There are two articles online about the Take It From the Top workshops that Laura and Paul Canaan recently did in Lexington and in June while still doing Legally Blonde. The article that talks about the Lexington workshop also mentions that additional workshops are being scheduled in California, Michigan, and New York. There's also a video with the first article, so all you have to do is click the read more option to go to the page that the article's on and watch it.
Acting students walk around the floor of a band room at Lexington Catholic High School while an instructor gives them situations to contemplate.
”Think about something that makes you happy,“ Laura Ellington says, and the students quicken their walk. ”Think about something you really want, and you got it.“
Then she adds, ”Now imagine it's been taken away,“ and the shuffle of the feet dramatically decelerates.
There are also a few pictures from the workshops, which I've added into the gallery. 

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