Meet Lauren Schwartz | aka BAMBUU 🎋 Artist, Writer, Singer, Holistic Doctor, Personal Trainer, Skincare formulator

We had the good fortune of connecting with Bambuu aka Lauren Schwartz and we’ve shared our conversation below.

Hi Bambuu, what was your thought process behind starting your own business?
I never thought of my “own business” as an actual business, in terms of monetary income as the main intention for being created. My mind is constantly brainstorming new and random ideas – project plans – just based on the things I experience, see, hear, read; within so many different domains of life; and so in the process of taking notes on the things I think up, I just started by expanding the ideas into domain names, website outlines, IG handles, blogs/vlogs, as I create the new things in real life and time. These projects then start to evolve into business entities on their own.

Let’s talk shop? Tell us more about your career, what can you share with our community?
I am an artist. I express my projects within many different areas of the creative and professional world. I am just at the beginning of bringing about my projects into the world, and offering what I can to the collective. It has been an overwhelming struggle learning and becoming, and will continue to be. Growing pangs is a term for a reason. Nothing that breeds exceptional success in life is easy, and there’s always more to untangle once we come to what we thought was the end of an aspiring achievement. I went to Chinese Medical school, became a Licensed Acupuncturist, which opened me up to studying our existence as a perceived experience through the senses as they pertain to our mind, bodies, and spirits. Once I started treating patients, which commonly seek out acupuncturists due to pain, I noticed that what most people needed was a strengthening practice in order to get down to the root cause of their suffering. Strengthening of the mind, body, and spirit, as they are connected and create who we express in this matrix. So I became a Certified Personal Trainer and Strength & Conditioning Coach to educate myself and be able to integrate the physical aspect of strengthening into what I offered as a Holistic Doctor. This was the gateway into the books I am writing and CEU educational courses I offer, on Holistic Medicine. On the other side of things, I am a singer, dancer, entertainer/performer. I always had a major issue with self confidence and would “hide behind books”, avoiding the growing pangs of stepping into that part of myself. Once I became sober, and dove into that practice, my two sides of medicine and music began to both be my main points of living out my authenticity. It’s a major challenge because these are seemingly polar opposite domains of career and professionalism, but nevertheless, it is not something I can suppress, as I move more into experience, I am faced with the reality of me what I offer and represent in this matrix, and can’t help but allow my projects and ideas to unfold as they do. My skincare line is another expression of medicine, as our skin, hair, nails ingests everything we put on them, and our health relies on everything we do, ingest, and indulge ourselves in. I aspire to have a full functioning production company one day soon, offering books, movies, and interactive exhibits. Life is a trip and I surrender to its function. I am not the controller, nor the controlled, I am watching myself, watch myself, watch it all. Bambuu is the concept of the interconnectivity of strength, flexibility, and emptiness; empty of the past and any expectations of the future, fully in the present moment without any notions of knowledge, like an empty shell awaiting to learn what it can without judgement or superiority, flexibility to move with the struggles and not be broken by them, strong in the awareness of continuity as the only way.

If you had a friend visiting you, what are some of the local spots you’d want to take them around to?
I know there is an entire world I have yet to see. But in the small area of San Diego where I reside currently, I would take my friend to the beach in La Jolla – Black’s Beach; to swim, surf, and soak in the salt and sun. I would bring tea and homemade snacks for us to share, yerba mate, matcha, raw chocolate milk made from raw milk, cream, cacao, and raw honey. Homemade Onigiri (rice, seaweed & regenerative protein), homemade chocolate truffles for dessert. We would go hiking in the early morning for sunrise, Cowle’s mountain or Potato Chip Rock, then go to a strength training working called Lagree @ my favorite studio in Point Loma called Define, then head to the beach for the rest of the day. If we could rent a sailboat and go sailing, I would add that to our itinerary as well. If we had a week long of top pick lifestyle, it would be filled with a variety of exercise, beach, cooking, and movies.

Shoutout is all about shouting out others who you feel deserve additional recognition and exposure. Who would you like to shoutout?
The Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu, The 4 Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz, Your Forces and How to Use them by Prentice Mulford, the study and practice of the art of Boxing, Alcoholics Anonymous and the continuous study and practice of sobriety & ‘The Big Book’ by Bill Wilson, my sponsor, The Alchemist by Paolo Cuelho. By experiencing, studying, and putting into constant practice the lessons from these things that were shown to me, my adult mind continues to be shaped and inspired into action. These, plus many more on a long list of helpful contributors, are my saviors. My mentors and are the seeds of my growth and therefore creations that come forth. They have opened up my creativity through activating a deep introspection, leading to choosing a path of healing; mentally/emotionally and physically; which was and is the spark of my dedication to learn about and be who I am authentically, and bring about the projects that continue to come into my attention.

Website: bambuuworldwide.com & bambuubody.com

Instagram: @bambuu & @bambuubody

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@bambuu3233

Other: hollowbambooacupuncture.com

Image Credits
Mike Ochoa