The Science of Creativity
An Artist’s Course for Creative Insight
With Jenness Cortez and Leonard Perlmutter
“Faithfully practicing this curriculum
has enabled me to develop my skills in every
aspect of the art of visual communication.”
– Jenness Cortez
A Six-Week Course for Every Kind of Creator
The Science of Creativity is a six-week experiential course—offered live on Zoom or in person—for artists of every discipline:
painters, writers, musicians, dancers, teachers, entrepreneurs, healers, parents—and anyone committed to living a conscious, meaningful life.
This course teaches a simple but profound truth:
Creativity does not arise from personality or effort alone.
It arises from inner coherence.
When the mind’s powers are coordinated, intuition, clarity, and confidence naturally emerge.
A Six-Week Course for Every Kind of Creator
The Science of Creativity is a six-week experiential course—offered live on Zoom or in person—for artists of every discipline:
painters, writers, musicians, dancers, teachers, entrepreneurs, healers, parents—and anyone committed to living a conscious, meaningful life.
This course teaches a simple but profound truth:
Creativity does not arise from personality or effort alone.
It arises from inner coherence.
When the mind’s powers are coordinated, intuition, clarity, and confidence naturally emerge.
The Science of Creativity
Unlock your potential —
Discover intuition, clarity, and confidence.
With Master Artist Jenness Cortez
and Yoga Scientist Leonard Perlmutter
6 Week Course
In-Person or ZOOM | $795
Wednesdays @ 6:30–8:30pm ET
September 23 – October 28
The Science of Creativity
Unlock your potential —
Discover intuition, clarity, and confidence.
With Master Artist Jenness Cortez and Yoga Scientist Leonard Perlmutter
6 Week Course
In-Person or ZOOM | $795
Wednesdays
6:30–8:30pm ET
September 23 – October 28
How Creativity Really Works
Rooted in the time-tested principles of Yoga Science, this course reveals how creativity develops through the integration of the Four Functions of the Mind:
• Ego
• Senses
• Unconscious
• Conscience
When these forces are understood and harmonized, creative insight can be:
• received
• trusted
• skillfully expressed
• Ego
• Senses
• Unconscious
• Conscience
When these forces are understood and harmonized, creative insight can be:
• received
• trusted
• skillfully expressed
From Practice to Creative Power
The course integrates the proven tools of the American Meditation Institute’s Foundation Course for Life, including:
• one-pointed attention
• discrimination (Conscience)
• detachment
• willpower
These practices are then applied directly to the creative process. You will learn how to —
transform the energy of your thoughts, words, and actions into clarity, creativity, and steady confidence.
From Practice to Creative Power
The course integrates the proven tools of the American Meditation Institute’s Foundation Course for Life, including:
• one-pointed attention
• discrimination (Conscience)
• detachment
• willpower
These practices are then applied directly to the creative process. You will learn how to —
transform the energy of your thoughts, words, and actions into clarity, creativity, and steady confidence.
Where Art, Craft, and Consciousness Meet
This course is offered through the Jenness Cortez Teaching Museum—a place where art becomes a living laboratory for understanding how creativity unfolds.
Here, creativity is not limited to artistic production. It becomes a way of:
• thinking
• choosing
• living
The Result
Students learn to work with:
• greater ease
• greater resilience
• greater joy
Because they are no longer forcing creativity—they are learning how to receive and guide it.
Where Art, Craft, and Consciousness Meet
This course is offered through the Jenness Cortez Teaching Museum—a place where art becomes a living laboratory for understanding how creativity unfolds.
Here, creativity is not limited to artistic production. It becomes a way of:
• thinking
• choosing
• living
The Result
Students learn to work with:
• greater ease
• greater resilience
• greater joy
Because they are no longer forcing creativity—they are learning how to receive and guide it.
A Universal Principle
This course demonstrates that creativity is not limited to the arts. It is a universal human capacity that can be consciously cultivated and applied in every field of action—personally and professionally.
