Mia Muse is a platform for you to explore your desire, eroticism and self-expression.

We offer workshops, somatic educational tools, courses, provocative conversations, sex toys, writing and art — all designed to nurture and expand your relationship with your body and your pleasure.

We believe that the pursuit of pleasure, in all its natural abundance, is an act of resistance against the oppressive structures we are born into — no matter what body you’re in or who you love to explore with.

Mia Muse was created in 2008 by founder Vanessa Muradian and is constantly evolving and responding to the changing landscape of sexuality. The world we live in is more curious and open to sexuality and our relationship to it than ever before... and we are here for it!

Mia Muse was born out of the frustration with the lack of spaces available for women to safely express their sexuality and feel connected with themselves and others. True to its beginnings Mia Muse continues to create a space to gather, explore, liberate and celebrate femme desire, kinks and pleasure safely and authentically.

Your pleasure is your freedom. Your life is your foreplay.

Vanessa Muradian

Founder of Mia Muse

Vanessa (she/they) is a sexologist, yoga teacher, speaker, community facilitator and pleasure activist of Armenian and Anglo-Australian descent living, loving and working on the unceded lands of the Kulin nation. Their work is grounded in the belief that the pursuit of pleasure is an act of resistance and a liberatory practice.

In 2008, conscious of the need for spaces for women to connect and explore their sexuality — and yearning for this herself — Vanessa founded Mia Muse. In this early conception, Mia Muse was primarily a sex-toy store and Vanessa a “fuck-erware” party host — but, naturally, these parties turned into confessional spaces. Seeing first-hand how rife shame and trauma were in discussions that centred around women’s sexuality, Vanessa decided to study sexology.

Since then, Mia Muse has continued to follow the trajectory of Vanessa’s personal evolution as they explore their relationship to their own body, gender expressions, sexuality, spirituality, and the shadows of the self. Now — though still rooted in the cultivation and care of community — Mia Muse is an expanded space with its many offerings united by a common commitment to collective healing and pleasure through embodiment.

At the heart of Vanessa’s work is a question. They ask: how can we more fully access the abundance of pleasure that is possible in our bodies, in our lives? As with any good question, it’s not about an answer — but, instead, a commitment to a slow, relational and wildly nonlinear process.

Guest speaking & events

Vanessa Muradian (she/they) is one of Australia’s leading sexologists and pleasure activists; an invigorating, thought-provoking and inspiring speaker who loves sharing accessible yet ground-breaking ideas on sexuality, body intelligence, health and wellbeing. Vanessa’s wisdom has been nurtured by a full, dynamic life and 13 years in the sex and wellness industry (an industry Vanessa was pivotal in helping create within Australia).

In 2019, Vanessa spoke at the Melbourne Writer’s Festival, Superbloom Wellness Festival and was a regular panelist at The Wheeler Centre’s - Take It From Me, a sex and dating advice panel. Most recently, in between lockdowns Vanessa spoke at Midsumma Festival, MPavillion and Monash IVF’s online fertility retreat. Vanessa is an entertaining and charismatic spokesperson for media, private events and professional trainings in the yoga, sex and wellness industries.

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