The Boundless Life

12/09/2025

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12/07/2025

Let’s start looking more at the real meaning behind our traditions …

PLANTS OF THE YULETIDE & THEIR SYMBOLISM 🌿🍒
🕊️ History shows that the botanicals we used for holidays were those thriving in that particular season. This is a great weekend to get out and forage for the botanicals which make house a home for the holidays!

🎄Symbolic Yuletide and Solstice botanicals used to deck the halls include:
•Evergreens (spruce, arborvitae, Christmas fern and wintergreen) as symbols of immortality since they were among the only botanicals to stay green when all others lost their leaves.
•Yews represented the death of the old year and were a connection between this world and the next.
•Oak trees were revered for being long-lived. Even though they were not evergreen, they were symbols of eternal life and considered a source of protection, strength, and endurance.
•Rosemary, an evergreen shrub in warm climates, was called the herb of the sun.
*Bay, an evergreen herb used in holiday garlands and comforting teas. Bay laurel also signifies achievement and celebration.
•Birch trees symbolized new beginnings.
•Mistletoe stood for peace, happiness and smooches.
•Holly was used for magical protection and good luck.
•Ivy symbolized fidelity, faithfulness, and healing and was made into wreaths and garlands to decorate during the winter.
•Pine symbolized peace, healing, and joy.

Artist ~ Carlton Alfred Smith (1853-1946)

12/07/2025

Hum your way to health.

🩸 Did you know you can hum your way to healthier blood pressure
It sounds too simple to be true, but the biology is fascinating. Your arteries actually "love" the physical vibration of humming.

The Mechanism: When you practice Brahmari Pranayama (Bee Breath)—a technique where you make a buzzing sound on the exhale—two powerful things happen:

Nitric Oxide Release: The vibration in your paranasal sinuses increases the production of Nitric Oxide by up to 15x compared to silent breathing. Nitric Oxide is a potent vasodilator—it signals your blood vessels to relax and widen, allowing blood to flow more easily.

Vagal Stimulation: The prolonged humming exhale stimulates the Vagus Nerve, which slows your heart rate and reduces sympathetic (stress) tone.

The Result: Research shows that even just 5 minutes of this slow, humming breath can lead to a significant immediate drop in blood pressure.

Try "The Bee Breath": Close your eyes. Block your ears gently with your thumbs. Inhale deep, and exhale with a high-pitched buzzing hum: "Hnmmmmm." Feel the vibration in your nose and head.

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12/07/2025

Every. Word.

don’t call me resilient
like it’s a crown
i wanted to wear

don’t paint me
in gold resurrection
and say “look how she rises"
as if I’m a phoenix
by choice
not necessity

you praise my strength
like it grew wild and free
from power
not grief

but darling—
my resilience
was not a poem
it was a scream

it was duct tape
and deadlines
and trembling hands
on the wheel
and nights crying
on cold linoleum
while the world insisted
i was tough
and had it all together

it was smiling in rooms
where i was bleeding
it was laughing
so no one would ask
why my eyes looked like
they remembered the war

so no
resilience isn’t a compliment
it’s a scar
you named beautiful
because you didn’t want to look
at the wound

it’s the armor
you admired
so you wouldn’t have to ask
why i needed it

you say
“you’re so strong”
i hear
“you can take more”
but what if i don’t want to?

what if
my vulnerability
is more essential
than my ability to
take a hit?

what if feeling my feelings
all the way down
is fierce reclamation
of my authentic self?
what if i want
a life that bares
the naked inconvenient truth
in my teeth
not just the sword
in my smile?

what if i am
just as strong
in my grief
and tender overwhelm
as i am when i’m carrying on
or as you like to say—
walking it off?

what if i’m tired of compliments
that support hiding
the fractures and bruises
so you can be comfortable?

i refuse to be
a crime scene coverup
i refuse to be complicit
in falsifying my truth
so i can win your esteem
like there’s a trophy
for suffering
and a reward for silence

no

i’d rather hear
how brave i am
to be real in a world
that benefits from fakery

how courageous
i am to feel my fear
and still show up fully
shaking and imperfect

that i am a badass
for wearing reckless joy
bigger than my damage

now that, dear patriarchy,
is a compliment

~ Angi Sullins

Art by Tamara Adams Art

12/07/2025

12/06/2025

Thank you Sol Tara! 😘

12/06/2025

12/06/2025

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Not everyone experiences the holidays the same way, and that’s okay. You don’t owe anyone a perfect version of celebration.
You’re allowed to create traditions that feel nourishing, quiet, gentle, or unconventional (or look grumpy from the outside - no judgement!).
Honor what you need.

