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.
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 BST ~ 9–10.30am EDT ~ 6–7.30am PDT – please note we start 1 hour earlier on Wednesday!
£100 (suggested fee, or any donation welcome)
Effortless Squatting
May 4th–8th
£100 (suggested fee, or any donation welcome)
The way we move around, how we sit, how freely we breath, and how well we digest are all influenced positively by better organisation of hip joints and pelvis. When we can slow down – and even reverse – the effect of time on our ability to sit comfortably on the floor then we experience a boost to our physical and mental wellbeing.
This series of daily classes is going to be somewhat more demanding than usual. The aim will be to improve our sitting ability via explorations on hands and knees, with the ultimate goal of being better able to squat, and to come up to standing from the floor.
If you are not able to manage Awareness Through Movement explorations on hands and knees then think about having some individual lessons first – there is no reason to accept these physical limitations as the inevitable effect of ageing when they may well turn out to be fully reversible.
My goal is that everyone who joins this course will finish up with several comfortable options for sitting on the floor, plus a selection of useful strategies for getting up and down from the floor with greater ease —you may even rediscover some of your youthful natural grace—make sure you have access to any padding you might need to be able to rest your weight more comfortably on your knees.
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 (mostly!) On Sundays:
Online – Recordings & Notes included – or sign up for the recordings if you cannot join us live…
2pm – 5pm BST ~ 9am – 12pm EDT
£45 (suggested fee, or any donation welcome)
The fee includes notes to make it easy for you to continue practising at home, and to minimise the need for note taking during the class.
Coming up…
Potent Breathing–Potent Voice
Sunday July 5th
Breathing in a ‘well-organised’ way is the most fundamental of my Feldenkrais fundamentals; during Awareness Through Movement lessons, whatever we are doing we always paying attention to the ease and flow of our breathing as we are doing it. Using carefully designed breathing patterns for health and well-being is so fundamental that their history goes all the way back to our most ancient cultures, and many of the processes our ancestors discovered are still in use today – Qi Gong and Pranayama are particularly well-known, but even a brief stint on google reveals links to other, less well-documented traditions from all over the world…
…and of course as a singer I am well aware of just how fundamental singing and chanting were to our earliest tribal communities – some researchers even believe that singing pre-dated speech in our evolution.
Improving your ability to breathe, freely, fully, and spontaneously, without inhibition anywhere in your throat, your chest or your abdomen, remains one of the most effective, most affordable, and most portable of our natural self-healing abilities.
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.
My Summer Schedule…
– here are my new dates with some more information:
Potent Listening
Tuning Your Ears & Your Nervous System
Potent Voice Summer School – June 1st – 5th
£100 (suggested fee, or any donation welcome)
As I continue to explore the potential of the human voice, it has become ever more clear to me that the way we learn to listen is a key aspect of our vocal, musical, and human development. Listening to our own voice with focussed awareness is important for both enriching the tonal qualities of the vocal sounds we can produce, and increasing the ease with which we produce those sounds.
The effectiveness of our hearing is harder to quantify, and the slow deterioration that occurs as we age is not easy to recognise while it is happening – it is very likely that we may not know what we are losing until it is gone. As a lover of music I have been interested in finding ways to maintain and extend my hearing function for many years.
I am continually exploring what improvements might be made to our sound frequency perception, and I am now confident that it is possible to refine and enhance our hearing abilities by training ourselves to listen in a more conscious and attentive manner.
This Daily Course will be an exploration of possible ways to increase our ability to both listen and hear. It will be an ideal workshop for you if you are interested in your own voice, other voices, vocal meditations, enhanced sensory self-awareness, and all types of performance, as well as – of course – if you have any interest in improving your listening skills and your hearing capacity.
Feldenkrais For Life!
Rejuvenate Yourself Summer School
August 10th – 21st
£200 (suggested fee, or any donation welcome)
Our current culture constantly pushes the idea of our inevitable decline as we age. That we go along with this idea is partly due to how little we understand about what sort of creature we are. We are the cleverest ape because we keep on learning through life in many different ways but principally through our capacity for language and thus we are unusually long-lived because the wisdom of our elders is so important for our culture and community.
Maintaining vital movement abilities is just one part of the picture of having not just a long life but a healthy and joyfilled one, we also need to:
Use our strength naturally in our daily life, not just in the gym
Be careful not to slip into too many rigid routines
Stay open to new challenges and possibilities
Know how to regain lost abilities and recognise whatever we might be doing that is causing the sort of deterioration that leads to chronic restriction and pain
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.
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…
HumanSong––Self-Expression & Performance
Movement Is Life!
NB—No class on June 3rd
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.