Actors, when you’re reading a play for the first time, it’s not really about analysis or intellectually understanding it on any level.

It’s about what is that story telling your body? How is that story resonating in your body?

Because it’s an embodied experience which is...

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, did you know there’s more to accents than just pronunciation?

These are the four areas to consider when approaching any accent.

Cultural context.

Accents are affected by so much more than just where we’re from. Otherwise, we would sound exactly like everyone else from our home...

Many paths leading many different ways

all beautiful,

all offering something rich,

follow your impulse

one step at a time 

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...

I need you living in your bodies because I need your breath, your tone affected by the story.

~ Helena Walsh on voice and acting Helena’s teachings are inspired by Organic Intelligence ®, Fitzmaurice Voicework ® & NeuroSystemics™

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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

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

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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...

Creativity thrives on boredom.

Creative ideas come when you’re doing ordinary things, because you’re below threshold, you’re enjoying the moment, you’’re doing something very ordinary.

Be bored, get bored.

Slow down, do less, be more.

That’s your job as an...

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 it means to have an authentic voice?

With the voice, the voice is a physical action.

The voice has a physiological dialect.It has an invisible form of expression through micro movements. So the voice is physical and that means we’re going to really come into our bodies and we’re...

The nervous system and neuroception

We're moving out of intensity into complexity so that we can allow our voices to mirror all the different ranges of expression that are needed for any given moment.

With over over 25 years training and coaching actors for stage and screen as well as leaders,...