Yoga Classes for Performing Artists

Training / Education

Miri is currently in her senior year of Slippery Rock University's BFA Musical Theatre Program with a Dance: Performance minor. Through these programs, she’s studied classes such as Wellness for the Actor, Private Voice, Vocal Pedagogy, and Dance Kinesiology. Through SRU and instructor Linda Meacci (E-RYT 500), she successfully completed a 200-level Yoga Teacher Training Certification program. Previous to her collegiate experience, she’s been studying voice, theatre, and movement since elementary school through the University of Cincinnati’s Preparatory Program for young performing artists. 

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Bio / Teaching Statement

Miri Elise is a multi-disciplinary artist and teacher currently located in Pittsburgh, PA. She specializes in the voice– using yoga as a medium in which to unlock muscular balance and internal awareness necessary for performers. She creates an environment that supports and accommodates all stages of learning and being, recognizing the beauty in all our individual bodies and minds. Her classes are caring and individualistic, teaching through the lens of each student’s specific anatomy. Nobody is the same and neither is every voice or body, that is what makes each person– and performer– unique. 

Why Target Yoga Toward Performers? 

In voice, theatre, and dance, there has to be an intricate use of the body in order to communicate internal and external story. In order to coordinate the body with such specificity, one has to be aware of their body. Everyone holds tension differently, whether that be from how they manifest stress and anxiety, their posture, how their sport/work creates tension, and even how certain medical conditions affect the functioning of certain elements of the body. Through yoga, Miri has discovered and continues to find links between powerful yoga poses and optimum abdominal activation for the voice, the power of pranayama’s in voice/theatre, and how the relationship between muscle activations can protect dancers’ bodies. This is a world she’s heavily passionate about and continues to delve into as a teacher and student to the work.