Actors, resting is really important!

You’re meant to be unemployed.

You’re meant to have periods of time when you’re not working, cause your job is different to everybody else’s.

Who wants all of us be working 365 days a year?

You are artists, you don’t need to do...

The most powerful way to regulate actors after they come off a film or after they come off a TV series or a being on stage is the natural world and to somehow build that relationship with the natural world in an experiential way.

So many of them have built the relationship by, you know, skydiving...

Actors, 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...

Courageous, empathetic, dangerous, surprising, moving, vibrant, dynamic and original are but a few of the words I would use to describe this ensemble of actors.

Catherine Dauphin @catdauphin 
James Lye @jae_lymes 
Maddi Lucas @maddilonglegz 
Annette Flynn @annetteflynnstone 
Zoe...

if you are in a state of fear or anxiety in relation to your environment, your eyes will become fixed, you’ll stop hearing stuff, you’ll come out of your body, and now you are in a state of freeze.

Your mind, the meaning channel will start to try to make sense:

“You’re...

Actors, you cannot cheat “embodiment”

You can understand it all you like and you can read all the books.

I’ve seen 21 year olds speak to me as if they are Eckhart Tolle in how they explain what it is to be human.

Are they embodied? Nope.

You cannot cheat “Embodiment”

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Actors, You need to slow down to include the body.

You can go quite fast if you keep “thinking” and “imagining”, and then you get burnt out because you didn’t bring your body with you.

But you have to slow down to include the body.

I want to watch an actor who’s...

You all need to be at the centre and everything else goes around that however the entire career is built around the career being at the centre and then you disappear.

I promise you when you start to get used to putting yourself at the centre, the rest starts to actually come into a greater spiral...

What a pleasure it has been to be with this wonderfully gifted group of international actors.

Iykechi McCoy @iykechimccoy 
Deirdre Dunlea @deirdredunlea 
Regina Schneider @reginaschneiderofficial 
Lucy Jones @alittleluce22 
Aliyah Jamerson @soy.aaliyah 
Monika Miles ...

Guided Practice for when you are feeling overwhelmed

Rest & Digest

When feeling on edge or overwhelmed, resting and digesting, is a sign something is about to deeply shift and the system which has been used to other ways of doing might move into freeze out of fear of the unknown new...

Actors, Your nervous systems are alert and alive to your environments, which is why your nervous systems pick up what's beneath what's being said.

You sense in a way that other people don't, the vibrations of emotions sensations, a kind of psychic field in a way the implicit, the...

If there’s no rest and digest, there’s no originality

Our autonomic nervous system has this Fight, Flight, Freeze, rest and digest. So if we’re constantly in doing mode, there is no rest and digest. So if there’s no rest and digest, there’s no process. If...

Actors, it’s all about relationships.

And your job is all about relationships and life is about relationships, that’s where intimacy lies.

Your job is intimacy in front of strangers. Intimacy with strangers. That’s what acting is. Public vulnerability.

Most people don’t want...

You can do all the work you want on your own as an individual and you might feel really good alone.

But actually we’re designed to be in relationship, to interrelate and that itself is a practice.

And if we’re going to do that, we need people in our lives who we can evolve and grow...

It’s the entire body that we believe.

It’s actually the nonverbal micro movements of the body that let me know this is an authentic expression of another human being, because I believe it in the small micro movements.

The tone and how you use your body, that’s where the...

Actors, we are not looking for “flow state”.

Because that’s a kind of state of oneness and kind of calm and ease or I’m moving fluidly and easily from one thing to the other.

You’re human.

You’re not Gods or Goddesses or kind of made of fully water.

You are human...

 Navigating the intense demands of a career, especially in the film industry, can be overwhelming. It's particularly challenging when you're in a leading or supporting role, as the pressure can become immense. The rollercoaster of highs and lows often accompanies such endeavours.

To handle...

Communication is Relationship  Reflections will bring your sharing to a whole other level of meaning because we’re not just speaking to be heard and receive no response. We want to know, does it resonate? Does it land with you?  The same applies when we’re working...

You get to choose how you respond in any given situation

For the human voice, the more pleasure, the more comfort, the more ease, the more stability, the more enjoyment there is in that nervous system, the easier our entire vocal tract is going to be able to breathe with any given situation.

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Actors, this is how to stay grounded and creative

Your role as an actor is to be able to self-regulate and co-regulate.

Anywhere you’re going, your primary focus is, “Where is my self-regulation? My orientation through the senses?”

How do I get to the here and now? I get to the...