Meditation & Yoga Programs at Muse for Life

10/04/2024

Self- Care and Mental Health Reminder:

These are tense times and there is a lot of tension in the air. The body, nervous system, organs, and emotions take on this tension even during times when the thinking seems in control and focused. Thinking is most focused in fight or flight mode.

Here are 2 easily applied neuroscience verified and time-tested proven treatments

1. MOVE and SHAKE. Dance! Not ballet. PRIMAL. Stomp the feet. Shake the limbs, torso, joints. Connect with rhythm, flowing, and changing. Hum. Chant. Guttural howls. LET IT GO! MOVE IT OUT! SHAKE IT LOOSE.

Like leaves on the tree or a duck shaking out its feathers. In connecting with rhythm, we are together in deep connection with all nature at the core.

WE ARE TOGETHER! Doesn't matter what faith or creed. Movement and Music were the first religion and is in all. Do it how it makes sense to you, yet don't hold back. LET IT GO as an offering

2. SELF EMBRACE- It may sound silly at first yet
(a) Give yourself a hug, and
(b) Say outloud: "You are okay. You will get through this. You are safe, alive, and loved".
(c) Repeat with any part of the body that has tension. Apply the hands with moderate tender pressure and say the assurance affirmation, "You are okay. You will get through this. You are safe, alive, and loved"

YOU ARE NOT ALONE.

WE ARE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER

Pease share with all you feel could benefit from this reminder. Copy and paste as text message for all who may have little signal or wifi access.

Thank you

05/12/2018

Hi Everyone, I will be offering an 8 week Kundalini Yoga Chakra course in Sandy Springs beginning next week Wednesday the 16th. Respond or PM if you are interestedn Also, please share to help spread the word. Gratefully, Craig

10/04/2017

On Wednesdays beginning October 18th at 7pm, we will be offering a 5 Week Basic Meditation Course. This course is for students of all levels; beginner to advanced. The class lasts between 1-1.5 hours. Please schedule accordingly. This course is limited to 20 participants. Registration and payment are required ahead of time to secure your spot. Register below. Once registered, we will email confirmation as well as location details.

Course cost = $125

For more information specifically about this course click this link:

www.museforlife.com/Meditation/5-week-basic-meditation-course.html

To register click here:

http://eepurl.com/c5ZP9H

To pay click here:

https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=9WP53WHXEM7DU

10/04/2017

On Thursdays beginning October 12th at 6:30pm, we will be offering a 7 Week Kundalini Yoga Basics Intensive. This course is for students of all levels; beginner to advanced. This course is an intensive, and it lasts between 2-2.5 hours. Please schedule accordingly. This course is limited to 15 participants. Registration and payment are required ahead of time to secure your spot. Register below. Once registered, we will email confirmation as well as location details.

Course cost = $210

For more information specifically about this course and about Kundalini Yoga, in general, click this link:

www.museforlife.com/Meditation/7-week-kundalini-yoga-basics-intensive.html

To register click here:

http://eepurl.com/c5ZMSX

To pay click here:

https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=BEXNCDZ8FXGXS

10/04/2017

Muse for Life is Back!
New Location- 7 Week Kundalini Yoga Basics Intensive begins Oct 12th- 5 Week Basic Meditation Course begins Oct 18th- Targeted Programming Lists Signup. Click the Email Link, Read, Signup, and Stay Connected With Us

12/18/2015

Like the Buddhists who after joy and commitment let their beautiful transcendent mandala sand paintings be released into a stream, we released the Muse for Life space at 205 Hilderbrand Drive into the stream of life and creation, and like a phoenix rises from the ashes, we have been reborn! Thanks to Randy Nicholson and Fitness Firm Studio, Muse for Life has a new core root location at 209 Hilderbrand Drive; just two doors down
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The space is perfect for allowing us to continue private music lessons, music therapy sessions, Thai Yoga Bodywork, Music Medicine Sessions, yoga classes, meditation workshops, group dances classes and dance events, special tea gatherings, weekend workshops, and live music events. Muse for Life has the space on Saturdays and Sundays, so stay in touch with us and look forward to seeing Muse for Life continue to offer healthy and inspiring community programming at this new location.

