MINDFULNESS FOR HEALTH ONLINE COURSE - 7 May 2024

Mindfulness for Health is an 8-week course that helps you better manage your pain and illness so you can live a fuller life.

The course is suitable for complete beginners, all the way through to experienced meditators. 

The course has been developed from pain research, an evidence-base and real, lived experience of managing a chronic condition, however the approach can be used for any level or experience of pain, illness and fatigue, whether intermittent or chronic. Mindfulness for Health has shown effectiveness in managing symptoms of muscular pain, arthritis, fibromyalgia, M.E, long COVID and migraines among others.

Our mission is to make mindfulness accessible to everyone, if you are experiencing financial challenges we offer places on a pay-what-you-can basis, see our Pricing Rates for more.

Find out more about our Mindfulness for Health Course. 

HOW YOU WILL BENEFIT 

If pain and difficult symptoms have left you feeling desolate, there is hope for a better life. 

During the course, you will learn:

• Simple yet life-changing techniques that you can apply right away to ease your pain and symptoms 

• How to distinguish between pain (the unpleasant sensation) and suffering (the added layers of distress) so you can feel better physically AND emotionally

• A self-management approach that gets your mind to work with you rather than against you when your body hurts

• How to better cope with flare-ups and avoid a boom and bust cycle 

• A deep understanding of mindfulness and its many benefits 

• How to create a habit of daily meditation 

• How to harness the power of your mind to enhance your everyday life 

• How to feel more connected with others and why it’s important when you’re in pain and struggling
  

"I continue practicing meditation daily. Breathworks online course helped me tremendously when recovering from illness and accompanying anxiety. Firstly, it has calmed me down during the meditation, and I could always go back to even 5 minutes of meditation. Also, through the course I have discovered self-compassion, which was needed during my recovery. Thank you again for the opportunity to participate in the course".  

  - Course participant

WHAT’S INCLUDED? 

• An online e-learning platform with lifetime access to course materials, guided meditations and resources

• A supportive online group space where you can share learnings and get direct feedback from your teacher 

• A toolkit of practices, including meditation, mindful movement and pacing techniques to better manage your symptoms 

• Access to our Community of Practice platform - a mindfulness social hub and library at your fingertips with regular live events and resources to support your practice
  

HOW YOU WILL TAKE PART 

This course runs online, with sessions across 8 weeks. You will be guided by an experienced Teacher and learn alongside a supportive group of up to 12 others. 

• Weekly live learning sessions includes instruction, practice and group sharing with other participants  

• Practise on your own at home with daily meditations of 10 - 20 mins and ’mindfulness in daily life’ exercises

• Short learning materials to watch, listen to and read in your own time each week

Book My Place

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Event details

Where

Online Course.

The course will be held on our easy to use virtual learning platform Community of Practice, and the sessions will be held via Zoom - an easy-to-use online webinar/conference call programme. 

The practices and guided meditations will be available online anytime, and you will be able to share reflections and questions with your teacher and group via an online discussion forum.

When

Start: Tuesday, 7 May 2024

End: Tuesday, 25 June 2024

Live session times:

The times given are those in the United Kingdom.  If you are joining from elsewhere in the world you can use this Time Zone Converter to work out the times for you in our own country.

Tuesdays 18.00 to 20.00 UK time*

	Live session date	Live session time(UK time)
Session 1	07 May 2024	18.00 - 20.30
Session 2	14 May 2024	18.00 - 20.00
Session 3	21 May 2024	18.00 - 20.00
Session 4	28 May 2024	18.00 - 20.00
Session 5	04 June 2024	18.00 - 20.00
Session 6	11 June 2024	18.00 - 20.00
Session 7	18 June 2024	18.00 - 20.00
Session 8	25 June 2024	18.00 - 20.00

*the first live session will be 2 ½ hours long to allow time for orientation & introductions, other sessions will all be 2 hours long

Your Teacher This course will be led by experienced Breathworks teacher Sophie Matthew Sophie has been a fully accredited Mindfulness teacher for the past five years and has been practising mindfulness and meditation for the past nine. She has found this to be transformative in her own life, particularly in relation to stress and living with chronic pain, and is passionate about sharing its many deep benefits with others. Sophie is an associate teacher for Breathworks and regularly teaches both Mindfulness for Stress and Mindfulness for Health courses at the West London Buddhist Centre, the Breathworks Centre of Excellence in London. Sophie is also a Breathworks Supervisor. She also teaches MBSR, MBCT, MBCT for Life, Mindfulness in Schools Foundations and Nurturing Parents; Mindfulness Wellbeing for Parents courses. Sophie very much enjoys working collaboratively and doing what she can to support others on their own unique and individual journeys with mindfulness. 'The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes' - Marcel Proust.

Cost

Individual	Concession	Organisation
£295	£225	£395

For our Cancellation & Refund Policy, please see here.

Pricing Guidelines

Breathworks is a charitable organisation with a mission to make the benefits of mindfulness accessible to everyone. To help remove barriers for people in financial hardship, we offer a limited number of concessionary and bursary places on events and courses. We operate our booking system on the basis of self-assessment and trust. Please have a careful read of our eligibility guide below, and contact us if you have any further questions.

Concessionary Rate

Applies to individuals with an income of less than £22,000 a year (or less than £25,000 if you live in London). If your annual income is higher than this and would like to discuss your eligibility for a concessionary place for other reasons, please contact us.

Bursary Places

A limited number of bursary places are reserved for individuals with significant barriers that limit them from affording the Concessionary Rate. As we want as many people as possible to benefit from Breathworks courses, we ask you to consider how much you are able to fund yourself. Subject to available funds, our charitable fund will cover the remainder of the course fee. To apply, please complete this form and click submit.

Organisation Rate

For organisations booking on behalf of their employees (cost is for one place).

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Please note: to participate on this course we require you to submit the registration form that will be provided after payment.