performer's workshop

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Undermain Performer’s Workshop

The Yogi's Path to Dynamic Stillness:
utilizing proper yoga techniques to create a heightened sense of integrity and honesty onstage

In The Yogi's Path to Dynamic Stillness we will journey towards dynamic stillness through the gift of yoga. As artists in this series, we will explore our unique states of being and understand how to apply it in our approaches to character and the various social masks we wear. Yoga philosophy, pranayama, and asana will aid us in our text work and path to dynamic stillness, gaining an understanding of our individual heightened states of being.

Throughout this series we will:

• Understand the wisdom of our own unique physical bodies and it's strengths
• Gain a basic understanding of the chakras and learn how to apply it to character development and self-discovery
• Learn how to use yoga in warming up and preparing our body for performance
• Explore and experience the many benefits of yoga
• Move with intention utilizing breath, body and energy
• Learn how to approach work from a neutral state
• Gain focus and calm chattering ego mind
• Improve posture, core, alignment

For this series you will need:

• Text: anything that has meaning for you. It can be a theatrical work that you connected with, a theatrical piece you are interested in working in, a poem, and excerpt from a favorite book, ANYTHING! This will not be performed for the class. It is for your own development and exploration that we will use in class. Anything you want to gain understanding in. :)
• A yoga mat
• A bath towel
• A hand towel
• WATER! :)
• An open mind!

Directly after every class we will have 5 minutes of silent meditation followed by light snacks and a social gathering.

“You cannot do yoga. Yoga is your natural state. What you can do are yoga exercises, which may reveal to you where you are resisting your natural state.”
~Sharon Gannon

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us.

We ask ourselves, "Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous?"

Actually, who are you not to be?”
~Marianne Williamson