and change.
HUMAN BEHAVIOR · COMMUNICATION · SYSTEMS
Organizational Behavior & Communication
I earned my bachelor’s degree in Organizational Behavior & Communication at New York University, studying how individuals and groups function within larger organizations and systems. The field deepened my understanding of behavior, communication, culture, leadership, group dynamics, and change.
PEOPLE · ENVIRONMENT · COMMUNITY
Social Work
I also studied social work and gained field experience as an intern, strengthening my understanding of how family, community, culture, stress, access, opportunity, and the larger social environment influence how people live.
LEARNING · COMMUNICATION · APPLICATION
Elementary Education
I later spent a year teaching elementary school, strengthening my ability to make ideas understandable and practical. That experience continues to shape the way I write, teach, speak, and coach today.
MY HEALTH EDUCATION
From Nutrition to Whole-Person Restoration
My health education developed through lived experience, formal study, and years of continued exploration of nutrition, movement, and the body as a whole.
INFLUENCE + PRACTICE
Dr. Sebi & Alkaline Plant-Based Living
Dr. Sebi’s teachings introduced me to alkaline plant-based living and profoundly changed the direction of my relationship with food and health. As I applied what I was learning in my own life and experienced changes in my health and vitality, nutrition became an area of deeper study and lifelong interest.
FORMAL STUDY
Plant-Based Nutrition
I deepened that education by completing a Certificate in Plant-Based Nutrition through eCornell. The program broadened my study of plant-based food, health, and long-term well-being and added a formal framework to what I was learning through personal practice and independent study.
Certificate in Plant-Based Nutrition · eCornell
CONTINUED STUDY
The Body as a Whole
My study continued beyond nutrition into movement, mobility, strength, alignment, breath, tension and release, body awareness, energy, and the effects of our daily habits. I came to understand the body as one connected chain—continually adapting to how we nourish it, use it, move it, and live within it.
The body does not move in pieces. It moves as one connected chain.
MY GROWING BODY OF WORK
Study Became Something I Could Share
My continued study became a growing body of work. AlkalinePlantBasedDiet.com, Alkaline Plant Based Diet, and Alkaline Herbal Medicine grew from my exploration of nourishment and plant-based wellness. Fixing Me: Feeling Alive Again reflects the expansion of that work into movement, alignment, breath, daily habits, and whole-body restoration. What I continue to study and practice also shapes the way I write, teach, speak, and coach.
The subjects expanded, but the pursuit remained the same: understanding what helps us become healthier, stronger, more aware, more vital, and more fully alive.
MY WORLDVIEW
My Journey
I am a Black man whose understanding of life has been shaped by experiences far beyond books and classrooms. I have spent considerable time in Kenya and Zanzibar and traveled through other parts of Africa. Those experiences have deepened my connection to African people and culture while strengthening my awareness of the systems of white supremacy that continue to shape the lives, health, opportunities, and conditions of Black people throughout the world. This is part of why Black restoration is deeply personal to me.
I was once an amateur boxer, and I am still a fighter at heart. At 58, I am learning how to swim—and getting good at it. Nearly fifteen years after adopting an alkaline plant-based lifestyle, I am still studying my body, challenging my assumptions, developing new abilities, and discovering what it means to become more fully alive. I do not believe growing older means we should quietly surrender our strength, movement, curiosity, or capacity to grow.
Today, these different paths come together in my work as a Plant-Based Nutritionist and Body & Energy Alignment Coach. I approach nourishment, movement, alignment, breath, daily habits, energy, and spiritual awareness as connected parts of one whole.
The human condition is interconnected—physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually, and energetically. How we nourish ourselves, move, breathe, live each day, understand ourselves, respond emotionally, pursue purpose, and connect with The Divine all shape how fully life is expressed through us. As the body becomes better nourished, less restricted, and more aligned, we develop better conditions for God’s life-giving energy to be expressed through greater vitality, awareness, peace, creativity, purpose, and love.
The goal is to become more fully alive, not only to live longer.
THE WORK IN PRACTICE
I Write. I Teach. I Coach.
I turn what I study, practice, and develop into information and guidance people can understand and use in their own lives.
WRITE
Author
I write because I am always seeking to better understand what helps us become more fully alive. My books bring together study, lived experience, and what I continue to learn about nourishment, movement, breath, energy, the human body, and our connection with The Divine. Writing allows that work to travel beyond a single conversation, giving others something they can study, return to, and apply in their own lives.
TEACH
Teacher & Speaker
I teach to help people see the deeper connections between how we live and how fully life is expressed through us. Through talks, presentations, and educational content, I make complex ideas about nourishment, movement, breath, energy, the body, and our daily habits easier to understand and connect them to everyday life. I want people to understand not only what they can do differently, but why those changes matter to their vitality, freedom, and fuller expression of The Divine.
COACH
Personal Coaching
I coach to help people identify what may be restricting the fuller expression of life through them. Together, we examine patterns in nourishment, movement, alignment, breath, energy, and daily habits, then develop practical ways to restore greater freedom, vitality, and awareness. The work is personal because restoration begins with understanding where you are, what is holding you back, and what can help you move closer to the life you are capable of living.
Different methods. One purpose: turning understanding into meaningful change.
THE LARGER PURPOSE
Restoration Extends Beyond the Individual.
My own restoration brought me to this work, but its purpose extends beyond me. I want to see greater health, strength, vitality, awareness, and spiritual connection throughout the Black community, with particular concern for Black men and the strength of Black families. When we restore more of ourselves physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually, and energetically, we bring more of ourselves to our families, our communities, and the generations that follow us.
Nourish the body. Restore the body. Elevate the spirit.