Who are we?
Terry Pilchick
Terry Pilchick has taught meditation and mindfulness since the 1970s, and in the UK and abroad.
Although discovering meditation in a Buddhist context, Terry is well versed in the secular applications of mindfulness. As well as completing the Teacher Development course run by the University of Bangor's Centre for Mindfulness Research and Practice, he trained with the Breathworks Foundation's mindfulness-based pain management program, with Michael Chaskalson, and with Breathing Space, a London-based project offering mindfulness-based courses for depression and addiction, where he developed a mindfulness-based program for quitting smokers.
Although discovering meditation in a Buddhist context, Terry is well versed in the secular applications of mindfulness. As well as completing the Teacher Development course run by the University of Bangor's Centre for Mindfulness Research and Practice, he trained with the Breathworks Foundation's mindfulness-based pain management program, with Michael Chaskalson, and with Breathing Space, a London-based project offering mindfulness-based courses for depression and addiction, where he developed a mindfulness-based program for quitting smokers.
Marianne Brady
Marianne started meditating in 1982 and has taught meditation for twenty years, including thirteen years full-time at the London Buddhist Centre, as well as in the corporate world in the UK & overseas. She has run residential, intensive mindfulness retreats and workshops. She trained in mindfulness approaches to stress and pain management with the Breathworks Foundation's training program, also University of Bangor's Centre for Mindfulness Research and Practice and with Breathing Space the London Buddhist Centre's mindfulness-based programmes where she has led courses in Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT).
Associate Mindfulness trainers in our area
Shantigarbha
Shantigarbha
has 26 years' experience of practising and teaching Mindfulness. He’s
trained to teach the programme at Jon Kabat-Zinn’s Center
for Mindfulness in
Massachusetts, USA. He is also an international NVC trainer certified with the Centre for Nonviolent Communication (CNVC.org) Shantigarbha has led workshops and retreats in the UK, the Middle East, the US, India and Sri Lanka and offers coaching / counselling for individuals and couples. In 2011 he ran a reconciliation retreat for 100 Israelis and Palestinians near the Dead Sea. He has written a regular column in Juno magazine - natural parenting on NVC and parenting, and he's author of a forthcoming book Empathy: the art of compassionate presence. Visit his NVC
website.
Vishvapani Blomfield
Vishvapani, Mindfulness In Action’s Director has taught mindfulness and meditation for 19 years. He trained with in Mindfulness Based Pain Management with Breathworks and learned Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction with Michael Chaskalson and the University of Bangor’s Centre for Mindfulness Research and Practice. Vishvapani is known for his broadcasts from a Buddhist perspective on BBC Radio 4’s Thought for the Day. His biography of the Buddha: ‘Gautama Buddha: the Life and Teachings of the Awakened One’ was published this year. Visit his website
Tim Mason
After retiring from a career in social housing and community regeneration, Tim returned to abiding interests in Eastern philosophy, psychology and therapy. This led to training in both Shiatsu and Mindfulness, including a post-graduate diploma in Mindfulness Based Approaches from the Centre for Mindfulness Research and Practice at the University of Bangor, Wales.
He is offering individual and group training in Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) and specialised training in mindfulness for Shiatsu and other bodywork practitioners. Following a recent move to the city he is establishing courses in the Bristol area.
See www.tim.mason.shiatsusociety.org for details of his Shiatsu practice.
He is offering individual and group training in Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) and specialised training in mindfulness for Shiatsu and other bodywork practitioners. Following a recent move to the city he is establishing courses in the Bristol area.
See www.tim.mason.shiatsusociety.org for details of his Shiatsu practice.