When the mind is aligned with Conscience, our ENERGY becomes steady, our WILLPOWER becomes reliable, and our growing CREATIVITY becomes the gifts we offer to the world.
When the mind is aligned with Conscience, our ENERGY becomes steady, our WILLPOWER becomes reliable, and our growing CREATIVITY becomes the gifts we offer to the world.
Take the Path to a More
Creative and Rewarding Life
Each class combines practical teaching and experiential application. You will learn how your mind works and how to build habits that support:
• physical well-being
• mental clarity
• emotional balance
• creative abundance
Course Curriculum —
Week 1: YOGA SCIENCE & MANTRA SCIENCE
- An educational body of knowledge for health & healing
- How to access the “Super-Conscious” mind
- Understanding pain as an agent for healing
- Increasing energy, will power and creativity
- The power of desire & attention
- Creative actions rather than reactionary responses
- Antidotes for worry, stress and depression
- Introduction to Mantra Science
Week 2: AMI MEDITATION (Seated Silent Meditation & "Meditation-in-Action")
- Systematic procedure for seated meditation
- How to diminish distractions
- Training one-pointed attention for creativity
- The One-Minute-Meditation
- Meditation-in-Action: using what you’ve learned to respond skillfully when you’re emotionally triggered
- The world’s greatest mantras and how to use them
- How mantra vibrations promote health
Week 3: BREATH AS MEDICINE
- The meaning of prana (life force)
- How breathing irregularities foster dis-ease
- Diaphragmatic breathing for pulmonary health
- Complete (three-part) yogic breath
- The health promoting powers of the Vagus Nerve
- Yogic postures for healthy breathing
- Alternate nostril breathing for energy & psychological balance, and access to higher consciousness
Week 4: YOGA PSYCHOLOGY
- Coordinating the Four Functions of the Mind
- Managing thoughts, desires and emotions
- How to experience freedom from fear
- The power of the present moment
- Balancing the four primitive urges
- Anatomy of your real being
- Building and healing relationships
- How to deal with internal weather patterns
Week 4: EASY-GENTLE YOGA & AYURVEDA
- The meaning of prana (life force)
- How breathing irregularities foster dis-ease
- Diaphragmatic breathing for pulmonary health
- Complete (three-part) yogic breath
- The health promoting powers of the Vagus Nerve
- Yogic postures for healthy breathing
- Alternate nostril breathing for energy & psychological balance, and access to higher consciousness
Week 6: MIND-BODY-SPIRIT SELF-CARE PLAN
- The practical benefit of contemplation
- Creating a personal therapeutic care plan
- Learning to budget your time
- Integrating spiritual beliefs
- The healing power of prayer
- How to keep a meditation practice going & working for you
- Ways to keep a meditation practice regular, productive and rewarding
Creativity in Every Field of Action
The PAINTER choosing between trend and truth…
The PHYSICIAN making decisions under pressure…
The ENTREPRENEUR navigating uncertainty…
The TEACHER shaping understanding…
The PARENT responding with patience and care…
All encounter the same inner experience:
• ENERGY scattering or focusing
• WILL POWER strengthening or weaking
• CREATIVITY flowing or diminishing
In every field, creativity depends not on talent alone, but on inner alignment—the coordination of attention, intention, and wisdom.
