7/19/2024 1:52:59 AM
Re-immersing into my MEJSPIRIT product sales skills has been fun these past few weeks. Taking a year break from travel-life and working in the UK was really rewarding and I met so many great people in the health and fitness circles also! How do these things go together? Well, all my products have huge fulfillment centers all over the USA and the UK so all my new UK contacts get to now see "the other side to me", a traveling botanical artist living in Bali. It is a very different lifestyle from being based in the city center of Cambridge and being an employee, albeit, with 2 fabulous jobs; Spa Creator & Fashion Stylist.
The yoga community was my main community there along with health advocates and people interested in fashion. With my online sales products I have all those interests covered; yoga mats, water bottles, swimwear, home decor' and more! It is so great to have my passions all in one place. MEJCREATIONS is the main art website with expos, articles, paintings, prints including canvas wraps, art blog, health info, books and a quarterly newsletter sign-up. MEJSPIRIT is an offshoot of my art on Swim & Lifestyle Products focusing on beach life, fitness and some home decor'.
I'm anxious to get painting also, I feel like this has been my mantra for a whole year but it is shocking how hard it is to find a rental with a proper sized table! So, that is "on-hold" until my AirBnB for the months of Sept/Oct.
Meanwhile, my own fitness routines, updating MEJSPIRIT with 4 new works I created in 2022 with all the Lifestyle Products and reuniting with old friends is what I have been up to. Being very creative with my Instagram posts @mejspirit for product sales IS important. I like to not just post my products and have my feed a "hard sell". I enjoy involving my travels, what my home life is like, some fitness struggles and how living in Bali can be too. I meet a lot of people the way I live my life and I enjoy trying to involve everyone!
Hope you enjoy too! Stay creative, keep dreaming and making things work for you!!
7/13/2024 4:52:14 PM
In 2020, I put this E-Flip health book together with a lot of my art accompanying the chapters. Loads of fab info on easy to make creative kitchen ideas. I have been inspired recently with a lot of friends here in Bali creating their own e-books and although I already had this available, a lot of folks said the e-flip was very time consuming to download so I now have it here for free again with an immediate downloadable PDF for you to enjoy!
Higher Vibratory Cells NOW!
7/10/2024 4:34:03 AM
May 2021 I started my Shopify shop with lots of my original art placed onto a variety of items. I put a lot of work into it but then while living a different lifestyle in Cambridge UK I put it all on-hold for a year 2023/24.
It was also very fun and creative in ways that involved my art without needing room to paint.
I'm happy to be back but for the last 3
days I have gotten into an almost unhealthy state after my glorious fasting time by being online all day! So, I finally figured it all out again and it will now just be bit by bit a few hrs max a day but really pleased I didn't have to hire someone because the platforms have become more complicated. Just make sure you use a VPN when out of the States so you can tag your posts with the products.
Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of...water!
7/4/2024 6:49:57 PM
Back in 2017 I first heard about water fasting (having nothing but water) at a Buddhist Monastery just outside of Katmandu. I was intrigued and started reading about it and then trying it out, I ended up loving the process of allowing the body to rest, heal and reset for periods of time, normally for me back then it was 3-5 days. Here is an intro to water fasting I wrote: Waterfasting 101
Since then, I have been to a world famous fasting center called Tanglewood, it is located in Costa Rica and run by the renowned Lauren Lockman whom I mentioned in Waterfasting 101. It was a pleasure to go to the beautiful center and do a 2 week water fast however I had felt there was something missing. Although the space was beautiful, it felt very empty of spiritual values with no emphasis on higher thinking or enlightened ways to grow. There was a yoga shala with no one leading even some light yoga and/or stretch class's, not much integrative sharing with feelings or emotions. It was a great clinic but very black and white with the idea of one must become a fruitarian afterwards, nothing in between. There is also no acknowledgement of healing herbs and other gifts Mother Earth has supplied us with to help facilitate the healing process.
I had randomly said in a self group chat that I wished there was somewhere to do the fasting in Bali and one of the men there said he had heard of a place but didn't have a website or name. I figured I would eventually find out if I asked around when back in Bali. It turns out that one of my friends in Bali that has been inspired by me and my own cleansing programs I have created over time had been to the Bali place and told me how to get in touch! After 2 weeks being back in Bali after my year in Cambridge I was really ready to fast again, a nice long extended fast so I booked myself in and have now just finished my 2 week fast plus one week refeed.
The center is located in the north of Bali in Waterfall Valley with a fresh spring for our water and of course a waterfall to stand under, letting all wash away as I cruised through this fast pretty easily. I feel the 2 week fast back in Costa Rica helped a lot to detox and clean out system however with my last 2 years of not-so-perfect eating, I was pleased to detox again and give my body a good reboot/reset.
All went very well throughout my experience. We would meet every morning for 2 hrs; one hour sharing with whomever was there and one hour light yoga/stretch. A main difference between this fasting experience and Tanglewood's fasting experience was the fact that we used colonics to help facilitate movement for the bowls to empty during the fast so we weren't carrying around a lot of unnecessary toxic pollution in our colon while we dove deeper into the fasting process. We also had a few "round the fire" nights and walks to the falls whenever we wanted. I had no wifi the 1st 10 days but then moved to a cabin with wifi for the duration. Although the refeed process isn't included in the center's fasting program here, I decided to stay on for an extra week for this very purpose. I feel the refeed is just as important as the actual fast. I have been refeeding with papaya and dragon fruit however I am also integrating fermented foods, miso and soup broths. I do find my body cannot digest fruit unless I have ONLY THAT and even then, not too much. My body is changing over time and needs more things like miso soup, fermented food, coconut Greek yogurt, eggs & some clean fish also. I do not plan to be vegan but will curb to more wholesome organic versions of foods.
Tuning into the body and knowing what you need day to day is best, not boxing oneself into some idea of what you will now eat.
I am thrilled to of found my "Bali place" for fasting, I will most likely come here again, perhaps once every few years to fast under such great care every other year for this 3 wk process. Meanwhile, I can do a 24 hr fast one day a week and a 5 day once every 2 months to stay on top of things! The water doth flow and there I shall go!
Here are a few of my detox/cleanse instructions: Full-On Week Long 7 Day Detox & Intestinal Cleanse
Spice is Nice; Detox
If interested to know more about the Bali water fasting center please message through my Insta: @mejspirit
