ONLINE COURSES
Know Your Muse Institute offers immersive learning that unites aesthetic philosophy with hands-on studio practice to awaken your creative source. Our flagship 12-week course blends breathwork and perception exercises with drawing and painting techniques—like our signature Spider Weave™—to help you create from presence, make friends with chaos, and embrace a contemplative “slow art” approach. Each week, live studio sessions, guided contemplations, and illuminating demos lead to insight you can translate onto the page. You’ll explore visual language and build a personal practice that sustains momentum until your next weekly session.
IN-PERSON WORKSHOPS
In-person workshops bring our contemplative studio approach into a living communal space, turning presence into line, color, and form. Starting with breathwork and perception practice, we move through gesture studies and nature-based exercises into drawing and painting. Offered as half-day intensives to multi-day retreats, these gatherings are designed for all levels of art experience.
CORPORATE TRAININGS
Visual Alchemy is our creativity and communication training for the business environment. Instead of conventional brainstorming, we use perceptual awakening—merging contemplative practice, visual art, and neuroscience—to spark insight and deepen collaboration. Guided through an eleven-stage arc from impulse to insight, participants clear mental clutter, integrate left–right modes, and translate patterns and symbols into actionable concepts. Hands-on, low-risk experiments build trust, agility, and a shared process for innovation. No artistic experience required—only curiosity and presence. Ideal for innovation, strategy, product development, leadership, and culture initiatives; delivered onsite and tailored to your business goals. Bring your team into creative flow and bring breakthroughs into the workplace.
METHODOLOGY
The Know Your Muse methodology invites you to move through the evolving stages of the creative process—from our initial intention to an aesthetic experience of heightened awareness. We prioritize experience over outcome, and intuitive insight over ideas about perfection. Rooted in aesthetic philosophy, cognitive science, and lived studio practice, our 11-stage framework offers structure without rigidity. Through awareness cultivation, openness, and curiosity—not technical prowess—you learn to let process be the teacher, feel beauty as experience rather than validation, and translate perception into expression. The result is clarity, confidence, and a renewed connection to your creative life.
