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BreathworksTM offers mindfulness-based pain management and strategies for living well to anyone wishing to live a richer life and feel a greater sense of initiative and confidence.
What is Mindfulness?
Mindfulness, or mindful awareness, is a state of present moment attention where you can clearly perceive thoughts, physical sensations, emotions and events at the moment they occur without reacting in an automatic or habitual way. This means you can make choices as to how you respond to things and have a rich and fulfilling life, even when experiencing difficult circumstances.
Mindfulness Courses
At Breathworks we run two types of courses:
Training
Breathworks is dedicated to offering high quality training in mindfulness to those wishing to improve the lives of both themselves and others.
To this end we offer different types of training:
The Breathworks Community
Breathworks is establishing an international community consisting of trainers and people who have attended one of our courses as a participant, to help them take advantage of ongoing support and friendship.
How Breathworks Started
Breathworks has grown out of the experience of Vidyamala Burch, who has suffered from severe chronic back pain for most of her adult life following a spinal injury in her teens that resulted in partial paraplegia. She is an experienced meditator and meditation teacher. Vidyamala’s approach is based on learning to accept one’s pain and not react to it. By accepting the conditions we find ourselves in, we learn to respond creatively. To do this, we need to learn how to be mindful and aware of our reactions and responses.
In 2004 Vidyamala was joined by Sona Fricker and Gary Hennessey, also experienced meditators, and collectively they established Breathworks Community Interest Company (CIC). Breathworks courses are now run to help people deal with any sort of stress or difficulty as well as physical pain.
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