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...

“Silence isn’t empty, it’s full of answers” ~ unknown

So how do you speak up when you feel silenced?  

Your voice is your body and if the voice has been silenced, so too has the body. Leaders are responsible for empowering others to find their voices and speak up and...

In our industry we are encouraged not to have boundaries, that being an actor means being open and available but this is often misinterpreted and misguided.

There can be no availability and openness without coherent boundaries within yourself and in the environment you are asked to be vulnerable...

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,...