Hypnosis Stage Shows, Training classes

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Hypnosis Stage Shows

It is very common to see a comedy hypnosis stage shows in Las Vegas, a magical city where you can find many great types of entertainment shows. 

More and more we’re seeing advertisements for hypnosis shows in local cities and towns throughout the country. It seems like there is a craze for hypnosis shows. 


Some of that might have to do with the growth in hypnosis training programs that promise to make you a stage hypnotist in three to five days. Hypnosis Stage Shows.

Is hypnosis real or not? 

The question remains about whether hypnosis shows are real or not. It raises good questions about the practice of hypnosis and if anyone can be hypnotized – or be a hypnotist. 

As a professional hypnotist at the clinical level I need to say yes, the hypnosis on stage shows is sometimes real. It really works IF and only IF the hypnotist or entertainer has enough preparation to be on stage. It means as a professional hypnotist he or she needs to have a deep knowledge about hypnosis and the ethics to work as a hypnotist and or hypnotherapist on stage. Also the professional on the stage shows needs to have experience in other studies, such as acting, audience management and speaking, to name a few. 


The hypnotist control minds!

Still, many people are skeptical about hypnosis, believing that the hypnotist will control their minds. They think that hypnosis is a dark force or that they are going to end up doing something that they don’t want to do. 

Movies play a big role in the misconceptions about hypnosis. Take sharks for example. Are you afraid of getting eaten by sharks? Do you believe that sharks deliberately attack people? You can thank movies for that fear and misconception – because shark attacks are extremely rare: the number of people who drown every year in the United States is over 3,300. The number of annual shark fatalities is one. Those attacks that do occur are usually either provoked by humans or the result of mistaken identity: in other words, the shark thinks you’re a fish... ops, it was the shark's mistake

Misconceptions about hypnosis are just as common. 

After going through in-depth training over hundreds of hours and many months to become a hypnotist at the clinical level and also performing with it on stage shows, I discovered that the practice of hypnosis is much deeper than the stereotypes or concepts that exist about it. It is not a game, and no one controls your mind when you agree to be hypnotized. It is a serious treatment only possible with full participation and willingness of the client and/or audience, and it is used by hypnotherapists to help people through deep emotional issues and to develop new coping mechanisms through various difficult situations in life. 

Hipnosis stage shows. Training classes in three days! 

What calls my attention are the number of “hypnosis courses” that are advertised on the Internet and through different media – offering to teach you how to be a hypnotist to do a hypnosis stage show in a few lessons through a few manuals and – at most – three to five days of classes. They guarantee you that you’ll make thousands of dollars performing comedy hypnosis shows on stage and selling your shows to corporate events, clubs, conventions. All for only several hundred dollars! And there’s more! For several additional thousand dollars, you can be a hypnotherapist, they tell you, helping people to quit smoking, to sleep better and lose weight. 
If you pay and attend the live classes, you can do everything, from being a hypnotist, to setting up your own show / business and do the marketing to make a lot of money. Now read carefully the advertising before you pay for your hypnosis training classes. The advertisement says, “They teach you and provide the materials.” What they don’t say is how they are going to teach you how to use these skills and how long you need to study or practice those skills to be a professional. 

It sounds good very good and difficult to believe. Because it is difficult to believe. And possibly these sort of advertisements and get-rich-quick hypnosis courses have also undermined the professionalism of hypnosis in the eyes of the public. 

Training Hypnosis Stage Shows - The reality is different. 

Like any profession, including with magic and hypnosis, a lot of training is involved. It is not in three days, it takes years of education, training and practice. 

As both a professional magician and hypnotherapist at the clinical level, I have a university-level background in philosophy, marketing, theater, communications and months of certified training in hypnosis at a program overseen by the Florida Department of Education. Add to that, years of practice and experience. 

And like anyone in any profession, I always feel I need to keep learning more. 

Professional hypnotist.

The people who are marketing those hypnosis classes and courses promising to teach the “secrets of hypnosis” in a short time are not helping the practice of hypnosis reach a professional level of respect. 

There are many great hypnotists, hypnosis stage show performers and hypnotherapists, but there are also a lot of salespeople who can damage the name of the profession and the overall practice of hypnosis. 

The hypnosis during stage shows is often real. Many professional hypnotists and hypnotherapists have worked and trained hard for years to reach a professional level. 

