Qi-Essensuality – 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”

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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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Potentizing Your Hands

Maggy Burrowes 19th October 2020 No Comments

Mobilise Sensitise & Energise Your Hands 2 pm – 5 pm GMT [9 am – 12 pm EST] UPDATE: If you have missed this workshop the first time “Potentizing Your Hands”

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Eyes: Ease, Mobility & Vision

Maggy Burrowes 8th October 2020 No Comments

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 “Eyes: Ease, Mobility & Vision “

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Feldenkrais-enhanced Self-Hypnosis: a De-Stressing Taster…

Maggy Burrowes 21st August 2019 2 Comments

Self-Hypnosis, also known as Autogenic Training, has been around for a long time. I first came across it back in the Eighties, in a book “Feldenkrais-enhanced Self-Hypnosis: a De-Stressing Taster…”

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Self-Maintenance for Your Eyes

Maggy Burrowes 12th July 2019 1 Comment

From my very first Feldenkrais workshop for the eyes it was clear that they do benefit from regular attention and specifically designed Awareness Through Movement “Self-Maintenance for Your Eyes”

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Listening & Hearing: Picking Up Good Vibrations

Maggy Burrowes 13th May 2019 2 Comments

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.

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