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.
AUTUMN SCHEDULE 2026
Effortless Daily Immersive Courses—Autumn 2026
GENERAL COURSE INFORMATION:
Online–Recordings & Notes included – or sign up for the recordings if you cannot join us live…
Times: 2–3.30pm BST/GMT ~ 9–10.30am EDT ~ 6–7.30am PDT
£100 per week (suggested fee, or any donation welcome)
Daily Immersive Course
Living Bones
Effortless Alignment, Strength & Resilience
NEW DATE—September 14—18
Online–Recordings & Notes included – or sign up for the recordings if you cannot join us live…
Times: 2–3.30pm GMT/BST ~ 9–10.30am EST/EDT ~ 6–7.30am PST/PDT
£100 (suggested fee, or any donation welcome)
One of the joys of the concept of yin and yang is that we can experience the interplay of these two primal forces within our own being. Our bones are yin—solid, deep inside us forming our true “core”, dense and stable; our muscles are lighter, more dynamic, the activators of our more stable bones, the natural instigators of change—and thus more yang. The clearer our relationship with our astonishingly strong bony skeleton, the freer and more responsive our elastic outer layer of muscle can be—and when we learn to let go of excessive muscular effort, balance becomes light and fluid, and our bones respond to this regular good use by becoming even stronger. This course will demonstrate and develop this dynamic interrelationship, so that you can begin to flow naturally through life to your own inner rhythm.
In this daily immersive we will explore every aspect of bone health, bone function and the capacity of our skeleton to give us instant access to a sense of ourself as a whole integrated system, rather than a thing of isolated parts as anatomy imagery so often implies.
We will be increasing our sensory and motor awareness of this wonderful inner structure, exploring the way force can travel most efficiently through us, in order to abandon habitual excess effort in our muscles and reveal the natural and youthful spring in our step that may be forgotten but is certainly not permanently lost!
This course will be a little more strenuous than my courses usually are—we will be building our understanding of alignment and strength on hands and knees, hands and feet, and in standing—and as always I will be designing the most gentle and manageable versions of these potent lessons to make them available for the widest range of abilities. Do have a conversation with me if you are not sure if the course is for you.
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
…Coming up later in the Autumn…
Effortless Head & Neck Carriage
Integrating Head, Eyes, Neck & Spine
Effortless Daily Course ~ October 5—9
Even though the pressures to survive are very different in our modern environment, we still have the sensory-motor nervous system of both the hunter and the hunted.
In the far past, when we lived surrounded by predators with only our reaction speed to keep us alive, our upright stance may not have made us the fastest runners in the animal kingdom but it did mean we were beautifully evolved to spin on our axis and run away fast as we were able if we came face to face with an attacker. Thus the freedom of our neck and eyes directly influences the mobility and coordination of our spine, and the speed of our reactions.
Our magnificent human eyes have a visual field of about 180 degrees on the horizontal plane—120 degrees of 3D vision using both eyes, and an extra 30 degrees of peripheral vision to either side. This is pretty good, but it becomes a full 360 degrees once the neck and spine are able to move freely and fully to both sides. Unfortunately if we engage only the neck and not the rest of the spine—a common habit of self-use—we can lose this valuable extra range of motion.
Try this out for yourself…
Take a moment and turn slowly to look to the right – from sitting is fine, no need to stand up unless you want to – and notice how far behind you can see, and how much your spine is twisting, Untwist and face forward again, rest for a moment and then try it to the left. Unless you are quite unusual you will find you can turn yourself to look further around in one direction.
We tend to favour an eye just as we do a hand. Now close one eye so you can look into an imaginary telescope – perhaps you turn more easily to the side with the closed eye?
These preferences influence everything we do, and although our habits are useful sometimes the way they can sometimes cause us to restrict our movements can lead to chronic pain, and speed up the effect of age on our activity.
Finding ways of undoing rigid habits is one way that Awareness Through Movement can help you reverse the ageing process. This workshop will combine subtle eye release work with spinal rotations throughout the whole self – experience a freer neck, a more responsive state of poise, and regain youthful speed and grace.
Effortless Core Integration
Head, Heart & Hara
Effortless Daily Course ~ November 9—13
I love the image above, so I hope it isn’t too anatomical for you—the origin of the word ‘core’ is the latin for ‘heart’, and this image is known as “the heart with a hoop skirt”—you can clearly see the way the diaphragm and heart are woven together via the pericardium and thus how completely our breathing and our heart functions are intertwined.
I always struggle a little when looking for ways to talk about ‘core integration’ – our culture is so heavily focussed on the idea that what makes a muscular structure healthy is its ‘strength’.
In fact the word ‘heal’ comes from the idea of ‘wholeness’ as our route to wellness, and it is more helpful to see ourselves as something like a complex woven garment, with the patterns made by the different systems within us being at their most optimal and beautiful when they are in perfect harmony with each other.
…and this means that any part of us is just as likely to be problematic because it is too tight and hard as it is when it is too flaccid and weak. It is as difficult to bring ourselves back into balance by focussing on one particular part of our structure as it would be to mend a badly-snagged scarf that way—if you have ever tried you will know that you need to pull a little here, and then a little there, gently back and forth until all the different threads are back in a more harmonious organisation. We will be finding ways to achieve this harmonising process within ourselves in this course.
Effortless Action
Moving With Cat-Like Grace
December 7—11
NB—the Wednesday class will be at an earlier time—11-12.30pm GMT
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)
PLEASE NOTE—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.
Potent Vocal Musicality
Sunday October 18th
Singing is many things—a spontaneous act, a hobby, a healthy group activity, a skill, a craft, an art, a practice—but always a natural route to feeling joyous. In my experience nothing enhances that joy more than beginning to feel you have some idea of what you are doing; for every singer with an amazing voice there are at least as many whose performance is powerful not because of the quality of their vocal instrument, but because of the depth of expression of emotion and their ability to engage with the words they are singing and the story they are telling.
We will be looking at some strategies for improving the way we approach a song; the style, the words, the meaning, the presentation, and the sense of joy. We will be exploring rhythm and phrasing, and how authenticity and musicality can shine through even in the most timid performances.
Potent Voice—Resonance & Ease
Sunday November 15th
In this workshop we will be using sustainable sounds to fine-tune our sensory-motor and auditory awareness, and learning to reduce the habitual [and quite unnecessary] constrictions and constraints inhibiting our expressive self – vocal structures, respiratory structures, diaphragms and sphincters, and the fascial-muscular-skeletal system that together form the physical foundations of our natural resonance and vocal power. More details about the workshop on my Potent Voice page here.
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.
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!
Telegraph Hill Centre – Studio 2
Kitto Road, SE14
Live classes are on hold for now—please contact me if you are interested in attending an in-person class
Information about my online Zoom Classes Here!
“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
…the phrase was a big favourite with Moshe Feldenkrais – 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.