Mindfulness and Meditation Retreats

Residential retreats and courses offer a fantastic and rare opportunity to deepen our practice and experience away from the usual distractions of the modern world.

We offer a range of residential retreats and courses that cater to complete beginners through to those with more experience including mindfulness teachers and students looking to fulfil their good practice requirements.

Mindfulness for Health 5-night Residential Course

Join us on the award winning Mindfulness for Health 5-day retreat with Breathworks founders Vidyamala Burch and Sona Fricker. Read more

Meditation Retreat - A Journey Into the Heart of Mindfulness and Compassion

Join us this November for a 1-week meditation retreat set in the beautiful Suffolk country side led by Vidyamala and Sona. Read more

Mindfulness for Health 5-night Residential Course - Australia 2020

Join us on the award winning Mindfulness for Health 5-day retreat with Breathworks founders Vidyamala Burch and Sona Fricker. Read more

Mindfulness Meditation Retreat - Everything's Connected - Australia 2020

Explore mindful compassion as a pathway to connecting deeply with ourselves and the world around us on this 5 night retreat. Read more

Latest

After the Yorkshire Three Peaks

After her amazing success in completing the Yorkshire Three Peaks walk at night to raise money for The Breathworks Foundation, Breathworks teacher Nadia Miller reflects on the experience.

An Incredibly Varied First Year at The Breathworks Foundation

Breathworks Foundation Head of Development Karunatara Green reflects back over her first year working for The Foundation - and the extraordinary achievements that we've made in that time!

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.

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 and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

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

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.

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.

Volunteering from Canada’s West Coast — My Transcontinental Journey with Breathworks

Emma Bashford discusses her journey of loss, injury, pain, and mindfulness, as well as how volunteering for The Breathworks Foundation from Canada has helped her feel a valuable member of society once more, opening up a new vision and possibilities.

Our history

From humble beginnings to international recognition, find out more about Breathworks history since its establishment in 2001.

Paying it Forward - The Life-Changing Effects of Having Access to Mindfulness

Read Laura's story of meeting Mindfulness in 2014, when she completed an 8-week Breathworks course which she describes as 'simply life changing'. The generosity of both her teacher and The Breathworks Foundation allowed her to go on and train and she shares how she is now spreading the gift of Mindfulness to the most economically disadvantaged communities throughout Cardiff.

Breathworks Founder On Cycling for Charity at 70

Cycling 50 Kms in the middle of the night. You’re kidding, right? Whose daft idea was that? Surely it’s time to put my feet up and take it easy at my age. Hmm. It seems that’s not the way things are going, and I’m now heading up a team of Breathworks cyclists to complete the 50 km Liverpool Charity Nightrider.