Invoking the Wild Soul of Music
By (Author) Hlne Grimaud
With Stphane Barsacq
Inner Traditions Bear and Company
Inner Traditions Bear and Company
4th March 2026
United States
General
Non Fiction
Nature therapy
Theory of music and musicology
Paperback
224
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
212g
Profound insights on the connections between music, nature, and spirituality
Shares lessons on music and life purpose the author has received from nature since childhood, including through her work in wolf conservation
Shows how connecting with nature can help you discover your true calling, release your hidden talents, and lead to spiritual growth
Explores how music and the harmonies of nature offer powerful means for fostering communication between souls
Internationally acclaimed piano virtuoso and founder of the Wolf Conservation Center, Hlne Grimaud shares her musical lifes journey and inspiring insights on the connections between music, nature, and spirituality.
This book shares lessons Hlne has learned about music and her life purpose from having direct contact with nature since childhood. She shares her concept of parent prodigies, such as her own, who can recognize the innate power and talents in their children and help guide them to self-realization, often by facilitating encounters with nature. Hlne shows that connecting with nature spirits can help reveal your true calling. Self-knowledge and the understanding of any vocation is a vehicle for profound spiritual growth. She reveals this through her work protecting wolves, what it teaches her about being human, and how it connects her to our hunter-gatherer ancestors. Hlne also explores how people create art to communicate the full spectrum of emotions. From Lie Yukous True Classic of Perfect Emptiness and the compositions of Hildegard von Bingen, to the poetry of Novalis and Rimbaud, she details classics of spirituality, works of rebel poets, and the wisdom of shamans that serve as guides on her journey. These works and teachings reveal the connections between music and nature, including how music and the harmonies of nature offer powerful means for fostering the communication of souls.
Invoking the Wild Soul of Music reveals paths to rebirth, spiritual growth, and the re-enchantment of life. This memoir shows how to honor the call of the wild even in the heart of civilized modernity.
Hlne Grimaud is an internationally acclaimed virtuoso pianist with more than a million records sold. A human rights activist and wildlife conservationist, she is the founder of the Wolf Conservation Center in New York State and works with wild horses in California. The author of several books in French, she lives in Salem, New York.