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.

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

Join us this November for an online meditation retreat, led by Vidyamala and Sona - attend for the full week, or just the weekend! Read more

Auckland Online Meditation Retreat - A Journey into the Heart of Connection and Compassion

Join us this November for an online weekend meditation retreat, led by Jenny Cornish & Suvarnadhi Read more

Latest

Online Mindfulness for Health Course - 2nd February 2021

An 8 week online group course for those who cannot attend a local course or want to practice from home.

Online Mindfulness for Health Course - 24th January 2021

An 8 week online group course for those who cannot attend a local course or want to practice from home.

Online Mindfulness for Health Course - 7th January 2021

An 8 week online group course for those who cannot attend a local course or want to practice from home.

Guided Workplace Meditations

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.

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.

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 Stress course

Learn the foundational skills of mindfulness, compassion, and meditation, and how to apply them to stress and anxiety in your life.

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?