Raise the curtain on an exciting new approach to tarot. Bringing the Tarot to Life shares ideas for using theater games and acting techniques to develop your own embodied understanding of the cards. With fifty-six creative, right-brained exercises to be practiced alone or with a group, this book unlocks your deepest intuitions and helps you experience the cards from the inside out. The seventy-eight cards of the tarot are active in each of us at one time or another. As we read with the cards, we see ourselves, the people we know, and the events and turning points of our lives. The experiential techniques in this book help you step into personal levels of meaning that you may never have considered before. Appropriate for beginners or experienced readers, Bringing the Tarot to Life is a book for those who want to bring their authentic selves to their tarot practice and probe the boundless mysteries that the cards provide.

Author Biography

Scott Martin has been involved in theater since he was a high school drama student. He pursued his interests in college, earning a B.A. in Speech and Theater and, in graduate school, an M.F.A. in Directing. He taught theater and directed plays in high school, community and regional theaters for thirty-six years. He studied acting at the Herbert Berghof Studio in New York City. He has also performed and directed in community and regional theaters, summer stock, and the Off-off Broadway theatre. After retiring from full time teaching in 2002, he pursued his fascination with the tarot. His studies began at The Tarot School with Wald and Ruth Ann Amberstone. He has also studied with Rachel Pollack, Ellen Goldberg, Elinor Greenberg, Robert Place, and Mary Greer. Scott lives in New York City.