Mindfulness for Health Courses in Manchester

A simple 8-week mindfulness and compassion course to give you the tools and skills to live well with your chronic pain or health condition.

Chronic pain and ill-health can feel unbearable, debilitating, and unfair. Many people at the beginning of these courses say their life feels completely overshadowed by their pain and illness.

Clinical trials have shown that mindfulness meditation can be as effective as prescription painkillers, and can enhance the body’s natural healing systems. Mindfulness can also reduce the anxiety, depression, irritability, exhaustion, and insomnia that arises from chronic pain and illness.

Due to ongoing concerns about COVID-19, some of the Mindfulness for Health courses has been cancelled. If you still wish to attend the course, we have a number of dates for Group Online Mindfulness for Health courses as an alternative for face-to-face courses.

8-week Mindfulness for Health Course - October 2020

An 8-week course learning mindfulness strategies and approaches to ease your suffering from pain, illness and associated stress. Read more

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Mindfulness for Health Courses

The Mindfulness for Health course is for anybody suffering the effects of health conditions such as back pain, post-viral fatigue, injury, and more. You will gain the skills to manage your condition and the mental health challenges associated with it.

Breathworks Teacher Training Programme

Become accredited as a mindfulness & meditation teacher with the Breathworks Teacher Training Programme. Start your training now.

Mindfulness Champions Training - Online

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

Mindfulness for Covid 'Long-Haulers'

For those who have survived Covid-19, fatigue and other difficult symptoms seem to be common. This blog gives some hope and some tips for those 'long-haulers' struggling after the virus.

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.

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.

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?

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.