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Welcome to Mindfulness-West
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At Mindfulness-West we offer courses, workshops, and one-to-one mindfulness coaching in Stroud, Central Bristol, Gloucester, Cheltenham, and points beyond. We work with groups and with individuals - one-to-one.

Mindfulness opens the door to a fuller, richer experience of life. It's a way of waking ourselves from the half-life of habit, knee-jerk reaction and limiting self-views, allowing us to play a more active, conscious role in our lives. 

Although drawn from the Buddhist meditation tradition Mindfulness is fast gaining respect in the worlds of healthcare, business, the arts and sport as a way to enhanced wellbeing and effectiveness.

In the healthcare arena Mindfulness is a recommended frontline approach to stress, anxiety, depression, chronic pain and more conditions. 
 
By offering the skill of staying present to our direct experience of the present moment, Mindfulness meditation opens the way to clearer, freer, more creative states of mind. Mindfulness is as natural as our next breath or our next step yet it can bring a new quality of engagement and confidence to everything we do.

Some benefits you can expect:

  • Handle difficulties without stress
  • Discover the true richness of your experience, moment by moment
  • Make clear, conscious choices
  • Distinguish subjective thoughts from objective facts
  • Listen more attentively
  • Communicate more clearly
  • Direct your thoughts appropriately


“Mindfulness practice is vehicle that assists people in learning to tap deep internal resources for renewal. Increase psychosocial hardiness, and make contact with previously unconceived-of possibilities and ways of being. Besides well documented reductions in both medical and psychological symptoms, participants report an increased sense of self-esteem, shifts in their sense of self that afford them the ability to care for themselves while better understanding their fellow human beings, a palpable deepening of self-trust and for some a finer appreciation for the preciousness of everyday life”

From Mindfulness and Mastery in the Workplace.
Saki Santorelli, University of Massachusetts Medical School


Watch a recent BBC feature on the value of Mindfulness

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Part One

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Part Two