Tuesday, Dec. 16th, 12pm US Eastern, ONLINE via Zoom
Sacred Mischief Levity Strategies
Step back to 1998: “I need tools of tricksterdom,” Bernie tells me when we first meet. This is after Wavy Gravy calls, asking me to come across the Bay Bridge to the Hogfarm’s Berkeley house to meet “a man who needs a teacher.” It is, he says, “a real clown emergency.” Bernie has come seeking a clown teacher because the teachers and students learning from and training with him “take themselves too seriously” or are “downright arrogant” and he is looking to use humor as a wake-up call.
Yes, you too can invite a little levity into daily life by activating your “sense of funny”- what’s funny to you and investigating how to express those energies-non-verbally! How do you do that? Come find out in this introductory session.
ABOUT THE PRESENTER
Moshe Cohen teaches and performs worldwide. He has toured his Mr. YooWho show widely in theaters and festival around the world (50+ countries/1000+ performances). An early pioneer of the Clowns Without Borders movement, and co-founder of the Zen Order of Disorder (OD), Moshe currently clowns with the Medical Clown Project in San Francisco and continues to teach workshops internationally. He teaches both performers and laypeople, in clown/theater schools as well as in spiritual/zen centers. Moshe began teaching Clown in 1993, at the San Francisco Circus Center. In 2001, he began teaching ‘Clowning Your Zen’ workshops with Roshi Bernie Glassman, expanding his focus beyond clown performance to the everyday world and how to awaken levity and lightfulness. Moshe is working on a book currently titled: “Sacred Mischief. Levity Strategies for the Apocalypse and Everyday Life. A Training Manual” scheduled to be published by Shambhala Publications in the spring of 2027.
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With gratitude,
The Zen Peacemakers Team


