Saul's Approach
Saul helps you communicate the full range of your thoughts, intentions, and feelings 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, has been developing her work for forty years by combining traditional voice-training techniques with other disciplines to encourage communication with greater presence, relaxation and vibrancy. For example, traditional techniques such as breath management combine with her adaptations of yoga, shiatsu, Reichian bodywork, and other body-based and meditative practices.

Catherine's work is taught by certified Fitzmaurice teachers 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. See 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. 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 and able to follow your moment-by-moment involuntary impulses, you gain access to previously unconscious or frozen impulses. This 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 center. This work helps you (re)discover the efficient process that emerges when you need to communicate something vocally. Structuring is technical and specific, and it is based on 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 the elements above with your imagination in order to explore areas of relating 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: 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.