If you missed our live gathering last week, the replay of our June Sanctuary is now available to watch above.
Our live sessions are a radical invitation to step out of the daily, frantic autopilot and drop into a shared hour of intentional silence and active creative practice. In this month’s session, we lean into the stillness required to navigate life’s inevitable transitions, exploring the deep connection between the presence we practice today and the legacy we leave in our wake tomorrow.
Leaning into the imperfect landscape
You might hear a little real-world texture in the background of this recording, including the sounds of children playing. Lindsay reminds us what it actually means to claim space for ourselves in a loud world:
“Children are also welcome to this space... Creating space for yourself and for creativity can be really, really challenging. So this can also be an accountability either to make the space for yourself if you have children in your lives, or invite them in a very messy, loud, imperfect way. If that’s what’s present in your life at the moment, lean into it however you can.”
This hour is an open-ended invitation to slow down and create space, no matter the wildness of the energy in the world around us, and especially when our bodies and voices (like Lindsay’s) are demanding it.
Space for our whole, weird selves
During our mid-hour check-in, Seb shares about finding new “nooks and crannies” for presence in the body, which sparked a beautiful conversation about why true presence requires us to stop masking.
If we are being our whole, authentic selves, we have to be open to the full spectrum of whatever comes into the space. As we discuss:
“We’re all so unique and weird and wonderful, and letting that be... that’s presence, and that’s leaving that air of legacy when you go…those special weirdnesses that we all have.
We wrapped up the session with an exciting piece of evolution that brings this digital community onto the physical pavement of our hometown. We are officially evolving the Santa Fe Arts Club into a collaborative, active local movement: ArtStorming: Santa Fe.
While we will continue to hold this digital sanctuary space on the first Monday of every month, starting July 20, we are dropping a physical anchor. On the third Monday of every month, we will gather in person in Santa Fe at Vital Spaces (Cerrillos Road location) from 6 to 7:30 pm.
It’s going to be experimental, collaborative, and deeply communal. If you are a local here in town, we would absolutely love to see you in the room. As Mia puts it at the close of our hour:
“I feel so nourished by these hours and I hope all of you do, too. It’ll be so wonderful to see people live... It’s just a joy, whether in person or digitally, to share a space of presence.”
Your practice for the replay:
Allow yourself to use this recording as a boundary. Let our opening conversation ground you, and then when our cameras and mics go dark, dive deeply into your own world.
Are you a Santa Fe local? Drop a comment below to let us know if we’ll see you in July at Vital Spaces, or share your own reflections on presence and your own special weirdnesses from wherever you are tuning in!
Want to Co-Lead? If you are watching this replay and feel inspired to co-lead a future digital session with a creative exercise or energy you want to bring, email us at hello@artbridgenm.org. We’d love to have a conversation with you.
Next Digital Session: Monday, July 6, 2026, at 12 pm MST on the Substack App.
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