Guided meditation led on 'Living well with Pain, Illness and Stress' weekend hosted by Open Ground, Sydney March 8/9 2014. Looking at how to work with denial/blocking on one hand and drowning/overwhelm on the other.

Meditation Enquiring Into Blocking And Drowning in experience

Welcome to the Breathworks introductory free guided meditation playlist.  This list consists of four meditations led by Vidyamala Burch to get you started with a mindfulness and meditation practice. Even if you have been practicing for some time these are still core practices useful in everyday life.

As well as this playlist you will find plenty of other free meditations on the Breathworks Soundcloud account that you might like to try, so feel free to have a browse.

If you haven't taken part in a face to face course or an online virtual classroom course, we highly recommend that you try one of these to deepen your understanding and practice as well as sharing progress and experience with others.

To find a course for you please click here:
http://www.breathworks-mindfulness.org.uk/mindfulness-courses

The Breathing Space Meditation

The Tension Release Meditation

Bonus meditations for the BMA Award winning 'Mindfulness for Health' book by Vidyamala Burch (Breathworks) and Danny Penman (Frantic World).

Diaphragm Breathing Meditation - Vidyamala

Meditation from the book 'Mindfulness for Women' by Vidyamala Burch and Claire Irvin. This meditation accompanies Chapter 8 ‘Find the Good in You’. It is a Self-Compassion meditation 

Mindfulness for Women Track 5 Self - Compassion Meditation

This is a series of guided meditations led by Breathworks founder Vidyamala Burch to help relieve stress and anxiety.  This playlist is the guided meditations without the accompanying music.  If you would like to buy the CD with accompanying music please follow this link:

http://www.breathworks-mindfulness.org.uk/cd-for-stress-music

Compassionate Breathing Anchor

Compassionate Body Scan

Stress and tension, aside from being unpleasant in themselves, can cause aches and pains all over the body.
Take 6 minutes to mindfully release tension with this short meditation from Vidyamala.

Body Scan for Sleep by Sona

Body Scan for Sleep by Vidyamala - Saturating The Body With The Breath

Meditating in midst of the Coronavirus pandemic is not easy. It can be particularly difficult because many traditional meditations rely on the breath as an anchor, or focal point, for your attention. So the breath becomes the place you return to when the mind inevitably wanders. 

When we meditate on the breath, we settle on a place where we feel the breath moving (such as the nostrils, the chest or the abdomen), or we follow the whole breath in and out. Many will continue to find the breath a great solace and support at this time. But for some people, the breath may be a relatively uncertain anchor: the sensations of the breath don’t feel quite strong enough to hold their attention. This is especially true if you have an asthmatic condition, or a history of panic attacks, or are experiencing symptoms of Covid-19. 

To help you deal with such issues, we have produced a new collection of meditations that will help you explore alternative anchors for your attention; the feet, seat or hands. There are three versions of the Finding Your Ground meditation of different lengths..... Read more here http://franticworld.com/coronavirus/

Frantic World 2.0

30' Finding your Ground

Breathworks is a not-for-profit social enterprise and leading international mindfulness organisation co-founded by Vidyamala Burch.The Breathworks approach is grounded in compassionate awareness, with a gentle, gradual transformation of our relationship to all our life experiences, including our pain or difficulty. We invite everyone engaging with Breathworks practices and courses to take care of their own well-being as fundamental to our approach. If you suffer from physical, emotional or mental health conditions, please take care not to push yourself past your own safe boundaries when following guidance in Breathworks practices. Please remember that you are always the best person to know what is right for you:

- don’t persist with any practice that is triggering difficult experiences that feel too much or harmful for you.
- adapt practice guidance in a way that you feel most comfortable with.
- speak to your mindfulness teacher or health practitioner if in any doubt.

The Tension Release Meditation

Breathworks-Mindfulness

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