Actor Training Ireland

10/04/2026

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09/04/2026

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05/01/2023

Meet our new Studio Administrator, Rachel De Fontes.
Originally from oh so sunny Southern California, Rachel now lives & works between the US, UK & EU. She has a great love for traveling and has been known to tune in for Helena’s Resiliency Circles and Scene Study classes from the deepest corners of the world (where there’s wifi, there’s a way).
She is Director of Murmuration Studios, a London & Dublin-based theatre & film production company, which she co-founded with two other actors she met at Helena’s studio (shout out to Sarah Noll and Justin Ensor!)
She first met Helena in 2019, and has been in close connection with the studio ever since, meandering through the different acting courses/workshops as well as the RCs, which she has always felt incredibly supportive and meaningful to her life.
She is at her absolute happiest both when she is in nature - hiking, listening to the sounds around her, feeling the ground beneath her feet - and when she is engaged in meaningful work - in a magnetic rehearsal room, connected with collaborators, or on the stage, a sense of magic in the air shared with audience and performer alike.
Outside of her work at the studio, she is an actor, writer & producer. In 2022, she starred in a short thriller, produced 'An Intervention' in London (Riverside Studios), co-wrote a short film (set for 2023 production), aired one of her theatrical pieces in a Festival of New Writing, saw the release of the Paramount Pictures film “The Infernal Machine” which she acted in alongside Guy Pearce and began developing her feature-length film, “Jenny, and”.
She’s trained/worked with various companies & professionals across the US, UK, Ireland, Russia, Portugal & Australia and she feels that Helena’s studio is particularly special. She is very happy to be a part of our Studio Team and says she can’t wait to see where 2023 will take us.
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Interview with EmpowerHer*Voice Theatre Spotlight Collective

10/10/2022

Actors, what’s interesting for me when I watch actors on camera, I can see the ones who are holding their breath and the ones who have the ability to surf with the experience. Because fundamentally “breathing is meaning”

And tone, is almost like the setting, the atmosphere, the tone of the piece, but it’s actually also the physicality of our voices. And that makes love, peace or war. It’s not the words. It’s actually the tone that I respond to as opposed to the words.

Helena’s teachings are inspired by Organic Intelligence ® & Fitzmaurice Voicework ®

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If you want to work with Helena and really liberate your expression, enliven and bring more subtlety, diversity & nuance to your acting craft or if you just want to really inspire and engage those around you, comment “me” below and we’ll reach out with details of our new online voice, acting and empowerment programmes.

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13/09/2022

“The Resiliency and Empowerment Circle has been a gorgeous space to be part of. To receive and be received within a trusting collective of open hearts. That’s a powerful and beautiful thing. Very grateful for it.”

~ Fiach Kunz, Actor

The Empowerment and Resiliency Circles are a wonderful way to empower yourself. They are weekly gatherings largely based on self care and aim to give you ground and stabilize you as well as support you during the week, especially if you are feeling overwhelmed.

Clinically proven benefits include:

•Reduction of stress, anxiety, depression, addiction and trauma.
•Development of resiliency, emotional regulation and cognitive functioning.
•Reduction of chronic issues such as sleeping problems, chronic pain.
•Embodiment of social belonging and meaning.

Our next 10 week course starts Wednesday September 28th, 4pm - 5.30pm (GMT+1) with Human Empowerment and Resiliency Coach, Helena Walsh and Rebekka Haas Çetin - Meditation & Yoga teacher, and Organic Intelligence® Coach.

A maximum participant / tutor ratio of twelve to two provides a high level of individual attention, coaching and feedback.

DM to get started!

https://www.helenawalshempowermentstudios.com/empowermentcircles

07/07/2022

Your job as the actor is to embrace the dialect of vulnerability.

We have been conditioned to believe - my felt experience equals there is something wrong. Oh there is something wrong if you are feeling something.

Basically what I’m saying is when I’m sad, angry or hurt and someone says “what’s wrong”? Why should there be anything “wrong”? I’m feeling.

