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Hello, I’m Maggy Burrowes, welcome to my site

This website is both an information hub for all aspects of The Feldenkrais Method® and a continuously-developing resource for anyone interested in exploring on-going personal growth, and maturing into their most fully potent self.

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Effortless Daily Immersive Courses – Spring 2026

Online–Recordings & Notes included – or sign up for the recordings if you cannot join us live…

Times: 2–3.30pm GMT ~ 9–10.30am EST ~ 6–7.30am PST – please note we start 1 hour earlier on Wednesday

£100 (suggested fee, or any donation welcome)

Feldenkrais & Self-Hypnosis

Learning to Change Yourself For The Better

February 2nd–6th

Self-Hypnosis – also known as Autogenic Training – has been around for a long time. I first came across it back in the Eighties, in a book called Superlearning. This was right at the beginning of my interest in meditation, and practising the autogenic sequences from the book was the closest I came to achieving the deeper states of inner calm that are reportedly the most effective neurological state to be in in order to encourage the easing, and possibly even healing, of chronic conditions of many kinds.

Thus, when a bout of chronic fatigue left me with fibromyalgic pain that did not easily respond to the mindful movements that had helped me free myself of sciatic pain in the past, my investigations brought me full circle, and this time I made a connection I had somehow failed to make before. I remembered that Moshe Feldenkrais was also interested in self-hypnosis at a similar age, except – being the over-achiever he was – he translated a significant book on the subject into Hebrew, and boldly added his own thoughts in a 26 page commentary. The book was The Practice Of Autosuggestion by the Method of Émile Coué (1929), and Moshe’s original contribution has recently been published as Thinking and Doing, A monograph by Moshe Feldenkrais. He retained his enthusiasm for these concepts throughout his life, attempting to republish his translation in 1977, and using the techniques he still valued to speed his recovery after his stroke. Read my full article here…

If you are interested in exploring this subject straight away I can strongly recommend my Wednesday evening Potent WellBeing class – email me if you would like to get the weekly invitation for this drop-in class by email.

Effortless Transitions

Reverse-Ability Is Your Superpower

April 6th – 10th

As quantum physicists are fond of pointing out, gravity is a surprisingly weak force, and yet the ageing process seems to steadily and unavoidably drag us downwards as if it were irresistible. Over time much of what we do on a daily basis can become automated and barely-conscious, so that too many of us huff and puff and sigh and groan our way through the activities of our day, dragging ourselves out of bed, collapsing into chairs and then hauling ourselves back up again, and grunting if we pick something up from the floor – having braced ourselves in order to be able to bend down in the first place!

When we move in a ‘well-organised’ way we barely notice the muscular power we are using, each of our actions transitioning smoothly into the next, powered by the clarity of our embodied awareness rather than muscular effort. This is because when we move the way we evolved to move our bones are supporting as much of our weight as possible at every stage of motion, leaving our muscular and fascial tissues free to respond to our intentions spontaneously and efficiently.

Once we learn how to recognise and release unconscious resistance then the elegance of our human design allows for each of our actions to flow easily into the next, so that all our transitions – lying to rolling, rolling to sitting, sitting to standing, standing to walking, walking to dancing – can be smooth and fluid, and we find ourselves moving with effortless lightness and grace. This Daily Course will explore the many possible ways that you can experience effortlessness in every aspect of your life – physical and emotional.

Effortless Feldenkrais–A Testimonial…

I am pleased to say I am getting great feedback about these Effortless Feldenkrais Daily Courses – this lovely letter came earlier this week:

Hi Maggy!
Thank you so very much for the course Effortless Sitting!
I have now started to repeat the course…because it has done a miracle with my sciatica!
From the first lesson my sciatica decreased …Before the course I had big problems…I could sit but not lie down…even in bed at night I had severe pain and I need to eat pain reliever to be able to sleep, at least some hours…I also had problems with walking….and all this had been going on for at least two months…
After the first lesson I could sleep without pain! Amazing!
Now, after the fifth lesson I have no pain from my sciatica…I’m sleeping at night and I do not need pain reliever! This is a miracle!
Thank you so very much!
Kind regards
Christina Fagrell

Potent Voice Workshops

Monthly On Sundays:

Online – Recordings & Notes included – or sign up for the recordings if you cannot join us live…
2pm – 5pm GMT ~ 9am – 12pm EST

£45 (suggested fee, or any donation welcome)

Coming up…

Potent Voice–Access Your Full Vocal Range

Sunday March 8^th

Human voices can access four registers, each with a distinctive sound quality, but with overlapping pitch ranges and of widely differing usefulness for singers and other performers. The register we all use naturally for speech and it is by far the most rich and resonant of the four, but we are often aware of the other possible sounds we can make and may experience the change in register from ‘chest’ to ‘head’ voice as a real barrier to developing the higher notes that confident performance can require. In this class we will explore all the registers and play with the different possibilities they offer. For more information click the link above.

