If there’s something important to do, rest, if it’s really important, rest even more.

Because in resting, you’ll find your direction. You’ll be able to see more clearly, hear more clearly. But if you’re very heightened, it’s not the time to move in any direction.

In rest, you can find your way.

It’s a ...

Empowerment can only happen in the collective.

You can have power alone, as we are witnessing, you can have power over alone.

You can’t have empowerment without the collective.

Empowerment is when you’re with a group of people who are your people, who are your tribe, who are your clan, who mirror...

"I see you and I feel me"

That's the important thing that you can hear and feel your own stability.

So if it's conflict, you can notice that discomfort, and also don't lose yourself listening to the content of it. Because now, you are getting into an argument of "who's right?"

Remember - you are ...

Artists, this is how unique you are.
If you can write and if you’re an artist, it’s a particular way of seeing the world and paying attention to the world around you. You have a gift that is a responsibility, because you have a way of articulating things that other people don’t. They don’t have the t...

Artists, when you share your voice, the room becomes safer.

We’re in a world where silencing creates fear, and being silent creates fear. As artists, we’re also in the practice of the sharing of a voice that is messy, vulnerable, chaotic, because that prevents fear and silencing.

It’s very important, ...

Are you feeling the call to reconnect with your creativity, deepen your craft, and nurture your whole self as an actor?

From September 7th to 11th, I’m thrilled to be welcoming a new group of actors to Connemara for our next Acting Retreat — a transformative and embodied journey into performance...

The most challenging thing for an actor to deal with is rejection and to be constantly going for auditions.

If the focus is on getting the audition, you’re going to find the career of an actor very hard.

But if the focus is on, I go into the audition, I’ve already been cast, and I’m just going to pl...

I have witnessed this group of actors over the past 10 weeks grow their relational intelligence by creating an intimate space where there is enough relational connection to create the roots of trust.

Scarlett Dyer 
Cora Rose Gleeson 
Shri Patel
Suramira Vos
James Flynn
Deirdre Whitmore
Gavin Coleman
Rac...

When the environment is really uncertain, we need more recovery time to resource ourselves so that we can then go back out. 

I have a border collie and she’s quite exceptional. There’s two kinds of border collies, one that just rounds up all the sheep but doesn’t really care how anxious the shee...

Community matters.

Relationship matters.

The collective matters.

Change on this level is golden.

Community changes & transforms giving us the gift of remembrance.

Remembering together we go deeper and feel our sense of purpose and belonging in the world.

These beautiful human beings lifted each up a...

It has been an absolute joy and privilege over the past 10 weeks to witness the courage, resilience and growth of these beautiful actors coming together from all over the world in person and online.

Mary Cait Kelly @marycaitkelly 
Suramira Vos
Avani Rai @avani.rai 
David Lynch @david.lynch__ 
Cinthya V...

The only way to the present moment is through the senses.

You can’t get into the present through thinking.

It’s not possible because then you’re thinking about what that is.

Coming into here and now is through the senses of what I see, what I hear, what I touch, what I taste, what I smell.

If you are f...

Actors, stop end-gaming your creative process!

A self take class is not going to teach you about acting. It will teach you how to self-tape.

Playwrights, script writers are going to teach you about acting.

Going to class is going to teach you about acting.

Reading the whole play, and the whole script is...

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 that.

You are using your whole body...

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 an...

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 this can be very...

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 Bleu Arquette @____zoe_b...

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 like this because you’re actua...

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”

This is why Artificial Intelligence...