Ever since early childhood and throughout our lives we've learnt to close ourselves from our natural impulses, senses and emotions. This workshop helps you to dive back into your true self, especially into your emotional life and its empowering spectrum, via the practice of the Meisner technique and other connecting warm-ups and exercises. In a variety of group and partner exercises we will re-learn to express ourselves with freedom and flow, to listen to another and be fully present.
By reconnecting ourselves back to our full emotional spectrum and its free flow, both the light and the shadow, and moment-to-moment intuition from our bodies, can we embody our truth, boundaries and real connection with other people. 

The capacity for emotional intelligence and presence is a highly valued skill in todays world, not only in acting platforms but in any types of relationships and interactions, whether in business or personal. Our capacity to truly feel our emotions and truthful impulses while being connected with others, powerfully also supports our holistic healing, and is often the very aspect missing in many spiritual modalities. 
 

 

WHO THIS WORKSHOP IS FOR?

For actors and non-actors. Anyone wanting to understand and tap into their rich and empowering emotional life and the authentic human connections. For anyone wanting to learn to be fully present and trust themselves deeper in any situation. For anyone wanting to create more freedom, courage and awareness in themselves. For anyone wanting to learn about the Meisner Technique or the basics of truthful acting. Also great for performers or any kind, directors, writers, artists and creatives.

 

WHAT DO YOU GET?
Through this workshop you will:

• learn to express and be your authentic self more freely and bravely

• create more freedom to be present and live in the moment

• strengthen your self-awareness, -confidence and connection to your intuition

• strengthen your capacity to really listen and connect with another

• deepen your emotional expression and understanding

• develop your communication and relationship skills

• find healthy and organic ways to let go of fear and feel more relaxed and confident in any types of situations and performances

• enhance your capacity to drop down masks and live in your authenticity

• strengthen your sensitivity and awareness of the other person's emotional life and expression

• get many useful tools to finding authentic emotional expression to any performing platforms or situations

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INFO

• Price: 215€ 

• Date: 11 - 12 January 2025
• Time: Both days 10:00 - 15:30  
• Please book by the link above (additionally Paypal also available). If you have any inquiries you can email us, or contact Nita directly via WhatsApp at +358 50 5557766
• Location: Ibiza, Spain (exact location to be confirmed closer to the event)

• Place is limited and will be filled on 'first-come first-serve basis'.

• The booking for all events and workshops is binding. You can cancel 7 days prior the event with full refund. No refunds less than 7 days prior the event but you can pass on your spot to another person without an extra fee.

• Teaching language is English (Please keep in mind that you do not need to have perfect English skills, and you do not need to worry about accent and pronunciation).

• No previous experience needed, the course is open to anyone. The space will be very safe to attend without any previous experience.

• All rights to changes reserved.

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For a more thorough, deeper and all-inclusive experience, you can join our week-long Authentic Me Actors Retreat in April 2025 on the island to take the work and experience further.
 

You can follow us on Instagram at actorsacademyofficial.

 

ABOUT NITA ARPIAINEN
Nita Arpiainen is an acting coach, actor, a holistic coach and a yoga teacher, EFT practitioner and the founder of Actors Academy with over 15 years of coaching experience. In her previous career she has also worked as a TV presenter and producer. Nita's deep passion and curiosity for acting, learning and personal growth is the underlying motivation for Actors Academy to come alive. The vision for the academy was formed while Nita attended numerous acting schools and workshops in London at the Actors Studio, Giles Forman Acting Studio, City Academy and the Actors Temple to name a few, ultimately falling profoundly in love with the Meisner Technique, and it making a powerful and lasting impact on the way she viewed not just acting, but relationships, personal growth and holistic healing as well. Her first studies and the journey into the world of the wonderful and forever-inspiring Meisner Technique started in 2015, and she has been lucky to have worked and learned with many great international teachers along the years.

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TESTIMONIALS
 

"This single Meisner workshop was one of the most emotional and powerful things that has ever happened to me. It has been a month, I still think about the experience, and it makes me smile. The connections between people - I never knew that this is even possible and I am sincerely happy to know now that it is, that this magical world exists. I feel different now, I smile a lot more, I am a lot more curious about people and I definitely do want to explore more. Thank you for all of this!"

 - Paul
 

"Nita's holistic way of coaching is absolutely inspiring! Nita doesn't let you go easy but the way she pushes one to go beyond one's comfort zone is very gentle and also insightful. Nita makes everyone feel welcome and accepted just as they are. Also the way Nita encourages everyone to stick together and encourage one another within the group, is a beautiful thing."- Jonna

"Something really shifted for me during this workshop. It was shocking to see how often we cover our real feelings with a smile, for example, and oh so liberating to explore some of the deeper emotions. I feel like I finally have the capability and “permission” to express myself more freely and I’m taking that with me to where appropriate. I find Nita’s ability to create and hold space for people to open up and get vulnerable so quickly really something! And she’ll push you past your comfort zone, I like that! Five out of five stars from me. If anything, I’d like the workshop days to be longer."

- Aivar

"Nita - your course shook me to the core in the best possible way. I never knew that this sort of connection between people is even possible

and you showed me (or rather you shoved me into) this magical world.

