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Methods for Living Well with Pain and Illness

A 10-day online taster course. The perfect introduction to the Breathworks approach, meditations, methods, and practices.
GIVE2LIVE Day Retreats

Sophie from Breathworks London shares the exciting news about the Mindfulness Day Retreats taking place at the West London Buddhist Centre this year to support the Breathworks Foundation. Book your place now!
Join Breathworks 'FUN'draising challenges - Perfect Vision 2020

Following last week’s blog about her vision for 2020, Vidyamala would like to invite you to take part in a fundraising challenge for Breathworks!
2020 Vision - An Awareness & Kindness Revolution

Vidyamala looks back, 20 years on from first teaching mindfulness courses for pain and illness, and 10 years on from setting up The Breathworks Foundation to give bursaries so that people in need can access them.

Apply for Mindfulness Teacher Training

Become accredited as an independent mindfulness teacher. Master the skills and share the benefits of mindfulness and compassion with others.
Mindfulness for the Community

It's a shame that mindfulness courses these days are typically available only to those who have some cash to spare. Breathworks Teacher Donna Brown explains how she was able to make mindfulness accessible to people on lower incomes, and reach more people as a teacher, in this blog which may prove highly valuable to other mindfulness teachers.
Breathworks Recognised In Spain as a High-Quality Teacher Training Organisation

Respira Vida - Breathworks' Spanish counterpart - have been established as a founding member of the Spanish Network of Standardised Mindfulness and Compassion-Based Programmes. This is a fantastic organisation that ensures mindfulness teacher training is carried out to a high standard in Spain.
Preparing for your Teacher Training Events

This is a helpful page for all students in the Breathworks Mindfulness Teacher Training programme to find out more about preparing for your training events.
Painfully Beautiful - Healing with Compassion

It was after 20 years of suffering, having thoughts & feelings of suicide and self-destructive behaviour that I learned to manage my mental health conditions - here's how.
Apply for Mindfulness Teacher Training

Applying to our mindfulness teacher training programme is easy, please fill in the application form once you have read the prospective students information and we will be in touch about next steps. Read more........
Making Mindfulness Available to Everyone

Karunatara shares the extraordinary work of The Breathworks Foundation, sharing the life-changing skills of mindfulness and compassion with those in pain, and how you can help.
Maintaining Teacher Accreditation

In order to maintain our mindfulness teacher accreditation it is important for your own practice and continuing professional development to meet certain requirements. Read more........
Becoming an Accredited Breathworks Mindfulness Teacher

Find out more about what our mindfulness teacher accreditation means, the requirements to meet it and the benefits. Read more........
Teacher Training Event Dates

Find out about dates, locations and formats for all our mindfulness teacher training events throughout the year. Read more........

Mindfulness and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome can be a deeply distressing and disruptive condition. In this heartening blog, Ben shares what learning mindfulness with Breathworks has meant to him and his struggle with CFS.
The Three Pillars Of Excellent Mindfulness Teaching

Breathworks Teacher Suryacitta has been training people to teach for years, and has noticed some common mistakes. In this excellent blog, he gives some pointers to mindfulness teachers and those thinking of becoming teachers.
Confessions of the World's Worst Mindfulness Teacher

Read how Mark came to mindfulness as a sceptical attendee at a drop-in session. He now teaches regularly and has seen the benefits of a mindfulness practice on himself, his mother and his colleagues & patients.
Mindfulness for Health course

Award winning mindfulness and compassion course to give you the tools and skills to live well with chronic pain and illness.
Three Things You Need to Start Doing to Stay Energised at Work

Turn the long post 3pm slog into a walk in the park with these three simple practices and feel more mindful to boot!
Three Essential Mindfulness Practices for Resilience

We all have good days and bad days, usually determined by what’s happened to us. But what if we flipped the script and started relating to things differently? What if what made a day good or bad wasn’t so much about what happened to us as it was down to how we responded?
Breathworks Appoints New Non-Executive Directors

Breathworks has recently decided to expand our Board to include three incredible Non-Executive Directors - who will be able to offer advice and guidance based on their own areas of expertise. It is a pleasure to introduce them here.
The Things I Do for Science...

Breathworks Founder Vidyamala Burch recently volunteered to take part in an experiment into the effect of high levels of pain on the brain, giving her ample opportunity to make use of her own pain management strategies!
World Health Organisation Recognises Chronic Pain

The World Health Organisation have updated their classification of chronic pain, in a way that should improve patient care and chronic pain research efforts worldwide.
From Depression to Mindfulness

Niccy shares her experiences of depression, and how, after many years, her mindfulness practice helped her to break the cycles that kept her tied to chronic unhappiness.

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	Ginny Wall
	Colette Power
	MJ Stephens
	Andrea Cygler
	Amalacitta (Cate Clark)
	Steve Johnson
	Fidemla Farley
	Alison Purnell
	Steve Smith
	Cathie Stanley
	Anjalee Chatterjee
	Alessio Agostinis