Clown Your Zen: Levity Strategies for the Apocalypse

“Clown your Zen” and invite humor into daily life with playful practices  to restore balance, release stress, and strengthen your connections. With simple exercises, you’ll reconnect with your natural joy, deepen your presence, and embrace your sacred birthright of laughter.

Sacred mischief is humor with a purpose: a way to restore balance when life gets too heavy, too discouraging, or simply goes too far in any direction. Rooted in the Native American concept of the sacred clown, it invites you to meet seriousness with play, fear with curiosity, and overwhelm with a lightness of heart. It is a subtle art, a daily practice, and a way of being that can spark a smile in your community, your country, your world—or at the very least, on your own face.

Moshe Cohen has taught the sacred-mischief approach around the world, from Zen centers with the late Roshi Bernie Glassman to university classrooms, clown and theater schools, and even the corporate bored-room. Perfect for cultivating mindful presence and for countering negativity, these practices will help you awaken your own funny, your lightness, and your own sacred mischief. May you delight in them!