Celebrate Science
23-25 Oct 2018, Durham – 10am-4pm each day This year we’re teaming up with the Learning Team at Palace Green…
Festival of Nature
9-10 June 2018, Bristol – 10am-6pm (Sat 9th) and 10am-5pm (Sun 10th) Life of Breath will be hosting a stall at…
Celebrate Science
24-26 Oct 2017, Durham – 10am-4pm each day We’ll once again be hosting a stand at Celebrate Science, Durham University’s…
An Encyclopaedia of Breath
19-20 August 2017, Edinburgh Feeling ‘peched oot’ from rushing around the Festival? Pause for a lungful and help Sarah McLusky…
Heart Failure
The header image shows a viola, also called heartsease. Music therapist and writer Kate Binnie writes: I am in the hospital….
A Painful Silence: bringing domestic violence into conversation
The header image shows a representation of the three wise monkeys, see no evil, hear no evil and speak no…
Take a Breath at Celebrate Science 2016
We challenged visitors to Durham University’s Celebrate Science marquee to do something unusual with their breath – either use it…
Celebrate Science
25-27 Oct 2016, Durham – 10am-4pm each day This year we’ll be hosting a stand at Celebrate Science, Durham University’s…
‘Don’t drink the water and don’t breathe the air!’
David Scoins (lifelong runner, sometime sports teacher) spent seven years in China; a year or more in each of Xi’an, Nanjing,…
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…
Every Last Breath (2)
In an essay that first appeared in Atrium: The Report of the Northwestern Medical Humanities & Bioethics Program (Spring 2011, p….
Every Last Breath (1)
In an essay that first appeared in Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction (Spring 2011, pp. 117-118), professor of English Joanne Jacobson writes:…
Who was chasing him?
Jess Farr-Cox, Life of Breath Project Manager (Bristol) and her father David Scoins, lifelong runner (green vest, above), sometime sports…
Portrait Therapy for Life Support?
Susan M D Carr, art therapist at the Prospect Hospice and PhD Student at Loughborough University, writes: I was in…
Taking a deep breath
Project Manager (Bristol) on the Life of Breath project Jess Farr-Cox writes: The first meeting of the core project team (Breathing Space) was…