These mindfulness practice explore using the movements of the body with the breath as the focus.

Breathing Practices

This offers an introduction to using the breath as a Focusing Anchor for mindfulness practice.. It is often useful to do this after you have tried other focusing anchors first: the feet, hands, looking or listening. Some people find breathing-based practices ideal, others find they don't find the breath a helpful focus in which case other Focusing Anchors can be used just as effectively. 

Once you have found a way of focusing on the breath that suits you, then the other tracks are probably more useful.


This is a collection of audio files developed for our mindfulness course at The Christie, Greater Manchester, UK. This is a regional cancer care hospital. 
These tracks offer detailed versions which are helpful to start off and then brief guidance versions for when you are familiar with the practice.
See www.easingstruggle.com for details of each track.

[The 8 hour silence is handy to put in a playlist if your player does not turn off after 1 track. This means you can fall asleep to a track and not be disturbed when it goes on to the next track.]

Breathing Practice - 01-Exploring the breath as a Focusing Anchor-13min

This is a collection of audio files developed for our mindfulness course at The Christie, Greater Manchester, UK. This is a regional cancer care hospital. 
These tracks offer detailed versions which are helpful to start off and then brief guidance versions for when you are familiar with the practice.
See www.easingstruggle.com for details of each track.

[The 8 hour silence is handy to put in a playlist if your player does not turn off after 1 track. This means you can fall asleep to a track and not be disturbed when it goes on to the next track.]

Breathing Practice - 03-Using the breath as a Focusing Anchor-less detail-14min

Breathing Practice - 02-Using the breath as a Focusing Anchor-detailed-18min

In this follow-up to the million-copy bestseller Mindfulness: Finding Peace in a Frantic World, Professor Mark Williams and Dr Danny Penman reunite to show readers how to use the hidden foundations of mindfulness to rediscover calm and reclaim your life in our chaotic world.

Use the hidden foundations of mindfulness to rediscover calm and reclaim your life in our chaotic world

There are moments in life that decide your fate. They ripple into the future and dictate how you experience the world in the moments that follow; either positive and uplifting, dark and chaotic, or flat and dull.

What if you could recognise these moments before they seized control of your life? What if you could use them to set sail for a better future? What if all moments, big and small, could be harnessed this way?

In Deeper Mindfulness, Oxford Professor Mark Williams and Dr Danny Penman reunite to present a new eight-week guided meditation programme that takes mindfulness to the next level. Deeper Mindfulness reveals how the latest advances in neuroscience, combined with millennia old wisdom, can be used to transform your life. These discoveries open the doors to a deeper layer of mindfulness known as the 'feeling tone'. This sets the 'background colour' that tinges your entire experience of life. It is also the tipping point from which you can reclaim your life in an increasingly stressful and chaotic world.

Proven effective at treating anxiety, stress and depression, the practices in Deeper Mindfulness offer a new and more fruitful direction for both novice and experienced meditators. It also allows the rest of us to approach life with renewed strength, vigour and equanimity.

Deeper Mindfulness by Mark Williams and Danny Penman, read by Mark Williams (Audiobook extract)

A 40 minute variation on a body scan that invites awareness of muscle movement and easing and loosening around active or tight muscles. 
This is a  'field reconding' (a great term for a raw recording from a workshop so has noises along with the spontaneous  guidance).

Body Scan - 40 minutes moving & loosening (field recording)

White Noise Water Sounds - Waves & Underwater

Soothing Sounds of the Sea - Anti Stress & Deep Sleep Nature Sound

Relaxing Sounds from The Sea

Surf for Healing 4

ResiliencePlus&#174; offers free resource to enhance resilience, health and well-being. 
We focus on building and sustaining our resilience through simple and accessible mindfulness practices. 

The aim of this stream is to build a developing resource of free content to support mindfulness practice.

We also provide training in the using these approaches to teach mindfulness in 1-2-1 or group contexts. 

Breathing Practice - 02-Using the breath as a Focusing Anchor-detailed-18min

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