Masterclasses

These Masterclasses are a deep dive into some aspect of mindfulness, compassion, or their applications, led by expert teachers. They are open to everybody, regardless of your level of experience. If you are a Breathworks teacher, these masterclasses also count towards your annual CPD requirements. During these unprecedented times, we are offering our CPD and masterclasses online. Check them out and book a place!

Teaching Mindfulness in Workplaces with Andrew McNeill

Workplace mindfulness training is an exciting, challenging and potentially growing market. Many organisations are waking up to the mental health challenges their people face, and people are talking about the subject more openly than ever before. Read more

Mindfulness Champions Training - Online, May 2021

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

Practical Approaches to Improve Kindness and Compassion Teaching with Katherine Michaelis

Learn practical approaches for teaching kindness and compassion that will help to support all participants, including those who experience blocks and barriers to kindness and compassion. Read more

Adapting Breathworks Courses to Workplace Settings with Karen Liebenguth

This online CPD event will explore ways in which teachers can adapt the Breathworks approach to mindfulness and compassion to suit a variety of workplace settings. Read more

Mindfulness Champions Training - Online, June 2021

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

Mindfulness for Addiction: A Masterclass for Professionals

Mindfulness for Addiction: A Masterclass for Professionals in this experiential masterclass, Benedict will introduce mindfulness-based approaches to working with addiction and offer you some key practices in both understanding your own relationship to craving and desire and supporting clients/patients around theirs. Read more

Mindfulness Champions Training - Online, September, 2021

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

Loving What is… Exploring our Resistance to Difficult Experiences

Why is it so difficult to be with difficult experiences? What does it take to REALLY love what is? In this master class we will be exploring the root causes for our resistance to be with difficult experience and discover three ways to transform it. Read more

Mindfulness & Compassion at the End of Life - Masterclass

In this experiential workshop, Vidyamala and Gail will introduce ways mindfulness and compassion can help staff and patients take care of themselves and others well when facing the end of life. Read more

The Buddhist Root of Mindfulness - The Satipatthana Sutta

This workshop is for anyone interested to learn (more) about the Buddhist roots of secular mindfulness, with particular reference to a Buddhist text called the Satipatthana Sutta. It was in the Satipatthana Sutta that the Buddha explained mindfulness, giving examples of how to develop and practice it. In the workshop, we’ll explore the four foundations of mindfulness as outlined in the sutta. Read more

Latest

How Nature Can Support Good Mental Wellbeing

Next week, from 10 – 16 May, we honour Mental Health Awareness Week, the UK’s national week to raise awareness of mental health. This year the theme is on nature and its central role for our mental health.
Person of Colour Internship

We recognise that there may be barriers to becoming a mindfulness teacher for people of colour and we are introducing this internship to facilitate a programme of support.
Mindfulness Champions Training - Online, September, 2021

Learn to lead simple mindfulness meditation practices with competence and confidence and to apply mindfulness in your work.
Mindfulness Champions Training - Online, June 2021

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

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.
Mindfulness HEALS during a pandemic

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