😩 Are you tired of feeling like your voice and body aren’t quite in sync when you perform?

🥱 Maybe you’re sick of the sound of your own voice?

👋 Do you feel like your body is an active part of your performance or do you struggle with knowing what to do with your hands?

🛝 Or maybe you just feel stuck in your habits and patterns and want some new ways to play?

🔌 Are you ready for a reboot of your skills in voice and body connection?

I get it. I was there too.

Before I found the Lessac work I was a conservatory trained actor. I was working professionally. I knew what I was doing. But something felt disconnected. I felt unsatisfied with my work, even though I was getting work. I started to lose confidence in what I was doing. I felt like what I WANTED to do was not aligning with what I was ABLE to do. I started searching for training that would help me solve this problem. I needed a solution to the disconnect I was feeling.

Then I stumbled upon the Lessac Kinesensic Training. After a ton of research I knew this was what I needed. The more I read about the work the more I felt like this could be my answer.

SO I dove in, head first, to a 4 week intensive training experience. I flew across the ocean from Australia to the USA and hit the jackpot. THIS WAS IT. This WAS the answer I had been looking for.

After 4 weeks of training I felt like I could DO what I WANTED to do. I felt my body fueling my voice and vice versa. I felt a communion between my body, voice and my intention like I had never felt before. And what’s more, it carried through to my singing as well. Finally, I was able to feel like I had ONE voice that was capable of singing AND speaking - instead of having two separate “voices” that never seemed to meet. FINALLY I felt likely body was an active part of my performance, and that it was deeply supportive and connected to my vocal work. Fast forward 17 years, I am now a Certified Trainer of Lessac Kinesensic BodyVoice Training (certified 2012) and now I want to give YOU a taste of the magic.

This workshop is designed to give experienced actors and musical theatre performers - and anyone who performs with their voice and body - tools for performance that will energize and inspire you. Using the Lessac Kinesensic bodyvoice work, you will discover more possibilities for nuance as a performer - greater vocal richness, playfulness and clarity, and more engaged and creative physical presence.

So, if you are looking for a reboot, this is it.

Let’s break it down further.

Session 1, Day 1, Seeding the soil, building the foundation.

The dynamics of breath and alignment

· Why breath is not a “problem” to be “solved”

· How alignment and breath inform one another AND inform your voice

· Organic, enjoyable ways to harness breath and expand your experience of “posture”

· Lessac Breathing Sequence in standing and/or sitting

· Feeling the lightness and ease of alignment (posture) through standing balance and the shifting of weight

The Body’s natural energy states (Body NRGs*)

· How the organic experiences of Yawning, Shaking and Floating can form the basis for engaged and enlivened experience (and performance!)

How the body experiences these energy states in your day to day life, and how we can tap into them to build richer connection to our body (and voice!)

The Lessac Vocal NRGs*

· Feeling and experiencing each of the three vocal NRGs:

o   Consonant NRG - more than just articulation (much more!)

o   Structural NRG - the shape, openness and fullness of vowel sounds

Tonal NRG - filling the voice with tone, vibration, resonance

*NRG = Neural Regenerative Growth, also an acronym for energy

Session 2, Day 2, Reviewing, Expanding, Reaping what we sow.

The Body NRGs and their unique expressiveness

· How Muscle Yawn becomes Potency body NRG, giving us power, strength, grounding and gravitas

· How Muscle Float becomes Buoyancy body NRG, giving us lightness, sensitivity, whimsy and wonder

· How Muscle Shake becomes Radiancy body NRG, giving us suspense, anticipation, humor, playfulness and shimmering light

· How each Body NRG informs and influences the voice when we perform

The Vocal NRGs and their connection to communication

· How to find, feel and use Consonant NRG to express meaning, enrich communication and fuel vocal health and stamina

· How to find, feel and use Structural NRG to open up the expression of emotion through speech and song, safeguard the vocal mechanism from tension and tightness, and reach across any amount of space with ease

· How to find, feel and use Tonal NRG to build richness and fullness in the voice, expand our perception of resonance, and move from the most intimate communicative moments to the most intense with richness, fullness and healthfulness

Putting it All Together

· Exploring the cognate qualities of the Body and Vocal NRGs and how they work together to deepen the bodyvoice connection, and fuel interpretation, creativity and meaning through speech and song

· Exploration of Body and Vocal NRG combinations to find unexpected variations of speech and song, and discover a deeper connection to material

· Reviewing and looking forward - discussion of application and how to carry the work into your own practice

Now’s the time.

Scroll up and sign up today.

I’ll see you in May.

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