Luke Kohen is quickly rising voice of inspiration and leadership on our planet as a speaker, heartist, mentor, & ecopreneur.

He carries a unique multi-disciplinary wisdom in service to an emerging culture on the planet; which informs all the content he creates.

With over a decade of experience empowering individuals and groups, he also serves as a mentor for emerging leaders, founders & change agents.

Deeply Passionate about bridging the gap between social entrepreneurship & environmental activism, he has been a strategist for forging new models of collaboration and innovation where the meeting of universal spirituality, holistic business, whole systems change and community building all converge.

Since 2008 Luke has been supporting, consulting & co-creating with movements, communities, organizations & leaders committed to the formation of leading edge eco-villages, educational institutes & innovative solutions to solve our worlds greatest challenges.

As soon as I became a teen, I got involved with drugs, gangs, graffiti and other mischievous endeavours, but somehow never ended up compromising my spirit.

After repeatedly finding myself in a lot of enduring a lot of unsafe situations I found a spirituality in Martial Arts, Basketball, Nature, Art, Poetry & Hip-Hop which became the foundation for my sanity during those formative years.

I made it into UNI in upstate NY on an art scholarship; where two weeks into my freshman year I lost one of the closest people in my life, David, my brother in Law and brooklyn fire fighter due to the “9/11, terrorist attacks”.

Whether I knew it or not this would catalyze a massive shift in my worldview and spark the beginning of what I later came to know as the is known as a “hero’s journey”. I had always had this intense split between a healthy ambitious athleticism and a self destructive path. My inability to cope with the loss of one of my closest family members amplified this dichotomy: I was combining extreme athletic training with an insatiable need to numb the pain through substance abuse and eventually I burned out, and the combination of numbing through substance abuse increased along with extreme athletic training.

In my last year of university I entered a complete healing crisis & my body broke down. I went from experiencing life as a very agile 22 year old to walking with a cane almost overnight. The subsequent weeks would change my life forever as I spiralled into depression, no longer being able to access my ‘flow states” in movement anymore, I hit full ego despair.

One morning in my apartment, while drinking tea out of a cast iron teapot I fell into a spontaneous deep state of meditation where I accessed what I now call “the living stillness of the universe”. for the first time sitting. In the past, I had only tasted this energy through movement via martial arts, track and basketball, but this time I accessed it while sitting. This high was like nothing I had ever experienced and it awoke something deep within me. It was like I remembered a long lost part of me that had suddenly come home. I would call this part of me my soul & as we merged in the subsequent days, I dedicated my entire life to this feeling and a deep spiritual fire was lit inside me to seek out truth. In the coming days I would fully leave behind all my self destructive choices & commit fully to healing myself.

I tried everything to fix my body, physical therapy, acupuncture, doctors, naturopaths and nothing worked. The only thing that started getting me results was yoga, which began to feed that spark I had re-awakened.

My passion for Yoga would lead me to India immediately after graduating school. With a burning desire for enlightenment, a deep seeking for truth and an alternative path out of the traps of modern society, I never entered into the 9-5 world. From here I began to retrace my steps as a soul and was guided through grace and synchronicity to reconnect with the many lineages I had known across all lifetimes. Over a decade of time I would apprentice with Native American elders & healers, wisdom keepers, lineage holders, master healers and spiritual teachers. I dove incredibly deep into my healing journey, originally to heal my body, but eventually the process took on a life of its own. All of the initiations that followed eventually led me to guiding others, building community, immersing in the transformational festival scene in California, and eventually to the entrepreneurial world.

Early on in my world travels I developed a deep relationship with a vision I received of global eco-villages and saw how all my interests wove together around seeding this dream into reality. Seeing the children of the future growing up in these villages, these sanctuaries became my big WHY.

My healing work, the music I make, all the things I’ve been up to in the world are all informed by this narrative.

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Over the years I’ve endured many heartbreaks, losses of friends to death & betrayals, band break-ups, flips flops as an artist, growth as an entrepreneur that taught me many lessons on top of a whirlwind wild mystical stuff passing through; but even with this profound connection to spirit, I still was not fully at peace.

For a long period of time I became divided into different sections of my life; my entrepreneur was in conflict with my artist & activist self, my healer & mystic at odds with my coaching, the list goes on. The level of pressure I put myself under was super intense and went on for years, as I operated under the illusion that I had to sacrifice one thing or part of myself in order to have something else. I would pendulate between renouncing capitalism and do tours with music and ceremony and then pendulate back to earning money & managing my business. All of this compartmentalization was a deep pain point for my free spirit, and how I wanted to help people + the planet.
Eventually I reconciled the division within myself and birthed a new time where I would be able to share the decade + of experience and no longer sacrifice any part of my expression.
Now I share myself and serve in many ways, from speaking on stages, working with clients and small groups, sharing my poetry & music, facilitating trainings, retreats and so much more.

Luke Kohen is an internationally recognized poet, story teller, mentor and touring artist. Also known as a bard, ecoprenuer & community builder he draws from over 18 years of experience in mystical traditions, holistic business & trauma healing modalities; which have all informed his life path, creative process & service supporting personal and planetary transformation. 

Known in many circles as a “healer of healers”, Luke Kohen supports change agents, artists and leaders in claiming a deeper embodiment of their soul’s full expression, anchoring of personal power, self-mastery and actualizing the full potential of their mission. His focus is at the intersection of where our authentic humanity, connection to spirit, creative process, business & dharma all converge. He is a master at unpacking where the vertical and horizontal intersection of self-mastery meet, so that we can live a deeply connected and fulfilled life of purpose.

LK is also the founder of Benevolent Culture Collective, an international society of philanthropists, artists, industry leaders, systems change agents & influencers that are casting a wider net of impact for the purpose of a positive planetary paradigm shift.