wooded forest of my waking dream
shade my reality with your care free smile
anchored within your Presence i am father sun’s dial
telling time in a different way:
replacing seconds for colors as your sounds be the hour
glass becomes sand within this land’s cape
words of your native tongue lick the wounds of my soul
below the surface lay roots nourished by your nectar
growing toward your Light the trees rise above the dense, dark moss covered floor
moving into this shadow
i am fully out doors
speak to me old Redwood Tree
i hear your wisdom through the whisper’s breeze
ashes twirl in the face of dusk
as ants are marching to the beat of Trust
hummingbird halos underneath your gentle power
moments pass and become the hour
i’m traveling far sitting by your side
i haven’t left, yet i arrive
together we move around the Sun
as i realize that both day and night are One.
TRANCEZENDANCE returns this SATURDAY @ the Hub
The BEAUTIFUL thing about ART and MUSIC is how open it remains to interpretation. Often times certain songs will evoke a specific FEELING and corresponding understanding for me depending on where I am in my life when I hear it. Tiesto’s song “FEEL IT IN MY BONES” and the music video for it do an amazing job expressing something subtle, yet readily tangible, that I know I AM CONNECTED to, but find hard to articulate in a comprehensible way… THANK GOD FOR ART!
For me, THE ESSENCE of this music video is what I am continually tuning into with TranceZenDance. Tiesto shows this INFINITE, VIBRATIONAL MATRIX OF PULSATION AND RHYTHM and how the interplay between sound and silence CREATES AND DISSOLVES this particular reality. He masterfully designs an experience of what he wants to communicate in a VISUAL, AUDITORY AND KINESTHETIC way.
Each time we gather for TranceZenDance, this is how we are creating together. It’s A LIVE, UNIQUE, LIVING, BREATHING, EVOLVING, AND LOVING EXPERIENCE; a reality arising from the silence of the eternal matrix, taking form and being experienced and then dissolving back into the FORMLESS.
The potential of what we create together in this space is unlimited and it’s all a part of our CREATIVE COSMIC PLAY. I hope you will be able to join us this Saturday and add your own unique contribution to the show. I encourage you to be excited about how you choose to express yourself: BRING COSTUMES, MASKS, ACCESSORIES, LIGHTS and anything else you can imagine as a way to sign your own SOUL SIGNATURE onto our collective TranceZenDance canvas.
Lastly, I want to let you know that this month we are adding MORE SOUND (buying another powered speaker this week) and MORE GLOW (to turn our movement into a live visualizer) and I am also very honored to have our resident GONG MASTER AARON GOLDBERG back once again offering his gift of sound. Oh and if you have a moment, check out Tiesto’s video in HD: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQQhibVx5eE
There is more information on the event below, and if you have any questions please send me an e-mail.
LOVE,
SCOTT
When: Saturday: November 19th, December 10th. 8pm-11pm.
Where: the Hub, 2001 S. Barrington Ave Suite 150 (Free Parking in Garage)
Cost: $20 Suggested Donation
Contact: scottishihara@gmail.com
*There will be loud electronic dance music, dim lighting and visual stimulation for a majority of this event. Please dress comfortably, be prepared to dance your heArt out and bring any lights, glowsticks or accessories that will help you express yourSelf more fully.
The intention for this event is to collectively transcend our ordinary experience of reality and connect to a deeper feeling of being alive. One of the oldest and purest ways to do this is to come together and celebrate Life, and I have created this Evening of TranceZenDance to serve as a modern ritualistic dance party.
With the help of music and movement, we are able to get out of our minds and access the feeling of Life by dropping into our hearts and bodies, letting all the pressure, anxiety, and stress that can accumulate through our day to day experience dissolve and disappear.
DJ Ish is providing high energy dance music to support this celebration of Life. During the middle of the party, we will lay down and utilize a powerful breathing technique to clear out any residual energetic or emotional clutter that is keeping us from fully accessing our inherent potential as humans to feel free, connected and loved.
After elevating ourselves higher with the help of our breath, we will get back on our feet, keep dancing and explore new levels of joy, freedom and inspiration. At the end of the night we will come back down to the floor for a period of deep rest and relaxation, being bathed by the healing vibrations of crystal sonic bowls.
TranceZenDance was a blast this past Saturday. It was the biggest turnout to date and the energy in the room was above and beyond anything I’ve experienced up to this point. It’s amazing to see how this creation is continuing to evolve. Each month is different from the rest and is special in its own way.Our upgraded sound system added more depth and a bigger thump.
The group as a whole was moving and expressing at an entirely new level. One of the most exciting moments in the night was having the pleasure of collaborating with Aaron Goldberg for the end of the night sound bath savasana. Aaron was working his magic on his planetary gongs as I added the resonant flavor of our crystal bowls. I am already feeling the incoming expansion of next month’s event on November 19th. I hope to see many of the same faces and more new ones at the next TranceZenDance. In the meantime I will be at the Hub tomorrow night for Aaron’s newly established monthly Gong Bath.
Oh and for anyone interested in the sound of TranceZenDance, I recorded the opening set of the night and uploaded it here to be streamed: http://soundcloud.com/trancezendance.
