Workplace Mindfulness Training

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Our courses support employees to bring as much of themselves as possible to their work. This includes their energy, skills, ideas, enthusiasm, insights and creativity. This way of working relies on self-awareness of what makes us tick, and the potential we all have to change and grow.

The Breathworks programme supports people to begin to develop this essential kind of self-awareness and then learn how to apply that awareness to the complex work environment.

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Mindfulness Theory of Change for the Workplace

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Vidyamala Named on the Shaw Trust Disability Power List 100 2019

Breathworks Founder Vidyamala was announced as one of the most influential people with a disability in the UK at a reception at the House of Lords.
Meditation Retreat November 2020

Join us this November for a 1-week meditation retreat set in the beautiful Suffolk country side led by Vidyamala and Sona.
Meditation Retreat May 2020

Join us this November for a 1-week meditation retreat set in the beautiful Suffolk country side led by Colette Power.
British Association of Mindfulness-Based Approaches (BAMBA) Launched

The UK Network of Mindfulness-based Teacher Training Organisations is launching under a mercifully shorter new name, with some more news about their future projects too!

After the Yorkshire Three Peaks

After her amazing success in completing the Yorkshire Three Peaks walk at night to raise money for The Breathworks Foundation, Breathworks teacher Nadia Miller reflects on the experience.
Volunteering from Canada’s West Coast — My Transcontinental Journey with Breathworks

Emma Bashford discusses her journey of loss, injury, pain, and mindfulness, as well as how volunteering for The Breathworks Foundation from Canada has helped her feel a valuable member of society once more, opening up a new vision and possibilities.
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!
Mindful Living Show - Keynote Speech from Vidyamala Burch

Vidyamala gave a keynote speech - entitled "Befriend Your Mind, Befriend Your Life" - at the 2019 Mindful Living Show in London. Vidyamala talks about the prevalence of suffering in our society - how to make sense of it, and introduces some simple practices that can help you to undo this pain and make friends with your mind and your life. Watch the full speech here.
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.
Our services

Our mindfulness in the workplace programmes range from testing the waters to building sustainability, working together to make mindfulness work for your organisation.
Attitudes for Living Well with Illness

Through years of managing my own chronic auto-immune illness I have learned effective, authentic, holistic ways to soothe the roller-coaster challenges that being out of balance in our bodies and in our minds can bring.
Mindfulness for Pain

A taste of the Mindfulness for Health course from Breathworks teacher and pain specialist Tuula.
Mini-blog: The Music of Difficult Emotions

A short reflection on the nature of emotions, and how to respond when difficult emotions are reinforcing unhelpful thoughts.
New course on Insight Timer app – Methods for Living With Pain and Illness

Vidyamala has a fantastic, accessible new 10-day course on insight timer - here's what you can expect and how to join!

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.
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.
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.
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?
Breathworks Appoints New Non-Executive Directors

Breathworks has recently decided to expand our Board to include three incredible Non-Executive Directors - who will be able to offer advice and guidance based on their own areas of expertise. It is a pleasure to introduce them here.
The Things I Do for Science...

Breathworks Founder Vidyamala Burch recently volunteered to take part in an experiment into the effect of high levels of pain on the brain, giving her ample opportunity to make use of her own pain management strategies!
From Depression to Mindfulness

Niccy shares her experiences of depression, and how, after many years, her mindfulness practice helped her to break the cycles that kept her tied to chronic unhappiness.
World Health Organisation Recognises Chronic Pain

The World Health Organisation have updated their classification of chronic pain, in a way that should improve patient care and chronic pain research efforts worldwide.
Volunteering from Canada’s West Coast — My Transcontinental Journey with Breathworks

Emma Bashford discusses her journey of loss, injury, pain, and mindfulness, as well as how volunteering for The Breathworks Foundation from Canada has helped her feel a valuable member of society once more, opening up a new vision and possibilities.