Thosh Collins x Ten Thousand: The Whirlwind Collection

This month I teamed up with my friends at @tenthousand.cc  to create the The Whirlwind Collection. Ten Thousand is a New York City based men’s fitness brand who I started working with as an ambassador with one year ago from this month. I’m grateful for their interest in working with me on not his collaboration. 100% of the proceeds is going to the non-profit we work with, @nativewellness and will support wellness and athletic programs for native youth and their families. See the link to the collection in my linktr.ee in our bio. ⠀
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While growing up open the rez, the elders always told us kids to stay away from the whirlwind and let it pass, because it represents imbalances in our world. In the recent months we’ve experiencing an immense shift in energy in our physical-spiritual word, part of which is due to imbalance and that is what the silvilig (whirlwind) symbolizes to us O’Odham. This design is an interpretation of the original symbol.⠀
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The whirlwind is a weather phenomenon where a vortex of wind rotates upward in a spiral motion created by instabilities and turbulence from heat and wind flow. The whirlwind is only short-lived but it quickly moves across the desert, kicking up debris, rapidly changing directions, and sometimes getting bigger before it dissipates. I find strength and inspiration from this and when I do physical movement I aspire to embody these characteristics. This symbolizes strength and fluidity in a world constantly out of balance such as the current times we’re living in.⠀
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When you wear this symbol, think of the whirlwind and its power and fitness moving swiftly across the desert, not letting anything stand in its way. In life and in physical movement, let it be a part of your lifeways to emulate the whirlwind’s primary motion: upward. From here on out we can only move energetically in an upward motion, letting no obstacle causing us to wilt under pressure. Let the whirlwind remind you that throughout many times in our lives we’ll face challenging times as a result of imbalances in our world and that we must remember to be acceptant, fluid, and ready to over the challenges to come. Move with me as we embody the life teachings from the whirlwind through physical movement for much success, and good health for years to come.