Helena Walsh Empowerment Studios

Helena Walsh Empowerment Studios Acting Coach • Advanced Actor Training • Voice Coaching • Empowerment & Resiliency for professionals A.

Helena Walsh is an International Voice, Acting and Empowerment Coach. She is one of the world’s leading teachers in the film and theatre industry for actors, preparing them for screen and stage alike. Over the past 30 years, through a rigorous practice and deeply experiential research with her actors in the room, she has developed her own evolutionary and transformative approach to the acting proc

ess. Helena has taught and hosted workshops all over the world, in some of the finest actor training programmes in the world for stage and screen. She is Artistic Director and founder of ‘Helena Walsh Voice and Acting Studio’,based in Dublin, Ireland. She has now moved her entire studio online, where actors zoom in from all over the world to work with her. She invites some of the finest international teachers in the industry to co-teach with her at her studio and regularly hosts retreats in Ireland with Benjamin Mathes of Crash Acting. She has trained and performed as an actress and singer and worked extensively through the work of Roy Hart over the past twenty years. Helena is also a Human Empowerment and Resiliency Organic Intelligence® Consultant, working deeply with anxiety, stress and PTSD. Helena is immersed in the neuroscience of the creative process and particularly interested in Neurosystemics. Currently her research is focussed on the evolution of the collective consciousness of teams and groups within the arts and the corporate world towards a more collaborative, compassionate and empathetic process and work environment. Helena also leads a “ Free Listening,” project which she hosts weekly in Dublin as part of the Urban Confessional Movement worldwide. European Director Fitzmaurice Institute 2017 to 2019
Co-Director of The Fourth & Fifth International Freedom & Focus Fitzmaurice Voicework Conferences in Dublin, 2016 and London 2018
Associate Teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework®
Certificate in Roy Hart Training
Organic Intelligence® HEART Training® Modules 1,2, 3 & 4
Organic Intelligence® End of Trauma™ Course Moderator
B. in English Literature & The Classics, University College Dublin, Ireland. Languages: English

Specializations: Acting, Speech & Dialects, Human Empowerment, Wellbeing & Resiliency Coaching, Collective Consciousness Coach

02/09/2026

The actor’s foundation is ease, pleasure, play - That will give you a very long career.

Because you won’t take it seriously, and yet you’ll take it very seriously. The very serious part is the practice. The thing you don’t take seriously is your relationship to it, in the sense of, you want to build your relationship to it as something that is easeful, pleasurable, playful. So, we’re fostering an internal environment that has the capacity for vast playfulness, pleasure, ease, comfort, enjoyment and that is the fundamental foundation of the artist.

I was watching James Baldwin and Maya Angelou speaking, and they said, for an artist, it’s never about success.It’s about the art for the art’s sake and that’s an entirely different lens through which to live out your relationship with your art form

Because we’re not designed for the industry’s idea of success.

You have to hold on to your artistry, and it becomes even more important if you go into bigger roles on bigger sets, you really have to stay more humble, more grounded, more present. It’s actually there where it really, really counts, actually. But that’s after decades of honing your crafts. That’s after years of being with what you’re up to.

~ Helena Walsh

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01/09/2026

Actors, be curious about the world around you!

This is really around the eyes. Where do your eyes land? What are your eyes curious about? And then resting on that curiosity.

For example: Oh, there’s a book always gifted to me by someone who I really, really care about. It’s full of pages and pages of notes of the human experience.

You pay attention to something and you’re going deeper into it.

Or it’s any curiosity, it’s anybody you meet any other human being, allow everybody you meet, be unknown to you.

That actually they’re a person that you’re curious about; humans are unfathomably deep and interesting, all of them.

So this curiosity is in everything.

It’s in the coffee that you drink and where it comes from to the person in the shop, to sitting with someone in really discovering and finding out about who they are. It’s going and reading scripts and being interested in the world.

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

If you want to work with Helena and bring more complexity and nuance to your acting, we’ve got some exciting opportunities combining up this Fall!