If you want to be a hypnotist, follow your dreams, prepare, study and work – all of which will help bring you financial stability beyond anything promised by a three-day course in hypnosis training. 

Both aspiring hypnotists and those who want to be hypnotized need to keep their eyes open to those get-rich-quick schemes and know how to locate programs that are professional – or else in the end they may find themselves eaten by land-based sharks. 

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Magic Trick Revealed

The Masked Magician in T.V. - Magic Trick Revealed.

Magic Trick Revealed

MAGIC's Biggest Secrets Finally Revealed!




Since the masked magician appeared many years ago, many magicians and those who are not performers but love magic were upset and surprised that this masked magician was revealing magic secrets that for years and years illusionists have been keeping hidden, only revealing the secrets to those working in magic as a career.
 
At that time it was a scandal equaling the shock of the first appearance of miniskirts and bikinis on television all over the world.
 
And that’s nothing to say about how the Internet is revealing the secret behind different magic tricks. "Magic Trick Revealed". Now you can learn everything on the Internet from basic magic card tricks to big stage illusions. Videos even show the secrets of how to make a person disappear, a car appear – you name it!!!
 
There is nothing that we can do control having those videos on the internet showing or promoting a magic trick revealed. But as a professional magician, I’m not worried about having those videos out there.
 

Is the masked magician ruining magic? Nope! Here is why.

 
The people looking to have a “magic trick revealed” are looking for a way to have fun or to challenge themselves to see if they can master the trick.
 
Let’s face it. The people who really want to enjoy a magic show are still going to go to a magic show.

A person who wants to be a magician is going to need more than the videos that reveal how to do some tricks. They will go to a magic school or join a magic club and find a magic mentor. And practice for years!
 
Having said that, it is a new world now today for magicians, and we need to compete not only with our fellow magicians but also the Internet and many new forms of entertainment.
 
If you are a magician working at corporate events, theaters, kids parties or schools, you will have an audience waiting to be impressed, and some of them may have seen these online magic videos(“magic trick revealed” ). 

Sometimes at my shows, people, especially kids, come up to me before the show and say they already know this or that trick, their uncle does it, or they’ve seen it before. Adults will say, “We’ve seen lots of magic tricks in Las Vegas. It’s going to be hard to impress us.”

Magic Trick Revealed - For real? 


All professional magicians know there is a lot that goes into a magic show. It is more than just pulling off any single trick. 

We are performers, comedians, actors, masters of distraction and sleight-of-hand. We have to know how to build momentum and timing for the maximum impact and the greatest enjoyment of all the tricks by members of the audience. Sometimes this involves facial expressions and choreographed movements on the stage. Other times it is developing a skill for impromptu jokes to handle any crowd situation.

Those are some of the things on the stage. And behind the scenes, we work on marketing and other business aspects of what we do so we can book shows to keep entertaining people with magic. 

Whether we are illusionists, hypnotists, mentalists, stage magicians, comedy magicians, strolling magicians, card magicians, close-up magicians, or magicians for kids parties, we are entertainers. The training and years of experience that go into the work of a magic show can never be learned through the revelation of one magic trick. 

Magic is like life! Mastering your goals takes a commitment, sometimes over a lifetime. Our magic is based on rigorous training and experience. That is one trick I am happy to reveal! 


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The Prestige, movie about magicians

The Prestige - a movie about Magicians


The Prestige is a great movie. It’s one of my favorite movies about magicians.

It shows the realistic world of the competition of magicians that exists behind the scenes of all stagecraft.
 
The Prestige - a movie about Magicians

It is not my intention in this blog post to review a movie about magicians. Instead, the movie helps open the door to a larger point: what happens sometimes behind the scenes of magic
Ever since I started practicing the art of magic my mind was crazy to find the best way to invent a magic trick and present a magic act. Not much has changed since that day.

 
Every human being working toward prestige in their profession needs to pass through steps. They study and practice toward acquiring knowledge of an art or profession. With this knowledge, they work toward not just perfection of the art or profession but a way they can practice it that is different and unique.

Are magicians competing to be the best in magic arts or simply for prestige and their own egos?

Competition is good. There’s nothing wrong with competing. Actually competition is one of the ways that magic clubs let the magicians show their skills, inventions and talents on stage. But sometimes in the field of competition the evaluation of our expectations needs to be reevaluated. Having a spirit of competition in the right way can encourage self-esteem and creativity at any level for people in any profession.


