Weaving together acting techniques and nervous system regulation tools to open you to your full range of expression with ease and flow.

About Discovering Your Voice Classes

Discovering Your Voice classes are for anyone to help you access an actor’s experience of expressing oneself with full instinctive gusto and a rich panoply of emotions. Founded on the Meisner acting technique – this class also incorporates elements of Organic Intelligence, a healing modality that brings modulation, rhythmicity and safety to the nervous system thus allowing for greater connection to self and others. Woven together, and all in a safe and supportive group setting that is incredibly fun, these two powerful techniques can lead to lasting transformative experiences in the participant.

Discovering Your Voice is a class that enables you to express your aliveness and the wild truths deep within that are beckoning to be called forth. In our class, we will learn to de-armor the edges, dance in surrender to the moment, and touch into the connection that awaits us.

Who Is This For

This class is open to beginning and advanced acting students as well as anyone with a nervous system! At this time classes are offered for adults only.

What To Expect

While classes will vary, classes will typically include the following components:

• Movement – We begin class with some light movement to prime our bodies for emotive access.
• Orientation – We follow this with the foundational Organic Intelligence exercise, Orientation. The affects of orientation help our nervous systems to land in the current environment and ready us for the work.
• Repetition – After we are somatically engaged and present, we then move onto our fundamental cornerstone Meisner exercise, Repetition. This involves two students coming together and commenting on the first thing that they notice – letting free the impulses rather than intellect leading the way. After the first student has made their observation, the second student repeats using the same words but from their point of view. This process often crescendos into a dynamic and lively exchange. Over time students begin to hone their ability to offer truthful and spontaneous observations with ease. Other Organic Intelligence practices will be sprinkled in as appropriate as well as progressive Meisner exercises per readiness of the student.

My ethos: My intention with this class is to create a space where truth, play and safety all come together in celebration of the unique soul and voice of each person. Beyond our masks, our conditioned politeness, and our need to perform or behave lies a treasure brimming with pulsing life force that is desperately calling out to be seen and heard. In this space we will do just that. All will be welcomed, and all will be celebrated.