Vishvapani Blomfield
Mindfulness Teacher
Vishvapani Blomfield believes that mindfulness isn’t just about sitting still and practicing meditation — it’s about bringing a deeper awareness into your whole life. As the director of Mindfulness in Action, Blomfield works towards enlightening individuals on the transformative power of practicing mindfulness in daily life.
Cardiff
United Kingdom
- Buddhism
- Mindfulness Training
- Criminal Justice
- Public Policy
Featured Works
View AllFall Back Asleep
Use these tools when tossing and turning gets you down.
Recharge with Gratitude
Take stock of the little things in life that are worth celebrating so you can feel more thankful and alive.
Eat Mindfully
Three practices to rebuild your relationship with food.
Mindfulness for Stress and Anxiety
Learn how to practice present-moment awareness so you can detach from unhealthy responses that cause stress and anxiety.
Mindful Awareness, Explained
Have you heard? Mindfulness offers science-backed benefits like less stress, more joy, and better relationships. But what exactly is it? In this session, Vishvapani unpacks the simple practice of being present.
Soothe Stressful Thoughts
Is your mind caught up in worries? This simple mindfulness practice aims to soothe stressful thoughts by helping you get out of your head and into your body.
How to Feel Unshakeable
Want to build inner strength? Take inspiration from the majestic Himalayan Mountains.
Why #iMeditate: Vishvapani's Story
Learn how meditation changed Roundglass teacher Vishvapani's life when he was just fourteen.
Wake Up and Meditate
The biggest challenge with meditation is getting around to doing it! In this session, Vishvapani will help you set up a regular meditation practice that you can stick with.
Create an Attitude of Gratitude
Gratitude can deepen relationships and boost happiness (science shows this!). Join us for a simple practice of counting your blessings to make joy and appreciation part of your day.
3-Step Mindful Refresh
Experience a Sky-Like Mind
This mindfulness meditation will help you shift from overthinking to a mind that’s peaceful and clear like the sky.
Relax Into the River of Sounds
Let your thoughts dissolve into the sounds around you. In this mindful listening meditation, you’ll learn how external noises can be tools rather than distractions.
Wake Up Your Senses
Feel your whole being come alive as you scan your body for sensations. This simple, yet powerful mindfulness technique can refresh your mind for the day ahead.
Living with Earplugs Out
Now that I wasn’t able to find time for my regular meditation routine, I wondered how it could help.
Meet the World with Compassion
No matter what's happening in the world, we can choose a kind and loving response. In this meditation, we'll repeat a mantra for compassion, extending it far and wide.
Loving-Kindness to Open Your Heart
Let compassion fill your heart to the brim. In this loving-kindness meditation, we’ll practice opening to the world with love.
Face Fear Like a Mountain (Encore)
When fear or anxiety creeps in, take inspiration from one of nature’s most powerful examples of stability. In this visualization meditation, Vishvapani uses the image of a mountain to summon your deepest source of strength.
Soothing Whole Body Breathing
Focus any scattered energy by breathing fully and deeply. In this soothing meditation, you’ll imagine your breath reaching every corner of your body.
Recharge with Your Breath
Need a pick-me-up? In this mindfulness meditation, you’ll explore the connection between your breath and energy.
Hit Reset with Mindful Breathing
Focus on your breathing for an instant infusion of calm. This simple mindfulness technique will help you continue your day with peace and clarity.
Detach From Past or Future Worries
Go to the one place where your worries can't follow you. In this mindfulness meditation, you'll take refuge in the present moment — a space free from anxious thoughts.
Face Fear Like a Mountain
When fear or anxiety creeps in, take inspiration from one of nature’s most powerful examples of stability. In this visualization meditation, Vishvapani uses the image of a mountain to summon your deepest source of strength.
Find Your Center
Feeling off balance? This visualization meditation uses the image of a mandala (sacred geometric figure) to help you focus your mind and find your center.
Breathe with Compassion
How can we respond compassionately to suffering in the world? This mindful breathing meditation will help you discover the answers within.
Ride Your Breath Waves
Let your breath roll in and out like an ocean wave. Try this mindful breathing meditation to dissolve stress and invite deep calm.
Feel Deeply Connected (Replay)
When faced with the enormity of world events, what can we offer? Join Vishvapani Blomfield to explore ways to connect deeply with yourself and others around the world — so that a compassionate and wise response may emerge.
Feel Deeply Connected
Our modern world can feel isolating. But we are all intrinsically connected. Join Vishvapani Blomfield for a mindfulness meditation exploring ways to feel this deep connection with ourselves and others.
Revitalizing Body Awareness
Focus on physical sensation to renew your energy. In this mindfulness meditation led by Vishvapani Blomfield, you'll revitalize by bringing your awareness into the body.
