I am delighted to be joining this team as a mentor on the NeuroSystemics™ CARE Training @neurosystemics_care ! It feels inspiring, invigorating, evolutionary and deeply hopeful to be part of this team. A group of people who are working towards a world for sustainable communities of...

Resiliency is not about you being able to cope beyond your capacity!

Resiliency is fundamentally about self-care!

Resiliency is built in the small moments in your day!

If you want to work on your resiliency and empowerment, our Empowerment and Resiliency Circles are a wonderful way to empower...

If the body is feeling overwhelmed then the only way through that, like the bear hunt, is with the body. The mind is not going to get you out of that rabbit hole.

So the first thing is, you want to be able to breathe more easily.

How do you breathe more easily? You need to feel safe and secure

How...

How to calm down the nervous system for a performance?

First of all, where do I find stability for my voice? - in the environment?

Secondly, how do I find it? - through the language of my neuroception, which is through the senses?

You just practice that it would change how your body breathes in...

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...

Because what you're being asked to do is be vulnerable and sensitive to the story while being put in circumstances that can be very intense, very clinical and very technical, while at the same time as you're being asked to be the heart of the story, the heart of the experience.

And this can be...

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 interesting thing about when we speak from ourselves, we have to engage image, sensation, orientation, meaning and affect. Which is why when we come into story and we see story, and we listen to story, whether it be on screen or in theatre, on the radio, in animation, that is a more wholesome...

How to really embody story

What is story?

Each character in a script has their story made up of moments, memories, images, sensations, emotions.

Story is the context from which character is expressed, the context is historical, familial, personal,mythological.

The inter relationship between these...

It has been a delight to spend the last ten weeks with these incredible human beings.

Liam Gaffney 
Aron Hegarty
Kwaku Fortune
Nadine Kemp 
John Kearney
Amy Dunne
Conor Flanagan
Maggie Hanlon

Watching them grow in their capacity to go deeper and build richer stories.

The play, curiosity,...

“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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Trust your body to anchor you. 
 
Deep learning requires deep trust ~

If I feel safe I will be able to learn, to breathe, to speak, to take direction.

How can I trust you? You my body, who has betrayed me so often by your need to feel, to be heard, to be seen?

How can I trust you?

You wish to...

I feel for me certainly the most empowering gift I ever discovered was my own authentic voice.

And that took quite a practice and quite a process to be in the world with one’s own originality while at the same time having the ability to listen and respond to all of the biases and the...

How to find your unique voice!

In this video, Ruth talks us through how the way she loves to work on songs and how to make them your own!!

Start with
1) the breath,
2) the body
3) playful sound making
4) then into song
5) Repeat the cycle

Playfulness is a big part of what Ruth does

Think more about...

I’m interested in you being inspired by the present moment to create.

By noticing the ten thousand intimacies in your day, you can then use those colours, textures, shapes to bring a deeper and richer experience to your acting.

Fostering a relationship with the present moment that is alive...

The inbreathe receives the world, you find expression for what you received, releasing on the out breath, digesting in the moment of stillness, between the two, what just occurred?

In the stillness the question is, you are in the unknown, not a reasonable place to be.

But a place of mystery,...

It takes so much courage to admit where you are and how you feel. To allow someone else hold that space for your tears, your hurt, your wounds. This is the heart of what it is to be human where the ache and love co-exist. You need to become both in order to root into your greatest experience of...

Can you see, feel, hear what is here?
Live from that experience of the world
with the intention of compassion for yourself, 
your environment and others.
Slowly stepping into your own unknown,
knowing sense of self in an ever evolving world.

The practice of being so...