Although we are excited to hold space in this new location, we have also taken on this transition to be a shedding of skin, of sorts, and we are allowing ourselves to evolve. As we let go of the former space, a few folks told us "You have Hatched!" Another friend said, "Now Muse for Life is not just in one place...Muse for Life is everywhere!" He was referring to the seeds of creativity, connection, and inspiration that Havalyn and I have been striving to plant over the years at through Muse for Life. So, bearing all this in heart and mind, Muse for Life has shifted gears from being a Community Inspiration Center into simply Community Inspiration Services! We also call this 'Muse on the Move'! If anyone wants us to offer any of our programs or services at your location, please let us know. We will love to! As we have let go of our Tea Room space, we have expanded the tea side of the center to include phone and online orders, as well as on location Tea Carts, Tea gatherings, and specialized Tea services. If you want to throw a special house party with therapeutic music, movement, yoga, meditation, ceremony, Thai bodywork, tea, or any specialized combination, please let us know. We will love designing something special, creative, healing, and inspiring for you. It is the fulfillment of a dream to co-create with you.

We are grateful!

11/17/2015

Greetings everyone,
We have sad news from the Muse front. On November 30th, 2015, Muse for Life will be officially closing down the community inspiration center space at 205 Hilderbrand Drive in Sandy Springs. It has been a wonderful yet challenging 11 years in this location, yet it has become clear that it is time to move on. With our beautiful dance goddess Havalyn needing to pull out so she could pursue her master's degree, we already were thrown in a tailspin. No dance meant a great deal of adjustment. I had hired on a couple more music staff and was ready to give it my all once again, then the construction in the space next door increasingly caused problems. First, noise restricted starting any new yoga and meditation classes. Then in September water was turned off consistently for almost two weeks. We couldn't open the tea house as a result. Then all of October and a week in November, the space became saturated with toxic fumes. I have had to cancel all programming for over a month. It has been a nightmare, and it financially crippled us and has stunted any possibility for growth. I could fight and pursue some legal path, but I am tired of feeling like Hercules pushing the ball up the hill. After 14 years of running and developing the vision and model of Muse for Life, and with having Havalyn collaborate her vision in the past five years, it has been a beautiful journey. And I feel we have created something good and wonderful, yet I am closing with absolutely no money in either my personal or business accounts. I have given everything to this vision, but it is time to throw in the towel, to practice non-attachment, and release the vision fully to the source from which it came. I am grateful to have been able to serve through this space, and I pray that the vision of Muse for Life will carry on...just not with the overhead of a space.

It is with sad hearts that we communicate this, yet we feel blessed to have been able to explore creativity, health, and community connection in what we feel has been sacred and meaningful ways. We will be closing everything down and packing everything up from Saturday the 20th to November 30th. We do need help to pack things, take down shelves, and other tasks. We are also getting rid of the furniture, lots of books, and other things. We will be selling bulk tea at half price.

Please contact us if you would like to help in any way. I truly cannot communicate how emotional this is, yet we greatly appreciate the help. And we trust all is in divine order.

On November 30th, after all is packed and moved, we will be having an intimate tea ceremony to honor what has been and what will be. Please come, reflect, and express gratitude for the space and all the journey has offered so far. If there is something you would like to offer; a song, a poem, a dance, a memory, whatevery; Please, do. The time will be candle lit around 8pm.

With total Love and Gratitude,
Thank you :)

03/10/2015

The Kadampa Buddhist Center is offering Lunchtime Meditation classes on Wednesdays here in your favorite local tea house at Muse for Life!

12:15pm - 12:45pm
$5

03/04/2015

Good morning Meditation and Yoga fans! Just a few announcements:

We are very excited that the Kadampa Meditation Center is beginning their Lunchtime Meditations today in the Tea Room here at Muse for Life! This will be a once a week offering on Wednesdays from 12:15 - 12:45pm. $5

Also, Friday is Craig's birthday! So he is moving his Friday morning yoga class to tomorrow (Thursday) morning 9am. This is the last class of his Introduction to Kundalini Yoga series - the new series, Kundalini Yoga Chakra course begins next week! For more info, see event below this post. See you there!

01/29/2015

ATTENTION ALL YOGA STUDENTS!!! Here is the link to download class lectures, discussions, meditation tracks, and relaxation tracks for your personal practice.

Downloadable teachings, meditation tracks, and relaxation tracks from specific Kundalini Yoga Courses. All meditations and music are specific to class number and course type, and all recorded teachings are specific to course type and date. Only accessible to current students.

11/28/2013

On this day of Thanksgiving, we are grateful for all practices the center us & open us to healthy living. Simply sitting, focusing on the heart center, & gratefully reflecting upon all the relationships, experieces, feelings, and abundant dreams that we have within this life is a perfect practice for this day & everyday. Take some time to practice in this way alone and also in communion with others on this day :)