Welcome to BodySpeak™

Using the art of movement as medium and metaphor, BodySpeak™ is an interactive and highly intensive program of training designed to integrate mind, body, and spirit. It is the culmination of my forty years' experience as a theatrical performer, author, and teacher.

Since only approximately 10% of communication is verbal, with 90% through movement and body language, BodySpeak™ teaches a powerful method of communication and self-understanding.

BodySpeak™ is, in its essence, a journey from thought to action. Along the way, we learn to focus the mind, discipline the body, and activate powerful creative energies. We discover new and subtle ways to communicate with one another. We also have a lot of fun.

Mime

Emptiness and Fullness

“It’s OK to fight, but then go back to work.” “The line of your work is parallel to the line of your life.” (Session of Thursday, May 2, 1974. Boulder, Colorado) OK, today we will go into the body. What…

Mime

Children, Animals and Clowns

“What I’m doing now is pouring the cup into you,” Samuel said, as we sat down for the interview. “So, that you may pour it again with the symbols we call words.” A Morroccan-born mime, Samuel Avital has made Boulder his home…

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The Influence of Mime

THE INFLUENCE OF MIME By Jane Ellen Lazar, 1990, Oakland, California “It is certainly true that my studies with Samuel were a powerful influence in my live. I was very young, only 21 years old, when I met him, and…

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Time Bombs

TIME BOMBS By George Lewis, 1991 Seattle, WA “Sam’s teaching was-is-procreative in that way, profound in that it rejects easy answers and immediate gratification in favor of a healthy process, a learning to live and breathe fully with things and…

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The BodySpeak™ Manual
The BodySpeak™ Manual is a selection of writings, essays, poems, stories, teaching situations, and new exercises for the sole purpose of developing kinesthetic intelligence, and exploring the philosophy, theory, and the intention of the practice of the BodySpeak™ method of...
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