Reiki for Actors

Reiki for Actors is a 10-week, twenty class exploration into connecting breath to experience.  Taught by Reiki Master and Breathwork Healer Laura Pensiero, the class will begin with an opening meditation and intention setting, leading into a breathwork circle. Breathwork is an active meditation, done lying down, using the breath that facilitates an emotional release. During active breathing, you will pull up and clear out stagnant energy, safely releasing emotional pain and trauma stuck in the body. This allows for deep mental clarity and encourages the letting go of addictive behaviors and limiting thought patterns. It is beneficial to actors because it moves you out of your head and into your body (an essential fundamental of the Meisner Technique), connecting you to your creativity, your intuition, and your heart. The tension around your emotional life is released, allowing emotions to flow with ease and readiness.

From active breathing, the class will move into a meditative Reiki session. Reiki is a Japanese relaxation technique which translates to universal life force energy. It is a high vibration, intelligent energy that purifies, balances, harmonizes and cleanses. It works on the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual levels. Reiki puts the body into a deeply relaxed, parasympathetic state conducive to healing. The combination of the deep emotional release that occurs during active breathing followed by the gentle healing energy of Reiki produces transformative results for the actor’s mind, body and spirit.

From active breathing, the class will move into a meditative Reiki session. Reiki is a Japanese relaxation technique which translates to universal life force energy. It is a high vibration, intelligent energy that purifies, balances, harmonizes and cleanses. It works on the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual levels. Reiki puts the body into a deeply relaxed, parasympathetic state conducive to healing. The combination of the deep emotional release that occurs during active breathing followed by the gentle healing energy of Reiki produces transformative results for the actor’s mind, body and spirit.

During Reiki for Actors, you will peel back and shed layers that no longer serve you, making space for your best self to shine through.  This important work will allow for greater vulnerability, freedom, and ease in your acting training, providing solid groundwork for your development into a well-rounded and healthy artist.

The Maggie Flanigan Studio is committed to developing well-rounded artists and curating a training conservatory that supports the Meisner Technique and the rigorous demands of serious training.  Acting is experiential, and that is not possible without breath.  An actor must have the ability to breathe and release into the experience.   Meisner training challenges students to explore and function from all aspects of their emotional pallet.  The work is very deep, and our studio is dedicated to providing students with important disciplines to sustain their health and vitality. We want to support them and provide the tools to process their work both inside and outside of their acting class

Reiki For Actors is available to any student that is currently enrolled in any of our acting programs.