Living Well
Finding your way to optimal wellness shouldn't require years of pain-filled trial and error. This website exists as your online word-of-mouth hub, introducing you and those you love to healing modalities, curated knowledge, and practical tools to become stronger advocates for healthier living. We believe wellness and longevity are attainable with expanded awareness of the most current advancements from around the world.
All the source material on this website, along with the case study stories, is also available as a user-friendly, members-only, interactive Nirvana Living Wellness Navigator. In creating these interlinked platforms we intend to develop the easiest paths to living well.
The foundational material is by researcher, designer, and founder Iris Orsini. The writing is assisted by artist, chef, and storyteller Johnny Chanthavong. Our goal is to expand curated content with referral links to vetted guides, coaches and healers. All are welcome on the journey.
Iris Orsini | March 2026
Wellness Challenges
Our medical system falls short on preventative care for common chronic conditions and insurance rarely covers integrative wellness. The result is a convoluted system that's difficult to navigate. That leaves it up to us to seek alternatives and be advocates for our own health. At minimum, we can prevent further harm by understanding the fundamentals and asking informed questions.
Our ultimate goal is to live well, for a long time. Let’s watch our grandchildren grow strong and listen, with patience, to our elders tell their tales.
Nirvana Living provides resources to support our journey through four pathways: Body • Mind • Emotion • Spirit
Fruits of Knowledge
Modern education barely teaches us how to care for our bodies. Healthcare has become an expensive, insurance-controlled system difficult to navigate. And self-care is often sold as commercial trend rather than grounded practice. This leaves many of us without reliable tools for understanding ourselves.
Nirvana Living is pulling together what survivors, researchers, coaches, and mystics have discovered into an accessible knowledge base with forms and protocols to help you get started quickly.
The Seeds of This Garden
In 2025, Iris began looking for a place to share how she and her brother guided their mother through a cancer diagnosis. The Stage 3/4 colon cancer healing happened within a few months, and without side effects, using a combination of surgery, immunotherapy, supplements and antivirals. That retrospective expanded into a broader reflection on how family healthcare episodes shaped her life since childhood.
During this time she met two recently trained nutritionists who were surprised to discover that both nutrients and food additives can be detrimental to health based on one’s genetics. Their curiosity inspired the BODY: FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS module. This explanation emerged as the foundational insight of Nirvana Living: that our most common bodily disease symptoms are primarily driven by genetic vulnerabilities aggravated by nutrient deficient diets, toxins in our environment, and often pharmaceutical side effects as well.
Read more about how Iris’s life prepared her for this endeavor in the ABOUT section
Wellness Resources
Nirvana Living’s goal is to systemize and categorize wellness information across multiple practices, ideologies, and methodologies under these four pillars. Please keep in mind that healing involves a tremendous overlap between these sections.
Foundation Knowledge
Functional Genomics, Poisons, Immune Support
Tools to Stay Organized
Diagnosis & Codes, Decision Making, Coordination
Interpersonal Resilience
Coaches & Guides, Self Nurture, Care Giving
Exploring the Beyond
Purpose Clarity, Teachers, Healing Stories
Nirvana Living Wellness Navigator
We know it can be daunting to take in healing information when you're not at your best. To keep everything accessible, we're also bringing all of our content into the Nirvana Living Wellness Navigator.
Here you can request audio versions, slide decks, and more — whatever best suits your learning style. Request your tour of this easy-to-use interactive platform here.
