Muse: A Space for Connection, Growth, and Healing
Research shows that the number one predictor of a long and happy life is having warm social connections. Muse is a unique space where individuals can build those connections while also working toward personal and professional goals.
Muse blends individual wellness with community engagement by offering a beautiful, welcoming environment for both professional services and social gatherings. From dance and painting classes to knitting circles, mental health workshops, and wellness retreats, Muse nurtures mental, physical, and social well-being through approachable and affordable programming.
Our services include arts-based clinical mental health therapy grounded in research, massage therapy, and a range of community events focused on health and connection. We aim to foster a strong community presence through workshops, social dance events, and creative group activities that promote joy, self-expression, and mutual support.
With a focus on fun and holistic health, Muse is designed to engage the body, enrich the mind, inspire the soul, and support healing and personal growth. More than a wellness center, Muse is a place where people come to feel whole, forge meaningful relationships, and be truly inspired.
Loneliness is a Public Health Crisis
Muse: A Space to Heal, Connect, and Grow
🧠 Clinical Mental Health Services
💆 Massage Therapy & Bodywork
🎨 Creative Classes & Workshops
🫶 Community Events & Retreats
With a myriad of services housed together, there is increased sense of privacy as others would not know if a client is visiting Muse for a massage, art class, mental health counseling, or even sitting in the inviting space to do work (and in the future enjoy coffee or tea).
By incorporating the arts, massage, group and individual sessions, and social events, there is a diverse approach one’s health concerns, and with this, an increased chance of building a relationship to facilitate meaningful change within an individual while also creating many opportunities for meaningful social connections to form (an element which is often lacking in other establishments, despite it being a crucial element of well-being).
Helping People Thrive, Together
Join Us in Building Muse
Founder and primary therapist: Jenny Eish, LPCC, R-DMT, Somatic therapist, internationally recognized dance artist, Dance Masters of America certified dance instructor
Founding member, Jenny Eish is a board certified licensed professional clinical counselor (LPCC), registered dance/movement therapist (R-DMT), and somatic therapist. Due to her licenses, insurance can be accepted for individual as well as group therapy sessions and workshops, which helps connect to a broad client base. She has experience with a wide age range as well as diagnoses and is also a member of multiple dance communities in the greater Cleveland area.
Her history with working internationally and maintaining connections will support drawing in guest therapists and instructors from around the globe. She leads a team of local licensed professionals, including fellow mental health counselors, licensed massage therapists, somatic movement therapists, and professional dance instructors and qualified local artists.
With many years of experience in facilitating healing through dance/movement, seamlessly blended with a wide scope of therapeutic techniques and philosophies, she is eager to help others grow and create a lives more in line with their dreams while they themselves gain a greater sense of peace and feeling whole. Her passion for working with both groups and individuals helps draw on the nuanced benefits which come from learning and engaging with peers as well as through the security of individual sessions. She is skilled at creating safe spaces where people are invited to explore, learn, and grow. Muse Be Inspired will be the tangible, embodied space where all people will be welcome to come and engage the body, enrich the mind, inspire the soul, and heal the whole.
Gokhan Baltaolgu: massage therapist
Gokhan is fully licensed in advanced therapeutic massage technique with a thirst for continued learning of new techniques which may benefit clients. Passionately driven to support clients in understanding how their body connects to overall improved health, and addressing a variety of conditions through the healing power of massage, Gokhan’s warm hands and big heart help him connect to clients and create a safe, enjoyable environment to address issues which have somatized in the body.
Reuben Angelo: introduction to Argentine Tango Instructor
Reuben had been an avid Argentine Tango dancer for over 10 years and has had the honor of performing locally with a variety of partners as well as in Detroit and Erie. He has taught at Brooklyn Heights Community center as well as Viva Dance studio for The Cleveland Tango School, and continues to be available for private lessons. Some of the most influential instructors he has had the honor of learning from are Gianpiero Galdi and Maria Filali, Gabriel El Huracan, and Alberto Ramos Cordero and Michaela Colleen Barrett of The Cleveland Tango School. His social dancing background also includes early hip hop dancing, and salsa.
His admiration for the Muse intentions are reflective of how he identifies with life. Through connection and the surrender to the music of Life, one (or in social dancing two) can become aligned with not only another soul but one's own mind and heart. Dance is another way to allow healing to happen and strengthen your highest self.
Crystal Merkly: personal assistant to Jenny Eish and the primary organizer of community events and workshops. With experience as a residential and commercial realtor, Crystal is a master of networking, researching, and pulling together many elements while efficiently maintaining concise documentation.
Once a location is secured other members of the team will be added.
Muse be inspired is a privately held corporation. It is registered in Ohio as a state S-corporation, with Jenny Eish, LPCC, R-DMT, Somatic therapist, as sole proprietor.
Ready to contribute to making Muse happen so we can improve and even save lives?
Your support and contributions will enable us to secure a building and make necessary renovations, furnish offices, and open our doors, so we can start changing lives, one thought, one movement, one moment of connection, one heartfelt laugh at a time.