Dancing with Your Muse: Inner Magic to Release Fear and Embrace Creativity

Have you ever had a dream, but let it go because you were too afraid of failure to try? Dancing with Your Muse is a heartfelt, motivational guide to understanding this fear, realising that you are not alone in it, and working past it to achieve your goals without inhibition.Fear of failure is a universal issue that can hold even the most talented of people back from reaching their full potential. Dancing with Your Muse is a series of thirty essays which speak about the common and debilitating anxieties encountered on the path to creative expression. Sections include: -＂Fear In All Its Glory＂ - explains patterns of fear, and shows you how to transform inhibitors into positive outcomes. -＂Judgement and Criticism＂ - provides guidance on how to keep yourself in balance without succumbing to outside perceptions of your worth. -＂Success in Different Guises＂ - expands your notion of success by giving you a more personal, expansive understanding of what accomplishment really means to you.Written in a gentle, contemplative tone, this book will encourage you to determine and strive for success on your own terms. Performers, business people, students, and everyday dreamers alike will learn to courageously choose the most direct pathways to creative success and, more importantly, personal fulfillment, holding only a desire to contribute fully to their own life.

Gilda Joffe is a graduate of the Juilliard School, public speaker and educator who mentors artists and others in eliminating fears hindering development of creative potential. She has over 25 years of teaching and coaching, including mindset work, and is a certified HeartMath trainer for businesses and individuals. As a violinist, Gilda performed internationally with various European ensembles and in all major halls of New York. As a permanent member of both the Danish and Swedish Radio Orchestras under Esa-Pekka Salonen, Carlo Maria Giulini, Valery Gergiev and others, she performed at prestigious venues including The Proms in London, Musikverein in Vienna and the Paris Opera. She is also a Co-founder of the Bay Chamber Music School, where she was Head of Music Faculty from 2008 to 2019. Dancing with Your Muse is Gilda’s first book.