Mindful Breathing for Focus
Learn a simple way to reset your focus and relieve stress. In this mindful breathing meditation, you'll rest your attention on your breath flowing in and out.
Connect to the Earth
Feel more grounded and alive — right here and now. Vishvapani Blomfield guides this mindfulness meditation to help you connect deeply to the earth wherever you are.
Open to Acceptance
Rather than being an escape, meditation is about turning toward the present moment. Join Vishvapani Blomfield for a mindfulness practice to help you experience things as they are — whether pleasant or difficult.
Breathe and Listen
The sounds around you can be distractions or tools — depending on your state of mind. Vishvapani Blomfield leads this mindfulness meditation on the deep sense of presence that comes from listening deeply, whether you're alone or with others.
Give Yourself a Break
Monday off to a sluggish start? Join Vishvapani Blomfield for a simple mindfulness meditation to help you get focused, centered, and present for the week ahead.
Sitting Like a Mountain
Embody the stable, grounded energy of a mountain. Vishvapani Blomfield leads this visualization meditation to help you feel strong and steadfast in the face of worries or fears.
Beat the Monday Blues
Don't like Mondays? They're simply a state of mind. Join Vishvapani Blomfield for a meditation to push past your Monday morning slump by approaching the day with mindfulness and receptivity.
Breathe to Open Your Mind
Turning fully toward the present — the essence of mindfulness — requires an attitude of curiosity. Join Vishvapani Blomfield for a simple breathing meditation to help open your mind to this moment.
Breathe with Your Whole Body
Relax your entire being by expanding your experience of the breath. In this meditation, Vishvapani Blomfield guides you through a body scan followed by a calming whole-body breathing exercise.
Meditation Basics: Mindful Eating
Food is an opportunity for nourishment and enjoyment — but it can bring up other emotions too. Join Vishvapani Blomfield for a mindfulness meditation practice bringing awareness and gratitude to your meals.
Limitless Possibilities
Open to the possibilities in life with a ritual of letting go. Join Vishvapani Blomfield for a visualization meditation where you'll offer what you want to leave behind to the fire.
Setting Sun Guided Visualization (Encore Broadcast)
As the sun sets on 2021, Join Vishvapani Blomfield for a visualization meditation to illuminate you both outside and in. This session was previously recorded on June 23, 2021.
Winter Solstice Visualization
Welcome the winter solstice by meditating on the rising sun. Vishvapani Blomfield leads a guided meditation practice as we mark the shortest day and the seasons change.
Mindful Meditation Basics: Living Mindfully
How can we use the practice of mindfulness to deepen our experiences of everyday life? In this meditation, Vishvapani Blomfield shares how to insert mindful moments into your day.
Breathe Into Calm
Learn to settle your mind, no matter how busy things may be. Vishvapani Blomfield leads this tranquil meditation practice guiding you to a calmer and more peaceful state.
Breathe with Kindness
Tap into feelings of kindness for yourself and others. Vishvapani Blomfield leads this soothing meditation practice, using the breath to unlock a more compassionate outlook.
Meditation Basics: Breathing Space
When stress hijacks your mind, or you find yourself moving on auto-pilot, this simple meditation practice can return you to the peace of the present moment. Vishvapani Blomfield guides you through the process, step by step.
Breathe for Focus
Move from scattered thoughts to one-pointed awareness. Vishvapani Blomfield leads this meditation using the breath to help the mind become more focused and alert.
Meditation Basics: Get Prepared
Do we slip straight into meditation, or are there steps to follow? Join Vishvapani Blomfield to learn how to prepare your body and mind for your practice.
Breathe to Balance the Mind
Let the various pulls on your mind come into balance. Vishvapani Blomfield leads this meditation practice using the breath to bring you back to a state of equilibrium.
Meditation Basics: Settle the Mind
How do we find calm when our mind is racing? Join Vishvapani Blomfield to learn simple techniques to settle the mind in meditation.
Breathe Into Stillness
Learn to expand your capacity to be at peace. In this meditation, Vishvapani Blomfield guides you to still your mind through your breathing.
Meditation Basics: Get Set Up
You can meditate anywhere; but some conditions definitely make it easier. In this meditation, Vishvapani Blomfield shares his tips for setting up the best conditions for your practice.
Breathe to Connect With Nature
Feel your connection with the natural world. Vishvapani Blomfield leads this meditation practice to help you feel grounded and energized.
Meditation Basics: Find Focus
What do we do about the constant stream of thoughts during meditation? Vishvapani Blomfield teaches a simple technique to focus and settle the mind.
