Who Benefits

The Foundation offers bursaries to people experiencing financial hardship worldwide from the Aryamati Bursary Fund. This enables them to access mindfulness courses and gain skills to self-manage their health and wellness. Bursaries are offered for both face-to-face and online courses, providing a supported community setting even for those who are unable to leave their homes or who have no local teacher.

“The Breathworks course was of great benefit at the time and has been ever since. The exercises have maintained my mobility through the winter, which is when I have the most problems, and the body scans and meditations are of daily benefit. They also highlight when I am most stressed and disengaged with the world - which is of inestimable value.” - course participant

There is a high demand for Breathworks teachers, both in the UK and abroad. Many people come to training who have transformed their own lives through this practice, and have invaluable experience to share, along with a passionate drive to help others. We provide bursaries for people who could make excellent teachers, but for whom the cost of training would be prohibitive.

“I hope to find a sustainable way to teach from a place of authenticity in order to help myself and others. In a world where disabled people are often disenfranchised and feel like second class citizens, Breathworks has given me a new, compassionate and engaged way to live.’’ - teacher training graduate

The Foundation has developed successful partnerships with charities and community groups, expanding delivery of mindfulness courses and reaching a wider community. By developing more partnerships, we can offer diverse forms of delivery to meet different and changing needs, and make mindfulness accessible to those hardest to reach who are often the very people who need it most.

“I hadn’t realised it, but I think I had ‘fallen out’ with my heart after my diagnosis. One of the movement exercises we did in class made us hug ourselves and it felt like I was hugging myself for the first time since I was poorly.” - course participant, St. Michael’s Hospice

Partnerships

Read about partnerships around the globe where The Foundation has enabled the spread of mindfulness. Read more

Recipients of Teacher Training Bursaries

Hear from people we have helped with a bursary to attend the Breathworks Teacher Training Programme. Read more

Recipients of Course Bursaries

Hear from people we have helped with a bursary to attend a Breathworks mindfulness course. Read more

Latest

Mindfulness Champions Training - Online, January 2021

Learn to lead simple mindfulness meditation practices with competence and confidence and to apply mindfulness in your work.

achtsamkeits- und mitgefühlsbasierte Schmerzbewältigung für MBSR-, MBCT-, MBCL-, & MSC-Lehrer*innen

Unser Angebot ist ein Kompakttraining für MBSR-, MBCT-, MBCL- oder MSC-Lehrer*innen, die an einem dreitägigen Einführungsseminar in die Breathworksmethode teilgenommen haben. Es enthält alle Elemente der achtsamkeits- und mitgefühlsbasierten Schmerzbewältigung (inkl. ausführliche Unterrichtsmaterialien sowie Kursteilnehmer*innenhandbuch für die späteren MBPM-Kurse). Die Ausbildung befähigt die Teilnehmer*innen dazu, den 8-Wochen-MBPM-Kurs eigenständig und kompetent zu leiten.

How Do You 'Do' Mindfulness?

How do you 'do' mindfulness? The Breathworks Team discusses the simple practice and how to apply it in the workplace.

E-Learning Platform

If you have registered for an online event, access it here.

Vidyamala's Micro-Blog: Managing Lockdown with a Disability

Vidyamala wanted to write a blog about lockdown with disability, but has been too preoccupied with managing it recently, so here is her 37-word micro-blog, which says everything she wanted to say.

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.

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Vidyamala reflects on how she's handled the increasing difficulty of managing pain during lockdown, and explains her approach with an acronym: HEALS.

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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.

Vidyamala's Micro-Blog - Managing Lockdown with a Disability 2

Last time I used 37 words and I got this comment from Bridget: "37 words - a big relief in the sea of online 'stuff' we're all bombarded with at the moment. Can you make it 36 next time?!" So here's my 36 word micro blog on managing lockdown with a disability.

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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?

Mindfulness on the NHS Frontline

Chris Bu, NHS Psychiatry Trainee Doctor and Breathworks teacher in training, shares what it's like to be working on the frontline and how he is finding his mindfulness practice so helpful: learning how best to look after his own wellbeing so he can look after others effectively too.