🎥FREE WEBINAR + Q & A
with Helena Walsh
🗓️Wednesday September 2nd 2026

🎬3-Day Acting Workshop in Berlin, GERMANY
Taught by Helena Walsh
🗓️Sept 7-9

🎬3-Day Acting Workshop in Paris, FRANCE
Taught by Helena Walsh
🗓️Sept 11-13

🏄🏻‍♀️7-Night Acting & Surfing Retreat in Clonakilty, West Cork, IRELAND
Taught by Helena Walsh & Benjamin Mathes
This retreat will challenge you physically, artistically and professionally
🗓️September 19th - 26th

🎬The Actor’s Practice: 10 Week Advanced Actor Training with Helena Walsh & guest teacher Benjamin Mathes
🏡Live in Dublin: Starts October 5th 2026
💻ONLINE COURSE - Starts October 6th 2026⁠⁠
Learn more & register/apply using the link in our bio!⁠

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31/08/2026

Actors, join us for a transformative journey with one of the world’s leading acting coaches, Helena Walsh! Discover “The Actor’s Practice” and “ The Creative Path” ,unlocking your full potential. 🌟 Register now for our free webinar!

🗓️ Event Details:
📅 Date: Wednesday September 2nd, 2026
🕖 Time:
LA (PST) 11am
NEW YORK (EST) 2pm
DUBLIN (GMT+1) 7pm
PARIS (CEST) 8pm
MOSCOW (MSK) 9pm
DUBAI (GMT+4) 10pm
INDIA (IST) 11.30pm

⏳ Duration: 60 minutes
📍 Platform: Zoom (Link will be provided upon registration)

📝 Agenda:
✨ Introduction to “The Creative Path”, a new and holistic approach developed by Helena over 30 years of practice to deepen your artistry.
✨ Insights into overcoming challenges and unlocking your full potential as an actor.
✨ Embodied Guided Practice led by Helena Walsh
✨ Overview of techniques and practices influenced by Fitzmaurice Voicework®, Organic Intelligence®, and Neurosystemics™.
✨ Q&A Session: Ask your questions directly to Helena and get personalized insights into your acting journey.
✨ Next Steps: Learn how to enroll in “The Actor’s Practice” program and retreat and elevate your acting career!

🔗 Register now:
https://www.helenawalshempowermentstudios.com/store

Don’t miss this opportunity to embark on a transformative journey towards unlocking your full potential as an actor with Helena Walsh and “The Actor’s Practice” program.

Reserve your spot now! 🎬✨

https://www.helenawalshempowermentstudios.com/TAPwebinar

31/08/2026

Actors, the work that I do is really working with each actor to find your original process.

I’ve studied for 30 years all different aspects, somatically, neurologically, physiologically, biologically, the neuroscience of the creative process.

And I’ve gone deep into the nervous system, which I feel is the game changer.

Because the nervous system creates an oriented actor who understands in practice consistently how to become present to their lives and present to the world in a way that’s creative.

And that can kind of offer transformative experiences for yourself and for your audience that in front of My eyes that character is experiencing something and because they’re experiencing something I in the audience I’m experiencing something I’m being changed as they’re being changed.

However, for that to happen, the actor has to be hugely skilled. In the practice of Presence.

And the 1st part is that orientation to the here and now.

The only way to become present to the here and now through the senses.

That’s the only way through what you see, what you hear, what you touch, what you taste.

~ Helena Walsh

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29/08/2026

There’s something very powerful when you allow the natural world to become the reflection of your ego rather than what people think about you as a reflection of your ego and we have to train that because most of us don’t live in forests. Most of us live in cities.

We actually have to train and remember, to come back to the natural world because it is the thing that is most regulating, then it becomes your beloved or your sacred place.

And then you’re able to take criticism from others or difficulties with human beings because you have something bigger or vaster like, if you’re building a relationship with the planet and the cosmos in relationship to your biology, then when s**t hits the fan in relationship to society, family, and people you have a place to retreat to.

Because the ocean doesn’t judge you and the ocean can be fierce.

The sky doesn’t tell you you’re not good enough. You look up and you feel expansive.

