Rock On Beautiful People
Just stopping by to remind you to keep dancing to that very special groove of your own heart.
With love from New York City,
Seena
NYE at Beekman
What are you doing New Years Eve? I know where I’ll be; Singing at the most fabulous Temple Court inside the legendary Beekman Hotel! Performing your favorite tunes all night long! This years theme is: Black and White Masquerade Party. Dress to impress! Tickets via Resy HERE.
New Book About Divorce
My book ‘The Rice Is Cooked: - Five grains of wisdom to move on from divorce’ is out now!
This book is a tool to get back in touch with your true self after experiencing a separation and divorce.
It’s an interactive workbook that contains both reflections coming from me, and also questions for you, so you can find your own answers, reflections and lessons.
If you’re interested, you can check it out on amazon HERE.
Singing at Tesla Gala
Performing my song ‘Tesla’ at the the Tesla Science Center Foundation gala on December 1st.
Read more about the gala and Tesla Science Center at Wardenclyffe HERE.
So happy to help bring more awareness about Nikola Tesla, his inventions and his inspiring life.
You can find the song on all streaming platforms, including on Spotify HERE.
Live at Sommerro
So happy to be swinging by the most fabulous new digs in Oslo; Sommerro House.
Jazzing it up November 12th and 18th.
All tables are sold out, but you can still stop by for a drink. See you there!
Hiking Breakneck Ridge
Just came back from a very relaxing hike in upstate New York. I hiked the Breakneck Ridge trail for the first time with one of my best friends last year. Missed it so much I decided to do it again this week. My friend is abroad so I decided to hike solo, but it turns out there were so many other hikers out this weekend so I definitely wasn’t alone.
If you want to hike the longest trail loop, the one that goes all the way from Breakneck Ridge to Coldspring, I recommend taking an Amtrak train to Breakneck Station. If you do so, you can hike to Coldspring Village, have a meal, and then take the train back from Coldspring station without worries of having to go back and get your car. The Breakneck Ridge trail starts off extremely steep, pictured above.
I stopped at Hudson House River Inn (2 Main Street) in Coldspring for a delicious portobello-mushroom veggie burger before returning to the city.
Wishing you a wonderful fall-season,
Seena
Live at Park Lane Hotel
Join me and my band for Friday night jazz at the most beautiful hotel in New York.
We will be at Park Lane Hotel this Friday 09/30 from 5.30pm - 8pm. Stop by to unwind, to celebrate life, and to take in that special New York energy that’s too wonderful for words.
36 Central Park S, New York, NY 10019
Best Hot Chocolate in New York
It’s autumn in New York! One of my favorite things to do as soon as the temperature drops is to enjoy a delicious cup of hot chocolate from Saint Ambroeuse. It’s the best! Also recommend the hot chocolate from my other favorite, Angelina, which you can order in an iced version, as well.
Enjoy if you are lucky enough to be here,
or lucky enough to visit in the future!
Fall in New York really is magical.
Love,
Seena
Deep Truths w/ Iain McGilchrist
I’m currently reading the book The Master and His Emissary by Iain McGilchrist.
I really, really recommend it.
McGilchrist’s latest work The Matter With Things is what I’ll be reading next.
Linking two interviews with him here so you can discover why, in case you’re not already familiar with his work.
Enjoy! :)
Seena
Mallorca Sweet Bread
A long time ago I was the biggest fan of the Mallorca Sweet Bread from Starbucks. Not too sweet, a bit mushy, a bit fluffy…It was just the perfect coffee pastry to me. Fast forward ten years and the Starbucks in my area has long but discontinued their Mallorca Sweet Bread offering. The other day I tried re-creating them at home. I’m not a baker and I usually don’t consume pastries, so I was lacking ingredients like white sugar, and kitchen essentials like parchment paper, a whisk and a food mixer. I was still able to bake pretty good-looking and delicious-tasting Mallorca Sweet Bread rolls! I used this recipe as a base, and then halved it, plus substituted white sugar for coconut sugar. If you plan to bake without a mixer, I would recommend baking a smaller batch like I did with this recipe. You can only mix so much dough by hand.
Seena’s Six Organic Mallorca Sweet Breads
Ingredients:
Use all Organic ingredients
1 stick butter
4 egg yolks
1/3 cup + 2 table spoons coconut sugar
1/4 cup milk
3/4 cup water
1/2 pkg dry yeast
3 1/4 cups bread flour
1 teaspoon salt
powder sugar
1 tbs butter for greasing the baking pan and 2 tbs butter for brushing the rolls with melted butter
Melt the stick of butter.
Mix the melted butter stick, the 4 egg yolks and the 1/3 cup + 2 table spoons of coconut sugar in a bowl.
Ideally you would have a whisk and whisk it together until smooth.
If you don’t have a whisk, just use a fork like I did.
Mix the 1/4 milk and 3/4 cup water together and heat them until lukewarm.
