Saul's Approach
Saul helps you communicate what matters with a free, flexible, and powerful voice.

A certified Master Teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework®, Saul addresses your specific needs. He encourages you to take creative risks and find pleasure in the process of learning. He also welcomes difficulties when they arise because they can provide specific and meaningful opportunities for learning.

About Fitzmaurice Voicework®
The founder of Fitzmaurice Voicework, Catherine Fitzmaurice, combined traditional voice-training techniques with other disciplines to encourage communication with greater presence, relaxation and vibrancy. Traditional techniques such as breath management, for example, combine with her adaptations of yoga, shiatsu, Reichian bodywork, and other body-based and meditative practices.

Certified Fitzmaurice teachers teach in the MFA acting programs at Yale and Harvard, as well as NYU Studios, the Moscow Art Theatre School, and many other institutions all over the world. Here's the complete list of certified Fitzmaurice voice teachers.

Three Parts of Fitzmaurice Voicework
Freedom and Spontaneity: this part of the work, called Destructuring, frees your voice and your breathing. A range of exercises loosens muscular rigidity, increases natural resonance, develops a felt sense of internal flow, and encourages the breathing to become spontaneous. As your breathing becomes more free, you gain access to previously unconscious or frozen impulses. This part of the work expands your experience of your self, your sense of being present and free, and your ability to express these experiences vocally.

Focus: this part of the work, called Structuring, teaches you to communicate with vocal support and power that come from your core. This work helps you (re)discover the efficient process that emerges when you need to communicate something vocally. While this part of the work is technical, it is rooted in an organic process that many of us have lost access to by the time we become adults.

Play and Application: this part of the work combines freedom and focus with your imagination to address areas of communication that are helpful for you, and especially for performers, to explore the full range of humanity that can be expressed through the voice.

When Helpful, Saul Also Uses:

• improvisation/role playing: to address the specific contexts in which you need to communicate. This work also helps you expand the range of what you can experience and express fluidly.
• acting technique links: for actors, to link voice training with the actor's own acting process. For non-actors, to help communicate what is important.
• public speaking: to help you communicate more effectively with groups.
• other styles of voicework: to emphasize different aspects of how to give voice to your experience and communicate through speaking or singing.
• meditation & body-mind-emotion integration techniques: to develop greater awareness and presence, promote relaxation, and encourage a felt sense of vibrant flow.
• clown & games: to bring elements of play into the training and your communication.