The Breathworks Foundation was established in 2009 to ensure that mindfulness and compassion training is available to everyone, regardless of circumstances. It brings to life the vision of Vidyamala Burch, Breathworks Co-Founder, who passionately believes that no person or community should be excluded from Breathworks training programmes and courses simply through financial or personal hardship. This is based on her experience of living with severe pain and disability all her adult life.
Bursaries from the Aryamati Bursary Fund enable people to access mindfulness courses and teacher training. We also develop partnerships to make mindfulness accessible to the wider community Read more
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Part of our mission is to undertake and publish research into mindfulness-based activities Read more
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people financially supported with bursaries in our first decade, largely through the generosity of The Aryamati Bursary Fund
Foundation bursaries awarded in 2019, enabling 48 people to learn mindfulness and 29 people to train to teach
people introduced to mindfulness through partnerships with St Michael's Hospice, Maggie's Cancer Care Centre and Take Back Your Life project
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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. Read more
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. Read more