Trance-Acting: Actors, Directors, Dancers, and Musical Performers

THE GAZE – 19 May 2013 – Special Hypnotic Workshop in Taipei

SPECIAL HYPNOSIS WORKSHOP THE GAZE The Intimate Power of The Gaze Creating Deeply Intimate Psychological Connections 19 May 2013 : Taipei focused trance hypnosis workshop in THE GAZE Creating Deeply Intimate Psychological Connections Rev. Dr. Brian David Phillips www.briandavidphillips.com brian@briandavidphillips.com 19 May 2013, 14:00-17:00Waking Dreams, Taipei NT$150 pre-pay, NT$300 at the door. You must register…

DVT38 Vicarious X

DVT38 VICARIOUS X Vicarious eXperiential Machine Physical Skill Acceleration High Definition Video on USB at 1280X720 DVT38 VICARIOUS EXPERIENTIAL MACHINE Physical Skill Acceleration Rev. Dr. Brian David Phillips www.briandavidphillips.com brian@briandavidphillips.com D V T 3 8 Two Hours Forty Minutes (Three Video Volumes) Includes Special Vicarious Eroticatrance Bonus Material from Eroticatrance and Advanced Eroticatrance Video Training…

Trance-Acting Webinar Audio Recording

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 recording is the complete…

Reality Rendering RPG Hypnosis

Reality Rendering David Brager This piece was originally written and posted to his Srypnosis site by David Brager many years ago. It is reproduced here by permission. His roleplay related pieces were formerly archived on my old related site and since that site is now defunct, I have moved them here for obvious reasons. I…

Hypnotic Roleplaying with Hypno-RPG Adventuring

Hypno-Adventuring:Role Playing Games in Trance David Brager This piece was originally written and posted to his Srypnosis site by David Brager many years ago. It is reproduced here by permission. His roleplay related pieces were formerly archived on my old related site and since that site is now defunct, I have moved them here for…

TRANCEACTING – 14 October 2012 – Free Online Webinar

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 Rev. 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, and assistance, please…

Marina Abramović – The Artist Is Present

During the Soul Gazing webinar on Seeing into the Eyes of the Spirit (eXperiential Soul Gazing for Lovers and Beyond) (see here), part of the discussion came around to whether or not one needed to signpost the act of soul gazing or if the methods could be used without overt suggestion. In that discussion, I…

Mr. Burns, Bart Simpson, and Post-Apocalyptic Awesome

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 who amuse themselves by…

AUTOMATIC ART – 27 May 2012 – FREE Workshop in Taipei

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 Rev. 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 eXperience! Don’t miss…

The Art of Face Acting: Worst Video Game Style

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 writing, or just annoying…

Trance-Acting Demonstration

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 respected actor training institutes…

Trance-Acting Lecture

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 actor training institutes in…

Fairy Dragon Hypnosis Resources for the Magic Egg Process

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 . . . some free and some…

One Word at a Time Improvisational Language Structure with Roddy McDowall and Carol Burnett

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 theatre games and improvisational…

Acting Up and Hysteria all in the Mind via Charcot

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 has indeed made a…

Use Self-Hypnosis to beat Anxiety

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.) Get your body comfortable…

Camilla Kerslake conquers Stage Fright with Hypnosis

Camilla Kerslake used to get bouts of stage fright . . . at least according to Deborah Kerslake, her mother . . . but no more. How did the she overcome the problem? Hypnosis . . . at least according to Deborah Keslake, a professional hypnotist and her mother. Before recording her first music video,…

Fourteen Actors Acting

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 directing experience under my…

Katie Waissel turning to Hypnotherapy for Stage Fright

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 to her mentor Cheryl…

Lady Gaga gives herself Mental Orgasms and So Can YOU

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 my blog already know…

Waking Hypnotic Fun with Miss India

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 for my upcoming course…

Stepping inside and eXperiencing Fantasy AS IF it’s Real or the Joys of eXperiential Fantasy Trance

Now, while this question from one of the groups I belong to is specifically related to consensual adult recreational erotic hypnosis, it applies to a number of contexts – educational, training, and therapy – as well. A fellow states he has the idea of guiding his trance partner into a state where he tells her…

Essence of Entertainment Hypnosis

Entertainment Hypnosis isn't just hypnosis, it's ENTERTAINMENT A discussion thread at the Hypnosis Technique Exchange morphed into a discussion of public speaking and hypnosis and then into a review of a particular book on stage or entertainment hypnosis. One remark in the discussion is worth noting here as well. "One thing I have noticed and…