Tag: podcast
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Comedy and Social Media: Jonny Weldon’s Acting Story
In this episode of the Spotlight Podcast, we chat to actor and comedian Jonny Weldon about auditions, comedy, making your own work and social media. Spotlight member Jonny Weldon is an actor, writer, comedian, and content creator who has performed on stage and screen from a young age. He can be seen in Sneakerhead, Stath Lets Flats,…
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Powerful Pause Meditation: Pre-Self-Taping
This meditation is designed to help you feel more present and connected to what you love doing so you can bring your best self to your self-tape audition. When you’re self-taping at home you may find it harder to switch off as you’re having to wear lots of different hats. It’s important to learn how…
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Powerful Pause Meditation: Togetherness
Inspired by the tragic events in Ukraine, this meditation focusses on togetherness and how it makes us stronger and more resilient. This 30 minute meditation by Spotlight’s Mental Health and Wellbeing manager, Bea Grist, is inspired by the idea of togetherness and what gets created when we come together. It’s designed to calm and soothe…
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Powerful Pause Meditation: Celebration
In this guided meditation you’re gently invited to celebrate all parts of you. Because all parts of you are worthy of celebration. There may have been times when things didn’t go to plan. Maybe there were some days when you felt like giving up. But you didn’t. You’re here. In this meditation we celebrate all…
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Powerful Pause Meditation: Confidence for Young Performers
This short meditation is designed to support young performers to feel more confident in themselves and their abilities. Our hope is that this meditation will help young performers reconnect to the part of them that knows that anything is possible and to keep trying – even when things don’t go to plan! This meditation is…
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Powerful Pause Meditation: Deep Relaxation for Sleep
This meditation is designed to help you to unwind and let go of the day, helping to aid a restful night’s sleep. We use a progressive muscle relaxation technique to help release stress and tension out of the body so we recommend finding a cosy and comfortable place where you can lie down for this…
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Powerful Pause Meditation: Calming Nerves for Young Performers
This meditation is designed to support young performers who might be feeling a bit nervous or worried – particularly if they have an audition, self-tape or performance coming up. We spend some time relaxing the body and then we go on a short journey where we discover some very special magic clouds. This meditation is…
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Powerful Pause Meditation: New Beginnings
This meditation is themed around the idea of new beginnings and is designed to calm a busy mind by gently guiding you back to yourself. We get curious about how each new breath creates space for new awareness by bringing us back to the present moment. This guided meditation was inspired by our Powerful Pause…
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Powerful Pause Meditation: Pre-audition for Young Performers
This meditation is recommended for ages 8+ and is designed to help calm and centre young performers before an audition or self-tape. Parents and Guardians are encouraged to listen to this meditation along with their child. If you are a young performer aged 16+ we recommend our adult performer pre-audition meditation. 12 minute listen. We recommend listening…
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Powerful Pause Meditation: Envy
This meditation is designed to help with envy and how with conscious awareness we can use this energy to move forward. Feelings of envy or jealousy can come up a lot when you’re an actor or performer but it’s usually just a sign that you care deeply about something. In small doses envy can actually…