The Breathworks Mindfulness for Health course has helped thousands of people learn how to manage chronic pain, illness, fatigue, or anxiety with greater ease through mindfulness and compassion.

This evidence-based programme was developed by Vidyamala Burch, founder of Breathworks, drawing on her personal experience of managing severe pain with mindfulness and meditation. It integrates meditation, pacing, mindful movement, and group sharing to build skills that improve quality of more...

What would it be like to turn all that we do into practice? Would we experience the world, ourselves and others differently?

Come and found out at Sangha Works – turning the ordinary into the extraordinary!

We start with a check-in, then choose tasks to work with as practice. These usually involve cleaning the centre, tending the shrine and light gardening work, but can include more! We can offer sitting down jobs as well as more active jobs.

Come along more...

If you already have experience of the Mindfulness of Breathing and Metta Bhavana (Loving Kindness) meditations that we practise in our sangha, join us on a Wednesday lunchtime to meditate with others and take your practice deeper.

Every Wednesday at the Bristol Buddhist Centre. The meditation finishes at 2pm, with the option to stay on until 2.30pm for tea and a chat.

To view details of our beginners’ class, click here.

If you’re curious about and new to meditation, or haven’t yet been acquainted with the practices we follow in our community (Mindfulness of Breathing and Loving Kindness meditations), come along to our drop-in class for beginners on a Wednesday evening.

You’ll be guided through the stages by an experienced practitioner, with the opportunity to discuss your experience and ask questions.

***THIS COURSE IS FULL, BOOKING IS NOW CLOSED***

STARTS FRI 16 JAN

An opportunity to deepen and bring greater commitment to your yoga practice.

Over six Friday evenings, we will be looking into the essence of twists, forward bends, back bends, inversions, balances, core work and sun salutations, with key yoga principles woven in.

We will be moving away from what it looks like to what it feels like: unlocking true understanding of these areas from more...

This course will help you uncover genuine ease, contentment and meaning in life through exploring profound yet simple teachings. Come together with others to learn, discuss and discover the means to uncover how to become the change you want to see.

Each session will be partly introducing meditation and partly about the Buddhist context, that helps meditation to be a real power for change. There will be input from the experienced teaching team plus an more...

PART 5: A TROUBLED KING

Delightful friends is this moonlit night! Can we not today visit some holy wanderer or Bhrahmin, to bring peace to our heart?

In a discourse called The Fruits of the Homeless Life, we hear how King Ajatasattu sets out to meet the Buddha in the jungle, accompanied by his entire retinue of attendants and elephants.  The Buddha teaches him the Dharma –  lovely in its beginning, lovely in its middle and lovely in its ending.  more...

What would it be like to turn all that we do into practice? Would we experience the world, ourselves and others differently?

Come and found out at Sangha Works – turning the ordinary into the extraordinary!

We start with a check-in, then choose tasks to work with as practice. These usually involve cleaning the centre, tending the shrine and light gardening work, but can include more! We can offer sitting down jobs as well as more active jobs.

Come along more...

If you already have experience of the Mindfulness of Breathing and Metta Bhavana (Loving Kindness) meditations that we practise in our sangha, join us on a Wednesday lunchtime to meditate with others and take your practice deeper.

Every Wednesday at the Bristol Buddhist Centre. The meditation finishes at 2pm, with the option to stay on until 2.30pm for tea and a chat.

To view details of our beginners’ class, click here.

If you’re curious about and new to meditation, or haven’t yet been acquainted with the practices we follow in our community (Mindfulness of Breathing and Loving Kindness meditations), come along to our drop-in class for beginners on a Wednesday evening.

You’ll be guided through the stages by an experienced practitioner, with the opportunity to discuss your experience and ask questions.

***THIS COURSE IS FULL, BOOKING IS NOW CLOSED***

STARTS FRI 16 JAN

An opportunity to deepen and bring greater commitment to your yoga practice.

Over six Friday evenings, we will be looking into the essence of twists, forward bends, back bends, inversions, balances, core work and sun salutations, with key yoga principles woven in.

We will be moving away from what it looks like to what it feels like: unlocking true understanding of these areas from more...