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12/04/2025

December is a perfect time for 🪄
21 Ways to RECALIBRATE Your Vibes
- a Mindfulness & Meditation Journey -

⚓️ This accessible practice might just be the anchor you need during one of the most stressful (& joyful?) months of the year.

Indulge in a healthy habit, get to know yourself a bit better (meditation & journaling is great for that), & realign with the core expression of your most authentic self.

🗓️ You can start any time!
Approach this as 21 *Days* or 21 *Ways* to Recalibrate -
Go through all the videos in order, or pick & choose based on theme, whatever resonates with you.
If you’d like to do the 21-Day sequence, this coming MONDAY, DECEMBER 8, is a perfect time to START.
Only a few minutes out of your day will make a huge difference.

🕰️ Opening talk + meditation are 10-15 mins., add another 15 or so for journaling (optional),
and then carry that energy of mindfulness & self-reflection into your day.
Sail through this month, however you celebrate, in a place of equanimity.
Grounded & unf**kwithable.�
👣 Self-paced & donation-based.
📝 Journal prompts to deepen your connection.
🧘🏽‍♂️ Meditate, do some guided energy work, talk about life, & tap into community wisdom.

💻📱👉🏽🔗 to RECALIBRATE.

✨💚✨ Artis

PS - If you’re craving community amidst the madness (I know I am), let’s build a Rhythm of Recalibration together!
STARTING MON., DEC. 8, my beta Recalibrate Community begins with weekly practices & check-in to help Recalibrate your mind, body, & soul.
Meditation Mondays, Wednesday Flow, both 45 minutes at noon ET.
Village Vibe Sundays, 1 hr., alternating times - (ET) 10 am on 1st & 3rd Sunday, 6 pm.
You gotta sign up, but it’s a love offering, FREE / DONATION, for the month of December. You’ll find it at the same 🔗.
Whaddya say? See you there?

12/04/2025

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~ Gathering Light for Winter ~

When you have no words for the wounds.
When your body is as hollowed out and dark as a jack-o-lantern in November.
When you have lost your north, your south, your east and your west stay still.

Words for the pain are forming beneath the skin of your patience.
Your body is gathering light for winter.
Your compass is emerging through water.
Sometimes dying is the only way to live again.
It may take all your stories away.
It may hunt and kill your pride so you are left with nothing but questions and space howling into the night

What next? What now? What for?
This is when grace pours her warm milk into your wounds
and advises you to rest.

To steal the secrets of sorrow and learn her heavy song
so that you can become an instrument of resilience, turning ever forward with more than you were born with.

For isn't holding hands with sorrow a bridge?
Dying while you are still alive birthing your next self and courageously beginning anew.

~ Jeannette Encinias
https://www.facebook.com/jeannette.encinias

Art: Mary Feywood (Maartje Van Dokkum)
Mary Feywood

12/03/2025

It’s simple. I love what I do, and I want you to, too.

🫶🏾 If you’ve been curious about what a one on one session with me is like, there’s no time like the present.

As we move into the liminal space of winter, it’s a perfect time to Recalibrate. Let’s clear out the energetic debris from 2025 and set some things in motion for the coming year. 👣

⚡️What are you ready to shake off and leave behind?

⚡️What energies, opportunities, and ways of Being are you calling in going forward?

🔑 If you’ve never had a session with me, dip your toe in and check out the waters with a 2-hr. New Client Intro Session, or if you’d rather chat about it first, you can always book a complimentary Discovery Call.

🗓️ I only take on up to four regular weekly clients at a time (as I said, allowing for plenty of flow time!). Right now, I have two slots available for these immersion package clients. You can always book individual sessions, pending availability. Once I hit a certain capacity, I’ll be closing my bookings for the rest of the month, so get in there if you’re feeling the call for some deeper work heading into winter. I always prefer longer sessions, two hours or more, but I do have a variety of options for you, online and in person.

👉🏽Find all the info on my Privates page.
Lmk if you have any questions.

I’m curious, what helps you feel Recalibrated?

✨💚✨ Artis

PS - If you are feeling a bit unmoored, craving a regular anchor in your week to help you stay Recalibrated, &/or desiring a safe community to ground, grow, and evolve with, after lots of percolation, I’m building it. December is my Beta test month. 3x a week we will practice together and support one another. Monday Meditations & Wednesday Flow at noon + Village Vibe Sundays. Will you join us? Lmk if you’re interested, keep an eye out, find the page on my s i t e.
K bye! 😘👇🏽

09/01/2025