Maria Kapsali is a Lecturer in Physical Performance in the School of Performance and Cultural Industries at the University of Leeds. She studied Iyengar Yoga with Silvia Prescott and Penny Chaplin and qualified as an Iyengar Yoga Instructor in 2007. She has explored the use of yoga as a resource for the training of the actor in a PhD practice-based thesis (The Use of Yoga in Actor Training and Theatre Making, 2011, University of Exeter), as well as in a number of peer-reviewed journal articles.
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Yoga postures (Asanas) seen in the videos with their Sanskrit
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Yoga and Actor Training offers a practical introduction to, as well as a
discursive overview of, the ways yoga practice can be used in contemporary actor
training. Approaches explored in this series of audio-visually recorded
workshops with student actors lay down some of the foundational correspondences
in the relationship between yoga and actor training. Together with contextual
essays, the videos are designed to support and encourage further collaboration
between the two disciplines.