BREATHWORKS
About Breathworks

Breathworks is a mindfulness organisation and registered charity based in the United Kingdom. Founded in 2001, Breathworks was a seed from which Vidyamala hoped to realise her vision of helping people living with pain and illness.
Along with Co-founders and experienced mindfulness teachers Sona Fricker and Gary Hennessey, Vidyamala developed Breathworks’ core Mindfulness for Health, Mindfulness for Stress and Teacher Training programmes. The Breathworks' Mindfulness-based Pain Management (MBPM) programme has been supported by research and is recognised by the NHS and health boards globally.
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Over the years, Breathworks has grown to become a flourishing and dynamic international organisation that has reached over 100,000 people around the world and trained over 600 teachers in 35 countries.
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Keenly aware that it is the people who are most in need of mindfulness training who are least able to access it, Breathworks operates as a charity and raises funds to invest in course bursaries, research and partnerships to remove barriers to taking part in its courses and trainings.

What Breathworks Does
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Mindfulness and compassion training for pain, stress and illness management
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One of the world’s leading mindfulness teacher training programmes
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Courses and workshops for healthier, happier workplaces
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Partnerships with health services, researchers and academics
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Funding for community projects aimed at helped underserved groups
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Brings together a meditators around the world through their Community of Practice platform