Polyvagal Theory – Maggy Burrowes

The Feldenkrais Method & PolyVagal Theory

Maggy Burrowes 21st July 2024 1 Comment

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 “The Feldenkrais Method & PolyVagal Theory”

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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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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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Learning To Hear Your Inner Voice

Maggy Burrowes 20th September 2020 1 Comment

Your Potent Self It is always a joy for me to connect with a new Feldenkrais student who understands that there is more to the “Learning To Hear Your Inner Voice”

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Breathe Through Your Nose For Better Health

Maggy Burrowes 27th July 2020 No Comments

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 “Breathe Through Your Nose For Better Health”

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Feldenkrais & Mindfulness: Learning To Listen Within

Maggy Burrowes 4th May 2020 No Comments

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 “Feldenkrais & Mindfulness: Learning To Listen Within”

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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.

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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…”

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