The Lucid Body

A Guide for the Physical Actor

By: Fay Simpson

Narrated by: Tamara Scott

A step-by-step program guides actors through the phases of self-awareness that expand emotional and physical range, not only on stage, but in daily life.

Actors! Engage your mind and your body in order to develop your characters fully. The Lucid Body technique breaks up stagnant movement patterns and expands your emotional and physical range. Through energy analysis, this program shows how to use physical training to create characters from all walks of life - however cruel, desolate, or neurotic those characters may be.

Rooted in the exploration of the seven chakra energy centers, The Lucid Body reveals how each body holds the possibility of every human condition. Learn how to analyze the character, hear the inner body, dissect the self into layers of consciousness, and more.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

Download the accompanying reference guide.©2012, 2008 Fay Simpson (P)2013 Audible, Inc.

A Wonderful Conceptual Framework for the Actor

I've been pursuing acting as a profession for just under a year and I have tried to study and train as much as possible in that relatively short period of time. I feel extremely fortunate to have come across this book. It's based on the premise that actors can use the different chakras, or energy systems, present in each person to make authentic characters which truly embody attributes different from our own. Even if you feel reluctant about buying into the spirituality inherent in the concept of chakras (I would count myself among this group), you don't have to commit to any belief system or even believe chakras exist in actual fact. You could take the pragmatic approach and act as if those energy centers exist and I believe you can still tap into the power and wisdom of this technique.

Amazing

This book is absolutely fantastic. One of the best audiobooks I have ever come across!

Excellent

I’m not an actor, but this gave me better insight on the chakra body. I love it

Great Book

Great and useful book. However, the reader blew it for me when she tried to act out lines from plays. She was just terrible to listen too.

Sanctimonious, fluffy, sentimental, new age drivel.

Any actual actors who would rather grow and work should avoid this book like cancer. Great for self-help addicted stoners who love wasting their time in communes doing sentimentally charged “emotional-ish” masturbation. This approach will lead actors to fall into all the traps and temptations to generate and overact with surface-y preconceptions that scream “desperate amateur”. But if you want to have your identity as an armchair psychic/psychologist/savior of the world validated while you signal your virtue to your own reflection while you pleasure yourself with “your truth”, then by all means, eat it up and don’t dare use your critical reasoning, because then everyone will see how exploded your chakras are and you’ll need everyone in the tribe/commune to help you become more virtuously aligned.