May 2012
2 posts
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...
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.
November 2011
1 post
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...
October 2011
2 posts
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...
updating my system
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...
September 2011
3 posts
a poker hand?
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...
the Gift
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...
Reflections of the Hub Immersion and Beyond
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...
August 2011
3 posts
Heart of the Sun
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...
A Pealing to the Pearl
My friend and contemporary Dacks (whom I mentioned in Connecting Consciousness) recently wrote to me from Vietnam. Before he left, we were discussing Ken Kesey, the Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Herman Hesse and how he had been bringing “down a lot of barriers/open[ing] doors to different perceptions” as he prepared for his own “Journey to the East.” Dacks told me he was intending his...
July 2011
4 posts
dance my heart, dance today in ecstasy
“DANCE, my heart! dance to-day with joy. The strains of love fill the days and the nights with music, and the world is listening to its melodies: Mad with joy, life and death dance to the rhythm of this music. The hills and the sea and the earth dance. The world of man dances in laughter and tears. Why put on the robe of the monk, and live aloof from the world in lonely pride? Behold! my...
one scott and a pair of docks
There is a feeling of freedom that exists beyond the contrived confines of my inadequate vocabulary. There is an elusive search to find something that I intimately know on some level, which level that is…I’m not really sure. There is an essence on the tip of my tongue that I am aware of to some degree, yet can’t quite put my finger on. I know I know that taste, but no I couldn’t name it for...
Shower.Meditation
I took a shower the other day. I take a shower on most days. Things I do frequently, I develop a routine for. How many years have I been taking a shower in the exact same way? Minor details change, but the pattern remains virtually the same. The brands of shampoos and soaps gradually shift over time, but my habit remains. Wash my left leg first, then my right. Left arm. Right arm. Stomach, chest,...
a Point of View
So here I am, wondering. I wonder what I am actually doing right now. I ask myself, “Where and how and when did I decide that I have everything figured out?” Well maybe not everything, but I have a pretty good grasp on what is real, about what constitutes my reality. Or do I? When did the mundane become mundane for me? Have I lost my imagination? I can’t even remember what it felt like to Imagine;...
a newclear waste of time
how can i raise my vibration higher and higher and allow inspiration to flow through me? not holding on to any thing but letting Life move me move through me no gripping or attachment solid fluidity, what does it mean? what does it matter? what is matter? all I want is 2b Energy no agenda. no desire for recognition i just want to be me. how can i feel free to be in my truest manner? my own unique...
June 2011
5 posts
Robot Scott
Some times I’m like a robot. Robot Scott gets good grades and pleases those who ration praise. He is smart and logical and moves through the systematic box in aMAZEing fashion. But something isn’t right. Look at my left foot. Is the air deflating out of my Brand new Nike shoe? Nope. Nike Air check. Swoooooooooosh. Okay, but some thing still smells off… is the cheese rotting? Well...
Dancing Through Life
Dance when you’re broken open.
Dance when you’ve torn the bandage off.
Dance in the middle of fighting.
Dance in your blood.
Dance when you’re perfectly free.
Struck, the dancer hears a tambourine inside her,
like a wave that crests into foam at the very top,
Begins.
Maybe you don’t hear that tambourine,
or the tree leaves clapping time.
Close the ears on your...
the rEVOLution will not BE televised
If you argue, debate, disagree, criticize, dislike, denounce or focus any other energy into the past paradigm, you support its existence; you are using your breath and Life force to feed the flames of the very wild fire you wish to be extinguished. Engaging with unconsciousness only creates more unconsciousness. The Now paradigm is gaining momentum. Fuel it with your awareness, breath, love,...
Birth Days
My birth day is coming up on June 11th. My unborn nephew’s birth day is also coming up…my brother and his wife Kristen are expecting Lucas to be born between June 10th and June 12th. It’s an exciting time full of reminders to celebrate this gift of Life, not only on my birthday, not only on Lucas’ birthday, but every single day. We already did it, we are ALIVE! Why...
May 2011
4 posts
TranceZenDance
I have been gaining more clarity of how my passion for creating music and my vision for healing are coming together as a unified modality. I have held two Evening of TranceZenDance events so far at the Hub and my next one is coming up on Saturday, June 18th. I just finished revising my description and intention for the workshop and would like to invite you to join us for a night of music,...
You're It
God Disguised As a myriad of things and Playing a game Of tag Has kissed you and said, “You’re it— I mean, you’re Really IT!” Now It does not matter What you believe or feel For something wonderful, Major-league Wonderful Is someday going To Happen. -Hafiz
An Electronic Wave of Life
Yoga, breathwork, movement and meditation have provided me with different ways of discovering new layers of feeling within myself. Basically, I have been realizing that there is more to my experience of life than what filters through my personal lens of perception. It’s difficult to even describe what I mean because a lot of my discoveries are not necessarily tangible. Imagine the guy who...
