BREATH, BODY, VOICE SYNERGY

DATE: Saturday June 27

TIME: 10am EST (New York, USA) / 3:00pm BST (London) /6:00pm GST (Sharjah, UAE)

FACILITATOR: Raechyl French (Australia, UAE)

Check your local time here

This is a 90 minute Live Online workshop

Lessac Kinesensics BodyVoice training offers a holistic experience of how breath, body, and voice naturally work together. In this 90-minute workshop, we’ll explore the organic ways the body experiences breath, alignment, energy, and sound.

VOICE & BODY AWARENESS

DATE: Saturday July 11

TIME: 10am EST (New York, USA) / 3:00pm BST (London) /6:00pm GST (Sharjah, UAE)

FACILITATOR: Melissa Hurt PhD (USA)

Check your local time here

This is a 90 minute Live Online workshop

This workshop introduces the foundational concepts of vocal and body NRG* work created by Arthur Lessac. We’ll focus on how the 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.

*On ZOOM

About the BREATH, BODY, VOICE SYNERGY Workshop

Lessac Kinesensics BodyVoice training offers a holistic experience of how breath, body, and voice naturally work together. In this 90-minute workshop, we’ll explore the organic ways the body experiences breath, alignment, energy, and sound.

As we playfully engage with this work and reconnect with the body’s innate wisdom, participants may experience benefits such as nervous system regulation, improved attention, greater ease in physical alignment, and even an increased sense of inner peace.

By the end of the session, participants will leave with simple, repeatable activities they can use anytime to deepen their connection to breath, body, and voice.

*On ZOOM

About the VOICE & BODY AWARENESS WORKSHOP

This workshop introduces the foundational concepts of vocal and body NRG* work created by Arthur Lessac. We’ll focus on how the 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 explore this work, participants will awaken a deeper awareness of the symbiotic body-voice relationship and how it can enhance expressive clarity and creativity.

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.

*NRG = Neural Regenerative Growth

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.

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 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 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

Laura is a spoken voice tutor from and based in the UK, with a specialist focus in Lessac Kinesensics BodyVoice Training as a Lessac Certified Trainer. Originally, she trained as an actor at East 15 Acting School. She then went on to specialise in voice and completed her undergraduate degree in Vocal & Choral studies at The University of Winchester. Laura completed her MA in Voice Studies from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama and her Post Graduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Education in Theatre Arts (PGCLTHE) from Rose Bruford College, and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Laura recently started her PhD research at Coventry University in the area of somatic practices in education to support neurodiversity in educators. Her hobbies include learning languages such as Korean and Mandarin, and embroidery.  

Raechyl is an Australian actor, voice artist and voice coach. She holds an MFA: Voice from the National Institute of Dramatic Art and studied acting through the Diploma of Screen Performance at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, amongst ongoing training in voice and acting. She is a certified Lessac Trainer and Vocal Combat Technique Trainer, bringing both skill bases to her work at Sharjah Performing Arts Academy, UAE. Her performance skills are employed across stage and screen, and her voice over work spans audiobooks, commercials, e-learning and corporate videos. By straddling the pathways of practitioner and pedagogue, Raechyl offers a keen awareness and embodiment of dextrous, grounded and truthful performances.

Dr. Melissa Hurt is a certified yoga teacher (700 hours) and a certified trainer in Arthur Lessac's voice, speech, and movement training. She has enjoyed teaching embodied practices for over fifteen years at various universities and privately. She shares embodied practices freely on her YouTube channel, available at youtube.com/melissahurt.

She has a Ph.D. in theatre arts from the University of Oregon, with a specialization in embodied actor training. She is the author of Arthur Lessac’s Embodied Actor Training (Routledge), I Am the Jungle: A Yoga Adventure (Sounds True), and The Postpartum Path of Yoga (Integrative Studio). Melissa lives in the Capital District of New York with her daughter, Penny. You can get a free gift when you subscribe to her newsletter at melissahurt.com.