HEALS Course - 23 September 2024

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HEALS is an 11-week online course developed by Vidyamala Burch OBE to empower you to take control of your wellbeing through a whole-life health approach. It integrates lifestyle medicine, mindfulness, and habit methodology to promote sustainable lifestyle changes that enhance physical, emotional, and psychological health.

The course offers expert guidance for managing pain, illness, fatigue and declining health, focusing on key areas like nutrition, exercise, sleep, our connection to nature and self-compassion. 

Developed with insights from Vidyamala’s personal experiences and supported by a clinical advisory board, HEALS aims to foster self-awareness, better health management, and lasting improvements in quality of life.

How you will benefit

• Improved Self-Awareness: develop mindfulness as a foundational skill for wise decision-making.
• Sustainable Lifestyle Changes: make small, manageable changes that are easy to maintain.
• Enhanced Physical Wellbeing: strengthening, stretching and stamina and movement to improve physical fitness and balance the nervous system.
• Improved Nutritional Habits: learn and apply principles of healthy nutrition.
• Better Sleep Quality: discover strategies to improve sleep, crucial for recovery and mental clarity.
• Connection with nature: learn about the health benefits of being in touch with nature and the science of awe.
• Emotional & Psychological Benefits: cultivate love and compassion, reduce stress, and enhance your connection with nature.
• Control Over Your Health: feel empowered to manage your health through mindful practices and awareness.
• Positive Behaviour Change: use Tiny Habit methodology to implement gradual, positive changes.

What's included

• Weekly Live 2-Hour Sessions: learn directly from wellbeing leader Vidyamala Burch. 
• Supportive Community: join a buddy group for daily check-ins and mutual support. 
• Lifetime Access: enjoy ongoing access to the course materials and resources. 
• Behaviour Change Techniques: introduction to the Tiny Habits methodology. 
• Resources and Materials: access to a wealth of online resources for each pillar including videos, reading materials, guided meditations, worksheets, and practical exercises. 
• Community Support: connect with fellow participants for shared experiences and support. 
• Lifelong Skills: develop skills and knowledge for ongoing wellbeing.

How you will take part

You will learn through live sessions, a supportive community and practical exercises.

• Join a weekly 2-hour call with your group and teacher. 
• Work through weekly resources (videos, articles, lessons) with optional further resources to take you deeper into the relevant topic.
• Meditate daily with special HEALS recorded meditations.
• Complete worksheets to track your goals and record progress.
  
  

Read more about the HEALS course here.

Event details 

Where

Online Course.

The course will be held on our easy to use virtual learning platform Community of Practice, and the sessions will be held via Zoom - an easy-to-use online webinar/conference call programme. 

The practices and guided meditations will be available online anytime, and you will be able to share reflections and questions with your teacher and group via an online discussion forum.

When

Start: Monday, 23 September 2024

End: Monday, 2 December 2024

Live session times:

The times given are those in the United Kingdom.  If you are joining from elsewhere in the world you can use this Time Zone Converter to work out the times for you in our own country.

Mondays 18.30 to 20.30 UK time*

 

Date	Session
Mon 23 Sept	AWARENESS: Intro to HEALS & Awareness as a foundation.
Mon 30 Sept	BREATHING: Breathing and breathing meditations.
Mon 7 Oct	LOVE: Healing through compassion to yourself and others.
Mon 14 Oct	VALUES AND HABITS: Setting your value-driven habits for positive behaviour change.
Mon 21 Oct	NATURE: improving wellbeing through connection to natural world.
Mon 28 Oct	NO SESSION: CONSOLIDATION WEEK.
Mon 4 Nov	ENGAGING WITH MOVEMENT: Strengthening, Stretching and Stamina and movement to balance the nervous system.
Mon 11 Nov	SLEEP: exploring the science of sleep.
Mon 18 Nov	HEALTHY NUTRITION: principles of nutritious dietary choices.
Mon 25 Nov	REVIEW & REVIST: nutrition and mindfulness.
Mon 2 Dec	LOOKING FORWARD: how to continue with HEALS in your life.