My Potent Voice workshops are beneficial for:

Singers, presenters, performers, and anyone interested in the voice, and any aspect of self-expression

Anyone dealing with chronic stress issues, or breathing problems/conditions

Anyone dealing with chronic tension in the face, tongue, jaw, neck, and throat

Anyone interested in meditation, chanting, and neural self-regulation

Anyone who feels that emotional inhibition is limiting their capacity for self-expression and self-assertion.

Please do contact me with any questions you may have, and note that BOOKING IS BY EMAIL, so you can contact me via this link if you want to reserve your place for any of my online events.

You are also always welcome to sign up for the recordings and notes of any course should you be unable to join us live.

More dates for your diary coming soon…

Everything already scheduled is further up the page, so just mentioning here that I am planning an Effortless Squatting Daily Course and I am also busy preparing a Daily Feldenkrais Course to help you practice the method in as efficient a way as possible – watch this space for more updates…

…All online sessions include recordings and notes. For more details click here for workshops, and here for regular classes…

Feldenkrais® Access Courses – Now Available On-Demand

Some of you know I have been planning to find the time to record some on-demand courses of my own for a while now, so I am delighted to be given a bit of a ‘head start’!

I am now an official Feldenkrais Access Affiliate – which means I will get a percentage of any amount you pay.

On this page you will find brief descriptions of these courses, all of which focus on internal integrations of our sphincters, our diaphragms, and all our ‘core’ structures with our skeleton.

Well-Connected (the most recent course) develops these subtle internal themes specifically for those with joint hypermobility, and this makes it an ideal set of lessons for anyone interested in Feldenkrais who is also dealing with chronic health issues – pain, fatigue, anxiety, posture problems, etc.

Follow the links to the relevant articles on this website for more details. Here’s my affiliate link again – it will take you to more information on the Feldenkrais® Access website – including free full-length Awareness Through Movement lessons, one from each course, so you can ‘try before you buy’.

Do not hesitate to get in touch with me if you have questions about any of these courses.

FaceBook Pages that may interest you…

Feldenkrais & Potent Voice

HumanSong––Self-Expression & Performance

Movement Is Life!

New Term Starts January 21st

Telegraph Hill Centre – Studio 2

Kitto Road, SE14

Awareness Through Movement Drop-In Class

Wednesdays 2.45pm – 4pm

£12.50 / £10 (low income)

“Movement is all important. From cardiovascular health, bone density, joint functioning to central nervous system optimisation. For the health of each and every cell in your organism, to your mental wellbeing and overall happiness. Movement is life. And life is movement!“
Rodolfo R. Llinás, MD, PhD

…but the phrase was a big favourite with Moshe Feldenkrais as well – I wrote a blog post about it…

Customised Workshops for Companies & Organisations

I am always happy to design a workshop for a specific purpose – good ergonomic self-use for office workers, good vocal self-use for performance communities, good performance skills for everyone – contact me to discuss what you would like.

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Learning with awareness…

The most common feature of people who achieve indescribable and superb performance is the hours of daily practise they all undertake throughout their lives. Hours of repetitive practice is hard work; hours of practicing awareness in movement or action remain the most absorbing and interesting time in our lives. The feeling of being alive relates to the awareness of growing to be oneself.

The Elusive Obvious, Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais (1981)

I did not know what to expect from, or after the first Feldenkrais workshop I attended. I found the sequences gentle and relaxing. It was liberating and exhilarating to feel different parts of my head, neck and shoulders moving independently – as they did so there was a sense that they were strengthening. During the course I learnt that these gentle movement lessons could heal pain experienced in the body. I was, at the time, experiencing discomfort in my knees when going downstairs. I was also experiencing pain in my right shoulder which had begun approximately three weeks before the workshop.

The day after I was completely free of pain, both in my shoulder and my knees. I walked downstairs in a way which would be considered usual as a way of descending stairs. I had not descended stairs in this way for approximately three years. I had either relied heavily on the handrail for support, or taken the steps one at a time – how wonderful it was to be pain free.

Marion Goldstraw (2008)

“Thanks very much for your wonderful voice course. I am still working through the material and have a much larger range at each end of the scale. It was really interesting to have speech contextualised into its effect on laryngeal movement and brought me a new awareness in that area and a sense of how voice production affects the diaphragm and its attachments to the spine, rather than just the other way round.

The untrammelled, quite deep (for me) voice that your workshop gave me at the end was gratifying but it changed into something different later. Your workshop also changed my listening. Yes it it true that I still sing out of tune (I can hear it now) but I had an experience towards the end of your workshop – I stepped out of the passageway from the studio into the street and all the cars and trucks and drills and birdsong were a symphony! It was so weird – I never usually listen much let alone savour such sounds and I certainly never realised they were all at different pitches. I must stress that I am not musical and this was not my usual perception of the world.

Rosalind Brown