A safe place of transformation for Artists & other sentient beings...
Release characters And songs from the Stone of the text
"people keep asking me how I do what I do without formal training; I tell them its the Somatic work I am doing with Amanda"
Seattle Actor (September, 2021)
"Every great artist has a conscious or subconscious desire for transformation"
Michael Chekhov
Trauma has the power to rob our lives of vitality and destroy it. However, we can also use it for powerful self-renewal and transformation. Trauma, resolved, is a blessing from a greater power.”
Peter Levine - Waking the Tiger.
The process of transformation in our life and art must embody the four brothers
"ease, form, beauty and a sense of the whole". (M. Chekhov).
Building a strong emotional container is important if you want to increase your capacity to hold your big emotions and feelings and to transform the limiting overwhelming energy of trauma into a contained awakening of your gifts and artistic potential.
This awakening enables you to authentically play a diverse range of characters or sing a range of emotional content. To attain this awakening you need to unlock and release but not relive the trauma and tension that is holding patterns of disregulation in your body and inhibiting your capacity, resilience, imagination and creativity, physically, emotionally and vocally.
As we work releasing and metabolizing the energy of trauma you will gently and easily make space for the big emotions you need in your work. When working and releasing the tensions in your body with somatic touch work, you will feel emotions as physical sensations, textures and colors, in your body and then experience them in a contained and non-threatening way, not as a catharsis, but as waves moving through the body.
"It is only when there is softness in the instrument, the body, the voice that energy can pass through it, heal and change how we perform, behave and ultimately live" (Micheal Chekhov).
Somatic therapy and practice makes space for this rapture of life, for the bigger emotions, for energies of joy and sorrow, love and anger, passion and ecstasy and the gentle pleasure in the simple things.
This integrated process allows your character, the piece you writing or the song you are singing to become fully formed - to breath its own breath, to have its own life as it frees you the performer to live and breath within it and in the world: to experience the joys and sorrows in your own life without becoming overwhelmed, stuck or frozen.
How is what I offer different to other practices that offer SE and OI for the performer?
I have lived your life.
My work as a performer and facilitator both in theater and therapy has been set free by fusing embodied acting and voice practice with SE, Organic Intelligence and somatic (touch) practice and the processes of the relational cycle that are embedded in my practice. This has been a ten year exploration and I can now share with you this transformational process: the "how" of safely fusing theater and somatic therapy to set both you, your characters and songs free.
Come and share it with me for better creative practice, a better life and world.
This awakening enables you to authentically play a diverse range of characters or sing a range of emotional content. To attain this awakening you need to unlock and release but not relive the trauma and tension that is holding patterns of disregulation in your body and inhibiting your capacity, resilience, imagination and creativity, physically, emotionally and vocally.
As we work releasing and metabolizing the energy of trauma you will gently and easily make space for the big emotions you need in your work. When working and releasing the tensions in your body with somatic touch work, you will feel emotions as physical sensations, textures and colors, in your body and then experience them in a contained and non-threatening way, not as a catharsis, but as waves moving through the body.
"It is only when there is softness in the instrument, the body, the voice that energy can pass through it, heal and change how we perform, behave and ultimately live" (Micheal Chekhov).
Somatic therapy and practice makes space for this rapture of life, for the bigger emotions, for energies of joy and sorrow, love and anger, passion and ecstasy and the gentle pleasure in the simple things.
This integrated process allows your character, the piece you writing or the song you are singing to become fully formed - to breath its own breath, to have its own life as it frees you the performer to live and breath within it and in the world: to experience the joys and sorrows in your own life without becoming overwhelmed, stuck or frozen.
How is what I offer different to other practices that offer SE and OI for the performer?
I have lived your life.
My work as a performer and facilitator both in theater and therapy has been set free by fusing embodied acting and voice practice with SE, Organic Intelligence and somatic (touch) practice and the processes of the relational cycle that are embedded in my practice. This has been a ten year exploration and I can now share with you this transformational process: the "how" of safely fusing theater and somatic therapy to set both you, your characters and songs free.
Come and share it with me for better creative practice, a better life and world.