Do You Dream?
Recently, one of my teachers and one of the Hub’s great instructors (Cass Phelps) gave me a peace of advice. He said he won’t ordinarily give someone advice if it hasn’t been asked of him, but he felt compelled because it’s something that isn’t being communicated very much in our culture and society. We seem to be, as a whole, lacking in rites of passage and the...
April 2011
4 posts
Response Ability
In my post last week, I was talking about the identification of all the different roles that I play in my life, and how I am choosing to wear them like loose garments so they don’t pull on my energy more than they need to. What I got when examined each role closely was that I had a strong sense of obligation to most of the roles, with expectations of myself that “I have to” do this or “I have to”...
Being Who I Am
This past weekend I completed the third direction of my yearlong Medicine Wheel shamanic training with John English. One of the most profound things that I experienced this weekend was identifying the different roles that I play in my life, and releasing my identification with them. The wisdom that I took away from this exercise is to wear my roles like loose garments. Son, brother, friend,...
Get to Reality
I am heading into a 4 day Shamanic workshop soon and haven’t had the time to sit down and write as I normally would, but I would like to leave you all with another excerpt from Paul Williams’ book Das Energy that is speaking to me right now.
“Everybody wants to know,
What can I do? We all want to save the planet, pick up the garbage, free our brothers and sisters, stop war...
Breath, Sound, Movement
My interest in breath, sound and movement has been steadily increasing over the past 2 years. My love for electronic dance music and festivals was very present before I started working at the Hub; as I began to see the parallels between the healing arts and my passion for expression through music and dance, I realized that I was going to bring them all together as one. I started experimenting...
For the longest time I refused to believe for my self that I am by nature creative and artistic. I was living under the delusion that being artistic was only about having great natural ability. What I am realizing now is that natural talent helps, but the best artists and the best anyones are usually the hardest workers, and they work the hardest because they believe in themselves. I am now fully...
March 2011
5 posts
riding the waves of change
As I continue making conscious choices to keep growing, I am constantly exposing myself to change. Every time I come onto my yoga mat, sit down to read, take the time to write, pause for a moment to contemplate my life, I am making a decision to continue evolving. I’ve been doing this my entire life, but in the last couple years it feels like things have been sped up, and that I have become more...
Bye-Oh Graph: E.
I’ve experienced a lot of resistance in writing a “bio” for myself as a teacher. I can’t hide anymore as I continue choosing to sit in the seat of teacher, so here is my first draft. I’m sure there will be future re-visions… I got my first introduction to yoga and breathwork after starting to work the front desk at The Hub in October 2009. These practices...
The Scott Ishihara Show
I majored in communication studies while at UCLA and as a result have become quite critical of the packaged for consumption mass media that permeate our every day lives to no end. I don’t have a TV and don’t care to spend much time sitting in front of them anymore. I frequently think back to an amazing experiment I did in my Intro to Sociology class with one of my favorite teachers Terri Anderson....
My intention here isn’t necessarily to always speak my heart and my mind. My overarching intention is to help guide and inspire you in any way that I can, hopefully aiding to connect some dots that are probably already swirling around in your field. Often for me I’ll read something that will lead me to discover other inspiring teachers and ideas…the more dots that connect, the...
February 2011
4 posts
I Am
I Am Sitting in front my computer screen. Before I proceed any further, Take a deep breath. It expands my entire being. Feel It moving beyond the Borders of my physical body. Connecting with the invisible Space engulfing me Like water embraces the fish. I Am Pulled deeper into this ocean. My anchor breathes me Into unfamiliar depths. Keep breathing… deeper calmer slower cooler softer fuller...
Freedom of Choice
This past weekend I participated in a three day intensive movement workshop with Dance Alive creator Mariane Karou. One of the greatest lessons I took away from the weekend was about my freedom, and more specifically, my freedom of choice. Mariane highlighted just how free we are to choose whatever we want in life. What I realized is that I don’t always acknowledge how much power I actually...
the Power of 4Giveness
Last night I took Lee Konecke’s Mindfulness Meditation class at the Hub. Lee gave us a series of different tools and exercises to take us deeper into our meditation practice. The one that I really resonated with focused on the act of 4giving. Anytime something came up that distracted me from my meditation, like a loud noise coming from outside the room, the exercise was to internally recite “I am...
“Sooner or later a person begins to notice that everything that happens to him is perfect, relates directly to who he is, had to happen, was meant to happen, plays its little role in fulfilling his destiny. When he encounters difficulty, it no longer occurs to him to complain— he has learned to expect nothing, has learned that loss and frustration are a part of life, and...
