Grateful Muse: Unlocking Your Creative Calling - by Karen Kohler

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Grateful Muse: Unlocking Your Creative Calling

With Karen Kohler

If you're ready to gain clarity around a creative venture, if you're embarking on a new path and meeting resistance, if you're sensing untapped potential in your authentic self-expression, or if you're just wishing to cultivate more magic in the manifestation of your dreams, this course is for you. Cycles of creativity are comprised of several key elements and touchstone tools: Inscribing your Intention, Hearing and Affirming the Call, Channeling Inspiration and Surveying Past Selves and Passions, Witnessing Emotions of Resistance, Cultivating Ritual in your Practice, Sharing the Gold, and Resting in Gratitude. I hope you'll join me on a week-long journey of unlocking your newest creative calling and invoking your grateful muse.

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Meet your Teacher

Karen Kohler
Brooklyn, NY, USA

Internationally celebrated singer-actress Karen Kohler lives for the unconventional in art and love. She emigrated to the U.S. from Germany as a child, married her college sweetheart and was being paid handsomely in stock options when the call to performance seized her. Karen is passionate about storytelling. She is an avid writer and sought-after director who lectures at the university level in the art of stagecraft and who guides a diversity of artists in fulfilling their creative calling. As a life-long artist, Karen is intimately familiar with both creative highs and the kind of struggle that is in the nature of creative cycles: how we're sometimes at a loss as to where to begin in manifesting our intention, how we can second-guess ourselves when we're faced with multiple choices, and how, when in the grip of fear and doubt, we're prone to procrastination. Here she shares her wisdom and process using these touchstone tools.

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7 Days

902 students

4.8 stars

10 min / day

Abundance

English

Lesson 1

Inscribing Your Intention

An important task for invoking your muse at the start of any creative venture is to Inscribe Your Intention. Every creative act begins as an intention that then crystallizes within you. What is it you want to experience and achieve through this next creative act? Stating your objective aligns you with your purpose and serves as an anchor should you find yourself drifting off course.

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Lesson 2

Hearing And Affirming The Call

You've heard a call, followed it, found your way here and with your Yes, you've affirmed it. Today we revisit this idea of a call or calling. A calling is a strong impulse, a thirst or a yearning toward a particular way of life, a pursuit, a craft, a goal, a purpose. It's something we feel driven to be and to do. By affirming the call to express what you love and what you came for, you awaken your muse who transforms your calling into action and effort.

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Lesson 3

Channeling Inspiration And Surveying Past Selves And Passions

After hearing and affirming your call, you next open your creative channel. With your Yes, you welcomed your muse and inspiration now begins to flow. The important thing is to look upon channeling as a gift to be received, not a duty to be fulfilled or something to aim for and solve. In stepping back and taking a life review, you uncover markers that your past selves have left for your future selves to find. Breadcrumbs as it were. Reacquainting yourself with the path you've already traveled can itself be a revelation.

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Lesson 4

Witnessing Emotions Of Resistance

You'll know your own potential for greatness when you start seeing the perfection in all of your characteristics and begin to reframe your personal narrative. When you regard emotions of resistance as expressions of your divine nature, they become co-creators in the manifestation of your will and desire. By simply seeing them with compassion and owning them, you recognize the vital role they play in your expansion and evolution.

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Lesson 5

Cultivating Ritual In Your Practice

Ritual draws out our potency by quieting the outside noise so we can better attune to our inner guide. Our muse thrives on ritual and helping us endow our daily acts with traits of sacredness. You already have your own ritual around work, mealtime, waking and sleeping, parenting and other caregiving, exercise, meditation, athletics, entertainment. Assess what purpose your rituals are serving in helping you in your creativity and choose which ones you'll keep and which you'll let go.

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Lesson 6

Sharing The Gold

Part of captaining your purpose and steering your destiny is to share the truths you've lived. Up to now, you've been the reacher - hearing, affirming, opening, surveying, witnessing, recognizing and creating ritual. Now you're ready to touch the web of connection and go public with your gifts. In sharing the treasure you've unearthed, the gold, you let your genius out of the bottle.

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Lesson 7

Resting In Gratitude

We end our course today with gratitude. Giving thanks is the most important tool in the art of living. It is an act of humility and grace. If all the other elements in the cycle of creativity are stepping stones, gratitude is the keystone upon which everything rests. By resting in gratitude, you set a new cycle of creativity in motion that will soon have you hearing and affirming the next call and invoking your muse once again.

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4.8 (33)

Recent Reviews

Sue

March 25, 2025

I enjoyed A course related to our creative endeavors.

KatieG

June 14, 2024

a beautiful and inspiring course for guidance on my path to remain in tune with my creative edge and live into it daily. Love the quote at the end! 🙏🏼❤️

Tom

May 30, 2024

Thanks. This was special. Your voice and teaching is pure gift!

Brian

March 31, 2024

Very good couse. It helped me to remember that gratitude is a huge part of creating. I am going to continue being grateful and finding out who I am by being open to the call of my heart and intuition to get out of my self driven ego. I will work on creating more Love.

Lynn

March 19, 2024

Thank you for this wise, compassionate and encouraging course.

Anne

October 30, 2023

Interesting course with lots of good advice and exercises to help with meditation

Karey

October 11, 2023

Wonderful expression of magic and gratitude. I’m smiling in this experience. Thank you.

Colleen

August 23, 2023

A lovely course!

Celeste

May 28, 2023

Never made the connection of how important being grateful is. This course helped me fully appreciate how it can transform my life.

J

May 28, 2023

Inspired

Fungi

May 19, 2023

What a wonderful course. It came just at the right time for me and helped to raise the vibration of my creativity. Karen has a lovely soothing voice and she speaks wisdom in such a beautiful poetic way. I really enjoyed this and truly value what you shared, thank you 😊🙏🏾💗.

Jim

May 15, 2023

Thank you for inspiring me to heed the call of my creative muse!

Judy

May 11, 2023

A beautiful course. Thank you so much Karen for creating it, I will use it again and again! Namaste 🙏

Jody

May 10, 2023

Thank you

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