Dancing the Wheel

04/14/2026

04/06/2026

🌿Olympia🌿
Slowly settling in.. wanted to let you know I am seeing folks for Acupuncture and Functional Chinese Medicine on Wednesdays and Thursdays.
✨Else Where✨
Offering telehealth health coaching and Alchemy. ⚡️
Please private message me if you are interested.⚡️🌿🖤

04/02/2026

How to dye eggs 🌿🪺🐣👩‍🍳

04/02/2026

Dopamine isn’t something you scroll into. It’s something you build. Your habits. Your drive. Your motivation... What you repeat, what you finish, and what you feel. Most people aren’t depleted. They’re overstimulated and undersatisfied. The reset can be simple, but not easy, for most modern folks. The overstimulated dopa-circus of today can go through major withdrawals by just unplugging.

Here’s a short list, with an herbalist-emphasized twist:
- bitter tonics to wake up the vagus nerve
- scent to anchor the limbic system
- morning sun to set your rhythm
- adaptogenic teas to lower chronic stress
- breathwork to regulate the nervous system

Clear desire → clear direction
Less novelty → more sensitivity
Hands in something real → immediate feedback

And yes, plants that speak to the chemistry: Mucuna (L-DOPA), matcha (L-theanine), lavender (linalool), tulsi (adaptogenic ligands)... but none of it replaces the real work. Close loops. Finish what you start, and let your body register the reward.

Make a 🌸🍵 MUCUNA Rose Matcha Latte to open the heart + naturally enhance dopamine:

1 tbsp rose powder
1 tsp mucuna powder
2 tsp ceremonial matcha
½ tsp Anima Mundi Euphoria Elixir (optional)
4 oz hot water + 2 oz milk

Whisk Anima Mundi’s rose + mucuna in hot (not boiling) water. Whisk matcha separately until frothy. Combine, top with milk (4oz), add Euphoria if you’re up for it, and enjoy! 💗

What’s your favorite screen-free dopamine routine?

01/28/2026

On “The farther it goes out, the less it knows” (其出彌遠，其知彌少):

The graph 其 (it) points to the Dao; the graph 出 (goes out) indicates a going-forth that is hazy, not knowing what is there-“empty-upon-empty, a single Xing-nature”.
“My Dao fills the cosmos: the more still, the more mysterious; the clearer, the more wondrous. With a single stillness it fills Heaven and Earth; with a single Vacuity it encompasses Qian and Kun”.
“Its Dao, the more it ‘goes out,’ the more it pervades; the more it goes forth, the farther it reaches”—this speaks of the one numen, vacuous within, with nothing it does not illumine or pe*****te: hence “its going-forth extends farther”.
Yet one may “be still in the Dao and not see the Dao; pursue the Mysterious to its limit and not sense its mysteriousness. Not knowing what is Dao and what is the Mysterious”—this is “its knowing grows ever less”.
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Excerpt from the Book “Daoist Cultivation, Book 27 - Lü Dongbin’s Secret Annotations to the Dao De Jing: Heart-Transmission” translated and commented by Vitaly Filbert.
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01/12/2026

One of these beauties used to rest outside my treatment room window and watch me work. It was additional magic to the medicine.

American Kestrel is the smallest and most common falcon in North America. It is also called the Sparrow Hawk.