Often, we find ourselves connecting with criticism, uncomfortable feedback, or negative reinforcement. This kind of feedback points out what’s wrong with what we’re doing and how we can improve, and we’ve become accustomed to it. Receiving criticism has become normal because we...

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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...

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...

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...

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 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...

“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...