Vidyamala Burch OBE, is a mindfulness teacher, author, the co-founder of Breathworks, the internationally acclaimed mindfulness organization helping thousands to live peacefully with chronic pain. She is the author of Living Well With Pain & Illness: The Mindful Way to Free Yourself From Suffering.

Develop key skills for managing pain and illness with teacher, author, and global leader in mindfulness for pain management, Vidyamala Burch. 

Managing Pain & Illness

Explore a 7-day course, curated meditations and body awareness tools with teacher, author and pain-specialist, Vidyamala Burch. 

Finding Inner Peace

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In this meditation, we learn about the 5 B's - 5 areas in the body to relax and release to bring about greater ease - the Buttocks, Belly, Back, Base of the skull, and Brain.

Breathe for Ease

Drawing on the words of Dogen, a 13th century Buddhist monk, we cultivate stability in the body along with a vast and spacious quality of heart and mind.

Body Like a Mountain, Heart Like the Ocean, Mind Like the Sky

This meditation will guide you to let go of resistance and tightness, and by doing so, releasing awareness into a more fluid and open experience.

From Fighting to Flowing

A deeply embodied practice where the breath massages the whole body creating deeper rest and ease. This practice will also promote deeper sleep if done just before bed.

Breath-Based Body Scan

Use this meditation to explore how to find the middle way between overwhelm and denial as we learn to manage our pain.

Trauma-Sensitive Practice

A Body Scan where we consciously imagine the whole body becoming filled with light and ease. 

Filling the Body With Light

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Do you ever struggle with anger? Vidyamala shares helpful perspectives that have helped her life.

How Do I Work With Anger?

Do you find it hard to deal with negative thoughts and emotions? Vidyamala shares some practices to stay connected to inner peace. 

What if I Have Loads of Negative Thoughts and Emotions?

Can you have peace alongside physical pain? Vidyamala shares lessons from 45 years of living with a spinal injury.

How Do I Find Peace When I Have Physical Pain?

Do you ever feel like you're too stressed or busy to experience peace? Vidyamala offers some perspectives to stay connected to inner peace.

How Do I Find Peace With a Demanding Schedule?

Is meditation enough to find real peace? Vidyamala shares some some important lessons. 

Is Meditation Enough to Cultivate Inner Peace?

Vidyamal introduces the HEALS acronym: Healthy eating, Exercise, Awareness, Love of self, others and nature, and Sleep and Stress-reduction. The key dimensions for whole-life health with awareness.

Is Meditation Enough to Help Me Manage My Pain?

Vidyamala reflects on her experience of managing pain with mindfulness and explains how mindfulness helps to tease apart the experience of pain and to open yourself up to a more fluid, expansive experience. 

How Can Mindfulness Help With Pain?

Vidyamala shares 3 slogans to remember mindfulness in daily life; "Take a break before you break", "When in doubt, breathe out", and "Go with the flow."

How to Use Mindfulness to Help Manage Pain in Daily Life?

Vidyamala introduces the distinction between aware distraction and compulsive distraction to help you navigate those moments of pain and discomfort. 

Isn’t It Better to Distract Myself When I’m in Pain Rather Than Be Mindful?

Vidyamala shares tips to apply in the heat of the moment: Take pain one moment at a time, be-friend gravity, and let everything release into flow. Be kind. Treat yourself the way you'd naturally treat a loved one who was hurting. Stop, Open, Smile. 

What Can I Do When the Pain Is Overwhelming?

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Vidyamala introduces you to a life of inner peace. 		

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Vidyamala shares her personal story and how these materials will bring more inner peace. 		

Vidyamala Introduces Inner Peace		 		

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Join Vidyamala and Cory as they explore 5 powerful ways to help you reduce stress, release negativity and find more flow and ease in your life. 

Cory & Vidymala Explore Finding Inner Peace

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Vidyamala is a mindfulness teacher, author, the co-founder of Breathworks, an organization helping thousands to live peacefully with chronic pain. She is the author of Living Well With Pain & Illness: The Mindful Way to Free Yourself From Suffering.

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