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.

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

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

You Are Not Your Pain - 5-night Residential Course

Join us on the award winning You Are Not Your Pain 5-day residential course near New York Read more

Mindfulness for Health 5-night Residential Course June 2020

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

Mindfulness for Health 5-night Residential Course August 2020

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

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

The Quiet Place

A virtual ‘quiet place’ for stressed healthcare workers, to give you some mindfulness tips and practices to cope with the impact of Covid-19

Teaching Breathworks Mindfulness on a One-to-One basis

Breathworks trainer Fidelma shares what she's learned from her years of experience sharing Breathworks courses on a 1-2-1 basis, for teachers who want to do the same thing.

The Joys of Online Mindfulness

Ginny, our Head of Training and online development lead, has just finished teaching the first 8-week Breathworks Mindfulness for Health course in a fully online format and she has written a very moving blog about the joy this gave her.

A Message from Vidyamala - COVID-19 & Free Course for Troubling Times

Vidyamala sends her best wishes, and an offering of a new free course - Mindfulness for Troubling Times - to everybody affected by this global pandemic.

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.

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.

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?