January 2011
4 posts
A City of Angels
Los Angeles is an amazing city with so much to offer in so many ways. Sometimes when there is so much to choose from it’s hard to even know where to start. While I was at UCLA I found it really easy to stay within the confines of my own little Westwood bubble, content with moving through my familiar daily patterns and routines. My friends and I would take plenty of trips out of town and kept...
blah blah blog
Some times I take writing pretty seriously. Some times I take my Self pretty seriously. Some times I make life out to be really serious, when in reality: IT’S NOT. Life is a comedy. Life is a dream. Writing doesn’t have to be a task. Work doesn’t need to be a drag. Relationships don’t have to be hard. Experiencing life shouldn’t feel like a battle. This is not a war....
TranceNdance
I have a vIshhhon. Clear white light beaming down from the sun passing through the prism of my heArt. Double rainbows pouring forth within and without you and me. I have experienced my life being fragmented into a million little pieces in the last year. Within the empty space at the middle of the Hub, I have been swirling and spiraling as this big wheel keeps on turning. In my animal medicine...
The Year of the Beard
Last New Year’s eve I didn’t shave. Then on New Year’s day I didn’t shave. Then that got me to thinking, what if I just stopped shaving? I started thinking about all the great figures throughout history who did just that: Jesus, Aristotle, Lincoln, Malcolm X, Colonel Sanders, Santa Claus and the list goes on. What was it about the beard that attracted all of them so much? Was there some secret...
December 2010
3 posts
A Gift of Healing
Last night my great friend Blaise called a meeting with my roommates, Jimmy and Alex, and myself. In the last year, we have formed an amazing bond between the four of us as we’ve moved through a myriad of transformative events and experiences. One of the greatest gifts we have been able to develop is our ability to be open and express our true feelings and emotions with each other. This is...
Connecting Consciousness
Although I have yet to see “The Social Network” I’ve gotten the impression that it takes a somewhat critical stance on Facebook’s current role in society; that it is contributing to a breakdown in humans’ ability to relate and communicate, and is consuming massive amounts of people’s time and energy. I’m not sure how accurately that describes the movie, and frankly I don’t really care as it...
Ish's Babbling Stream of Consciousness
How beautiful is the creation of these infinite oscillations Penetrating eternity, vibrating through the core of my being. This heArthquake shakes open my eyes And I begin to Self-realize All these lies constructing the imprint of a grand illusion! Unconscious collusion propagates this collective confusion. As my intuition flips the switch A cosmic tea pot begins a Bruin steaming hot Truth from...
November 2010
3 posts
Who Am I? Why Am I Here?
Who am I? Why am I here? Have You asked your Self these questions lately? It seems like such a cliche set of questions right? But these are perhaps two of the most important questions a human can ask one’s Self. It’s great that we live in this age where information and answers are only a few touch screen strokes away, but how much about our own individual sense of Truth and purpose can we really...
Reflections of My Self
What I hate in you, I hate in my self. What I love in you, I love in my self. When I see You, I see my Self. This last weekend I completed the second direction of the Medicine Wheel with my teacher John English. The Medicine Wheel is the path of the Shaman or the Luminous Warrior. Shamanism is all about relationships: with the Earth, with plants, with animals, with other people and most...
Be. Be. Be.
A few weeks ago I found this really cool used book titled Das Energi by Paul Williams in the Children’s Charity Antique store next to the Hub. The book is a flowing collection of really awesome aphorisms that have been extremely relevant to my life and my journey as I can open up to any page and have something hit me in the most amazing way. The book doesn’t have much information about its...
October 2010
3 posts
How I Do Anything is How I Do Everything
“How I do anything is how I do everything,” so that adage goes. I’ve heard my teacher David Elliott use this one over and over again and it’s funny to me how I can hear something repeatedly, but it’s not until I actually take the time and focus to internalize what is trying to be communicated and begin applying it to situations in my life that I begin to really understand the simple brilliance of...
The Declaration of Interdependence
When in the course of Human events, it becomes necessary for One people to recognize Its common denominator and to perceive among the powers of the Universe, the inseparable and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature’s God entitle them, an Eternal agreement requires that We must remember the Truth of our Unification.
We hold this Truth to be self-evident, that everything in this...
Metamorphos.ish
As I approach the one year mark of first crossing the threshold into the warm embrace of the Hub, I am moved to remember where I was just one short year ago before being introduced to this community of yoga, healing and spirituality. I wonder about what actually led me to a job working at the front desk of a yoga studio when I had never done yoga in my life. A year ago I thought it was...