I feel like a huge weight has been lifted from my shoulders. I will be forever thankful for this."
- Anti

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"Stepping into being fully yourself with your guidance was really amazing to feel. These exercises where we were fully present, being with another in a truthful honest connection, as well as experiencing how it feels to be in front of a crowd, being observed - was a fantastic journey. To also feel the other participants so truthfully was really touching. Your guided meditation at the end felt breathtaking. It touched me and opened my heart and feelings. The workshop has already helped me in my life in many ways. Being my truthful self has immediately brought much deeper and authentic friendships for me even in the business world. Nita you are full of love and purpose in your work. You activate people in living truly form their hearts and I thank you so much for this. The workshop changed a lot in my life, and because of you I can be more of me than ever before."

- Hansi

"I was shaken in the best way possible by Nita’s workshop. I learned so much about myself as a performer and it opened for me an entirely different way to approach the craft of acting. Even with a group of persons that I had never met before I felt safe, connected, and free to explore my capabilities as an actor. I would so recommend this workshop to anyone and everyone! Even if you are not an actor, it is a way to tap back into the humanness of the self. FIVE STARRRRZZZZ!"
- Marja
 

"Thank you very much for the workshop. I thoroughly enjoyed it. Nita was a very patient, compassionate coach. The workshop was intensive and challenged everyone to be brave and open to the unknown depth and dynamics of our rich inner life. Nita made sure that we felt safe and supported in doing so.  What I find most useful and important in the Meisner training is its focus on the other. By being utterly present with the other, I can be free to feel the emotions that arise from the circumstances,  authentic feelings, not manufactured in my head. I think this sense of inner liberation in authentic human connection is something anyone can benefit from, not just actors. I can only wish that the course like this would be available more often and for longer periods."

- Yuko

"I absolutely loved it. It changed me forever and I can’t wait to have more of it. I so needed to go to those places within me and feel liberated and I am literally so hungry to learn more and make use of those tools in my career. Nita is a wonderful soul and guide and I’m so grateful to have met her. Thank you thank you thank you!”

- Mayela

"Nita you are a pure diamond in this Universe. Thank you so much!

I was scared when I entered the studio on Friday, about to spend two days with total strangers and the to be honest the idea to reveal the inner me to those fellow students felt scary as fuck. But as terrifying as it was - now I just want to learn and explore more. I am so grateful for the whole workshop. I feel free, I feel brave and weightless. I feel so present and I feel more ready for the whole life than in ages - so it was magnificent. So whether you’re interested in acting, or just exploring what’s inside, digging deeper or interested in human behaviour, I highly recommend it. Oh and what comes to Actors Academy Finland and Nita - solid five stars! So yeah, go for it people, it’s totally going to be worth it.”
- Tintti
 

"This two day Meisner technique workshop with Nita was way more eye opening- or I should say heart opening than what I had thought it would be. I only have a glimpse of the repetition method now but I already feel like I opened up as an actress - and more - also as a person. After the first day I wrote down things I realized about authentic acting through this method and after the second day I wrote about three pages about everything I learnt about my feelings and my relationships through this method.  Now I want to do more Meisner to become a better actress. Thank you for the course Nita!"

- Iiris

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"Thank you Nita for the course. It's wonderful how it just dropped on my path and was something that I had longed for and needed, even though I wasn't yet aware of that. These few nights woke something in me that I didn't know existed. Thank you, thanks for your authenticity and for all the wonderfulness these evenings were. I learned a lot.”

- Sara

See more testimonials about Nita here.

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WHAT IS THE MEISNER TECHNIQUE?
 

The Meisner Technique is not something you can truly learn from a book or a video—it’s a skill that must be experienced. Through guided pair work, repetitive exercises, and constructive group feedback, participants learn to respond instinctively and freely to their practice partner in real time. It’s a process of allowing ourselves to fully land into the present moment without the need to change the experience at hand or fix ourselves or our reactions to the moment. By focusing our attention onto our partner, we aim to ‘leave ourselves alone’ while also allowing our truth to be revealed just as it is.

This hands-on, interactive approach requires being fully present in the room, where a trained professional creates a safe space for experimentation and growth. The technique is a powerful tool not just for actors but for anyone seeking authentic connection and emotional freedom. Participants often find themselves concluding that we are enough as we are—a realization that deepens their acceptance of themselves and others, opening the door to meaningful connections with like-minded people. And it often happens, that many of the participants experience a sense of true belonging for the first time in their adult lives.​

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THE ORIGIN AND FOCUS
Developed by American theater practitioner Sanford Meisner, this technique focuses on getting actors to "get out of their head" and respond instinctively to their surroundings. Unlike methods that emphasize internal thoughts or pre-planned character choices, the Meisner Technique trains actors to focus on the other person in the scene. This allows genuine emotional reactions to arise naturally in the moment.

Repetition exercises—a hallmark of Meisner training—strip away the significance of words, shifting the focus to the emotional undercurrents driving the exchange. Over time, participants learn to behave instinctively, truthfully, and with greater emotional availability.

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MORE THAN ACTING
As Nita Arpiainen explains: “In the Meisner Technique, you’re either open or closed—there’s no in-between.” This philosophy pushes participants to confront their own barriers and experience what it truly means to be open, without a mask. For many, the revelation is that in day-to-day life, we’re often not fully present or honest in our interactions. Breaking through this pattern is transformative—not only for creativity but for life itself.

The Meisner Technique is more than a method for performers; it’s a profound journey of self-discovery, self-acceptance, and authentic belonging with others. Whether your goal is artistic growth or personal transformation, the Meisner Technique has the potential to unlock a more truthful and fulfilling way of being.

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“If you want to reach every person in the audience, it's not about being bigger, it's about going deeper.”
- Sanford Meisner 


 

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