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Free to Perform: A Practical Guide to Release Performance Blocks and to Be in Flow
If you suffer from performance anxiety, stage fright, mental blocks, mind blanking, loss of motor control, lack of motivation, self-doubt, the imposter syndrome…this book is for you.
For you, is being a performer a blessing or a curse? On the one hand, it is a profound calling. On the other, you are wracked with doubts, anxieties and blocks that feel beyond your control.
RUTH S.L. CHILES, THROUGH HER DEEP KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE OF THE ROOTS OF PERFORMANCE BLOCKS, has developed her unique and renowned method. In this book you will learn
The underlying causes of your blocks.How they are neurophysiological connections in your deep, involuntary brain.How to rewire your brain to release your blocks and to enter, at will, into Flow.WOULD YOU LIKE TO EXPERIENCE THE JOY OF BEING FREE TO PERFORM?
Ruth gives you a highly accessible understanding of the neuroscience and psychology of performance blocks and shares her complete method in easy-to-follow steps, using the leading-edge technique, Brainspotting. Through this process, you will be able to rewire your brain to not only release your blocks but also to expand into your full potential and enter flow at will.
What you will learn in this book is completely unique.
"Free to Perform, by Ruth Chiles is a fascinating and thoroughly thought provoking read. Her latest book contains essential information and guidance for those contemplating taking that complex and often daunting step of walking out on to a stage to perform."
- Paul Edmund-Davies, Creator of Simply Flute, International Soloist and Former Principal Flute of The London Symphony Orchestra and Philharmonia Orchestra
"Free to Perform is a complete and easy to follow guide for releasing the shackles that bind us. This book can set us free and help us return to our state of Flow. So, let’s get to it! Now is the time! Let us all perform with freedom once again."
- Victor Wooten, Five-Time Grammy Award Winner
“This journey home, so beautifully and skilfully facilitated by Ruth, has the potential to heal and transform the lives and careers of so many performers and unlock healed creative potential in ways we have not seen before.”
- Christian Uitzinger, Psychologist & Mental Health Lead, The Royal Ballet School
“This very practical book shows us how to tap into our brain’s most valuable circuitry in order to liberate, learn, and perform in optimal states of being.”
- Dr. Logan Chopyk, Trombone, San Diego Symphony Orchestra
“Free to Perform wonderfully captures the work I've been doing with Ruth for years. This is the one book that will stay on my desk, so that I may refer to it often. Ruth's ground-breaking approach is life-changing. She’s helped me tap deeply into my potential as a writer and a human. And I can’t believe I’m saying it, but she’s also given me the gift of playing music again.”
- Boo Walker, bestselling author of An Echo in Time
For you, is being a performer a blessing or a curse? On the one hand, it is a profound calling. On the other, you are wracked with doubts, anxieties and blocks that feel beyond your control.
RUTH S.L. CHILES, THROUGH HER DEEP KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE OF THE ROOTS OF PERFORMANCE BLOCKS, has developed her unique and renowned method. In this book you will learn
The underlying causes of your blocks.How they are neurophysiological connections in your deep, involuntary brain.How to rewire your brain to release your blocks and to enter, at will, into Flow.WOULD YOU LIKE TO EXPERIENCE THE JOY OF BEING FREE TO PERFORM?
Ruth gives you a highly accessible understanding of the neuroscience and psychology of performance blocks and shares her complete method in easy-to-follow steps, using the leading-edge technique, Brainspotting. Through this process, you will be able to rewire your brain to not only release your blocks but also to expand into your full potential and enter flow at will.
What you will learn in this book is completely unique.
"Free to Perform, by Ruth Chiles is a fascinating and thoroughly thought provoking read. Her latest book contains essential information and guidance for those contemplating taking that complex and often daunting step of walking out on to a stage to perform."
- Paul Edmund-Davies, Creator of Simply Flute, International Soloist and Former Principal Flute of The London Symphony Orchestra and Philharmonia Orchestra
"Free to Perform is a complete and easy to follow guide for releasing the shackles that bind us. This book can set us free and help us return to our state of Flow. So, let’s get to it! Now is the time! Let us all perform with freedom once again."
- Victor Wooten, Five-Time Grammy Award Winner
“This journey home, so beautifully and skilfully facilitated by Ruth, has the potential to heal and transform the lives and careers of so many performers and unlock healed creative potential in ways we have not seen before.”
- Christian Uitzinger, Psychologist & Mental Health Lead, The Royal Ballet School
“This very practical book shows us how to tap into our brain’s most valuable circuitry in order to liberate, learn, and perform in optimal states of being.”
- Dr. Logan Chopyk, Trombone, San Diego Symphony Orchestra
“Free to Perform wonderfully captures the work I've been doing with Ruth for years. This is the one book that will stay on my desk, so that I may refer to it often. Ruth's ground-breaking approach is life-changing. She’s helped me tap deeply into my potential as a writer and a human. And I can’t believe I’m saying it, but she’s also given me the gift of playing music again.”
- Boo Walker, bestselling author of An Echo in Time
279 pages, Kindle Edition
Published August 16, 2024
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April 16, 2025
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I hope this becomes mainstream - the principles covered should be required reading for all musical educators. Thank you for writing it!
I hope this becomes mainstream - the principles covered should be required reading for all musical educators. Thank you for writing it!
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