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What is it?
Mindfulness for Health is a free 9 week course which has been developed to help people living with the effects of physical health conditions.
This course teaches simple mindfulness meditation practices which you can build into daily life, to help you to manage and live with your health condition and reduce problems such as stress, anxiety, low mood and pain. The course is taught in a small group by NHS Professionals who are trained and experienced mindfulness teachers.
Please note that this course is only suitable for people with a physical health condition. If you don’t have a health condition, please find information about our ‘First Steps in Mindfulness’ course HERE.
Self-Help Resources
Free Mindfulness
Provides an introduction to mindfulness and free exercises which can be downloaded and played on your phone, tablet or PC. There is a video on the site which gives a very good insight into how mindfulness can make a difference in people’s lives.
Headspace (Iphone and android app)
An easy to use and down to earth introduction to mindfulness which can help you establish a daily mindfulness practice. Provides 10 x 10 minute mindfulness exercises. The app offers a subscription service for further daily practices, but you don’t need to subscribe to keep using the first 10 exercises for free.
Who is it suitable for?
The course is suitable for people with a physical health condition, including those with pain, fatigue or reduced mobility. To benefit fully, it is important that you are able to attend the 9 sessions and complete the home practice tasks.
What can I expect from these sessions?
The 9 weekly sessions will give you a practical introduction to mindfulness meditation so that you can explore its benefits for your own physical and mental well-being. You will receive a course handbook and access to audio recordings of mindfulness exercises to support your learning and home practice.
Venues are chosen to be as accessible as possible for people with reduced mobility, including accessible toilet facilities. We will always do our best to adapt the course to meet the needs of everyone who is taking part (for example, we can arrange more frequent breaks or modify movement exercises).

What does each session involve?
The course teaches mindfulness through simple meditation practices. Each session will introduce one or two new practices. Time will be given for the group to discuss their experience of the exercises and to explore ways of building mindfulness into everyday life. Participants can chose to listen rather than take part in the discussion if they prefer. Each weekly session lasts for 2.5 hours, with regular breaks.
Home practice is an important part of the course and you will be invited to repeat exercises at home on most days throughout the eight weeks. You will need to commit 20-40 minutes per day for home practice to benefit fully from the course.
The following mindfulness exercises will be explored:
How will this help me?
Through mindfulness exercises, we can learn to tune in to how our body really feels, which can help us to know more clearly what it needs. We can also learn how to relate to uncomfortable sensations, such as pain or other health symptoms, in a new way so that they cause us less distress.
Mindfulness also helps us to notice our thinking and how this affects our emotions, our behaviour and our health symptoms. With practice, we can learn how to let go of unhelpful thinking and develop new ways of looking after ourselves.
For more Information about this course, download the Mindfulness for Health Information Pack.
How do I access?
Our next available Mindfulness for Health Online courses are scheduled as follows:
Please note all of our courses will be running on an application called Microsoft Teams.
Monday
- Monday 22nd February 2021 – 10:00am till 12:15pm
- Monday 10th May 2021 – 10:00am till 12:15pm *Missing 31/05/2021 due to Bank Holidays
Wednesday
- Wednesday 24th March 2021 – 14:00pm till 16:15pm
- Wednesday 26th May 2021 – 14:00pm till 16:15pm
To book your free place call our Central Team on: 0114 271 6568
Clinical trials show that regular Mindfulness meditation is linked with:
Reduced anxiety, stress, depression, fatigue and irritability
Reduced experience of pain
Improved immune system function and reduced inflammation
Improved heart and circulatory health through reducing blood pressure and the risk of hypertension
Improved control of blood sugar in type II diabetes
Improved skin clearing rates in psoriasis
