Hello, I’m Maggy Burrowes, welcome to my website
This website is intended to be 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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Coming Up Online in May…
I am delighted to announce my
Feldenkrais Access Course
Well-Connected
A Feldenkrais Approach to Managing Joint Hypermobility
An Eight Week Course
Thursdays; May 29 – July 17
12:00 PM-1:15 PM EDT
5:00 PM-6:15 PM BST
6:00 PM-7:15 PM CEST
7:00 PM-8:15 PM IDT
9:00 AM-10:15 AM PDT
The First Class is free!
Do you often trip over your own feet? Or have unexplained joint pain? Or joint weakness, dislocations, or frequent injuries? If so, you are not alone. You may be on the ‘Joint Hypermobility Spectrum.’ Hypermobility is a connective tissue condition that causes our ligaments and tendons to be looser than normal. This can undermine the stability of our joints and make our body’s support system less effective. Continues on the links provided…
Full details of this course are here, and on the links above – do not hesitate to ask me questions – contact information here – and do listen to the live chat we had in early May, now up on the Feldenkrais Access YouTube Channel…
SUMMER SCHEDULE
June Daily Immersive:
Unleash Your Potent Voice
Find Your Vocal Ease, Power, Stamina, & Resonance
June 9th – 13th
Online–Recordings & Notes included – or sign up for the recordings if you cannot join us live…
Times: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday & Friday: 2–3.30pm BST ~ 9–10.30am EDT ~ 6–7.30am PDT
Wednesday: 12–1.30pm BST ~ 7–8.30am EDT ~ 4–5.30am PDT
£100 (suggested fee, or any donation welcome)
In this immersive course we will be using daily Awareness Through Movement sessions to upgrade and fine-tune all the different systems within us that contribute to the quality, flexibility, strength, and stamina of our amazing human voice.
Developing a healthy, happy, fully functional voice depends on what we are able to do consciously with our breath, our larynx, the resonating chambers within our vocal tract, the articulators of our mouth and tongue, and of course the vocal folds themselves. However, the ease with which we can let go of any unnecessary muscular tension in those systems is also vitally important – fortunately developing the ability to ‘unlearn’ chronic and obstructive habits is a fundamental aspect of Feldenkrais training. We will be learning to better understand how we can organise our whole self – structurally, functionally, and emotionally – in a way that will best enable more vocal freedom, and more authentic vocal expression – in other words, to liberate the charismatic performer within.
The daily format will enable us to make enough progress to achieve the physical freedom necessary to access our louder, richer, more expressive vocal qualities with more confidence. When the course is over you will have the lesson recordings, plus detailed notes, and illustrations, to support your continuing vocal development. Please note you are welcome to sign up to receive all the course materials if you are unable to join us live.
Summer 10-Day Immersive Course
Effortless Summer School:
A Deep Dive Into Your Senses
August 11th–15th & 18th–22n2
Online–Recordings & Notes included – or sign up for the recordings if you cannot join us live…
Times: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday & Friday: 2–3.30pm BST ~ 9–10.30am EDT ~ 6–7.30am PDT
Wednesday: 12–1.30pm BST ~ 7–8.30am EDT ~ 4–5.30am PDT
£200 (suggested fee, or any donation welcome)
People constantly refer to our ‘five senses’ – seeing, hearing, touching, tasting and smelling – but those are just the senses for which we recognise related organ systems. Current science actually suggests we have anything from 9 to 33 distinct sensory processes, depending on how you organise them. Instead I identify five sensory systems that can be influenced directly by Awareness Through Movement – exteroceptive, kinaesthetic, proprioceptive, interoceptive, and ‘neuroceptive’
For those of us with chronic pains, muscular tensions, stresses, anxieties, sleep problems, chronic respiratory issues, or who feel blocked by our own ingrained habits, the more meditative aspects of Feldenkrais can be the most effective way to create long lasting improvements to our sense of physical and mental well-being.
This course will teach effective self-regulating skills you can perform anywhere. You will be learning to:
Expand your focus of attention – both externally and internally
Explore meditative movement – Feldenkrais as a body-mindfulness practice
Develop self-calming skills – using your nervous system to soothe your nervous system – drawing on breath, toning and enhancing your listening abilities
Discover sitting with ease – Learning to sit with lightness, balance and poise so that you can practice mindfulness in comfort will be a key part of this class
Become your own neuro-training device – the current emphasis on expensive gadgets for enhancing our nervous system’s capacity to self-monitor and self-regulate is outsourcing abilities we all have the potential to access naturally and directly through our own senses. One important advantage of training your natural sense-abilities in this way is that you begin to feel better straight away, long before you have actually mastered the skills you are practising.
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 month…
After the first lesson I could sleep without pain! Amazing!
Now, after the fifth lesson I have no pain from my sciatica…I’m sleepiing at night and I do not need pain reliever! This is a miracle!
Thank you so very much!
Kind regards
Christina Fagrell
Effortless Daily Immersive Courses
& Potent Voice Sunday Workshops
…will resume in the Autumn
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 upcoming dates for your diary…
…Autumn Schedule on its way!
…All online sessions include recordings and notes. For more details click here for workshops, and here for regular classes…
FaceBook: Feldenkrais & Embodied Voice, HumanSong––Self-Expression & Performance
Movement Is Life!
Telegraph Hill Centre – Studio 2
Kitto Road, SE14
Awareness Through Movement Drop-In Class
PLEASE NOTE NEW TIME!
Wednesdays 2.45pm – 4pm
£12.50 / £10
“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…
Live class, extra info: I have enough mats and head rests that you do not need to bring your own, however in our current situation I would prefer you bring along a clean sheet or towel to lay over your mat and any headrests you might use, until our current covid-19 precautions become unnecessary. Do bring anything else you need to make sure you are comfortable on the floor – some people like to bring an extra-soft pillow or a blanket with them. The space is lovely, with big windows but also well-supplied with radiators; as the class is now in the daytime we should not have any heating issues, nevertheless it may be worth bringing a couple of layers with you if you tend to get chilly when you relax.
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.
Feldenkrais International on YouTube
The International Feldenkrais community have been producing some attractive films to promote what is still a not very well known process with enormous benefits to offer. If you would like see the whole series in English click here. If you would like to see the full International Feldenkrais Federation film collection, which is available in multiple languages, click here view the YouTube Channel.