Find out more about the Breathworks Mindfulness for Stress course and the different ways you can experience the course below.
Join our 8-week Mindfulness for Stress Course held in-person at West London Buddhist Centre in London on 23 October. Read more
Join our 8-week Mindfulness for Stress Course held in-person at West London Buddhist Centre in London on 26 September. Read more
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? Read more
Find out more about the mindfulness for stress course in this detailed overview. Read more
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. Read more
Learn the foundational skills of mindfulness, compassion, and meditation, and how to apply them to stress and anxiety in your life. Read more
Reflections from Breathworks teacher Katherine Michaelis' on her Mindfulness MSc. Thesis into how participants experience compassion on a Breathworks course. Read more
External events will always be unpredictable, and we will never be able to control them fully. It's easier to direct your own mind than the entire rest of the world, and this is the priceless gift of mindfulness. Read more
There is a sentiment often expressed in meditation circles that any attempt to get better at meditation is somehow misguided, and that a distracted meditation practice should just be accepted for what it is. There's some truth to this, but is it the whole story? Read more
Everybody struggles with mindfulness practice at some time or another. You try your best, but don’t seem to be making any progress. You try to practice compassion, but end up criticising yourself for not doing it right. You meditate for a long time, but end up more restless and distracted than when you started. Sometimes the distance between our actual experience and the mindfulness that we had hoped to embody can seem like a measuring stick for something wrong with us... Read more
It's funny the places in life where one notices mindfulness practice take effect. After a highly stressful period at work, a mindfulness course started to turn things around for Breathworks Teacher Katy Owens. Read more
Breathwork co-founder Vidyamala Burch recently did an interview with the Malaysian magazine 1Twenty80, on the topic of mindfulness and its health and professional benefits, as well as how to best practice mindfulness to feel its extraordinary value in your own life. Read more
Breathworks teacher Donna Brown was recently asked to write a magazine article in Northern Life Magazine on the topic of how mindfulness can help with stress and anxiety. She wrote a wonderful article - here's the online version. Read more
A beautiful reflection on self-compassion this Christmastime from a mindfulness course group. Read more
The New Statesman held a roundtable discussion at the Houses of Parliament on how to make a profession in Healthcare more sustainable. Colin Duff made the case for teaching students mindfulness and compassion. Read more
"Anxiety had been a constant unpleasant companion in my life for almost four decades until I was introduced to the practice of mindfulness in 2008 – when I was forty." A beautiful story, filled with wisdom and compassion, from mindfulness teacher Karen Liebenguth on the way mindfulness practice can touch a life. Read more
Learning the simple art of enjoying your meditation practice is, apart from being great fun, the best way to tap into your potential for concentration and stable attention. Read more
Some English Teachers from The National University of Santiago del Estero in Argentina recently visited Breathworks’ offices in Manchester to take a weeks crash course in Mindfulness and Meditation. We dropped in half way through to ask them a few questions about how they were getting on. Read more
What's the difference between 'being' and 'doing' modes? It's a little like working with the grain... Read more
Loneliness can be a huge mental health problem over Christmas - research shows that mindfulness can help, and here's a short practice for you to try it for yourself. Read more
Dr Colette Power, Senior Mindfulness Trainer and Supervisor at Breathworks, talks about the reality of when life gets so busy it’s all too easy for our mindfulness practice to lose its way. Read more
Dr Colette Power, Breathworks Senior Mindfulness Teacher and Supervisor, suggests that a bit of compassionate distance from our own minds might just do us the world of good. Read more
Studies show that mindful meditation helps those suffering from loneliness - Vidyamala explains why, and how you can use mindfulness yourself to better cope with a lonely Christmas Read more
Christmas can a challenging time for almost one in five people who live with chronic pain, but even a short mindfulness practice can be a great help. Read more