Potent Voice – Maggy Burrowes

BodyMindfulness Chronic Pain Dr Dan Siegel Lorimer Moseley Neuroplasticity Quintessensual Meditation Tim Parks

Quintessensual Consciousness – a brief introduction…

Maggy Burrowes 12th August 2019 1 Comment

A human being is a complex system and any attempt at defining us inevitably involves some simplification. Similarly, Feldenkrais is a complex Method, and naturally “Quintessensual Consciousness – a brief introduction…”

Hypermobility Syndrome

Two Workshops for Tuning Up your Internal Systems

Maggy Burrowes 29th May 2019 No Comments

Feldenkrais is a process of self-development that uses focussed, intelligent, primal movement sequences to reawaken those parts of our selves that have become disconnected, armoured, and blocked from our self-awareness.
These Awareness Through Movement sequences are designed to improve our ability to integrate all the separate parts of our selves into a fully active, fully engaged, vibrant and ever-evolving living being.

Articulators Of Speech Auditory Health Auditory Skills Learning How To Learn Potent Voice Stradivarius Vocal Instrument

Becoming a “Stradivarius”…

Maggy Burrowes 14th May 2019 No Comments

My Embodied Voice course is intended to give anyone who wants them the tools and the sensory-motor awareness necessary to speed up the development of their unique instrument, and their ability to play it with skill – I always do my best to instil the curiosity and confidence necessary to explore the human voice to its full potential.

Awareness Through Movement®Elaine Aron Embodied Voice Evelyn Glennie Helen Keller HumanSong M Scott Peck Polyvagal Theory Potent Voice Seth S Horowitz The Conscious Ear Tomatis

Listening & Hearing: Picking Up Good Vibrations

Maggy Burrowes 13th May 2019 1 Comment

In my mission to discover the full potential of sound-making, singing, and the human voice, it has become more and more clear over the years that the ability to maximise our hearing by improving the way we listen is a vital element of both the tonal qualities available to us when we vocalise, and the ease with which we produce our voice in speech and song.

The Rhythms Of Life

Maggy Burrowes 8th April 2019 No Comments

Harmonising Diaphragms & Sphincters When we think about the way we move as an indicator of good health, we might picture a younger, more lively “The Rhythms Of Life”

Conscious Voice Embodied Voice Potent Voice Sensory-Motor Homunculus

What is a “fully conscious voice”?

Maggy Burrowes 8th April 2019 No Comments

When you attend an Awareness Through Movement class you lie on the floor and follow instructions for very precise actions from your teacher, but she “What is a “fully conscious voice”?”

Buddha Homunculus Meditation Mindfulness Neuroplasticity Polyvagal Theory Qigong Tai Chi

BodyMindfulness – A peaceful, easy feeling…

Maggy Burrowes 28th January 2019 No Comments

I came across this quotation a few years ago now, but it is still very timely: “There is one thing that, when cultivated and regularly “BodyMindfulness – A peaceful, easy feeling…”

A first Experience Of Feldenkrais

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)

Embodied Voice – an attendee’s experience…

“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