I regularly teach breathing-focussed workshops and classes – both as a Feldenkrais teacher and as a voice teacher – and this information is always an important aspect of better vocal health and function, but more than that it is important for our…
Author: Maggy Burrowes
My voice work has been through many incarnations. When I first qualified as an Awareness Through Movement teacher and began to actually teach singing classes for the first time, I didn’t feel I had a lot of material from Feldenkrais that…
In Part 1 my aim was to share both the reasons for my interest in nutritional science and the extent of my experience as an explorer in these lands. My intention is both to a) encourage you to question received…
A New Diet Revolution The first time I realised how effective a change of diet could be for improving my health I was in my mid-twenties and a recovering near-vegan (I had give up dairy, but still ate eggs). I…
At first glance the Feldenkrais Method can seem to be entirely aimed at helping our students to move better, with more ease and grace. In fact it is intended to be a tool for facilitating change in our lives; for…
According to Gautama Buddha himself: “There is one thing that, when cultivated and regularly practiced, leads to deep spiritual intention, to peace, to mindfulness and clear comprehension, to vision and knowledge, to a happy life here and now, and to the culmination of wisdom and awakening. And…
Feldenkrais as a “method” is a most unusual process; the over-arching goal is to expand conscious awareness in such a way that new behaviour becomes easier to incorporate into daily doing and being, and as a consequence new life possibilities…
I teach approaches to breathing from many different angles: I am a Feldenkrais teacher, so breathing in a free and fluid manner is a core element of every lesson I teach, in my classes and on my table. I sing–to…
Birdsong Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi, 1207-1273 Birdsong brings reliefto my longingI’m just as ecstatic as they are,but with nothing to say!Please universal soul, practicesome song, or some thing, through me! Birdsong is an enduring source of joy for the human heart;…
The free movement of your pelvis is vital to the ease and fluidity of your walk, and once your pelvis is fully involved, walking will contribute to the health and longevity of your skeletal and muscular structures, as well as…