Lessac Online Workshops
Join Lessac Certified Trainers for a series of 90 minute workshops in Lessac Kinesensic BodyVoice Training. These workshops offer you a number of opportunities to explore the work in the comfort of your own home. These workshops are ideal for anyone curious about the work, or anyone looking for creative ways to embody more dynamic self-awareness.
Voice & Body Awareness
Same workshop, two options!
Option 1
DATE: Saturday February 7 (USA)
TIME: 11am-12:30pm EST (New York, USA) / 4:00pm GMT (London) 6:00pm SAST (Cape Town, SA)
FACILITATOR: Michelle Bellaver, USA
Option 2 - One Workshop - 2 Time Zones!
DATE: REVISED DATE - Friday March 20 (USA) / Saturday March 21 (Australia)
TIME: 6-7:30pm USA EST (New York, USA) / 9-10:30am, AUS Eastern Time (Sydney, Australia)
FACILITATORS: Rudolf Hendrikx, Australia; Aimee Blesing, Australia/USA
INTRODUCING VOCAL NRGs
DATE: Saturday April 18
TIME: 9-12pm PST (LA, USA) / 12-3pm EST (NYC, USA) / 4-7pm BST (London, UK)
FACILITATORS: Elizabeth Parks, USA; Laura Pirret, UK.
This is a 3 hour Live Online Workshop
Vocal NRGs are foundational to the voice and speech portion of kinesensic BodyVoice training. Join us as we dive into the three NRGs that shape kinesensic voice and speech work.
These are Lessac Training & Research Institute Hosted Workshops with the following applicable discounts:
10% VASTA and LTRI Member discount applied through sliding scale
*On ZOOM
About the Voice & Body Awareness Workshops
This workshop introduces the vocal and body NRG* work created by Arthur Lessac, focusing on how voice and body work together to deepen communication and creativity. In this 90-minute session, we’ll explore vocalizations and natural energy states that exist within our lived experience as humans.
As we engage with this work, participants will awaken a deeper awareness of the symbiotic body-voice relationship and how it can enhance expressive clarity.
By the end of the workshop, participants will leave with accessible practices to continue developing voice and body awareness, supporting more dynamic and engaging communication.
*On ZOOM
About the INTRODUCING VOCAL NRGS WORKSHOP
Discovering the natural energy of the voice--Vocal NRG*--is foundational to the voice portion of our distinctive BodyVoice training. Join us as we dive into the three NRGs that shape Kinesensic voice and speech work. Over the three hour session you will playfully engage with Consonant, Structural and Tonal NRG, and experience how their applications contribute to a richer, fuller, healthier vocal life.
About the Vocal NRGs
Consonant NRG invites a refreshed exploration of clarity in speech. Consonants offer rich, communicative potential, and a way to tune and refine vocal life.
Structural NRG offers a new awareness of vocal tract size, shape, and acoustics, inviting resonant and healthful vocalization from conversations to concert halls.
Tonal NRG builds richness and fullness to the speaking range of the voice, and beyond. It offers a scientifically supported approach to vocalization that is healthful and regenerative.
Together, the Vocal NRGs become a fully engaged part of the bodyvoice whole, enhancing speaking and singing.
*NRG = Neural Regenerative Growth
ABOUT THE FACILITATORS
Rudolf Hendrikx
Lessac Certified Trainer
Rudolf Hendrikx is an interdisciplinary performer and somatic body/voice pedagogue specialising in embodied performance techniques for stage and screen. Based in Sydney, his recent credits include work with the Australian Ballet at Sydney Opera House and the innovative collaborative theatre project “Two Bodies one Mind” at the Pesta Boneka International Puppet Biennale in Indonesia. Rudolf teaches at NIDA and has previously taught at Actor’s Centre Australia (ACA) and various Universities in South Africa. He is an active member of VASTA (Voice and Speech Trainers Association) and Co-Director of VASTA’s Bizcore. Rudolf’s expertise in voice and movement integration is grounded in advanced certifications as a Lessac Kinesensics Somatic body/voice trainer, combining rigorous technique with inclusive practice methodologies. Rudolf is currently pursuing PhD research into voice-based cultural transformation at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. Rudolf further holds an MFA in Voice Studies from NIDA, and a Bachelor of Performing Arts from WAAPA. Recent recognition includes the 2022 Ian Potter Cultural Trust award and the 2023 VASTA travel award.
