Actors! Be slow to judge and very quick to learn.

I try to balance in between the requirements of an actor to have good instincts for acting.
But also a very important part of acting is analysis.

Generalisation is the enemy.

Always be specific in everything you do.

This means every line has to be...

Actors, the stories that you inhabit, you embody and the more complex and richer the actor is inside that process, the more of your listener you will wake up. So the more of you that's present, the more the listener will be able to feel their presence.

~ Helena Walsh on voice & acting...

Actors, I need you to be alive, alert, responsive.   I want you to be dynamic and more like Bruce Lee. Like water, it's a martial art. I see this as the aikido of acting. Your ability to move with, take in the energy, and respond to what you're given.  

~ Helena Walsh on voice...

What does it mean to listen in scene and what to do if you are struggling with reflection.

~ Helena Walsh on voice and acting

Helena’s teachings are inspired by Organic Intelligence ® @getoi, Fitzmaurice Voicework ® @fitzmauricevoicework & NeuroSystemics™ ...

What is the ideal environment for actors to thrive and how do you get the best out of your actors?

If you want to work with Helena and really enliven and bring more subtlety, diversity & nuance to your acting craft or if you just want to really inspire and engage those around you, comment "me"...

If the voice is seen only technically, it's problematic because fundamentally the voice is the most intimate part of your acting and it is the thing that takes the longest to really sit in.

And it's probably the final thing that comes to you as the actor when you're creating the story.

It's the...

Actors, you are inspired creatively individually, ancestrally and collectively which is why it makes no sense to take anything personally.

When you believe in the co-creative process, you are believing for the ancestors before you, the collective around you and the celebration of your individual...

‘By noticing more of your own complex nature, the more alive your response will be.’ - Helena Walsh

Trust & The Subconscious

There is a whisper that lies amidst the more subtle and nuanced part of your being, it emerges gently from the silence and guides you deeply to the safer...

“The path is one to be walked, to be felt, and keep embodying
Let go of the past, let go of the future, let go of the present, and keep going!"

~ Boaz Feldman @bfsimple

What does it mean to be affected? If you are in fight, flight or freeze, it is challenging to be affected. You shut down,...

Between jobs, one of the most profound and nurturing places the actor can develop a relationship with is the natural world.

Why? For many reasons It is the greatest mirror we have.It is constantly transforming, constantly changing. In Ireland, we have four seasons.

So how I structure my life as...

Actors, look to the natural world. In many ways, the greatest artist we have is the natural world. 

When actors work with me, I spend a lot of time asking them to work with something called "orientation" to find in the world around them what feels pleasurable, easy, good and this becomes...

Actors there is a difference between chemistry, sensuality and sexuality.

For our industry, so much of casting revolves around chemistry, this kind of energy field, which is kind of an inexplicable quality that exists between two actors. It is a kind of playful,energetic exchange between two...

What is this process and practice of a truly integrated actor. This is the Da Vinci Code of Acting and when you do this, your breath changes. The body automatically shifts, because now it's complex.It's not intense. It's complex so that each time you go into the story, you're moving into the...

Fitzmaurice Voicework® postures work through all the different energy centres in your body so you experience more freedom and focus in your acting. Organic Intelligence grounds you richly in the here and now so you become each moment, inspired by what is alive in the seen and unseen pulse of...

The job is the art of being human.

So what better way to explore than when we are in relationship with other human beings that you meet out on the street, those who are close to you in your life.

Go out and honour other people's differences.

Allow slowly the practice of expectations and assumptions...

The purpose of Fitzmaurice Voicework. It's waking your body up. It's really so that it becomes more sensitised to the sensuality and eroticism of life.

It's allowing you remove the blocks, the tensions that have shielded you in a more fight, flight, freeze way so that you don't experience life,...

“The stories that you inhabit, you embody and the more complex and richer the actor is inside that process, the more of your listener you will wake up. So the more of you that's present, the more the listener will be able to feel their presence.”

~ Helena Walsh on voice & acting

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Curiosity liberates difference, liberates equality, liberates inclusion. It dissolves expectation, dissolves knowing , dissolves judgement. Curiosity ignites story, ignites adventure, ignites new visions. Curiosity inspires more layers to story, inspires deeper relationship with character,...

Invite the Forrest, in all its shades from morning, noon, twilight and night into your body's deeper knowing, beyond the mind, so the mind can discover new insights out of the light of your autumnal days.  We are in the autumn of our curiosity.  The nature of this curiosity is to fall...

In curiosity there is no knowing just discovery. It creates an adventurous heart and allows each day the rite of passage it yearns for, with each new dawn and each new sunset ! As nature changes so too does our nature slowly, incrementally, organically ! As this season invites the leaves to fall,...