Category: Qi-Essensuality

Hypermobility Spectrum Disorders & The Feldenkrais Method #1–Understanding hEDS

8 months ago
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by Maggy Burrowes
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“You wake up in the morning, and nothing is in the right place!” Coralia Jianu I am delighted that Feldenkrais Access have asked me to teach a course on Feldenkrais as an effective approach to managing the joint and movement-related…

The Feldenkrais Method & PolyVagal Theory

2 years ago
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by Maggy Burrowes
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Immersive Daily Course Effortless Well-being Understanding & Regulating Your Nervous System with Feldenkrais Online + Recordings & Notes This course will be repeated early in 2026, in the meantime I recommend my online Potent WellBeing class that happens every Wednesday… I am often asked…

Inside Matters

2 years ago
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My Feldenkrais Access Guest Teacher Courses are available on demand, and…I am now an official Feldenkrais Access Affiliate! – which means if you buy a course using my link I will get a percentage of what you pay. This course…

Your Authentic Voice

2 years ago
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by Maggy Burrowes
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I suspect for many of us some early memories are quite vague and some are more distinct. I have only vague memories of playtime at my first school, however they become crystal clear when I remember being stung by a…

Discover The Secrets Of Your Ring Muscles…

3 years ago
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by Maggy Burrowes
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I am now an official Feldenkrais Access Affiliate! All my Feldenkrais Access courses can be purchased on demand AND… This series works well as an introduction to both Inside Matters, and Well-Connected. The lessons are designed to help you to…

Using Your Voice To Enhance Your Listening Skills

4 years ago
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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 on the music surrounding them and the sounds they are producing, weaving their vocal melody…

A Deep Dive Into Our Senses

4 years ago
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A Deep Dive Into Our Senses Enhancing Your Sensory Awareness with Feldenkrais Let me know if you are interested in this course… The way we experience the world through our senses is fundamental to our wellbeing… Every human being is…

Qi-Essensuality – Feldenkrais for Fine-Tuning Your Senses

4 years ago
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by Maggy Burrowes
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Feldenkrais Training for Enhancing & Fine-Tuning All Your Senses A Deep Dive Into Our Senses Let me know if you are interested in this course… People still refer casually to humans having five senses – seeing, hearing, touching, tasting, and smelling… …however this over-simplification is based on our most obvious sensory organs – current science…

Happy, Healthy Hands

5 years ago
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Spread Your Wings Effortless Arms & Intelligent Hands October 13th–17th 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…

Eyes: Ease, Mobility & Vision

5 years ago
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by Maggy Burrowes
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Alert, mobile, responsive eyes are vital for every aspect of our relationship with our environment… how we move with ease over any terrain… how we carry our heads and adjust our sense of equilibrium to maintain our upright posture… …and…

Learning with awareness…

The most common feature of people who achieve indescribable and superb performance is the hours of daily practise they all undertake throughout their lives. Hours of repetitive practice is hard work; hours of practicing awareness in movement or action remain the most absorbing and interesting time in our lives. The feeling of being alive relates to the awareness of growing to be oneself.

The Elusive Obvious, Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais (1981)

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)

“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