Muse S Athena: The Brain Sensing Headband – Deep Sleep Boost, Sleep Assist and Tracking – Neurofeedback Devices for Meditation Tracking & Monitoring with EEG and fNIRS Sensors – Carbon (Dark Grey)
$474.99
Product description
At-home Biofeedback Training 
Muse is a research-grade EEG headband that acts as your personal meditation coach. Advanced sensors accurately measure your biosignals, while gentle audio cues deliver real-time feedback to bring your focus back to the present.
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Where do I Download the Muse App?
The Muse: Meditation & Sleep 4 app can be downloaded from the Apple App Store or Google Play Store. Once downloaded, create an account and subscribe to either the FREE or PREMIUM version of the app.
How do I Connect my Muse Device by Bluetooth?
To connect Muse S to the Muse app, make sure the mobile device’s Bluetooth and location services are turned on. 1. Open the Muse app to the Meditate screen. 2. Tap the Bluetooth icon in the top left corner. 3. Turn on your Muse. 4. Tap your Muse ID.
How do I properly fit my Muse Device?
To fit your headband properly, gently extend earpieces, place Muse around your head, tighten evenly until snug, and ensure forehead sensors touch skin without hair interference.
Can I use Muse with glasses?
For accurate EEG data during sensor checks and meditation, remove glasses or wear Muse first, ensuring sensor contact with ears, then place glasses over Muse.
Can I use Muse S with my own content?
Yes! With a Premium Subscription, you can use the Biofeedback+ feature to add real-time biofeedback to your favourite music, meditations, or other content.
Package Dimensions : 9.76 x 3.54 x 1.5 inches; 12 ounces
Date First Available : April 10, 2025
Manufacturer : MUSE
ASIN : B0F4F15WDD
Best Sellers Rank: #66,439 in Health & Household (See Top 100 in Health & Household) #20 in Sound Therapy Products
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Deep Sleep Boost – Newest feature designed to detect slow-wave sleep and sustain it longer for a more continuous deep sleep, supporting better physical and mental recovery. It complements the Sleep Assist feature that helps you fall asleep faster.
Longer Focus, Less Stress, More Calm – Muse S Athena is a smart brain-sensing headband designed to help you better understand your brain so you can improve focus, calm your busy mind, and develop a stronger mental fitness foundation.
Ready to use immediately — get advanced EEG + fNIRS tracking for sleep, focus, and recovery; optional Premium subscription adds AI Coach, deeper brain insights, and access to 500+ meditations.
Wearable EEG and fNIRS Biofeedback — Put on the soft, adjustable headband and position the sensors to make skin contact. Connect to the Muse app via Bluetooth, select a meditation, sleep or brain training experience, and begin to focus, relax or unwind.
Safe & Trusted — Built on years of scientific validation, Muse is trusted by neuroscientists, researchers and wellness professionals. Our award-winning SmartSense EEG sensors combined with new fNIRS technology brings the most advanced Muse experience yet.
10 reviews for Muse S Athena: The Brain Sensing Headband – Deep Sleep Boost, Sleep Assist and Tracking – Neurofeedback Devices for Meditation Tracking & Monitoring with EEG and fNIRS Sensors – Carbon (Dark Grey)
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Johnny M –
Real time mindfulness training.
This is neat!The real time ability to hear the state of your mind is fascinating.It is fun to intentionally think about something complex and here a torrent of water or a lot of wind. And then to go back to focusing on breathing and for all of it to go away and the birds to come and sing.Really helps you learn how to quickly recover and ground yourself. It’s helping me to recognize when my mind is latching onto something because there’s the aural queue that indicates it. I’m beginning to be able to associate that mental state that I’m hearing with a physically tense or emotionally charged state.
G –
Been to Mayo and…
The device was used for medical equipment during their surveys and studies. However, actually buying the device itself, it has very poor receptors unless you shave the sides of your head, as a female, there is no practical to getting accurate results. Too many problems with hair strands getting in the way and exact placement not being perfect. For someone looking to evaluate mental health and the activity in the brain this just isn’t there yet.
WJE –
I love my MUSE – Fly Owl Fly!
I am not able to successfully do guided meditations as I have Aphantasia (an blank minds eye). The Muse is just what I was looking for. The unguided meditations are perfect and I love the strength meditation to make the owl fly. The app is great and with the external audio option I can get biofeedback using other meditation apps. My only concern (thus four stars) is the long term reliability of the fabric headband. As others have suggested, I purchased an extended warranty. It would be nice if there was an option to purchase a replacement headband at a reduced price.
BR –
It does what it says it will…….
Honestly didn’t think I’d keep using it… but I am!I bought the Muse S Athena thinking it would be another thing I’d try for a week and forget about. I’ve done that with so many wearables. But I am happy with this device.At first I just wanted to try the digital sleeping pills. I’ve always been a light sleeper and I was curious if it could show me anything useful/help keep me asleep. It did. The app showed where my sleep was getting interrupted and when I was actually getting deep rest. It wasn’t perfect every night, but it made me more aware of what was messing with my sleep and the digital sleeping pills seem to help in keeping me asleep during the night (which is cool).The real surprise was how much I started using the daytime stuff. The focus and calm sessions don’t take long, but they help me reset when I’m in that mental fog. I’ll throw it on for 10 minutes before diving into something stressful and I just feel more steady after.The band is soft enough that I forget I’m wearing it. I’ve had a couple times where the connection didn’t register right away, but support helped me out quickly and it’s been smooth since.It’s not magic and it won’t fix your whole life, but it does what it says it will. And that’s rare enough for me to keep going with it.
