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 Tension Release Meditation

Please choose the mindfulness meditation that you like the best and use this on a daily basis during your Mindfulness Works Intro Course.

Body Scan Meditation | Lee-Anne Armitage | Week 1 Onwards

Mindfulness For Creativity: The Insight Meditation

Breathing Meditation taken from 'Mindfulness for Creativity: Adapt, Create and Thrive in a Frantic World' by Dr Danny Penman - Track 1

Mindfulness For Creativity Meditation Track 1 - Breathing - By Dr Danny Penman

Meditations from 'Mindfulness for Creativity: Adapt, Create and Thrive in a Frantic World' by Dr Danny Penman

Mindfulness For Creativity Meditation Track 2 - Sounds And Thoughts - By Dr Danny Penman

Feel more settled and calm by noticing and experiencing things as they are, without reacting to or judging them.  An Engaging Your Senses mindfulness meditation created by Stop, Breathe & Think. See our mindfulness meditation app at http://www.stopbreathethink.com

Engaging Your Senses

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

A body scan that relaxes by paying attention to breath in the whole body

Body Scan Saturating The Body With The Breath

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

10' Finding your ground

Author of the bestsellers 'Mindfulness: Finding Peace in a Frantic World', 'Mindfulness for Creativity' & ‘Mindfulness for Health’ (You Are Not Your Pain in US)