An acting class for actors and non-actors alike
Acting is a sacred, ancient art form. The art of acting connects our spirits and our souls to something greater than ourselves.
You do not have to be an actor to gain the benefits from an acting class. You do have to be a soul searcher, a truth seeker, and someone who wants to heal and grow.
Many people have lived their lives thus far without a creative, expressive outlet. They have begun to feel their soul needing something more, something deeper.
My acting students tell me they have grown exponentially in their lives or have experienced real healing in my acting classes. They have reconnected with an aspect of themselves they only knew in childhood. They have opened in ways they never have before.
Acting is a journey towards self-knowledge. It teaches you to open yourself to life and experience the richness of feeling alive! Acting leads you into your body and out of your head.
Life and acting parallel each other. If in your life you are having trouble listening to your truth, being in the moment, staying out of your head, connecting to your emotions, and staying grounded, you will have trouble in your relationships – and you will have trouble acting in film and theater.
In this class, we address the actor holistically. We deal with the life issues (which are at the root) that get in the way of the acting and give you a strategy and a philosophy for the work and life of the actor and non-actor. We provide a plan for what you can do on a day-to-day basis towards personal growth and acting – and how to live your life as an artist.
What stops us from being completely free to be ourselves in our body, mind, and soul is repressed energy and emotions in the body, a spiritual disconnect, as well as protective parts of us (mind interference) that want to keep us safe from things like judgment, rejection, embarrassment.
Over the past 25 years and in a space held with the utmost sensitivity and safety, I have worked with actors and non-actors alike, singers, dancers, artists from all walks of life, and CEOs of major corporations, guiding them to authenticity and freedom of expression in body, mind, and soul.
When your authentic voice, energetic flow, emotional expression, and the freedom of your body to move are all connected, the result is a powerful presence.
One disconnected aspect affects all the others. Altogether, they reveal your deepest truths. They reveal your soul.
Your soul’s fingerprint is your uniqueness as a human being. And it’s full of potential. You are enough!
What You Will Learn
You will learn how to open yourself up and free yourself in your mind, in your feeling body, in your physical body and your energetic body.
You will learn how to access the courage to be vulnerable so that you can risk being truly seen and heard by others for who you are.
Acting connects us intimately to one another as human beings. It teaches us how to have compassion for ourselves and others. It teaches us how to communicate with each other and how not to communicate. It helps us understand why some relationships work, while others do not. We learn who we are and who we could become.
You will learn how to open your imagination and access your creativity through improvisation, play, and various creative experiences.
You will learn how to develop compassion and empathy by becoming a vessel for a character and seeing the world through a unique perspective.
You will learn to live through a character other than yourself in order to get closer to yourself. Every character you channel demands you to reveal something about yourself, to expose something very human, very real.
This leads to something rich and hidden inside yourself. The character sets you free to feel things you may not have felt before, to touch on shadow aspects of yourself that, when integrated, can make you whole.
Characters free you from the limiting beliefs of who you know yourself to be. They bring you into wholeness.
How We Approach
How we approach the work is everything! We make it about the work and not the individual. This helps us to access something much greater than ourselves, more truthful, more universal.
Acting is a deep, soulful journey. We let go of our personal judgements and ego and learn to hold sacred space for each other to be truly vulnerable and open.
We explore deeply within ourselves for the authenticity and humanity to breathe aliveness into the life we live and the human we are becoming.
We abandon our resistance to our personal truth, which creates a portal into universal truth.
Cindy As Your Guide
Acting is a deep, soulful experience.
For me, this work is my life’s work. It has been a deep-sea dive into the collective human heart.
My aim is to give human beings permission to express their free or wounded souls, help unlock the repression to their creative and human truths, and find the sacred places where the magic lies undisturbed. My approach is personal and holistic, where the feeling, physical, energetic make-up of the human being integrates, where the individual ego of the acting teacher and student fall away to reveal something much greater, much deeper, more timeless, and more truthful.
With safe guidance and over 25 years of experience as an acting teacher and practitioner in several therapeutic modalities, I will support you into new uncharted emotional, physical and mind places within.
Using a successful approach to in-depth personal work and exploration of the imagination, we liberate blocked and repressed energy in the body. The personal realm acts as a portal into the universal realm where true connection to all human beings lies.
This class is essential for any actor at any level. If you are a beginner, this class will give you a strong foundation for all your other work and training. If you have a great deal of training, you may not have had this particular kind of training. It is unique and one-of-a-kind. It may be the answer to the root of your issue, the missing piece.
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- Emotional Connection Class
- Shamanic Journey Class
- Archetypes Class
- Mask Class
- Stories in our Bodies Class
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