35. Tattooist Lars Widell - Moving Past Pain into Vibration and Trust

Guest: Tattooist Lars Widell (British Columbia, Canada)

Themes: graffiti origins, stone masonry, music, apprenticeship era, fasting for healing, spiritual practice, big multi-day sessions, trust and Revelation imagery, offering rites of passage in 2026.

Episode summary
Mark and Lars trace a path from freight-line graffiti and stone masonry to a mature tattoo practice shaped by music, meditation, and faith. Lars shares how a long experiment with fasting and cold water reshaped his tattoo healing and presence in the chair, why he sold his studio, and how he now guides select clients through deeper, more devotional work. The back-piece story covers trust, Revelation’s seven-horn sheep, and learning to “go to the needle” and feel vibration rather than pain. Lars also outlines a simple fasting-supported healing protocol that cut his heal time roughly in half. Not medical advice.

Links
Guest: @lars.alexander.widell
Mark: @themarkofnara | @tattoopathway | @jadecicada.tattoo

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Recommended next episode→ Ep 34. Artist to Guide with Lluna Soul Ink

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Timestamps
[00:00:00] Music, tattoos, and balance

[00:02:17] Farm kid to freight graffiti

[00:06:12] First tattoo and fatherhood

[00:07:05] Stone masonry as rhythm

[00:11:53] 2008 crash to apprenticeship

[00:12:28] Seeing Steve Moore’s color

[00:16:34] From biker era to trade talk

[00:19:26] Fasting: the long experiment

[00:21:21] Refeeding risks and recovery

[00:24:30] Chest and throat energy work

[00:30:55] Day 21: inflammation reset

[00:32:44] Adhesive reaction and cold water

[00:35:39] Fasting protocol that halves healing

[00:40:00] Past the pain: feel vibration

[00:43:10] Two artists, five days, back piece

[00:45:33] Trust, Revelation, seven-horn sheep

[00:48:20] Healed in two and a half days

[01:00:25] Rites of passage offering in 2026