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 August 2020 - CANCELLED

Join us on the award winning Mindfulness for Health 5-day retreat - covering the life-changing content of the Mindfulness for Health course in a 5-day residential format. Read more

Less is More: Simplicity and Effortless Equanimity - Meditation Retreat October 2020

Join us this October for a 5-day meditation retreat set in the beautiful South Lanarkshire countryside, led by Colette Power. Read more

Meditation Retreat - A Journey Into the Heart of Mindfulness & Compassion November 2020

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

Latest

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.

Breathworks Community of Practice

Become a member of our new online community - gain access to our increasing library of content, regular live practice sessions, and connect with a world-wide community of Breathworks practitioners and teachers.

Reflections on Becoming a Mindfulness Teacher

Breathworks Teacher Rabia shares her journey with Breathworks' Teacher Training, and her advice for anybody thinking of following the same path.

Standing in Solidarity. A message from Vidyamala & Helen

We stand in solidarity with all who are working towards dismantling racial inequities and other forms of systemic oppression.

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.