This story is about the importance of sharing your gift even when you are afraid.  Gabe is a  young woman with a neuromuscular disease. As a child she was bullied in school. She became despondent about life. Her parents got her a dog, Izzy. As time passed, Izzy developed a similar disease. Gabe nurtured Izzy and […]

Darren’s comment on a recent blog post opened the door for me to delve more deeply into my awareness of what causes stage fright and fear of public speaking.  In response, I’d like to focus on what triggers stage fright and what heals it, what releases us from the grip of negativity and unleashes our potential to […]

Mick Jagger allowed Martin Scorscese to shine a camera upclose, almost down his throat during a concert in order to share what a Rolling Stones concert is really like. This is a part of the upcoming Rolling Stones Movie, “Shine a Light.” Interviewing Mick, Matt Lauer of The Today Show on NBC asked, “You must feel […]

I chanced upon a fantastic website unconditionalconfidence.com.  Nancy Tierney is the author of this site.  She has made similar discoveries about stage fright and fear of public speaking as I have. Her blog is full of great ideas and insights! For instance she says “The fear of speaking in public could be cured with a […]

I have been teaching my Zimmer Method for unleashing natural speaking potential for 20 years.  Over the years, people have said I should be more bold in speaking about my method. It has taken a long time to soak into my consciousness.  I guess I am a slow learner, but I always felt that people would […]

The magic of the Zimmer Method is in providing a safe space where people can go through their tensions and release them.  Permission to feel is healing; it is that simple.  The only way out of the tensions is to go through them.   Instead of making the tensions wrong, we create a group where there is permission […]

My approach to helping guide people to transform their stage fright has been evolving since 1984.  It began by asking people to stand quietly in front of my performance classes to see if they could just BE at the center of attention.  Most people had great difficulty simply standing quietly in front of the class.  […]

Authenticity is an important key for clear and effective communication, both in one to one situations and in front of groups.  If you want to be an excellent communicator, your style of communication must be genuine.    Being authentic means that your outer expression matches your inner experience.  When you are authentic, you give yourself […]

I gotta crow! Last night after Transform Stage Fright into Natural Presence class, one of my students, Ashwini, exclaimed how this class is transforming her life! She recalled how as a young person in India, she had been an excellent dancer; so much so that her teacher had wanted her to dance at center stage […]

Let me describe what happens in performance anxiety, fear of speaking in public and in stage fright.  Perhaps you will recognize some of this from your own experience.  As human beings, we have a very sensitive central nervous system, especially along the spinal column where we have several energy centers where nerves bundle together to […]