JR –
Some good info, but very frustrating.
It works, I think. Yes it gives a readout of your sleep and Brain Waves and other items. But are they accurate? How do you read the charts? The Sleep Stages is the best chart. It measures how much REM, Light Sleep and Deep Sleep you get each night. No Idea what the Slow Wave Intensity measures. There is no scale on the chart so you have no idea what it measures. The Brainwave PowerBands should be the most important chart, but it measures the BrainWaves incorrectly. They should be measured in Hz. Instead they measure them in dB. dB measures sound. Are they listening to my brain? The link to the program on your phone is tounchy. You put on the headband and check your phone for the connection. You re-adjust the headband again and again, iuntil you get it just right. Then you lay down and you get a warning the connection was lost. Frustrating.
Brian Szucs –
Effective but badly built. Failed within months, and no short-term subscription option is offered.
I want to be very clear: this device helped me tremendously. From a meditation and awareness standpoint, the Muse S Athena is genuinely effective. The EEG feedback, metrics, and long-form session support made a real difference in my practice, and I don’t regret using it.That said — for a device that costs around $500, the physical build quality is unacceptable.I use this headband about 2 hours per day, carefully and consistently, and it began failing after 3–4 months. No drops, no abuse, no misuse — just normal, daily meditation. The materials feel fragile, strain points are obvious in hindsight, and for something designed to be worn on the head for extended periods, it simply isn’t built to last.What makes this more frustrating is that:There is no short-term or trial subscription option (not even 3 months)The hardware fails well before the price point would suggestYou’re essentially paying premium pricing for a device that behaves like a prototypeThis isn’t a “wear and tear over years” issue — this is a design and durability problem.If Muse fixed the build quality, this could be an outstanding product. The tech works. The data is useful. The meditation support is real. But right now, the physical execution doesn’t match the ambition or the cost.I hope Muse takes this feedback seriously, because the underlying product deserves better hardware.
Brad –
Focuses on meditation
Only used a few days and noticed better sleep. Focuses on meditation so if you aren’t going to use that then it’s more of a sleep tracker with some benefits
Rajiv –
Complete Disappointment. Did Not Work Out of the Box.
This item was a complete disappointment. It did not work for me at all at first, no stats showed up in the app after multiple sessions. It only started working after several attempts and wasting a lot of time troubleshooting with customer support. I own Muse 2, Muse S, and Muse S (2nd gen), and in my opinion this one is by far the worst. For almost $500 price tag, a product should work straight out of the box, not after hours of trial and error. It feels like I may have been sold a defective unit, though I can’t say for sure. I would not recommend.
The Late Reviewer –
I’ve only had my device for a few days so an early point of review.1. It seems well made but time will tell.2. I’d seen other reviews before buying and they suggested that much of the ‘real’ content is available without subscription. Well, as I traversed the menus and options I was somewhat surprised to find a great deal of the material only available with a further subscription. Yes, it’s useful without them but using external music is only available to subscribers? Is there some fundamental development cost I’m not aware of that means that can’t be just available with the device? I just want to listen to my own music? Of course, that’s the intent in the board room of these companies as little of it makes much sense to the consumer. We want to push people to a subscription so everything ‘nice’ is hidden there and the basics come with the device. This just seems a punitive call for the consumer and an attempt to ensure that any boredom with the available programs gets you into the world of subscriptions as quickly as possible.3. There’s an option to save results but they don’t go anywhere (that I’ve found) other than on the device. So if you want to see the results of your program on the small screen of your phone then that’s great as it doesn’t get pushed to the cloud where you might access detail more clearly. Nope, that would actually warrant a subscription but create costs for the company so we’re not going to do that. No apps other than mobile devices so even on the computer I can’t see what I’m apparently supposed to be seeing.4. There’s a variety of content available ‘out of the box’ and I suppose it’s enough to help train the mind and develop some skills in the areas provided. That’s obviously the most basic necessity of the Athena so no real gains to be had there.In summary, it’s a fine device but clearly the aim is to have you as a subscriber. There seems little real need for some of the content as available to sit behind a new paywall other than that’s better for the company. Pay (lots) of money per month and perhaps you’ll be happy with a new soundscape once per month. Such a shame we can’t just back to the days when I’d buy them like a game where I just gave a couple of dollars one month and got a couple of new soundscapes (or features) that took my fancy. No, they have longevity to fund and the best way to do that is get a cash flow and hope people just pay for what they already have month after month.Disappointed that a device started with some crowd funding – so no risk to them – ends up just pursuing the cash-flow approach to delivery with little in the costs suggesting the minimum risks associated with the device or its founders (i.e., risk). I’ll continue to use the device as is but a subscription won’t be being paid for by myself. Just such a shame that so much of content that would be pennies per month to delivery ends up being dollars per month for the end use.
Pham Thanh Tung –
Good