Creating Space

Solitude is really important to me. Silence. Stillness. Living in NYC can be such a challenge. I think our modern lives can really take us away from what is truly important = Being.

Take some time out of your day to just be.

I know the whole "there's so much to do" story we all hear and speak.

Without presence, being present, we miss our life.

Without emptiness we can not know our fullness.

Life breathes better with crystalline clarity.

Juicing Is The Key

Everyone needs to live juicy! Fresh living foods make you a fresh living vibrant human! I eat mostly Organic, Raw, Vegan foods. I have found fresh veggie juice to be the key to life. Here's todays recipe, and one I really live for (and on!!!)
Love,
Ko-Shin

Green Limonada
2-3 green apples
4-6 stalks of celery
Bunch of parsley
1-2 lemons, skinned
1 inch ginger
handful of kale or spinach, or both!!!!

Drink this everyday and you will radiate joy, vitality, and your skin will be perfect!
(I usually have 2-4 glasses a day)

New Ways Of Living

Lately I have been thinking about new ways of living. Considering ways to have a greater impact on the world as a creative spirit and a conscious human being. Contemplating how we all affect one another. Dreaming up ways to live with more magic, joy, and diversity. Meditating on how our simple presence has a powerful affect on each other. Our vibe, our thoughts, our speech, our actions - all create a landscape of our human presence.

So many people seem to me to feel like they are powerless, and are living without intention. Lately this thought has made me feel really sad. Life without love seems like death to me. I have experienced this death and I want to live more vibrantly. I want to live more simply. I want my life to be a beautiful tapestry, a fragrant fruitful garden, an inspirational song.

It seems to me that we need to return to conscious communal living. Anxiety, loneliness, depression, scarcity - so many issues would be resolved by returning to life amongst a loving tribe. Family can be the one we create.

I recently returned from Burning Man (www.burningman.com) - it was my 4th burn! I met some amazing people there who have created Eco Villages - and was really inspired by this concept. I had the idea about it, and then was presented with a community of wonderful people who are actively focused on cultivating new worlds within this world! Check out www.gaiauniversity.org

Many people are also going mobile. Taking their life on the road. Finding green ways to do it. Life is filled with unknown possibilites, and roads that can be created once imagined.

All You Need Is Love......

A few nights ago a my friend and I went to see Amma, an Indian saint who is like the divine mother. (www.amma.org) - She is the embodiment of love, and is known for hugging people and blessing them. It was a friday night in NYC and the line to get into the Manhattan Center was like 3 blocks long - he and I were super hungry, so we went across the street to get some food, and while waiting on line, there was a 20-something boy (looked either Indian or Pakastani) standing behind us with a really cool tattoo on his arm. So my friend asked him kindly if he could see it. It was an OM symbol and the words in english "ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE" - so we excitedly asked him if he was going to see Amma - and looking bewildered he responded that he didnt know what was across the street. So when we told him about this Indian Saint who was blessing people he responded vehemently, "Oh, that's a load of crap!^&*!"
Standing there in shock, especially given the tattoo, my friend gently responded, "Oh, I guess its just lyrics from a song, huh!"
All I could say was - there was a moment for friendship and kindness and this kid was just a snot who was wearing the t-shirt, yet hasn't got a clue about the real deal. Wake up people!!!

Recipe of the day - Mango salsa dee-lite!!!

Summertime - wahoooo!
Today its Mango Salsa Wednesday:
Here's the recipe:

1 ripe 'n juicy mango - diced
1 ripe avocado - sliced 'n diced
1 delicious tomato - chopped
1/2 a red onion - chopped supafine
handful of fresh mint leaves - minced
dash o' celtic sea salt or himalayan pink crystal salt
pinch o' cayenne
some black peppa
dash of super high quality extra virgin olive oil
and a whole lotta love stirred in while singing a brand new tune!

and you can:
eat on top of a fresh salad
eat with celery sticks, carrots, cucumbers
or right out of the bowl
or with flaxsnax! (say that three times straight)

Enjoy!!!!
ps- its so amazing you might want to make double the amount!
Love ya,
Ko-Shin

Tommorow Night!!! Pete's Candy Store!!!

Tomorrow I am performing at Pete's Candy Store in Williamsburg - Brooklyn - NY. Its my 1st show at this really cool place. It's got such a great vibe. I am really looking forward to sharing my new songs with all my peeps. I took the past year off from playing out consistently - to write and record. To transform my music and my voice. Its been an amazing and intense journey - I guess that could be said of my whole life!!!
As an artist -(a songwriter) I really feel like I have grown into myself. Into my voice. These days it seems like everyone wants to be such a copycat of the one cool thing they see/hear/experience. American culture is so infused with branding and the stripmallifiacation of our society that people are afraid of what they haven't heard about on TV.
People are constantly telling me to go on American Idol - and I am truly offended!!! (and I dont get offended by stuff easily). Come on! My musical hero's would never have done that in their time. America has become completely obsessed with the quick fix and the "overnight success" - which is a completely unnatural phenomenon. I always think that if we look to the natural world we can find all the solutions to our "problems." And in nature - plants, animals, & people grow at a relatively gentle pace.
The whole world seems so fast paced and slick that anything that appears to be less than that is discredited. Including friendships and relationships. Honestly - I want to know how many people actually take pride in being a good friend. In being a really honest genuine human. Forget money, fancy clothes, cars, jewelry and all that stuff, I value friendship above all of that.