Online Courses & Workshops

I am using Zoom, which means that a recording of your session is included in the fee, and is yours to keep.

All my group session fees are ‘suggested-rate-or-any-donation-welcome’

All booking is via direct contact with me, by email or phone call – all my contact details are here

I teach three weekly drop-in classes online, ‘Tuesday @ Noon‘ for all comers, ‘Potent WellBeing‘ on Wednesday evenings offering Feldenkrais strategies that are specifically designed for anyone dealing with a chronic condition, and ‘Thursday @ 5‘, a very gentle class suitable for all comers but particularly for anyone managing neurological conditions or long-term injuries.

You will find more detailed descriptions of all my regular online classes on this page.

Effortless Daily Immersive Courses

Effortless Transitions

Reverse-Ability Is Your Superpower

April 6th – 10th

Online – Recordings & Notes included – or sign up for recordings if you cannot join us live…

Times: 2–3.30pm GMT ~ 9–10.30am EST ~ 6–7.30am PST – please note we start 1 hour earlier on Wednesday

£100 (suggested fee, or any donation welcome)

As quantum physicists are fond of saying, gravity is a surprisingly weak force, and yet the ageing process seems to unavoidably and steadily force us downwards as if it were irresistible. When we move in a “well-organised” way we barely notice the muscular power we are using – each action morphs smoothly into the next, requiring only our clear intention, not our exertion. This is because when we move the way we evolved to move our bones are supporting as much of our weight as possible, leaving the rest of our tissues – our muscles and fascial network – free to respond to our intentions spontaneously and fully.

Sadly, much of what we do on a daily basis becomes habitual, uninspired and unaware, so that we huff and puff and sigh and groan our way through the necessary activities of the day, hauling ourselves out of bed, collapsing into chairs and struggling back out of them, grunting as we pick something up from the floor (having braced ourselves in order to be able to bend down in the first place), and grunting again as we reach upward to change a bulb or access a shelf.

The elegant design of our human physical structure allows for each of these actions to blend easily into the next until we are making all our transitions in a way that has the effort-free fluidity of dancing.

This Daily Course will explore the many possible ways that you can experience effortlessness in every aspect of your life – physical and emotional.

Effortless Feldenkrais – A Testimonial…

I am pleased to say I am getting great feedback about these Effortless Feldenkrais Daily Courses – this lovely letter came earlier this week:

Hi Maggy!

Thank you so very much for the course Effortless Sitting!

I have now started to repeat the course…because it has done a miracle with my sciatica!
From the first lesson my sciatica decreased …Before the course I had big problems…I could sit but not lie down…even in bed at night I had severe pain and I need to eat pain reliever to be able to sleep, at least some hours…I also had problems with walking….and all this had been going on for at least two month…
After the first lesson I could sleep without pain! Amazing!
Now, after the fifth lesson I have no pain from my sciatica…I’m sleepiing at night and I do not need pain reliever! This is a miracle!
Thank you so very much!

Kind regards

Christina Fagrell

Potent Voice Workshops

Monthly On Sundays:

Online – Recordings & Notes included – or sign up for the recordings if you cannot join us live…
2pm – 5pm GMT ~ 9am – 12pm EST

£45 (suggested fee, or any donation welcome)

Coming up…

Potent Voice–Access Your Full Vocal Range

Sunday March 8^th

Human voices can access four registers, each with a distinctive sound quality, but with overlapping pitch ranges and of widely differing usefulness for singers and other performers. The register we all use naturally for speech and it is by far the most rich and resonant of the four, but we are often aware of the other possible sounds we can make and may experience the change in register from ‘chest’ to ‘head’ voice as a real barrier to developing the higher notes that confident performance can require. In this class we will explore all the registers and play with the different possibilities they offer. For more information click the link above.

The fee includes notes to make it easy for you to continue practising at home, and to minimise the need for note taking during the class.

People my Potent Voice workshops are beneficial for:

Singers, presenters, performers, and anyone interested in the voice, and any aspect of self-expression

Anyone dealing with chronic stress issues, or breathing problems/conditions

Anyone dealing with chronic tension in the face, tongue, jaw, neck, and throat

Anyone interested in meditation, chanting, and neural self-regulation

Anyone who feels that emotional inhibition is limiting their capacity for self-expression and self-assertion.

Please do contact me with any questions you may have, and note that BOOKING IS BY EMAIL, so you can contact me via this link if you want to reserve your place for any of my online events.

You are also always welcome to sign up for the recordings and notes of any course should you be unable to join us live.

…All online sessions include recordings and notes. For more details click here for workshops, and here for regular classes…

Individual Vocal Training Sessions

Rather than lower my standard rate for one-to-one sessions online, which is £70 for a 75 minute session, I am offering one-to-one online sessions as “suggested fee or donation”, for the time being. The extra time is necessary for discussion and feedback. I can accept payments via BACS, and, if that is inconvenient for any reason, PayPal.

Functional Self-Integration Lessons

For anyone who cannot travel and for whom home-visits are too expensive you might like to consider individual online sessions – I am very happy to chat with you to see if we can work effectively this way.

*Suggested-fee-or-donation rate applies.

Many years ago I recorded a short lesson about breathing – here is a link to this lesson in the archive on the Feldenkrais UK Guild website – enjoy!

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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