So it’s all about what’s meaningful.

~ Helena Walsh

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

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28/08/2026

We’re going more towards rituals. What is it that is in your lives that supports you to remember who you are and why you’re here?
To remember that you matter, how unique you are.
Your purpose, vision, your mission. What is it in your life that causes or reminds you of that?
And it’s okay if it’s not there yet.
“This group, creative friends, communities and connections. My vision board. Conversations with my little nieces and nephews. Listening to my classmates’ recording of what they said about me on our last day in the intensive workshop. My family. My job as a chef. Connecting to seasons. Writing. Seeing a picture of me as a young girl, soft and free. Journaling. Singing. Connection with someone who sees me on the inside. Reading back old stuff. Everything that feels like me. Music. Writing. Reading over the novel I am writing. Stories my parents have, from before I was here. Everything that feels like me. This creative community. And remembering the first time when cinema and storytelling moved me.”
So, going back to the origins of what lit you up. What ignited you. Very important.
Start to value these like everything you’ve written in that chat box. Can I value it as the center of who I am? And then everything else. The career is on the outside of that, it’s not on the center. Your career is outside your restoration, your rebalancing and your remembering because from there, you’re going to fly.

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27/08/2026

The natural world is the greatest nervous system regulator we have.

The more time you spend in the natural world, the more gratitude your nervous system has for being alive.

You build this relationship with the natural world incrementally little by little and you begin to realize wow this is very rejuvenating and restorative.

There’s an innocence and curiosity in the natural world that will reflect your innocence and curiosity.

There’s a growth and a transformation that is slow, steady and incremental that will mirror back to you. The easiest way to grow is little by little, because it does it nonverbally and it does it gently.

You don’t go out into the natural world and the trees don’t tip their branches on your shoulder and go let’s talk about that thing that’s moving through your head, you know that dialogue you’re having right now, where you’re telling yourself you’re a really bad person and you’re life’s a mess!

Nature whispers just take a look at the bark of my tree, place your hand on my leaves, place your fingers in the soil, and just get a sense of the texture, and it’ll bring you to who you are.

Just use your eyes, use your touch, use the sound, listen to the bird song and we will bring you back to something very still, very alive, very alert and very ancient that is part of you.

~ Helena Walsh

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Are you sometimes working too hard in your acting?Trying to feel something.Trying to show something.Trying to make the s...
26/08/2026

Are you sometimes working too hard in your acting?
Trying to feel something.
Trying to show something.
Trying to make the scene happen.
Trying to be good.
Trying to get it right.
And somewhere in all that effort, you lose the thing you were looking for in the first place:
presence.
The moment.
The connection.
The imagination.
The freedom to respond.
The Art of Acting Masterclass with Helena Walsh is a 3-day intensive for professional and committed actors who want to explore what becomes possible when you slow down, do less and be more.
Through scene work, body, breath, voice, imagination, senses and stillness, you’ll explore how to access greater depth, subtlety, complexity and freedom in your work — while developing practical ways to work with anxiety, self-doubt and the inner critic.
Not beginner acting training.
Not another formula for “getting into character.”
A deeper exploration of you, your instrument and the space between you and the other actor.
🎭 Berlin
📅 7–9 September 2026
🕙 10am–5pm
👥 Limited to 10–12 actors
If you know there is more available in your work, this is an invitation to explore it.
Apply now:
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26/08/2026

Remember actors, there’s something bigger than you moving through you.

When we live in our senses in the here and now, we don’t get so overwhelmed

Especially if you know:

How to attract what feels okay, pleasurable and good.

How to self regulate and co-regulate.

Where are the environments where you feel inspired?

How often are you in the natural environment? My bias is good once a day, twice a day is very good!

What is sacred to you or how is ritual ceremony, whatever that might be for you. What is your relationship with something bigger than you moving through you?

Maybe it’s the moon and the sun or maybe it’s icons or maybe it’s quantum physics? I don’t know but there’s something bigger than you moving through you.

Because all of that changes the levels at which you work from biology to cosmos.

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

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