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Before You Self-Tape: SLIP INTO CHARACTER Performers & Creators Lab

    • Performing Arts

Do you feel a little scattered when you're trying to self-tape and juggle all the pieces? The lighting, the sound, your outfit? This guided meditation will help you drop into a calm and focused place before you begin taping.

Want more meditations like this?  Visit performersandcreatorslab.com to find the Meditations for Actors Series as well as other interviews, stories, tips, and hypnosis recordings for all types of artists.


Holly Shaw is a hypnotherapist, performance coach, creativity researcher and has spent a lifetime in film, T.V. and on professional stages all over the world as an actor, dancer, and director and stand-up comedian. She has helped hundreds of artists, from Emmy award winning and Grammy nominated artists to world class choreographers overcome their anxiety, stage fright, impostor syndrome, and creative blocks so that they can create original work and totally crush it on stage again and again without feeling like they're selling out or losing their sanity.  In 2016, Shaw wrote and published, The Creative Formula   which has become an Amazon bestseller and in 2020 published her second book, Making Art In The Middle of Madness   which has become a #1 New Release. The Performers & Creators Lab podcast was named one of 2019's most outstanding podcasts by Databird Research. Follow her on Instagram to stay up to date:  @hollyshawspritely or visit www.PerformersandCreatorsLab.com to get more free resources

The Composer: Dan Cantrell is an Emmy award winning composer and multi-instrumentalist known for his innovative film scoring approach, and his virtuosic abilities on the accordion, piano and musical saw. “Hauntingly beautiful…quirky and energetic” says the San Francisco Bay Guardian.  His extensive scoring catalogue spans a wide range of emotion and style.Dan’s compositions for film and television have earned him numerous awards including an Emmy Award for KQED’s Home-Front.  Learn more at bellowhead.com

Do you feel a little scattered when you're trying to self-tape and juggle all the pieces? The lighting, the sound, your outfit? This guided meditation will help you drop into a calm and focused place before you begin taping.

Want more meditations like this?  Visit performersandcreatorslab.com to find the Meditations for Actors Series as well as other interviews, stories, tips, and hypnosis recordings for all types of artists.


Holly Shaw is a hypnotherapist, performance coach, creativity researcher and has spent a lifetime in film, T.V. and on professional stages all over the world as an actor, dancer, and director and stand-up comedian. She has helped hundreds of artists, from Emmy award winning and Grammy nominated artists to world class choreographers overcome their anxiety, stage fright, impostor syndrome, and creative blocks so that they can create original work and totally crush it on stage again and again without feeling like they're selling out or losing their sanity.  In 2016, Shaw wrote and published, The Creative Formula   which has become an Amazon bestseller and in 2020 published her second book, Making Art In The Middle of Madness   which has become a #1 New Release. The Performers & Creators Lab podcast was named one of 2019's most outstanding podcasts by Databird Research. Follow her on Instagram to stay up to date:  @hollyshawspritely or visit www.PerformersandCreatorsLab.com to get more free resources

The Composer: Dan Cantrell is an Emmy award winning composer and multi-instrumentalist known for his innovative film scoring approach, and his virtuosic abilities on the accordion, piano and musical saw. “Hauntingly beautiful…quirky and energetic” says the San Francisco Bay Guardian.  His extensive scoring catalogue spans a wide range of emotion and style.Dan’s compositions for film and television have earned him numerous awards including an Emmy Award for KQED’s Home-Front.  Learn more at bellowhead.com

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