The Great Affair – Diane Ackerman
The great affair, the love affair with life, is to live as variously as possible, to…
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
13 June 2025 - 16 November 2025
Mindfulness Level 2 – Compassion – Summer Intake
Samye Ling, DG13 0QL
19 June 2025 - 17 July 2025
Mindful Qigong – Mindfulness – Summer Intake
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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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Boundless Compassion: Mahamudra, Compassion and Messy Humanity
The Springer Mindfulness Journal has published the second article of the Mahamudra and Mindfulness Series, written by Mindfulness…
June 2025 Mindfulness Calendar
Spring is underway and we might notice the energy flowing through nature as birds are very…
Oh My Dear Sweet Crushed Angel – Hafiz
You have not danced so badly, my dear, trying to hold hands with the Beautiful One.…
What I can offer – Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
I want to give you something necessary as rain and lasting as honey, something useful as…
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 benefits 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!
Friends of the Mindfulness Association