Soul Nutrition
Discover your path to a calmer, happier life
october,2022
Event Details
The Breathworks Mindfulness for Health (MfH) course is designed to support and inspire adults living with health anxiety, pain, fatigue or other physical health conditions.
It is a live 8 weeks, 2 hours a week course, with a 10-15 minutes break half way through each session. We always begin and end with guided mindfulness meditations that support the teaching focus for that week, to ensure that your participation is a restful as well as a productive one.
The course material helps you to discover a series of simple practices that you can incorporate into your daily life and is based on a unique meditation programme developed by Vidyamala Burch to help her cope with the severe pain of spinal injury. Taught at Breathworks in the UK – and its affiliates around the world – this programme is backed up by ongoing research, and has already changed the lives of thousands of people.
BREATHWORKS MINDFULNESS FOR HEALTH 8 WEEKS COURSES HAVE BEEN SHOWN TO:
↓Pain intensity and severity ↓Pain interference ↓Pain unpleasantness ↑Pain acceptance ↓Pain catastrophising ↑Pain self-efficacy, ie confidence in performing activities while in pain
↓Fatigue Severity ↓Fatigue Interference ↓Sleep Difficulties
↑Quality of life ↓Emotional distress ↑Psychological wellbeing ↓Anxiety and depressive symptoms ↑Positive outlook ↑Satisfaction with life ↑Vitality ↑Self-compassion ↑Mindfulness
WHAT I WILL LEARN?
- Skills to ease the suffering associated with pain, fatigue and ill health
- How to practice meditation
- How to include mindfulness and self-compassion in your daily life
- Supportive mindful movement practices
- Ways to improve concentration and focus
- The art of taking joy in simple pleasures
- Tips from modern Chronic Pain management techniques, including pacing and learning how to break the ‘boom and bust’ cycle
Each week’s topic will be supported by an email containing resources such as videos and meditation recordings that you can explore in your own time, as well as templates for a reflective pacing diary that you can use to track your experiences and progress during the weeks where this becomes our focus.
In addition, it is suggested that you buy the book that accompanies the course, which is entitled ‘Mindfulness for Health’ written by Vidyamala Burch and Danny Penman. It costs £12.50 and is widely available from all major booksellers. The book was winner of Best Book (Popular Medicine) at the British Medical Association’s Book Awards 2014.
WHO IS THE COURSE DESIGNED FOR?
The course welcomes anyone who would like to explore how mindfulness can help to manage pain, illness, fatigue, or any other health condition.
No previous experience of mindfulness or meditation is required as the course is suitable for complete beginners, as well as more experienced mindfulness practitioners.
The group will be limited to a maximum of 11 people to ensure that there will be plenty of opportunities to ask questions, but please be aware that this is not a therapeutic space and no medical advice will be offered: the focus will be purely on how mindfulness can be used to support your physical and related mental wellbeing.
WHAT TIME COMMITMENT IS REQUIRED?
The course consists of 8 Zoom sessions of 2 hours (including a 10 -15 minutes break). Each session will include guided meditations, in-depth teaching on the practices and techniques, discussion, opportunities for questions, and help with your home practice.
You are welcome to turn your camera off and move around, lie down, sit or stand at any point: information about how to create a comfortable space to participate in each session will be emailed to you before the course begins.
In order to gain greatest benefit from the course, it is best if you can enjoy approximately 20 minutes of meditation practice per day. This could be split into 2 x 10 minutes and is not a test! You will be given lots of support in order to make this an enjoyable exploration of all that mindfulness meditation has to offer.
COURSE DATES
Each Zoom call will be on Tuesday afternoons, 2-4pm UK time on October 4th, 11th & 18th, then after a one week break we continue on 1st, 8th, 15th, 22nd & 29th November 2022. The joy of Zoom means that you can join us from anywhere with a good internet connection, even if you are away from home.
ANY QUESTIONS?
I always arrange a short Zoom call with every course participant before the course begins. This gives us an opportunity to get to know each other, so that you can ask any questions that you may have, and I can understand what you would like to gain from the course. This ensures that I can tailor the content in order to support you in the best way possible. Please do email me if you would like to arrange this call before you decide whether or not to book the course ~ there is no obligation at all!
Katie Sheen is a Breathworks accredited teacher, and Breathworks is a globally recognised leader in teaching mindfulness and compassion to individuals and organisations worldwide, founded in 2001.
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