The Daily Muse
The Daily Muse
Jessica Kung Dreyfus
Welcome to the best of The Daily Muse morning meditations. When quarantine began, Jessica Kung Dreyfus began offering daily morning meditations to support the process of navigating the inner landscape. Bringing together consciousness and creativity, leave the experience feeling inspired to create. Each meditation is around 45 minutes with a short description at the beginning. Some of the meditations require previous experience with meditation, others are for all levels. For more information or to tune in for the live experience M-F at 7am PST, visit us at makeconscious.com
Lunar New Year: Spring Couplets
Join Make Conscious to celebrate the Year of the Water Rabbit through a meditation on six traditional spring couplets. 
Feb 1, 2023
57 min
Genius Loci x Genius Gens
Tune into a moment of the Make Conscious Circle: Decolonizing Ancestral Landscapes. This episode offers a taste of the meditation on Genius Loci and Genius Gens - the connection between spirit of the land and spirit of the ancestors.  As we make our holiday plans and slow down, this is an invitation to explore the realms of consciousness that lie beneath the surface of our life and work.    An ancestral landscape holds within it family histories and stories of the land of our ancestors. Whether you come from Asia, Africa, Europe, Australia, South America, Canada...the land of your ancestry intersects both with what remains and the legacy of erasure of culture, language, and history. As a graduate of a Western architecture school, it has been a 20 year journey to recognize the erasure of Chinese indigenous cultural narratives and building practices and regenerate a relationship to ancestral cultural traditions, paradigms, and cosmologies within my own psyche and creative process. In the process of reclaiming my own, I have had the opportunity to collaborate with and support the reclamation of cultures, ornament, and guides all over the world and become not just a designer but a steward-in-training of global ancestral architectures and landscapes. Though decolonization begins with your own consciousness and the inner landscape, we are not in this alone. Collective consciousness is collective solidarity. As you meet your ancestors, we meet them too. Investigating our collective Ancestral landscapes is a direct line to the reclamation of power and lost lineages, geometries, languages and transmissions for the benefit of the next seven generations.  Rebuild the matrix, regenerate the cosmos, and renew the earth. - Jessica Kung, Founder of Make Conscious
Dec 17, 2022
47 min
Conscious Eve 2021-2022
Conscious Eve 12.31.21 7-8:30am PST Honor and Celebrate the Eve and the New in a communal space of reflection. Experience a guided journey through 2021 that intentionally seeds 2022. 45 minutes meditation 20 minutes guided journaling
Dec 31, 2021
1 hr 18 min
Expanding into Your Phenomenal Body
This is a deep dive follow up to the previous meditation, "What is the story of your body?" In this meditation we traverse the structures of consciousness that create your inter-relational and multi-dimensional body. Explore how a simple affirmation of what your body is can effloresce through time and space to generate a cosmic body. Your body is a portal to the cosmos.   Note: In the last minute of the meditation a 4 year old has a cameo. www.makeconscious.com
Sep 3, 2021
36 min
What is the story of your body?
How do you experience your body? How do you connect to energy? Join Jessica Kung Dreyfus for a 40 minute introduction to your phenomenal body. Excerpt: "What is the story of your body? You have one. You have constructed a narrative around your body. As you look at the narrative, look at how it's not actually a part of your body. That's the most fascinating thing. It's like in your mind. We'll try that a couple times. Examine the narrative that you tell. Look at how that story isn't actually in your body. It's a mental construct."
Sep 3, 2021
38 min
The Prism of Relationship
How we relate to ourselves, our land, and each other can become prisms of light. In this meditation, we are integrating the rainbow light. (pictured here) Just as this rainbow is directed into the earth, we are bringing the rainbow light into our own selves and spheres of influence.  To join the Daily Muse live stream, visit www.makeconscious.com Level: Intermediate Note: There are some birds and wind in the background. 
Jun 9, 2021
49 min
Phenomenal Mind
Reengage with phenomena through the ancient view of mind, consciousness, and perception. The Eastern view of elements are not static or solid, but constantly in a state of motion. Yin/Yang is not static, it is moving. Shift your mind from the tendency to grasp to objects, and awaken your organs of sense and perception to the flow of transformation.  Level: Intermediate, 40 min
May 17, 2021
38 min
Reframing Consciousness through Dismantling Cartesian Constructs
“The blindness of the contemporary urban world to everything that is not itself, to nature, most of all…is a highly dangerous condition.” — Vincent Scully We can only see what our social and environmental structures of consciousness allow us to see. To open our horizons, look first at how we have been limited by 17th century notions of reality. How has a Cartesian world view, and x,y coordinate system limited our ability to experience the real? In this meditation we come up against the mind/body complex and encounter our underlying belief systems. Recognizing our limiting beliefs seeds the beginning of dismantling them. Level: Intermediate/Advanced, 40min Jessica Kung Dreyfus www.makeconscious.com
May 7, 2021
40 min
Introduction to Mapping
Learning to Map your mind/body begins with developing a sense of your perimeter, your center, and your ground. In this meditation we establish the foundational tools to consciously orient ourselves within our own embodied form.  Level: All Levels
Apr 13, 2021
51 min
Discovering Genius Loci
What is your connection to place? How is your identity shaped by land? In this meditation we start to develop awareness around previously unconsidered relationships to place and land.  Meditation Level: Intermediate, 45min
Mar 30, 2021
50 min
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