Peace,
Ish
Alas, I have been absent from my usual writing post. I am continuing to learn how anything that is alive requires energy to continue growing, and as the creation gets bigger, it demands more energy than before. As I continue putting my energy into fostering the growth of myself, of the Hub and of TranceZenDance, I am also becoming more aware of the limitations of my time and energy. I only have so much to utilize in any given day.
As my life gets busier, I have to constantly reevaluate what my priorities are because if I try to ride on what has become my routine, the system soon becomes outdated and inefficient. So as I am giving myself an update, I have refocused my commitment to writing weekly. I realize how much I value the opportunity to practice expressing myself through different mediums on a consistent basis. It really helps to maintain an open pathway for the flow of my own Life to move through me.
-Ish
round and round we go
doing circles on this big round vehicle
never ending with no beginning
time being relative
disappearing down a rabbit’s hole
resurfacing a million light years ago
what’s the difference any how?
now was now is now will be now
thoughts dissolving in my brain
like metropolis tainted sulfuric rain
crystal eyez
see beyond afar
within and much more anear
tiny hairs inside my ears like
to hear what’s here so I
grow them out without a doubt
braided all through this eery canal
jaded stones and sticks
breaking ossicle bones and throwing fits
madder hats served on silver platters
queen of hearts throbbing on my bladder
constipated inspiration creating pressured can service
out, out damn Scott
will these bottled up pathways ne’er be clean?
suicidal kings knifing temples
taunting one armed Jack
is a royal war fair
in love and peace?
oh what a heavenly retreat
white flags flying high on Angels’ crests
surrender your self
EGO becomes a P.O.W.
Shattered glass houses
turn to sand
it’s just one play
within this game
cue applause
what a hand
Diving into the depths of my Self-
Expression is the key to opening doors that
I am seeking beyond measure
What has already found me
Spiraling up through the 3rd eye of a perfect storm
Entering the sounds of silence as
Clouds dissolve revealing
A simple radiance
Infinite within its own right
Left now, wide open with
Tears dropping from the heavens
Above and within me
There is no thing in which all is
Apparent and the sun
Together as one
Both shine without borders or
Walls corrupting in a sense
In a way it’s all meant to be
Broken up to pour down
the truth of the matter which
In another dimension this
Fragmentation proves to me false
Perspective influencing perception
Creates a reality of choice
How to live
How to die
How often to ask the question
¿Why?
Am I actually here?
Answers come in
Unexpected ways
Expand and open
All is in order after all
To receive is the key that
I mentioned before
Awaken to presence like
It’s Christmas morning
a Gift
a Gift
a Gift
Stepping into the Hub is like stepping onto an escalator. Even without physically moving my body, I am clearly being moved from one level to the next; and when I do start physically moving my body, an even greater amount of movement is happening overall.
It can be disorienting to move in this way. Stepping back onto solid ground after being on an escalator or elevator can feel nauseating. It’s that feeling like some part of me got left behind, like my stomach at the top of a roller coaster drop, and my logical brain is still grasping to identify with who I thought I was before the old part of myself got left at the start of the trip.
It can be a tad unnerving, but I did make the choice to buy the ticket and take this ride, and how fortunate I am to own this freedom to choose, this freedom to move. And hey I’m clearly not in this alone, I look around and my whole team is here with me. I’m still on my own journey, though I am supported every step along the way.
Hey, this is great. Two. Four. Six. Eight. Who do I appreciate? One. the WE. my TEAM. Sure, the roller coaster can be scary at times and create a scream, but then I realize it’s all only a dream anyway, and at the end of the day I can laugh or cry all the way Home.
I am happy here.
I am sad here.
I am scared here.
I am mad here.
I am inspired here.
I am alone here.
I am together here.
I am loved here.
I am Love here.
I am moving through all of these and more here in any of these given moments.
I am welcome here, in the Hub of my own heart.
I am Home here
And
Now.
The following is inspired by the sunset, full moon, dance party, sound bath that we threw in Topanga Canyon last Sunday overlooking the ocean. I DJ’d, danced and had a lot of fun. More to come soon…
We’ve been dancing before the beginning of time
And now we return to a pulsation moving us as it all ways has
Inspiration leads beyond our thoughts
And we realize that we’ve never actually strayed from this path we’re on
You and I have worn the same uniform all along
Forgetting division for a sum of the parts
The answer is it’s impossible 4 me 2 be, without you
In joy, this dance is forever present
The sun sets before my eyes as the moon rises
While dawn is breaking for you
Still reflections of your shining light
Guide me through the dark of night
As we move together as 1
I find what I never knew I was searching 4
And disappear into the heart of the sun
-Ish
I know this silence - been here before…
I’m walking blinded through your door
This is a sense of things to come
This innocence
Oh, Oh…
Breath in this moment - it’s come and gone
Further and faster through your soul
Open your eyes, embrace the dawn
Open your mind
Oh, oh…
Release yourself - it’s a big sky
Reveal yourself, it’s a big sky
We love, we live, we take, we give
Release yourself - it’s a big sky
Breathe in this moment
Breathe in this moment
Breathe in this moment
Breathe in this moment