Put the 1/2 of yeast into the water and milk and let it sit for 30 seconds.
Mix the <milk/water/yeast> with the <egg/sugar/butter>.
Add salt and flour. Ideally you would do this in a kitchen mixer.
If you don’t have a mixer just continue using your fork and your arm.
Add a little bit of flower at a time to make it easier to avoid lumps.
When everything is mixed, go ahead and cover the bowl with a cloth and let the dough rise for 45 minutes.
After 45 minutes, remove the cloth.
Grease a baking pan with butter, or use parchment paper.
Now it’s time to make the rolls.
Take an extra dash of flower and spread it onto your kitchen counter top.
Divide the dough into six equal pieces. Create long spaghetti like shapes of each of them.
Then roll them up into little circles. Tuck the end part of the dough in under the main part.
Put the rolls onto your baking pan and let them rise for another 25 minutes under the same kitchen cloth.
Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees.
Remove the kitchen cloth and brush the rolls with melted butter.
Put the rolls in the oven for 20 -25 minutes.
Let the rolls cool down and cover them with powdered sugar.
Enjoy!
Favorite Hazrat Inayat Khan Quotes
If you are looking for something to read this summer I warmly recommend The Dance Of The Soul. This is one of my favorite books, if not the favorite. It consists of a collection of profound aphorisms by Sufi master Hazrat Inayat Khan. I usually read a page or two in this book to get back in touch with what’s truly important. One page is enough, as the sayings are so elegantly simple, yet deep. Here are a few of my favorites:
As the shadow is evident yet non-existent, so is evil
It is easy to become a teacher, but difficult to become a pupil
As fire can cook food or burn it, so also does pain affect the human heart
The secret of life is balance, and the absence of balance is life’s destruction
If you fail yourself, everybody will fail you
One single moment of a sincere life is worth more than a thousand years of a life of falsehood
Before you can know the truth, you must learn to live a true life
COOL BREEZE EP OUT NOW
My new EP Cool Breeze is out now!
Track 1, 2 and 5 is in the genre of what I would call space-folk.
Track 3 and 4 are more pop/Rnb oriented.
I’ve linked Track 5 above; The Potential Hero.
Written, recorded, produced, mixed and mastered by me.
Hope I can inspire you to self-represent;
whatever it is you would like to create; just do it!
I believe in you!!
Thanks to guitarist Pat Brennan for guitar on the space folk tracks.
Listen on Spotify
Listen on Apple Music
Listen on Tidal
Listen on Amazon Music
Find my book at Local's
No matter if you are just a visiting kook or a local you can wind down with Rockaway’s best coffee and my poetry book at Local’s Collective (190 Beach 69th St in Rockaway). My faves are their iced latte with almond milk, banana bread and vegan chocolate chip cookie. My book is in their cafe library. It’s also on Amazon if you want to pick up a copy.
It really is the best coffee in Rockaway.
A View Of The Ocean: poems for a day at the beach
My debut poetry collection A View Of The Ocean: poems for a day at the beach is out now, exclusively on Amazon.
Moving from Manhattan to Rockaway Beach opened up a greater possibility for a calm inward focus for me, complimented by the stunning ocean surroundings of the area.
The book offers a number of maritime-centric poems, as well as poems with other themes and select song lyrics, intended to be enjoyed and contemplated during a day at the beach.
I hope it will inspire you! A View Of The Ocean: poems for a day at the beach is available both as a paperback version and as a electronic version.
If you want you can also follow my Seena author page on Amazon and my Seena author page on Goodreads.
Peace and Love,
Seena
The Power Of The Heart❤️
Thought I’d share a beautiful film I watched some time ago.
‘The Power Of The Heart’ shares interesting and moving findings and personal stories about just that, the power of the heart.
More about it HERE.
New Cover: Big Fish
Words can't describe this song...It’s stunning.
I discovered it while watching Big Fish & Begonia - an amazing film which I totally recommend.
Have tissues ready!
You can watch if for free on Youtube here.
The whole expression of this film and title-song seems to be from another world and higher level.
I have pasted the translated lyrics under the video on Youtube.
New Sneakers Lyric Video
Try to read my not-so-pretty handwriting and sing along to my latest track!
'New Sneakers' out now!
Music, lyrics and production by me!
Hope it can bring some good vibes and a smile to your day :)
Listen via:
Spotify
Apple Music
iHeart Radio
Amazon Music
Tidal
Tao Te Ching Chillstep Mix (Read By Wayne Dyer)
One of my favorite books that I was lucky to stumble upon over a decade ago is Change Your Thoughts Change Your Life: Living The Wisdom Of The Tao by Wayne Dyer. Therefore I was super excited to find that someone has made a Chillstep Mix with bits from the audiobook version of that book.
Perfect mix to center yourself and get in touch with what’s truly important. Enjoy!
Lyric video for Tesla
Hope you have fun singing along to this lyric video of my new song Tesla :D
XO,
Seena