The Nine Modern Day Muses (And a Bodyguard): 10 Guides to Creative Inspiration for Artists, Writers, Lovers, and Other Mortals Wanting to Live a Dazzling Existence

Artist's Way-inspired teacher and acclaimed workshop leader Jill Badonsky shows how to unblock creativity and awaken the muses of imagination and inspiration in this unique guide to self-expression.

Combining the whimsical and spiritual appeal of SARK with the concrete step-by-step approach of The Artist's Way, The Nine Modern Day Muses (and a Bodyguard) presents a fresh approach toward accessing your creativity, and is designed specifically for our frazzled and time-sensitive era. Creativity coach Jill Badonsky takes the nine classical Greek Muses and updates them for our time. Along with a little help from their no-nonsense bodyguard, Arnold, they personify ten principles designed to overcome creative blocks and embrace the wonders of self-expression.

The Modern Day Muses and the Bodyguard are actually ten powerful creative concepts complete with the tools to make them practical and applicable to any creative endeavor... including thinking. With each Muse you receive the following:

o Empowering exercises to awaken creativity
o Brainstorming
o Muse "rituals" to inspire trust and confidence
o Muse themed walks
o Spiritual affirmations
o Quotes 
o Journaling

and much more.

This entertaining, inspirational, and practical book is an indispensable handbook for the twenty-first-century seeker.

Jill Badonsky, M.Ed., is a creativity coach, workshop leader, artist, and marketing consultant who is the founder and director of The Muse Is In, an organization devoted to coaching, teaching, facilitating, and marketing workshops and retreats for awakening creativity. She wrote and starred in a one-woman show, I Can't Handle Reality, But It's the Only Place to Get a Good Cup of Coffee, and writes a monthly column on creativity for Blessings, a San Diego newspaper.