WELL FOR CULTURE promotes holistically well lifestyles. we believe in mind-body-spirit optimization through the seven circles of wellness. Much like a ceremony, a song, a story, or an activist movement, Well For Culture is at once a space, a place, a group of people, and an evolving idea.

WHO WE ARE

WELL FOR CULTURE is a social entrepreneurship which aims to reclaim and revitalize Indigenous health and wellness. The Seven Circles is the Well for Culture model for total health optimization. We study and implement the lifestyle teachings of our ancestors, meanwhile incorporating new information to contribute to this ancient and ongoing chain of knowledge.  Indigenous culture has always been dynamic, and wellness is an inherent aspect.

Chelsey Luger (Anishinaabe & Lakota) & Thosh Collins (Onk Akimel O'odham) are community health educators and co-founders of Well For Culture, an Indigenouswellness initiative which focuses on reclaiming healthy, balanced lifestyles through ancestral knowledge and Indigenous ideologies. They are the authors of The Seven Circles: Indigenous Teachings for Living Well. They are the proud parents oftwo daughters and reside on Thosh’s ancestral home of the On Akimel O’Odham People of AZ, where they’reactive participants in the community.

THE VISION 

Strong Indigenous nations are built by strong individuals. We acknowledge the strength and healing power of our ancestral teachings, and we aim to guide others toward applying these values and ideas to achieve optimal wellness today. We have been taught that life is all about balance - mental, physical, spiritual, and emotional. All of these elements are interconnected, and wellness should be approached holistically, just as our ancestors have taught us to approach the human experience.

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