Breathworks^TM offers training in Mindfulness Based approaches to Pain and Illness (MBPI). We run training courses for developing mindfulness as a personal practice and for teaching mindfulness to others. In addition, we offer training for those wishing to deliver the Breathworks Living Well with Pain and Illness courses.

Breathworks^TM runs Living Well Courses in the UK and beyond for people living with pain and illness.

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Breathworks^TM programmes have their origins in the personal experience of Vidyamala Burch, who has used mindfulness to manage severe chronic spinal pain for twenty-five years, and are based on practice-based research as well as combining key elements of Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction (MBSR) and Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT).

Breathworks Community Interest Company is an independent not-for-profit social enterprise offering mindfulness-based approaches to living well with chronic pain and illness. Breathworks is rapidly becoming the leader in Mindfulness Based approaches to Pain and Illness (MBPI).

The Breathworks' 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).

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.

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This is an extended version of an article written by Vidyamala Burch for the October 2009 issue of the Healthcare Journal of Counselling and Psychotherapy.