Mission

The Well Lived Life creates intentional spaces to slow down, reconnect with yourself, and return to what truly matters—grounded in relationship with the natural world and its rhythms.

Guided by the pillars of pleasure, ease, creativity, and empowerment, we support practices that expand emotional capacity and invite deeper presence, agency, and aliveness, informed by seasonal cycles, land-based wisdom, and embodied awareness.

Through gatherings rooted in collective care, somatic exploration, embodied healing, and connection to nature, The Well Lived Life nurtures meaningful connection and purposeful living—recognizing that a well lived life is not only something we cultivate for ourselves, but something we build together, for all of us.

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Values

We believe inclusive wellness culture promotes and sustains belonging by uplifting, partnering and hiring collaborators from all social identities, social groups, and includes but is not limited to race, ethnicity, creed, color, sex, gender identities, sexual identities, socio-economic statuses, languages, cultures. national origins, religion/spiritual expressions, ages and dis (abilities).

Inclusive wellness culture also includes tiered pricing which honors your resources.

We are committed to making programming accessible while also compensating practitioners for their time and expertise.

We are grateful for the opportunity to collaborate, connect and create inclusive wellness with you.

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About the Founder

Natalie Benway-Correll LISW (she/her) created the Well Lived Life to develop community care programs rooted in rest, pleasure, empowerment and creative exploration. Natalie has been a licensed clinical mind/body psychotherapist for 18 years. Her work is grounded in the belief we are whole and interconnected.

Natalie is a mindfulness, meditation and trauma informed yoga and somatic movement practitioner. She has certifications in sexuality studies and sex therapy as well as EMDR and mindfulness based stress reduction. She has been a part of women’s circles, ceremonial practices and embodied spiritual exploration for over 28 years.

Her commitment to supporting individual and community wellness has been a consistent thread throughout her career from co creating the Race, Privilege and Power Conference at the University of Iowa to teaching mindfulness, meditation and addiction recovery skills to Survivors of sexual violence at the VA.

She mentors and supervises students at the University of Iowa and offers support to new clinicians beginning their private practices.

In addition to her work with humans, she also partners with both wild and domestic horses as co facilitators.

She combines equine guided and Somatic exercises with observation of free roaming horses and herd dynamics.

She brings humor and warmth to the spaces she creates as well a passion and purpose for nature’s guidance and gifts.

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