Scene Alchemy:
Ongoing Workshop
A weekly creative practice using scene work, embodiment, movement, and yogic philosophy as a journey into the self.
Scene Alchemy
Explore the self through scene work, embodiment, movement, and yogic philosophy.
A weekly online creative practice using acting, movement, reflection, and yogic self-study as a doorway into deeper self-expression.
Each month, we’ll explore a new theme through scene work and embodied exercises designed to help you connect with emotion, notice your patterns, experiment creatively, and discover more of yourself through the process.
No acting experience is required just curiosity, a willingness to explore, and an openness to being surprised by what comes up.
Tuesdays at 6:00 PM
$108 for four sessions each month
Explore Scene Alchemy
Scene Alchemy is designed to help you become more fully yourself.
Through scene work, embodiment, movement, reflection, and yogic philosophy, you’ll begin to recognize the patterns that keep you small, disconnected, or performing versions of yourself that no longer fit.
This practice can help you:
Know yourself more deeply: recognize the patterns, fears, desires, and identities shaping your choices
Trust yourself more fully: strengthen your ability to listen to your instincts and respond with greater confidence
Express yourself more honestly: become more comfortable using your voice, emotions, body, and creativity
Move through fear with greater courage: practice being seen, taking risks, and staying present through discomfort
Let go of limiting roles and stories: explore who you are beyond old identities, expectations, and habits
Become more embodied and present: experience yourself from the inside out instead of constantly analyzing or performing
Live with greater intention: bring what you discover in the creative process into your relationships, work, choices, and everyday life
The goal isn’t to become someone else.
It’s to become more fully the person you already are.
A scene can become more than something you perform. It can become a mirror revealing the patterns, emotions, fears, desires, and stories that shape how you move through the world.
When you explore a scene through the body, something begins to shift, not just in how you express yourself, but in how you understand yourself.
This is where that exploration begins.
Each 3.5 hour session centers around a theme drawn from yogic philosophy and self-inquiry. We’ll explore that theme through scene work, embodiment, movement, somatic exercises, and reflection giving you space to experiment, express, and discover what the material brings up for you. Sessions are 3.5 hours to make sure everyone has time to work.
You’ll have opportunities to work with scenes, explore different characters and perspectives, move through guided exercises, journal, reflect, and share within the group. This isn’t about giving the “perfect” performance. It’s about using the creative process as a mirror for deeper self-awareness.
Tuesdays at 6:00 PM PT
3.5 hours per session
Small online group
$108 for four sessions each month
No acting experience is required. Come as you are, bring your curiosity, and be willing to explore.
How it works
Every Tuesday at 6:00 PM PT, we meet online for a 3.5-hour creative lab designed to give everyone meaningful time to explore, create, be witnessed, and work.
Each month centers around a larger theme rooted in yogic philosophy, with a different sub-theme guiding our exploration each week.
We begin by getting out of our heads and into our bodies through breathwork, movement, and playful exercises designed to interrupt our usual patterns and open up new ways of seeing, feeling, and expressing ourselves.
From there, the creative work changes from week to week.
You might work with a scripted scene or monologue. You might improvise, write something of your own, explore a sense memory, work with a partner, embody a character, or experiment with an exercise that asks you to step into a completely different perspective.
One week you might sing your lines instead of speaking them. Another week you might begin a scene in gibberish. You might be asked to embody the person who criticizes you most and speak about yourself from their point of view, noticing what changes when you temporarily inhabit their voice, posture, energy, and perspective.
The creative exercise is simply the doorway.
At the heart of Scene Alchemy is svādhyāya the yogic practice of self-study. We use character, story, imagination, movement, emotion, and reflection as mirrors for exploring the many parts of ourselves.
The confident parts. The frightened parts. The angry parts. The joyful parts. The parts we hide. The parts we judge. The parts we have outgrown. And the parts we may not have met yet.
This isn’t about performing perfectly or becoming someone else.
It’s about becoming curious enough to explore all of who you are.
Tuesdays at 6:00 PM PT
3.5 hours per session
Four sessions each month
Small online group
$108 per month
No acting experience is required. Come as you are, bring your curiosity, and be willing to play.
WHERE THIS CAME FROM
My relationship with acting began when I was ten years old at The Drama Studio, where I studied with Amelia Hays Rivest. That was my first experience of what it felt like to step into another character, use my imagination fully, and discover parts of myself through performance.
Years later, at Venue Actors Studio in St. Petersburg, Florida, I studied with Corrine Broskette and was introduced to work influenced by Lee Strasberg. That experience invited me deeper into the emotional and internal life of a character and into the idea that acting can ask us to draw from parts of ourselves we may not encounter in everyday life.
More recently, studying at the Anthony Meindl Actor Workshop reminded me how powerful scene work can be as a form of personal exploration. And after recently joining the LA Actors Studio in San Diego, I was reminded all over again why I love this way of expressing showing up as you are, getting out of your head, taking creative risks, and allowing something honest to emerge in the moment.
Each of these teachers, studios, and experiences has shaped the way I think about creative expression.
Scene Alchemy is not an attempt to recreate any one acting technique or studio methodology. It is my own exploration of what happens when I bring the lessons I’ve gathered through acting together with my years of yoga practice and teaching, breathwork, movement, reflection, and yogic philosophy.
At the center of the practice is svādhyāya self-study.
We use scenes, improvisation, character, movement, and creative exercises as mirrors opportunities to encounter all the different parts of ourselves: the beautiful parts, the uncomfortable parts, the playful parts, the frightened parts, the parts we tend to hide, and the parts we may not have met yet.
I’m also inspired by the idea that our creative work can help us listen for dharma the direction, expression, or work that feels deeply aligned with who we are and what is asking to come through us.
Scene Alchemy grew from all of these influences.
It is a place to create, to play, to be witnessed, to experiment, and to come as you are and ultimately, to know yourself more deeply.