Aimee Blesing
Lessac Certified Trainer
A Certified Trainer of Lessac Kinesensic BodyVoice Training (2012) and a Registered Somatic Movement Educator through ISMETA, Aimee is an actor, singer, director, voice coach, and performance educator with over 20 years experience performing, producing, directing and instructing in the theatre world. She is graduate of the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts Acting program (2003) and in addition to her LK training, she has ventured into Knight-Thompson Speechwork, Linklater, Fitzmaurice, Michael Chekhov, Clinical Somatics, Feldenkrais, Alexander Technique, and many other techniques and pedagogical approaches. As a voice and dialect coach, Aimee has worked on numerous productions for Universities and theatre companies across Australia and New England, USA. Aimee is currently a Senior Lecturer in the University of New Hampshire’s Theatre & Dance Department where she teaches acting, voice and movement, accent and dialect, and Shakespeare. She is also Assistant Professor at Boston Conservatory at the Berklee College of Music where she has taught Lessac Kinesensics in the MFA Musical Theatre Voice Pedagogy program since 2022. Aimee serves on the Executive Leadership Team for the Lessac Training and Research Institute and has been actively involved in the evolution of the organization since 2018.
Michelle Bellaver
Lessac Certified Trainer
Michelle Bellaver is Registered Somatic Movement Educator with ISMETA and a Certified Trainer in LK Bodyvoice who has taught Somatic Acting at universities across the United States: most recently in the MFA and BFA Acting program at the University of Florida and currently at Fresno State University in California. Michelle is a proud member of SAG-AFTRA, Actors Equity Association, VASTA, ATHE and holds an MFA and BA in Acting. Michelle’s creative research has focused on the theory and praxis of The Female Gaze as a somatic practice in film and theatre performance and the development of a methodology for her Somatic "The Heart Centered Actor" training. She has presented her Somatic Bodyvoice research on panels or paper presentations at national conferences: “Compassionate Equity in Performance Training of Neurodivergent Actors” (ATHE, 2025), “Neurodiversity, Kinesensics, and the Need for Compassionate Equity in Performance Training” (VASTA, 2024), "The Female Gaze: Deconstruction and Adaptation in Creative Process" (ATHE 2023) "Lessac Body NRG’s and the creation of on-set film language for The Female Gaze: ‘The Feeling Camera" (LTRI, 2022) She is also a filmmaker and theatre director. Some of her directing credits include her experimental feature narrative film SAINT: 5 Etudes for Joan of Arc and her recent stage directing credits include Antigone by Sophokles (translated by Anne Carson), The Pliant Girls by Meghan Brown, Dry Land by Ruby Rae Spiegel, and Marie Antoinette by David Adjmi. She has received creative residencies in playwriting at The Tank/NYC, Dixon Place, and The Purple Rose Theatre Company. Her acting credits include the regional professional premiere of Other Desert Cities and the Off-Off-Broadway revival of How I Learned to Drive.
Elizabeth Parks
Lessac Certified Trainer
Elizabeth Parks is Lessac Kinesensics Certified Trainer, a Level III Margolis Method Certified Educator, and trains with Theatre Nohgaku in Noh theatre. She serves as Assistant Professor of Acting/Stage Movement at Appalachian State University. Recent publications include “Voice, Body, and Performance for the Noh Actor: A Keynote Conversation with Master Akira Matsui” in the Voice and Speech Review and “Shoe Story: An Icebreaker with a Sole” published in the Professors at Play ONLINE Playbook. Elizabeth’s creative research centers on the use of Lessac Kinesensics, Margolis Method, and Noh to create social justice and equity-focused theatre. Current projects include adapting her devised ecofeminist production of Beautiful, Useful, True, into a solo performance and youth outreach program. Her current scholarly work includes spearheading a book project, Margolis Method: Advancing Embodiment, Craft and Carein Performance, co-edited with Kari Margolis and Kym Longhi.
www.elizabethparks.org