My latest labor of love is a tribute to my dear friend and colleague, the French-born cabaret star Greta, who passed away on January 18, 2025. This article is best consumed with a goblet of red wine, or your favorite vodka. To read the homage at Cabaret Scenes magazine, follow this link. “In the search for my path Through [...]
Attention Life Artists! If you're someone who likes a deep dive, likes to meditate, and appreciates a guided journey, I've posted several meditation challenges to help you kickstart 2025. To access these, you must have a paid subscription to the Insight Timer app where I've had my Artist Heart Guided Meditation channel since 2018. Below are three options to [...]
Just in time for spring (and autumn for those of you in the southern hemisphere), I offer my newest guided meditation, The Quickening and The Quieting. The focus of our meditation today is the whole matter of creating which encompasses bringing in as well as releasing. In the northern hemisphere, spring has sprung and everything's coming alive. A quickening [...]
Welcome to my newest guided meditation, Unwrapping the Present and Letting the Lovely. In time for the holidays, this 7-minute centering breathwork exercise is intended to help you find rest and peaceful presence amidst the flurry of seasonal activities. Guided by your own breath and accompanied by soft guitar, you'll connect with your body, mind and heart, as well as [...]
Karen Kohler, voice Daryl Kojak, piano Recorded live at Rose Hall at Lincoln Center, NYC, on opening night of the 2023 Mabel Mercer Cabaret Convention. Music by Kurt Weill, lyrics by Bertolt Brecht. Opening monologue and English lyric translation by Karen Kohler. Photo above by James Gavin.
On Tuesday, OCTOBER 17, 2023, I'll be returning to Rose Hall at Lincoln Center for the opening night of the Mabel Mercer Cabaret Convention and our enticing evening honoring a German-American master composer in, "Speak Low: The Music of Kurt Weill." Stay tuned for details about my newest arrangement of Weill's classic Bilbao Song (with lyrics by Bertholt Brecht). [...]
Karen Kohler's prose piece, Songs, Psychedelics & Seizures: A One-Woman Flow, has been published in the 2023 edition of Harmony Magazine of the University of Arizona's Medical Humanities Department. This piece is an adaptation of the 40-minute monologue she presented at the Science of Consciousness Conference at the University of Arizona at Tucson in April 2022. [...]
Welcome to my newest guided meditation, Body As Instrument. Our body is an instrument. How we tune it, use it and care for it, what we put into it and everything we incorporate becomes part of our life story. In our practice today, we bring awareness to the body as it stands in service to art. Being comfortable in [...]
I'm honored to present my monologue, "Songs, Psychedelics and Seizures: A One-Woman Flow" at the Science of Consciousness Conference 2022. Sponsored by the University of Arizona in Tucson (my alma mater), this year's program includes such consciousness studies leaders as Roger Penrose, Dennis McKenna, Robin Carhart-Harris, Katrin Preller, Christof Koch, Elizabeth Krasnoff and Deepak Chopra. I've chosen a topic, Flow, [...]
It's always been my pleasure to model for Japanese-born photographer Takako Suzuki Harkness whom I first met when she was snapping shots of our nightlife scene of New York City and offering her unique perspective and careful eye for the details. Now she teams with Japanese fashion designer Mieko Mintz to showcase Mintz' unique designs and I was again [...]
