Share on Tumblr On 14 October 2012, Brian David Phillips conducted an online webinar on TRANCE-ACTING: Hypnosis and Acting via online webinar chat. The TRANCE-ACTING online webinar is an introduction to concepts related to hypnotically enhancing the actor’s experience via trance-based exercises for deep trance character identification, sense memory, and performance enhancement. This downloadable...
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Share on Tumblr FREE ONLINE HYPNOSIS WEBINAR TRANCEACTING Beyond Stanislavski Beyond Method 14 October 2012 : Free Online Webinar free online hypnosis webinar in TRANCEACTING Beyond Stanislavski Beyond Method Acting Dr. Brian David Phillips www.briandavidphillips.com brian@briandavidphillips.com 14 October 2012 , 10:00amTaipei Time Not sure of your local time? http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=TRANCEACTING&iso=20121014T10&p1=241 For correspondence, information regarding registration,...
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Share on Tumblr If you like, you can say this is not awesome . . . if you like . . . you’d be absofuckinloutely wrong but you can still say it. Yes, Mr. Burns: A Post-Electric Play is a stage drama that takes place just after the apocalypse with a group of survivors...
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Share on Tumblr FREE HYPNOSIS WORKSHOP AUTOMATICART Automatisms forCreative Expression of the Soul 27 May 2012 : Taipei free focused trance hypnosis workshop in AUTOMATIC ART Automatisms for Creative Expression of the Soul Dr. Brian David Phillips www.briandavidphillips.com brian@briandavidphillips.com 27 May 2012, 14:00-17:00Waking Dreams, Taipei AMAZING OPPORTUNITY A Few Hours of Focused Trance Hypnotic...
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Share on Tumblr What do you get when you take some of the absolutely worst dialogue delivery in video game history and combine it with someone with a penchant for facial expressiveness? You get some pretty awesome FACE ACTING, that’s what! As the folks at geektyrant note: “Be it shoddy translation, poor delivery, bad...
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Share on Tumblr Brian David Phillips, hypnotist and professor and acting coach, demonstrates a Trance-Acting technique, the adaptation of hypnosis and trancework techniques to the development of the actor. This presentation was part of a a very special actors trancework session for students at Kishore Namit Kapoor’s Acting Institute, one of the most highly...
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Share on Tumblr Brian David Phillips, hypnotist and professor and acting coach, lectures on Trance-Acting, the adaptation of hypnosis and trancework techniques to the development of the actor. This presentation was part of a a very special actors trancework session for students at Kishore Namit Kapoor’s Acting Institute, one of the most highly respected...
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Share on Tumblr Recently on the Hypnosis Technique Exchange (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HypnosisTechniqueExchange), there has been a query and bit of a discussion about my Magick Egg or Fairy Dragon Hypnosis process. For those with an interest, I have a number of resources that explain the process as well as the background to it . . ....
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Share on Tumblr As many readers here know, I teach Communication as well as Acting at the university. One of the innovations I use in my English as a Foreign Language courses is a set of interactive games known as Improvisational Language Structures (ILS) which are a series of activities I have adapted from...
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Share on Tumblr We’ve learned a LOT about the mind and suggestibility and the nature of experiential trance since the days of Jean-Martin Charcot and his assumptions that hypnosis was only possible with personalities prone to hysteria or his celebrity hysterics who he would wheel out and induce heysterical attacks at will. However, Charcot...
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Share on Tumblr Dr. Valerie Wells goes over some key points on how to use self-hypnosis to overcome anxiety . . . here are her five steps to anxiety relief: Here are her steps to use self-hypnosis for anxiety relief: Silence all telephones (land/cell), as well as all media (i.e., music, computers, pagers, etc.)...
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Share on Tumblr As regular readers here know, my original professional training is in acting and directing. My undergraduate degree, BA, is in Theatre while my first graduate degree, MA, is in Acting and Communication, and my PhD is in Comparative Literature with a specialty in Interactive Drama and I’ve got professional acting and...
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Share on Tumblr A slew of news, entertainment, and gossip sources are reporting that Katie Waissel, the X-Factor star, is seeking help with hypnotherapy to help her with the stage fright that has been causing her to flub lines and make on-stage mistakes. See http://www.in2town.co.uk/News-Celebrity/X-Factor-singer-to-under-go-Hypnosis-for-stage-fright for one story on the subject. Evidently, she’s turned...
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Share on Tumblr Mental Orgasms? Well, Lady Gaga can do it . . . so can you . . . Lady Gaga recently outed herself as one of those few gifted women who can give themselves full blown orgasms just by thinking about them in a special way. Good for her! Regular readers of...
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Share on Tumblr During a break before I presented a special seminar on Trance-Acting (trance techniques for actors) to a Bollywood acting studio’s special invitation audience in Mumbai, I had a chance to do some tranceplay with a former Miss India with some waking suggestion fun. Here’s a short clip. Remember, to sign up...
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