Reserve Your Spot — Next Course:
September 23 – October 28
Take the Path to a More
Creative and Rewarding Life
Each class combines practical teaching and experiential application. You will learn how your mind works and how to build habits that support:
• physical well-being
• mental clarity
• emotional balance
• creative abundance
Course Curriculum —
Week 1: YOGA SCIENCE & MANTRA SCIENCE
- An educational body of knowledge for health & healing
- How to access the “Super-Conscious” mind
- Understanding pain as an agent for healing
- Increasing energy, will power and creativity
- The power of desire & attention
- Creative actions rather than reactionary responses
- Antidotes for worry, stress and depression
- Introduction to Mantra Science
Week 2: AMI MEDITATION (Seated Silent Meditation & "Meditation-in-Action")
- Systematic procedure for seated meditation
- How to diminish distractions
- Training one-pointed attention for creativity
- The One-Minute-Meditation
- Meditation-in-Action: using what you’ve learned to respond skillfully when you’re emotionally triggered
- The world’s greatest mantras and how to use them
- How mantra vibrations promote health
Week 3: BREATH AS MEDICINE
- The meaning of prana (life force)
- How breathing irregularities foster dis-ease
- Diaphragmatic breathing for pulmonary health
- Complete (three-part) yogic breath
- The health promoting powers of the Vagus Nerve
- Yogic postures for healthy breathing
- Alternate nostril breathing for energy & psychological balance, and access to higher consciousness
Week 4: YOGA PSYCHOLOGY
- Coordinating the Four Functions of the Mind
- Managing thoughts, desires and emotions
- How to experience freedom from fear
- The power of the present moment
- Balancing the four primitive urges
- Anatomy of your real being
- Building and healing relationships
- How to deal with internal weather patterns
Week 4: EASY-GENTLE YOGA & AYURVEDA
- The meaning of prana (life force)
- How breathing irregularities foster dis-ease
- Diaphragmatic breathing for pulmonary health
- Complete (three-part) yogic breath
- The health promoting powers of the Vagus Nerve
- Yogic postures for healthy breathing
- Alternate nostril breathing for energy & psychological balance, and access to higher consciousness
Week 6: MIND-BODY-SPIRIT SELF-CARE PLAN
- The practical benefit of contemplation
- Creating a personal therapeutic care plan
- Learning to budget your time
- Integrating spiritual beliefs
- The healing power of prayer
- How to keep a meditation practice going & working for you
- Ways to keep a meditation practice regular, productive and rewarding
Creativity in Every Field of Action
The PAINTER choosing between trend and truth…
The PHYSICIAN making decisions under pressure…
The ENTREPRENEUR navigating uncertainty…
The TEACHER shaping understanding…
The PARENT responding with patience and care…
All encounter the same inner experience:
• ENERGY scattering or focusing
• WILL POWER strengthening or weaking
• CREATIVITY flowing or diminishing
In every field, creativity depends not on talent alone, but on inner alignment—the coordination of attention, intention, and wisdom.
Reserve Your Spot — Next Course:
September 23 – October 28
What You Will Learn
This course teaches artists of every discipline how to:
✔ discipline and clarify perception
✔ calm the reactive mind
✔ strengthen intuitive wisdom
✔ develop concentration and willpower
These are the very skills most people seek—but rarely find in traditional education.
Learn Directly from JENNESS CORTEZ and LEONARD PERLMUTTER (RAM LEV)
Jenness shares over 50 years of artistic experience, including:
- How she sees and composes, and how these intuitive skills can be expanded
- How she has successfully discovered and continues to develop her own latent gifts
- How she employs mantra to steady her focus of attention
- How she consciously quiets the ego to contact inspiration and build stamina in the creative process
- How she evaluates her work through the kind and infinitely practical wisdom of the Conscience
- How she maintains physical energy while working long hours
- How she applies the Four Functions of the Mind creatively in her work and in all aspects of daily life
Leonard (Ram Lev) shares his decades of experience in teaching Yoga Science, including:
- How he trains the mind to develop one-pointed attention
- How he uses his mantra to manifest love, fearlessness and strength
- How he cultivates intuitive wisdom from the Conscience to guide wise choices
- How he helps students understand and coordinate the Four Functions of the Mind
- How he applies the formula D = E + W + C—so Energy, Willpower and Creativity will flow directly from Desire
- How he benefits from seated AMI Meditation® and “AMI Meditation-in-Action”
- How he develops willpower, steadiness, and inner freedom every day
What You Will Learn
This course teaches artists of every discipline how to:
✔ discipline and clarify perception
✔ calm the reactive mind
✔ strengthen intuitive wisdom
✔ develop concentration and willpower
These are the very skills most people seek—but rarely find in traditional education.
