For the first time, the most popular and well–known works of K.S. Stanislavsky, which have already become classics, "The actor's Work on Himself," parts 1 and 2, and "The Actor's Work on a Role," and S.V. Gippius, a famous theater teacher, dubbing director, and film director, are combined in one collection. "Gymnastics of the senses." Creative psychotechnics training", consisting of a theoretical part of 400 acting exercises. A set of exercises for professional acting training in creative psychotechnics, called "gymnastics of the senses" by the author, included elements of Indian yoga, martial arts, pagan games and exercises of theater actors, synthesized and reworked within the framework of the method of K. S. Stanislavsky and intended not only for acting teachers, directors, actors and students of theater universities and studios, but also for professional psychologists, specialists of the FSB, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Ministry of Emergency Situations.The techniques discovered and put into practice by Gippius are widely used both in theater pedagogy and in psychology as a system for the development of cognitive and emotional-volitional processes.