From Eye Contact to the Stage: Acting as Ritual For Healing

How attuning to strangers through eye contact led to theatrical healing

Hey, remember me?

I'm Igor, the Founder of The Human Connection Movement - I spent seven years convincing people that making eye contact wasn't weird.

The purpose was to dissolve barriers between people, and during that process, I documented my findings and created a body of work to help facilitate connection between strangers.

When that chapter ended, I stepped away to reflect on what was next. This led me to create Divine Theatrix - an embodied practice that explores Acting as Ritual For Healing, Self-discovery and Personal Freedom.

Through this work, I've been guiding people to access their raw truth on stage—whether sharing in front of audiences, working within intimate groups, or exploring privately— the stage becomes a space for healing.

During the years of eye-gazing, I was shown that it was possible to synchronise a room full of people through eye contact. Eventually, I could predict with clockwork accuracy when the group would hit that collective settled state.

The hundreds of hours of eye-gazing taught me how to attune to people's physiological and energetic cues. Now, on stage, I apply those same observational skills, using verbal prompts to guide participants as they explore their inner landscapes.

At Divine Theatrix, we explore improvisation, monologues, poems, song, and dance. Through this practice, we learn to become receptive to our impulses—how to feel them, respond to them on stage, and then consciously integrate these insights into our everyday lives.

We traditionally associate the theatre with entertainment, but this isn’t about giving the “best performance”; it’s about being receptive to the soul intelligence that expresses itself through your body and enacting that.

It’s about the democratisation of creativity, to recognise yourself as the writer, director and creator of your life story, working in partnership with your divinity.

I’ll be sharing my insights and learnings here as a way to document what I discover as I continue to work with people in different settings. You’ll get the behind-the-scenes eye on what I’m processing and experiencing.

I’m currently facilitating this in Northern NSW, in the Byron Shire of Australia, working with both Adults and Teenagers. The curtain will open in Sydney fairly soon. I intend for this work to become accessible, so overseas travel will eventually be involved.

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I'm thrilled to be back and reconnecting with you all. I'd love to share more of this journey with you - don't hesitate to reach out!

Thank you for reading,

Igor Kreyman

For daily glimpses into this work, you can also follow me on Instagram @iamigorkreyman.