Mindful Yoga videos
In 2019 our researcher Krzysztof Bierski coordinated a participatory research programme called Movement Playground. The sessions, held at Mindful Therapies…
Breathing in Isolation: support with anxiety & breathlessness during lockdown
Life of Breath researcher and mindful yoga teacher Kate Binnie offers recorded breathing support during the COVID-19 lockdown… “If I…
Breathing exercises
The way we breathe can change the way we feel. Here Kate Binnie (Senior Research Associate, Life of Breath project) introduces…
I breathe, you breathe, we breathe: Public engagement & the Life of Breath
Senior Research Associate on the Life of Breath project, clinical music therapist and mindful yoga teacher Kate Binnie reflects on…
#UHBristolArts ‘Second Wednesdays’ BREATH event
In September the #UHBristolArts theme is BREATH and Life of Breath is delighted to be featured as part of their…
The COPD support group
Senior Research Associate on the Life of Breath project, clinical music therapist and mindful yoga teacher Kate Binnie visited a…
Breath-Body-Mind Integration (Foundation)
This course, facilitated by Life of Breath team member Kate Binnie, is for healthcare professionals and therapists interested in broadening…
Exploring the logic of respiration
Music & Mindful Yoga Therapist Kate Binnie joined Life of Breath as a researcher in January 2018. She writes: I…
Curious about breath at the Oxford Curiosity Carnival
Music therapist and writer Kate Binnie writes: Friday 29th September saw Oxford’s City Centre transformed by the Curiosity Carnival. This University-organised event…
To Breathe Ourselves into Some Other Lungs
A cappella singing, a lone rower in the Pacific Ocean, fungal spores, clairvoyance and a baby’s cries…what could possibly…
Heart Failure
The header image shows a viola, also called heartsease. Music therapist and writer Kate Binnie writes: I am in the hospital….
‘To breathe ourselves into some other lungs’
18 July 2017, Oxford If you were unable to join Breathe Oxford and Life of Breath in the upstairs room…
Breathless in Bristol (3)
Please note that audio files of all the talks given at this conference will be available shortly. Life of Breath…
Phenomenology, anxiety and breath
16-17 March 2016, Bristol This two-day conference will include papers on Thursday from Dylan Trigg (‘The phenomenology of anxiety’), Michael Lewis (‘Breath…
Breath-Body-Mind Integration: For Breathlessness, Anxiety and Total Pain
6 Oct 2017, Oxford Our collaborator and blog contributor Kate Binnie will be running a workshop for healthcare professionals and…
Breath: the conductor of the body-mind orchestra
Kate Binnie, yoga teacher and music therapist, writes: We’ve all experienced the shortness of breath associated with fear, nerves, anger…
The First and Last Breath: reflections from palliative & neonatal care
Kate Binnie, yoga teacher and music therapist, writes: In his brilliant book Being Mortal (2015) Atul Gawande calls for all…
Near-death experiences: mortality at Medicine Unboxed
Kate Binnie writes about the recent Medicine Unboxed conference (November 18th-20th, Cheltenham). Next year’s conference is on the theme of wonder…
Bristol Team
The University of Bristol team were based within the School of Arts and the School of Social and Community Medicine. Professor…
Inside Arts: Breathing and breathlessness
As part of Inside Arts, and under the umbrella of the national Being Human festival, core staff from the Life…
‘I need security to survive’
Kate Binnie, yoga teacher and music therapist, shares a memory of a hospice patient: Paula wakes early every day and…