 Your teacher

Vidyamala Burch OBE 

Vidyamala is a mindfulness and compassion teacher, award-winning author and coach.  She founded Breathworks in 2001 to offer her mindfulness approach for managing pain and illness following her own personal experience living with health challenges. At age 23, she sustained spinal injuries that required multiple surgeries and left her with partial paraplegia and chronic pain. She began to explore mindfulness and meditation as a way to manage her pain and found the results to be life changing.
 
In 2004, she developed through Breathworks the world’s first Mindfulness-based Pain Management (MBPM) programme which has now been recognised by the NHS and global health boards and has reached over 100,000 people coping with pain, illness and stress. 
 
Vidyamala’s list of accolades includes an OBE for services to Wellbeing and Pain Management and an honorary membership from The British Pain Society for her outstanding work for the alleviation of pain. She has been recognised as one of the most influential disabled people in the UK for four years running by the Shaw Trust Power List.
 
She is the author of Living Well with Pain and Illness (2008), Mindfulness for Health (2013), and Mindfulness for Women(2016). Mindfulness for Health was awarded first prize in Popular Medicine in the British Medical Association Books Awards in 2014, and was named the best self-help book in its category by health professionals in the UK’s Reading Well Scheme.
 
Vidyamala offers wise and kind guidance and through her work hopes to pass on the tools that have helped her reclaim a full, happy and meaningful life.
Vidyamala is a mindfulness and compassion teacher, award-winning author and coach.  She founded Breathworks in 2001 to offer her mindfulness approach for managing pain and illness following her own personal experience living with health challenges. At age 23, she sustained spinal injuries that required multiple surgeries and left her with partial paraplegia and chronic pain. She began to explore mindfulness and meditation as a way to manage her pain and found the results to be life changing.
 
In 2004, she developed through Breathworks the world’s first Mindfulness-based Pain Management (MBPM) programme which has now been recognised by the NHS and global health boards and has reached over 100,000 people coping with pain, illness and stress. 
 
Vidyamala’s list of accolades includes an OBE for services to Wellbeing and Pain Management and an honorary membership from The British Pain Society for her outstanding work for the alleviation of pain. She has been recognised as one of the most influential disabled people in the UK for four years running by the Shaw Trust Power List.
 
She is the author of Living Well with Pain and Illness (2008), Mindfulness for Health (2013), and Mindfulness for Women(2016). Mindfulness for Health was awarded first prize in Popular Medicine in the British Medical Association Books Awards in 2014, and was named the best self-help book in its category by health professionals in the UK’s Reading Well Scheme.
 
Vidyamala offers wise and kind guidance and through her work hopes to pass on the tools that have helped her reclaim a full, happy and meaningful life. 

Cost

Individual	Concession	Organisation
£369	£282	£494

For our Cancellation & Refund Policy, please see here.

Pricing Guidelines

Breathworks is a charitable organisation with a mission to make the benefits of mindfulness accessible to everyone. To help remove barriers for people in financial hardship, we offer a limited number of concessionary and bursary places on events and courses. We operate our booking system on the basis of self-assessment and trust. Please have a careful read of our eligibility guide below, and contact us if you have any further questions.

Concessionary Rate

Applies to individuals with an income of less than £22,000 a year (or less than £25,000 if you live in London). If your annual income is higher than this and would like to discuss your eligibility for a concessionary place for other reasons, please contact us.

Bursary Places

A limited number of bursary places are reserved for individuals with significant barriers that limit them from affording the Concessionary Rate. As we want as many people as possible to benefit from Breathworks courses, we ask you to consider how much you are able to fund yourself. Subject to available funds, our charitable fund will cover the remainder of the course fee. To apply, please complete this form and click submit. (not available).

Organisation Rate

For organisations booking on behalf of their employees (cost is for one place).

Payment Plan

You can spread the cost with interest-free, monthly payments. 

Please note: to participate on this course we require you to submit the registration form that will be provided after payment.