Mindful Acting - An Introduction

Being ‘present’, ‘in the moment’, ‘in the zone’, in ‘flow’, ‘losing oneself’. It’s widely accepted that this state of being fully ‘in-the-moment’ or ‘present’ is the holy grail of any acting pursuit. Yet the arising of this experience in most actors seems to be erratic at best.

In Mindful Acting we use a range of techniques from various different acting practitioners filtered through a kind of ‘mindfulness filter’, from which we can begin to understand how and why these techniques work.