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So much weaves and frays in the day to day. Emotions and lives intertwine, braid and then unfurl. Hearts twist and turn and fold back upon themselves to show us what we are at the very core and how we extend with and without obvious graceful gesture into the world.

In a world of creating binds of meaning and then having the courage to let go at the most appropriate times to allow change to become the next jewel in a life’s tapestry, one must remain inspired. This is not small challenge. This is a deeply worthy practice and one worth clear and devoted attention.

I remember being a child, curled up next to my mother sharing a tea and feeling very grown up, with a book of mythology spread across our parallel laps, as she read me the myths of the Muse. I fell in love with the Muse barely a paragraph into the tale. She was so beautiful across those pages and the stories of her entering the lives and hearts of mortals and it blew me wide open. She blows me open still. She shows up, not just in ANY way, but in the manner of the highest. She shows up to shift, to inspire, to direct, to redirect, to cattle prod, to challenge in the directions of that which is a calling, a gift, a sharing, a shining from within a human soul.

This site is dedicated to the Muse in each of us, the expressive wanderlust of heart space as it progresses in real time. Inspiration in the face of love and loss, lesson and letting go in the directions that make space for that which we desire to become and draw deep into our very souls is the lesson of the Muse. A Muse shows up at her whim if you do not have a practice of listening for her, actively invoking her spaces in between, or calling out in sheer readiness to have creativity take you by the hand. Her regular arrival is insured if you meet her where she meets you, at the pivotal places of perspective in the movement of NOW.

This moment of now exists BECAUSE of the past and for the HOPE of your future. Move for that. Act for that. Speak for that. Live for that fullness of time and from the true seat of learning from lessons and loss and love in past moments that serve the evolution of life as you turn yourself towards your highest tomorrow. All of that occurs from the seat you take in the NOW and HOW you twist it back upon itself to creatively see HOW you are affected by the time and space and activation of inspiration in this present perspective. How will you use what the Muse gives you? Will you listen? Will you let the past heal or embitter you? Will you ignore her creative impulses for a future that aligns you to your most fantastic dreams, no matter how far fetched or scary they may seem? Will you take a chance on the voice IN YOUR HEART, BODY, MIND? The second you let the moment of now be nurtured by the fullness of her reflection, she smiles. She asks you to return to her voice with an open ear.

Create a relationship to her within practices of activating inspiration. Do this is ANY OTHER way than haphazard, meet yourself on the mat, on the page, on your meditation cushion or curled up with a tea. Be there and listen to what gurgles, pops, cracks, or screams you more alive from inside.

From there, act, reach out, touch, and reflect the active grace the world most desperately needs you to live.

Invoking, Activating, and Moving with the Muse,

Shan

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