The dark side of our ego: But the movie Prestige shows how magicians can enter competition for the sake of prestige, and in the process, they lose the joy of the art. And here is my point today. When we involve our egos in the wrong way looking more for the fame and name recognition, we lose our north. We stop enjoying what we do for the love of it. This is true of people in any profession of any age. 

I am no stranger to this magician's competition.

In my 20s, I was focusing all the time to learn and perform magic and the best tricks. Like any other human being, I felt feelings of competition. Sometimes other magicians cut me out of opportunities and the tight circle they created. Like other young magicians, I tried to outdo my peers.

But more recently I’ve noticed a different side to the profession. When I moved to Tampa, I heard about the Tampa Bay Magic Club. I figured I didn’t need it. What do I need with a club?

But I started to attend the monthly meetings. Most of the magicians were much older than me, in their 60s, 70s and 80s. They are from a generation when magicians toured the circuit, traveling the country in RVs and campers, booking shows in cabaret rooms and state fairs when live entertainment shows were a popular thing. They had colorful stories and interesting names – like Windy and Sunny. Even more colorful were their personalities. They performed magic tricks at the club meetings and made mistakes, but would keep right on going. They encouraged each other. What mattered was the magic, not their egos.

They brought in speakers and organized fundraisers, but more than that, whenever one of the members had a show, they’d get the word out so everyone would go to support them. At more than one of my own shows, I’d see their faces in the audience, whether or not I had been making the monthly club meetings on a regular basis. Recently, the spouses of several members have died. All of the club members spread the news and rallied around their friends, attending the funerals. Sometimes sitting in a group, sometimes spread out in different places in the pews at the funeral service. Always letting their club member and friend know they were there, to bring food, for companionship, to take them to a show.
 

They taught me something, a new way of being a magician and the concept for competition. 

To be humble and to listen in order to learn, instead of being so quick to make myself heard and seen. To be supportive and gracious, because there is enough magic and wonder out there for everyone.

Through their example, I learned that there is much more to the magic world than the prestige we younger magicians tend to seek. The older magicians have taught me the real meaning of brotherhood in the brotherhood of magicians. 

The Prestige: a competition of magicians - The Prestige - movie.

The Prestige: a competition of magicians - The Prestige - movie.

Women Magicians

The Female Magicians - Women Magicians.


Women are magical for many reasons, and among those reasons is that many of them are magicians! 

Women Magicians, Female Magicians, Women in Magic, Famous Female Magicians
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For years it was common to see women in magic shows involved as the lovely assistant – appearing from boxes, dancing, being levitated or sawed in half. While the magician, a man, got the applause and the name atop the billing, the women were doing a big portion of the work. 

What’s more, increasingly women are the magicians themselves. 

Many years ago in my birth country of Colombia, I attended a Latin American congress of magic, and with great surprise saw for the first time a woman performing a stage show full of music and sleight of hand. It was the woman magician Juliana Chen. The way she presented the act, expressing herself, involving her culture, the music, magic techniques and the routine was more that amazing. It was lovely! 

Female Magicians are not magician's assistants, they are magicians. 

Female magicians are not magician's assistants. They are magicians performing acts of magic equal or better than the others magicians in the industry of magic. Many of the women magicians perform professional magic shows and we see them in T.V. and famous theaters. 

More and more, women have been performing as the magician and not just as the magician’s assistant. Of course, for years many of the critics didn’t take them as seriously or give them as much attention as they do to the male magicians. But that is changing, too. 

Women magicians who started years ago are opening doors for a younger generation of women who want to perform magic.
 
After seeing the spectacular act of the female magician Juliana Chen, I start noticing women performing magic on theaters and TV magic shows such as Melinda “First Lady of Magic,” Mariko Itakura aka Princess Tenko and more! 

In local and International magic conventions it is more common to see women magicians and a specific contest for female magicians. 

Harry Potter brings more women magicians!

Also, the influence of the Harry Potter movies has been big. The character Hermione Granger played by Emma Watson has been a big source of inspiration for girls to play a central role in magic. 

I see it all the time in my magic shows. Parents call wanting a magic show for their daughters’ birthday parties. Schools, libraries and corporations want magic shows for the girls in their audience as much as the boys. After a show, I get lots of questions from girls who want to know, “How can I do magic? How do you do the tricks?” 

Magic sets for kids now feature a picture of a girl magician on the front of the box. 