Learn Directly from JENNESS CORTEZ and LEONARD PERLMUTTER (RAM LEV)
Jenness shares over 50 years of artistic experience, including:
- How she sees and composes, and how these intuitive skills can be expanded
- How she has successfully discovered and continues to develop her own latent gifts
- How she employs mantra to steady her focus of attention
- How she consciously quiets the ego to contact inspiration and build stamina in the creative process
- How she evaluates her work through the kind and infinitely practical wisdom of the Conscience
- How she maintains physical energy while working long hours
- How she applies the Four Functions of the Mind creatively in her work and in all aspects of daily life
Leonard (Ram Lev) shares his decades of experience in teaching Yoga Science, including:
- How he trains the mind to develop one-pointed attention
- How he uses his mantra to manifest love, fearlessness and strength
- How he cultivates intuitive wisdom from the Conscience to guide wise choices
- How he helps students understand and coordinate the Four Functions of the Mind
- How he applies the formula D = E + W + C—so Energy, Willpower and Creativity will flow directly from Desire
- How he benefits from seated AMI Meditation® and “AMI Meditation-in-Action”
- How he develops willpower, steadiness, and inner freedom every day
✨ A Course for Every Artist
This curriculum holds value for every kind of creator.
Because in truth: Every human being is an artist.
When we learn to coordinate the mind’s powers and access our inner wisdom, creativity becomes natural, reliable, and meaningful.
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ARTISTS IN
THE TRADITIONAL SENSE
Painters
Sculptors
Illustrators
Museum Curators
Graphic designers
Photographers
Filmmakers
Actors
Dancers
Choreographers
Musicians
Composers
Singers
Poets
Novelists
Playwrights
Screenwriters
Architects
Fashion designers
Craft artists / artisans
ARTISTS OF
SCIENCE & DISCOVERY
Scientists
Researchers
Engineers
Inventors
Mathematicians
Medical professionals
Biologists
Physicists
Environmentalists
Astrophysicists
Each of these individuals “creates” new understanding and insight — artistry at the highest level.
ARTISTS OF
HUMAN RELATIONSHIP
Parents /Grandparents
Caregivers
Counselors
Therapists
Social workers
Mediators
Community organizers
Clergy and spiritual guides
Politicians
ARTISTS OF
COMMUNICATION & EDUCATION
Teachers
Professors
Early childhood educators
Public speakers
Storytellers
Editors
Curriculum designers
Librarians
Museum directors
ARTISTS OF
DAILY LIFE
Cooks
Hosts
Gardeners
Volunteers
Anyone practicing conscious and discriminating decision-making
Anyone transforming old faulty habits into freedom
Anyone consciously refining the visionary art of living
This last group reflects the deepest teaching: an inner curriculum for creativity
ARTISTS OF
BUSINESS & LEADERSHIP
Entrepreneurs
Business Owners
Innovators
Lawyers
Accountants
Organizational leaders
Secretaries
Strategists
Designers of systems
Philanthropists
Project managers
Marketing creatives
Financial planners
Policy makers
Leadership itself is an art — shaping possibilities from purified vision.
ARTISTS OF
HEALING & WELL-BEING
Physicians
NPs, PAs, Nurses
Osteopaths
Psychologists
Chiropractors
Acupuncturists
Physical therapists
Yoga teachers
Meditation instructors
Ayurvedic practitioners
Nutritionists
Massage therapists
Bodyworkers
Personal Trainers
Healing is a creative act requiring intuition, attention, and compassion.
ARTISTS OF
THE BUILT WORLD
Carpenters
Builders
Planners
Landscapers
Gardeners
Urban designers
Interior designers
Craftspeople
Truck drivers
Blacktop pavers
They literally shape space, harmony, and experience.
ARTISTS OF
UNIFORMED SERVICES
Police
Soldiers
Sailors
Marines
Airmen
Security guards
Guardians and protectors making skillful, personal sacrifices to support the security and wellbeing of all
ARTISTS OF
TECHNOLOGY
Software developers
UX designers
Animators
Game designers
Virtual reality creators
AI researchers
Digital storytellers
Technology is a canvas; coding is choreography.