About Us

 

...musélan...

|myooz'a lan| A group of vibrant women whose purpose is to inspire others to live their lives with enthusiasm, energy and style.

Awaken to Joy is a program offered by the company, Muselan, of which Laura and Marya are founding members.  Muselan is a company created by a group of vibrant women who found joy and happiness by learning and sharing and supporting each other and now want to share what they've learned with the world. 

Our purpose is to inspire you - through classes, retreats, programs like Awaken to Joy, blogs and books and more.  Welcome!

Laura Erdman-Luntz, MA, E-RYT(500), Life Coach and Yoga Educator

Experienced Yoga Educator, inspiring Life Coach and Business Entrepreneur, Laura Erdman-Luntz has over 20 years experience in the fitness and wellness industries.  She uniquely blends her Life Coaching knowledge and vast experience with Yoga to create programs, classes and workshops that truly do bring mind and body together for positive change, inspiring people to live their most authentic life.  She incorporates New Thought ideas into classes and programs on positive living, manifesting and changing subconscious beliefs.  Her Yoga training began in 1988 and began teaching in 1992.  She has taught over 500 workshops, over 9000 hours of yoga classes, coached hundreds of clients and has trained 75 yoga teachers at the beginner and advanced level.  She has studied with Judith Hansen Lasiter, Jo Zucovitch, Ramanand Patel and others.

"I love to teach and inspire others to want to discover more joy in their lives and to live more authentically, every day.  My focus for the past 20 years has been both yoga and life coaching. I view them as very similar. In yoga I go through people’s bodies to get to their hearts and in coaching I go through their minds."

Moments That Made Me Who I Am:

• Having children...I have never had anything that has prompted me to want to be a more compassionate, joyful, and loving human more than they do. My husband, Ron, and I have two gorgeous children, Sierra (7 years) and Zack (5 years).
• Reading the quote: "Fill the rest of your life with your dreams and live the unforgettable." (Fyodor Dostovsky)
• Meeting my yoga teacher in 1992.  And the rest is history, as they say...
• Finding a man who really "gets it" and finding out he wanted me back!  (And, did I mention he is a Tai Chi master?  Yes, our house is very peaceful...most of the time...)
• Finding fellow muses to muse with me.

 

Marya Asher, RYT(500), CPT

Business entrepreneur and Yoga Educator, Marya now brings her experience and insights into the Awaken to Joy program. Combining yoga and her love of helping others, Marya is truly an inspiration.  Since 2001 she has accrued over 1500 hours teaching yoga and owned her own yoga business for 2 years. In addition to the Awaken To Joy program, she now teaches yoga and belly dancing classes . She has studied yoga with internationally known teachers Ana Forrest, Baron Baptiste, and Judith Hanson Lasater.  Most recently Marya completed training with experienced Yoga Educator Laura Erdman-Luntz and now adds 500-hour Yoga Alliance Registered Yoga Teacher to her list of credentials. She has worked in a school, a movie theater, a homeless shelter, a major insurance company, a food marketing company and a bank. She holds a Bachelors Degree in Psychology and has worked in both Human Services and Human Resources.  She has done it all and and yet feels as if she is just getting started!

"My purpose is to inspire others on their path to compassionate living."

 

Moments That Made Me Who I Am:

• Doing yoga for the first time...
• I met my husband when I was 16 years old.  We have been happily together for 20 years...really.
• We have 3 amazing children (7, 6 and 2) who teach me more than I teach them.  They are amazing.
• I garden and grow as much of our food as I can.  I start seedlings in February and preserve food in the fall as I slowly turn our yard into a garden.  Last year I grew everything from broccoli to watermelons.  Part of my dream is to live on a hobby farm and to become a holistic nutritionist.
• I have over 25 years experience in the movement arts including Tae Kwon Do, Ice Skating and many forms of dance, including ballet, tap, jazz and Middle Eastern dance in addition to Yoga.