The Magic of Awareness – Anam Thubten Rinpoche
Wonder, Who has the magic to make the sun appear every morning? Who makes that bird…
Welcome to the Mindfulness Association
Compassion Based Mindfulness
A Four Level Pathway
We are a welcoming and compassionate organisation offering information about mindfulness and a wide range of mindfulness training courses that support people in their practice of mindfulness, compassion and insight.
We believe that Mindfulness is a way of life and not a brief intervention for relieving symptoms. Our unique compassion-based mindfulness courses are for life. Our Mindfulness courses cater for beginners, experienced practitioners, those that want to train to teach Mindfulness and experienced teachers.
We have a members community, a mindfulness for life programme with some great retreats and a continuing professional development program for all the teachers out there.
See our latest courses below to find the course for you. Our team have decades of experience. The Mindfulness Association is a member of the British Association of Mindfulness Based Approaches (BAMBA), and our teacher training meets the requirements of the BAMBA good practice guidelines.
Featured Courses
All Courses and Retreats
Below is a selection of our latest courses for beginners, experienced practitioners, those that want to teach Mindfulness and exclusive members retreats
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Daily FREE Mindfulness Meditation
Join our free daily practice at 10:30am & 7pm Monday to Friday.
Mindfulness is proven to be beneficial for mental health and wellbeing in the right circumstances, but please note,
these mindfulness meditation practice sessions are not a treatment for mental health problems or addiction
PLEASE READ THIS IMPORTANT SAFETY INFORMATION ABOUT THE DAILY MEDITATION
To join these sessions you will need to have a Zoom account.
News, Blogs & Poetry
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Spiralling Towards Freedom
New Mindfulness Course Starting in January 2025 Course Link: Mindfulness Level One Monday Evenings Do…
November 2024 Mindfulness Calendar
As we move towards the darker evenings and longer nights, how are you feeling? How might…
Self-Compassion – Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
It’s like the scent of rain after a month of drought, the way it rises up…
24 October at 7pm – Live Research Forum
The next in the series of research forums hosted by the Mindfulness Association to showcase research…
A Word from Our Directors
It has been our extraordinary privilege to work as part of a wonderful team in the development of the Mindfulness Association since the organisation was founded in May 2010. We were all fortunate to have Rob Nairn as a teacher and friend and then work with him to set up the Mindfulness Association. All our lives have changed, beyond recognition, for the better, due to the practice of mindfulness, compassion and insight meditation and it is our delight to share this practice with those that we teach. We hope that the resources on this website, our membership, online and face to face offerings benefit you in a similar way.
Choden
Co-Founder, Director and Tutor
Heather
Co-Founder, Director and Tutor
Norton
Co-Founder and Director
Founder
Rob Nairn
Rob Nairn is the founder of the Mindfulness Association and developed a systematic and effective Mindfulness training on which our Mindfulness courses are based. He has guided us and many of his students meeting obstacles we face with curiosity and self kindness.
Rob’s unique blend of training and experience in law and psychology as well as having received teachings by distinguished Buddhist meditation teachers enables him to explain Mindfulness concepts from a Western psychological and secular perspective. His students have benefited from his experience and friendly sense of humour
Watch and listen to some of his teachings by clicking the button below.
The Everyone Project. Please Help Us to Help Others
The MA tutor team lead the daily sits on a voluntary basis. If you find the sits beneficial and if you are able to,
the tutor team would be delighted if you could make a donation to the Everyone Project.
In this way we can all continue to support each other through the benefit of mindfulness.
Just £5 will pay for one session of the Mindfulness Based Living Course to be delivered to one person.
Part of this work has been made possible by an award from People’s Postcode Trust,
a grant-giving charity funded entirely by players of People’s Postcode Lottery.
See www.everyoneproject.org for more information about our work. Thank you!
Donate with Just Giving using the button below
Friends of the Mindfulness Association
Harriet Bruce
11/09/2024
Trustindex verifies that the original source of the review is Google. I started training with the Mindfulness Association in 2021 and I can honestly say it has transformed how I am and how I relate to the world. All the tutors at the MA are wonderful: warm, caring and insightful. Training with them really is giving yourself a gift for life. Totally recommended
Emma Jane Milne
03/09/2024
Trustindex verifies that the original source of the review is Google. Wonderful mindfulness resources and insightful teachings on the courses I’ve attended so far. The invitation to join daily sits allows a real opportunity for connection and habituating a mindfulness practice. Would heartily recommend.
Elizabeth Buchan
04/07/2024
Trustindex verifies that the original source of the review is Google. Learning mindfulness has transformed my life. The daily sits are a wonderful community that anyone can join for free. You feel welcomed and supported. 💕
Lisa Hellier
24/04/2024
Trustindex verifies that the original source of the review is Google. The Mindfulness Association offers the highest level of mind training, with an at-your-own-pace structure that means you can take as long as you need to progress through their compassion-based courses. Having progressed through their courses from complete beginner level right through to the MSc Studies in Mindfulness (in collaboration with the University of Aberdeen), and their teacher training pathway, I have a deep respect and gratitude for the breadth and depth of their studies. I have benefitted on both a personal and professional level; and from there it flows out into communities and benefits all beings. Eternally grateful. Just do it.
Anna Grady
28/12/2023
Trustindex verifies that the original source of the review is Google. The Mindfulness Association daily meditation sits on zoom are one of the best things to come out of lock down. I find the chance to sit regularly, in community, and be led by skilled mindfulness teachers to be really valuable and precious. Try it out!!
Margaret Hudson
27/12/2023
Trustindex verifies that the original source of the review is Google. Can't emphasise enough how valuable and of great help this Association is to my life in its teachings and connections to everyday life. I constantly appreciate and thank all who are involved. Still feel the same two years down the line and I am so thankful for their dedication to human needs at this difficult period in earth's evolvement.
ELI Scacco
01/09/2023
Trustindex verifies that the original source of the review is Google. Excellent site and very helpful association. Thanks!
Beatrice Boussard
05/07/2023
Trustindex verifies that the original source of the review is Google. Mindfulness association is a great organisation. I have been fortunate to complete the MBLC teacher training. I was very well supported during my all training aand still are! Going to Samye Ling to complete my training was magical. All the tutors are excellent, kind and so generous with their time. The free daily practices are so valuable to keep the momentum and keeping practicing in a group. This has transformed my life in many ways and I am forever grateful.