In Class: All the Wasted Time, All the Million Hours

1. Sealing Grout
2. Surviving a Fire
3. Defense Against Blade
4. Phasic Relaxation
5. MMA No Holds Barred Fighting
6. Post Driving
7. Musical Theatre Music
8. Sleeping
9. Making It Seem Like It's Raining Using a Water Hose
10. Chillaxing
11. Emotion Control
12. Listening
13. Cooking Any Types of Meat
14. B.S.ing my way through anything

Phasic relaxation is a process used by actors to, well, relax into their characters. It eases tesion in the muscles and clears the mind of any personality other than the character that is being focused on. I was taught this for the first time by Michael Newberry while doing the show Electra in 2005. I was young and impressionable, and this definitely left it's mark on me. It was a useful tool he used to focus his student actors. After asking how to seek further information on this method, he handed me a book. "The Actor at Work" by Benedetti. This book revolutionized my juvenile methods of acting and transformed them for the better. My skills have tranformed even further since then, but I see this as the starting point. After reading this book in it's entirety, I started practicing methods from the book, mainly phasic relaxation, at home. My junior and senior year, I was allowed to practice this method on my theatre peers during shows, having the power passed down to me by my director.