Potent Voice – Maggy Burrowes

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Using Your Voice To Enhance Your Listening Skills

Maggy Burrowes 30th January 2022 No Comments

Whether amateur or professional, all the best singers are masters of the art of listening: tuning the voice requires that they focus their attention simultaneously “Using Your Voice To Enhance Your Listening Skills”

Breathing Coordination Heart Coherence Zoom Workshop

Freeing & Coordinating Ribs, Spine & Breast Bone

Maggy Burrowes 8th October 2021 No Comments

I teach online Feldenkrais workshops for the ribs and sternum regularly* – these are areas of the self that we do not always expect to “Freeing & Coordinating Ribs, Spine & Breast Bone”

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Enhancing Your Sensory Awareness With Feldenkrais

Maggy Burrowes 8th September 2021 No Comments

Every human being is a complex adaptive self-evolving system and any casual attempt to encapsulate our multi-faceted nature inevitably risks oversimplification and superficiality. Similarly, Feldenkrais is “Enhancing Your Sensory Awareness With Feldenkrais”

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Qi-Essensuality* – Feldenkrais for Fine-Tuning Your Senses

Maggy Burrowes 6th September 2021 1 Comment

Enhancing & Fine-Tuning All Your Senses Next Daily Course– 2nd–6th January People still refer casually to humans having five senses – seeing, hearing, touching, tasting, and smelling… …but current science suggests we have a minimum of 9 and as many as 21, “Qi-Essensuality* – Feldenkrais for Fine-Tuning Your Senses”

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Tongue Organisation: Better Breathing, Better Swallowing

Maggy Burrowes 2nd May 2021 2 Comments

Tongue Awareness – an exploration… Before you continue reading this article, pause for a moment, close your mouth, softly, so that your lips could easily “Tongue Organisation: Better Breathing, Better Swallowing”

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Feldenkrais is Jazz! Improvisation & The Artistry Of Being

Maggy Burrowes 30th April 2021 1 Comment

“Can you see that my lessons are…improvised, yet they are improvised with a method. That’s a funny thing. …It’s all the time improvisation but it “Feldenkrais is Jazz! Improvisation & The Artistry Of Being”

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Moving with Awareness & Integration…

Maggy Burrowes 14th February 2021 No Comments

Integrated Spine, Resonant Core, Vibrant Self* *I teach variations on this workshop at regular intervals, so click here for my current workshop schedule. You can “Moving with Awareness & Integration…”

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Feldenkrais: a new take on Ju-Jitsu for the 21st Century

Maggy Burrowes 20th January 2021 3 Comments

The Feldenkrais Method is all about enabling, supporting, generating, enhancing, and encouraging life-long human self-development, both for the individuals who adopt it as a practice, “Feldenkrais: a new take on Ju-Jitsu for the 21st Century”

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Potent Breathing on YouTube

Maggy Burrowes 28th November 2020 1 Comment

I have posted a short breathing course up on my YouTube channel, with the theme of breathing for better physical health and emotional well-being. These “Potent Breathing on YouTube”

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The Difference That Makes A Difference

Maggy Burrowes 22nd November 2020 No Comments

“Human sense organs can receive only news of difference, and the differences must be coded into events in time (i.e., into changes) in order to be perceptible. Ordinary static differences that “The Difference That Makes A Difference”

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