Yoga for Actors

Acting training and practicing yoga have a great deal in common. Both focus on the need to relax the body in order to open up to the experience at hand, whether it be on stage or in life. Both explore breathing techniques designed to encourage immediate and highly specific responses in the body and the mind. Both recognize the importance of a strong, flexible body; in acting because our body is the instrument of our craft, andin yoga because the body is viewed as the instrument of our soul. But the most important connection between acting training and yoga is the emphasis on the development of concentration of the mind. In yoga this is accomplished by anchoring the mind in the body. Even Stanislavski recognized the importance of developing the ability to focus the mind when he wrote,"The first step in the creative art of the stage is concentration of attention."

If you are new to the art of yoga, or have been practicing for years, all levels are welcome. Come join us as we explore together these ancient mind/body techniques that have the wonderful potential to make us better actors and better human beings.