The Center
The Center is where it all begins to take real shape - ideas get woven into projects, intentions transform into actions and the experience begins.
MSC's offerings all share a common thread - the promotion of self development. MSC is a school in the most fundamental of arts, that of self observation through floating and meditaion, self-reflection through the community lounge, physical wellness through yoga and martial arts, dialogue through public talks and live podcasts and last but not least, social responsibility through sustainable lifestyle products & social services.
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others - Mahatma Gandhi
MSC's most unique forum is, perhaps, the social one, as it creates space for expounding upon life's most compelling ideas, philosophies and perspectives. As our modern social paradigm is focused on making money to ensure survival, it is MSC's goal to explore the other aspects of survival often left out, those most directly related to quality of life & experience. From that regard, MSC is not a school with a designed curriculum or the answers, but rather a school where each individual finds the answers that most authentically resonates with his/her self, because as we all must know, perspective is relative.
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Community Lounge
Designed as a place to convene, connect, lounge & engage in dialogue, the community space is where sum of the parts becomes greater than the whole.
The simplest ideas are perhaps the ones that are most obviously missing in our society. Public discourse is non-existent and in fact quite shocking when it does take place, not because it is a strange thing, but because we've forgotten how to engage in dialogue & discourse for the pleasure of it. Philosophy, is slowly becoming a lost art as information overload about irrelevant content filling up the cup of our mind.
Float Center & Sauna
As one of the most powerful tools for restoring and revitalizing your total well being, Float Tanks have been taking people to cloud 9 since the 60's. As an added bonus, the facility will include an InfraRed sauna, knows for it's benefits in naturally detoxing the body.
Pioneer John C. Lily created the first float tank (aka flotation tank, sensory deprivation tank, or isolation tank) in the 1960s, and since then, happy floaters have been experiencing the multitude of benefits, empowering both their mind and bodies to find balance, health and vitality. Innumerable health benefits aside, floating is a particularly impactful tool for meditators, as it them direct access to theta brain waves, a elusive state which takes Zen meditators years master.
Education
We live in a world where information and shared knowledge is near limitless, yet one must ask the question about the validity of the information. MSC's educational forum is centered around the mind/body arts, mediation, martial arts & philosophy through classes, lectures and live podcasting.
A second important aspect of MSC's educational platform is face to face interactivity. In the abundance of over-information, we often find the retention of any valuable information to be lost in the sea of useless tidbits of irrelevant fact and events. Keeping our eye on the impact of these mental loops is an art of its own. Our mental filters have to become all the more robust to regain our peace of mind in an age where every street corner is crowded with bands and billboards selling us one thing or another, with the promise of being the "missing thing" in our life. MSC's missing is to help each individual identify that for him/herself.
Public Services
As a 501c3 non-profit organization, MSC mission includes the establishment of public service programs because we strongly believe that the health of the community and the individual are intrinsically intertwined.
Our public service programs are focused on the same key principles of MSC's other services, however are offered at no charge. With funding from the float facility, federal grants and donations, these services will be the foundation of Modern Social Center and reestablish the direct relationship between self development and community service.
MIND/BODY
Wellness
MSC's wellness programs are focused on Taoist philosophies / practices of meditation. Free mediation classes, yoga classes and public lectures, will be offered to re-harmonize the mind & body.
Community
building
Though we are more connected then ever via the internet & social media, studies show rising rates of real world social isolation. The community has disintegrated. We aim to rebuild it.
Social
Responsibility
The intricate relationship between the environment, health and wellbeing is no longer in doubt. Through educational seminars and sustainable products, MSC aims to promote the natural way!
Creative
Thinking
We're all born with it, some lose it along the way & rediscover it later in life. MSC's goal is to create an environment to optimize the rate of re-discovery and mastery of this single life altering skill.