Bursary Funding for Mindfulness Courses and Training

Our charitable fund offers a limited amount of bursaries for subsidised places on the Online Mindfulness for Health Courses, Mindfulness for Health Group Courses, and Breathworks Teacher Training Programme

Eligibility

If you have a physical or mental health condition, and/or your financial circumstances are such that you would not otherwise be able to afford to attend a course with us then you are eligible to apply.

When you apply, we ask you to consider how much you are able to fund yourself and if accepted, the charitable fund will make up the remainder of the course fee (for Teacher Training the maximum funding is up to 50% of the cost).

To apply for a bursary, please select which course you would like to attend:

Breathworks Teacher Training Programme

Mindfulness for Health Course

Online Mindfulness for Health Course

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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.

How To Bring Mindfulness Into Your Organisation

In this interview with Breathworks teacher and workplace policy lead for the UK Mindfulness Initiative, Andrew McNeill, we discuss the new book that Andrew has written: Organisational Mindfulness.
Breathworks Recognised In Spain as a High-Quality Teacher Training Organisation

Respira Vida - Breathworks' Spanish counterpart - have been established as a founding member of the Spanish Network of Standardised Mindfulness and Compassion-Based Programmes. This is a fantastic organisation that ensures mindfulness teacher training is carried out to a high standard in Spain.
Breathworks Expands to Brazil

Leandro Pizutti is a Breathworks Teacher and psychiatrist working in Brazil. He was the lead researcher on a recently published study on the benefits of the Mindfulness for Stress course for health professionals. Here he discusses how he came to be involved with Breathworks and shares some of the amazing work he's been doing in Brazil.
Presence at the End - Mindfulness at St. Michael's Hospice

A Personal Account of mindfulness teaching in St. Michael's hospice in Hereford by Palliative Care Staff Nurse and Breathworks Teacher, Gail
Tinnitus and Mindfulness

Suryadaya shares her touching journey with tinnitus, the many unexpected difficulties it has introduced to her life, and how mindfulness has helped her to manage it, and to continue to live with appreciation and joy.
Painfully Beautiful - Healing with Compassion

It was after 20 years of suffering, having thoughts & feelings of suicide and self-destructive behaviour that I learned to manage my mental health conditions - here's how.
Our Mission and Values

Find out more about our mission and values. To alleviate human suffering by helping people living with pain, stress and illness to live happier, healthier lives.....
Our history

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

Mindfulness is a special kind of awareness meaning you can be fully 'awake' to life in each present moment; fully alive and vibrant.
The Breathworks approach to mindfulness and compassion

Our mindfulness and compassion courses teach a variety of well-researched and up-to-date techniques, yet the core of our approach is remarkably simple and timeless.

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

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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.