There are different questions we can ask.

You look sad - you can name it. Do you feel angry? So that’s acknowledging the experience.

When we do that, then what starts to happen is the body starts to feel seen, the body starts to feel heard.

So what you are doing is attuning to the language of the body instead of skipping a beat and trying to understand.

~ Helena’s teachings are inspired by Organic Intelligence & Fitzmaurice Voicework ® & NeurosystemicsTM

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If you want to expand and deepen your acting process and bring more diversity, nuance and complexity to your performance. DM to get started. We are now auditioning for The Actor’s Practice!!

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05/07/2022

Honouring the power of Vulnerability as a language all by itself.

It has a special dialect of connection and relationship.

Vulnerability is the language of the HEART.

This HEART language needs a compassionate space of awareness in order to elevate this art form, the human experience to a deeply personal and collective one at the same time.

~ Helena Walsh on voice and acting

Helena’s teachings are inspired by Organic Intelligence ® & Fitzmaurice Voicework ® & NeurosystemicsTM

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30/06/2022

When we allow the body do the listening, the voice is alive with the colours of the story.

When only thinking, the voice has no access to this colouring box.

The voice being the most intimate expression of our sense of self, requires craft and skill, in order for the listener to feel the character's humanity in the very sounds being expressed.

The nature of this intimacy resides in the deepest impulses in our bodies.

Our bodies act as sensory impulses that feel the relationship with our environment from within.

When this ability to be within and without aligns with the breath, the breath carries the feeling through vibration and into expression to the listener.

The story is felt and the character is seen.

The seeing is deeper than just with our eyes but opens up our heart in new ways.

We are after all opening our audience to their own hearts and compassion by drawing them into someone else’s life and asking them to feel with them.

So therefore the actor sees with their heart.

~ Helena Walsh on voice & acting

Helena’s teachings are inspired by Organic Intelligence ®, Fitzmaurice Voicework ® & NeuroSystemics

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If you want to expand and deepen your acting process and bring more diversity, nuance and complexity to your performance. DM to get started. We are now auditioning for The Actor’s Practice!!

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29/06/2022

You are building trust through shared complexity

It is our ability to trust our characters' complexity that opens the actor to a deeply compassionate performance, one that embraces bias, judgement & discomfort.

This listening, at this complex level, requires the actor to feel safe, then brave enough to be in human experiences they have never experienced.

It is the actors' compassionate imagination that has the skill to create the fibre and muscle of their character’s being.

Then this complex nature flows from story, to be expressed through body and voice to the listener, in this case the audience.

The actor, being in complexity, invites the audience to resonate and be moved by the character's human experience.

This is what builds an intimate relationship with trust.

~ Helena Walsh on voice & acting

Helena’s teachings are inspired by Organic Intelligence ® , Fitzmaurice Voicework ® & NeuroSystemics

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If you want to expand and deepen your acting process and bring more diversity, nuance and complexity to your performance. DM to get started. We are now auditioning for The Actor’s Practice!!

https://helenawalshempowerment.mykajabi.com/theactorspractice

16/06/2022

“See the possibilities and places your voice would like to go” ~ Ruth McGill

A full day of singing.
Only a few spaces still available

The Deets:
* Date: Saturday 18th June 2022
* Time: 10am to 5pm
* Location: Glendalough Hotel, Co. Wicklow

Includes: singing workshops with Ruth McGill that will help you
✅sing with confidence and clarity
✅sing with ease and enjoyment
✅sing with more power and precision
✅Learn Top Vocal Techniques to keep your voice in shape so you can sing with precision, power and in a playful way
✅Learn how to engage your creative mind with a playful quality
✅Learn how to engage your whole body in the action of singing

Fee: From EUR 150 per person

🌟A maximum participant/tutor ratio of fourteen to one provides a high level of individual attention, coaching and feedback.
To book or learn more, follow this link

https://www.helenawalshempowermentstudios.com/singingretreat