The art of the magic that we once assumed was locked up just for men and a place where women were the side shows or lovely assistants has changed.


Now the world of magic has opened, with women at center stage as the magicians – making magic shows that much lovelier. 


 

Women Magicians - Female Magicians - Women in magic

Penn & Teller: Fool Us

Penn and Teller: Fool Us

Penn and Teller: Fool Us.  - T.V. Program.


Penn & Teller are an amazing “dynamic duo” in magic. As professional magicians and entertainers they have surprised and dazzled thousands of audiences through the years, becoming increasingly familiar in the field of magic and illusions. One of the most well known and popular TV magic shows is “Penn and Teller: Fool Us,” presented by Jonathan Ross. 

Penn & Teller: Fool Us.

The program has received a lot of great reviews and critiques(*). For me I think the program encourages magicians, it doesn’t matter the level, to come to present magic trick routines. The concept of the program is to do something to fool two expert magicians and entertainers, to be clever and smart enough that Penn and Teller can’t guess or figure out the secret. 

But does fooling Penn and Teller make someone a good magician? 


They - Magicians - must be great entertainers, sometimes comedians or musicians or actors, playing the best role of a stage magician.

Magicians also have to be great marketers and business people to find the right niche and promotion for their magic shows. Whatever aspiring magicians decide they want to do – perform tricks for magicians or entertain general audiences – there is great potential for a career in the business. 

The life of a professional magician is a beautiful thing – as long as you know your audience and prepare for it, so that in the end you’re not the one to be fooled.

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 *Reviews and critiques TV show "Penn & Teller: Fool US" Common Sense | IIMDB | TV.COM

"Penn & Teller: Fool US" 

Florida Magic Conventions

Florida Magic Conventions

Magic Conventions in Florida.

Florida has long been considered a magical state, and it also is one of the most popular locations to hold conventions – thanks in part to copious sunshine, award-winning beaches, and tons of attractions around Orlando like Disney World and Universal Studios. [Check the upcoming magic conventions]
So it’s no surprise that Florida has increasingly become a hotbed for magic conventions, too.



In recent years, the Sunshine State has hosted major international magic conventions – not to mention annual state magic conventions in Daytona. Then near the end of each year, there is the annual Daytona Beach Festival of Magic. Magic Conventions hosted by The International Brotherhood of Magicians (IBM) now routinely holds its annual convention in Florida. Magic lovers may also find themselves in the Sunshine State for the annual Genii Conjurors’ Convention – which in past years was held in Orlando, Florida.

Every year magicians from all world the world meet in Florida to assist to a Magic Convention.

The magic conventions bring with them lectures, vendors, competitions, live shows, contests, dinners, workshops, magic shops, new magicians, new magic creations galas and discussions. Some of the galas and shows are open to the public and magic lovers from all walks of life. So many people flock to these conventions – from professional magicians to amateur magicians, to magic-lovers and the curious who never miss a chance to see a great magic show. Most of the people who attend, though, usually are club members or non-member magicians.

As a Florida resident, I can only imagine why these major magic conventions would want to hold their conferences here. Aside from the theme and water parks, Florida is home to hundreds of miles of white-sand beaches, some of the nation’s best convention centers and hotels, and other attractions like the Kennedy Space Center, live entertainment, wildlife refuges and tons of eco-tourism opportunities.
The conventions hosting their magic conferences in Florida might be doing so because the state is an increasingly popular and convenient destination for travelers from Europe and Latin America who want to attend the conventions and bring their families along.

Maybe the concentration of magic conventions in Florida is also a sign of the growing audiences here in the state for magic and live entertainment.
In the past, the magic conferences and magic conventions have been a great chance to meet new people with the same love for magic, to hear educational lectures, to learn new tricks, philosophies and approaches. And of course, as a magician, I’m excited to re-charge my batteries by seeing some great performers, lectures, conferences and shows.


There’s no question that those of us here in Florida will enjoy all the magic as much as those visiting will enjoy Florida. As far as I’m concerned, in this state, you can never have too much magic!
For more information about magic convention dates, times and locations in Florida, visit the following websites: 
The International Brotherhood of Magicians (IBM) - Click here 
Genii Conjurors’ Convention in Orlando - Click here
Daytona Beach Festival of Magic - Click here - Every year in November 
Tampa Magic Club - Magic convention every year. MagicFest :”Larger Than Life” - Click here

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Florida Magic Conventions