Just Breathe
Let the mind settle on the breath. Vishvapani Blomfield leads this meditation practice that highlights the simplicity and joy of mindful breathing.
Meditation Basics: Use Your Senses
How do we experience the present moment? Vishvapani Blomfield will guide you to connect with what’s here and now by focusing your awareness on your senses.
Grounding Tree Visualization
Use the image of a tree to connect the breath with the earth. Vishvapani Blomfield leads this breathing meditation and visualization practice that will help you feel rooted and alive.
Meditation Basics: How to Sit
When the body is at ease, the mind can follow. Learn to find a comfortable posture before relaxing into a simple mindfulness meditation.
Breathe Through Times of Change
Everything in life changes, including our breath. Join Vishvapani Blomfield for a meditation to help you open to impermanence by exploring the changing nature of the breath.
Multi-Dimensional Breathing
Engage with the breath in all its aspects and dimensions. Vishvapani Blomfield leads this calming meditation exploring the process of breathing.
Balancing Energy through Breath
Discover how your breathing affects your physical and mental energy. Join Vishvapani Blomfield for a breath meditation exploring how a few subtle changes can shift your mindset.
Breathing with Curiosity
How often are you even aware of your breath? Vishvapani Blomfield leads this breathing meditation to awaken your interest and creativity.
Discover the Joy of Breathing
We do it 24/7; why not enjoy the breath? Vishvapani Blomfield leads this meditation and breathing exercise to help you find pleasure in your breath.
Breathe to Balance Your Emotions
Use your breath as a way to connect with your emotional state. Vishvapani Blomfield leads this breathing meditation to guide you back to your calm center.
Optimal Breathing Habits
Encourage helpful breathing habits. Vishvapani Blomfield leads this breathing meditation to help you to see the richness that comes with simplicity.
Breathe for Compassion
Bring an attitude of kindness and care to the breath. Vishvapani Blomfield leads this meditation and breathing exercise, which may help you open your heart to greater compassion.
Calming Whole-Body Breathing
Learn a different way to experience the breath – with your whole body. Join Vishvapani Blomfield for a meditation exploring how a simple breathing technique can shift your mindset.
Ocean Waves Breath Meditation
Use the image of a wave to connect with the rise and fall of your breathing. Join Vishvapani Blomfield for a breathing meditation to quiet and calm your mind.
Breath Counting for Stronger Focus
Practice counting to stay focused on the breath. Vishvapani Blomfield leads this simple and sustainable mindfulness technique that's great for beginners.
Mastering Mindful Focus
Experience the breath in different parts of the body. Vishvapani Blomfield teaches this breathing meditation as a tool for developing greater focus.
Suicide Prevention Week: Find Connection
Breaking the barriers of isolation means asking for help and engaging with others. Join Vishvapani Blomfield in this special meditation on finding that true connection.
Breath Meditation for Focus
Struggling to pay attention to the day's to-dos? In this meditation, Vishvapani Blomfield guides you through a breathing technique to help increase your awareness and focus.
Unlocking Creative Solutions
Explore how challenges can become opportunities. In this open awareness meditation you will learn how to uncover the creative space in your own experiences.
Mindfully Respond to Challenges
Find the space to choose a positive response to challenges, such as receiving criticism. This awareness practice will show you how to make space for better choices.
Balance Effort and Ease
Discover the middle ground between trying too hard and drifting away. This mindfulness meditation will help you to return to your center.
Widen Your Perspective
Expand your awareness to include the whole of your experience – the pain as well as the pleasure. Try this mindfulness-based practice to help you widen your perspective.
Enjoy This Moment
Learn to find ways to enjoy this moment. This visualization practice will allow you to see the richness that comes with simplicity, and the energy for finding enjoyment.
The Power of Commitment
Connect with your intentions and bring greater depth and clarity to experiences. Explore how a willingness to commit can shift your mindset in this focused attention practice.
Harness Your Focus
Explore the mind's capacity to focus. Try this focused attention meditation to learn techniques that increase awareness and concentration.
Amplify Kindness
Bring an attitude of warmth to your experiences with mindfulness. This meditation combines loving-kindness with focused attention to help you open your heart to greater compassion.
Finding Peace in Acceptance
Practice seeing things as they are in the present moment, whether pleasant or challenging. This practice offers mindfulness-based guidance and techniques to embrace the now.
Trust Yourself More
Connect with a basic sense of trust in yourself and your experiences. Learn about the qualities of trust in this mindfulness meditation to help you shift your beliefs.
Develop More Patience
Show up to life fully with an attitude of patience and awareness. Through this focused attention practice you will learn how to develop patience for yourself and those around you.
Deepen Your Connections
Explore your sense of connection to others and yourself. This guided meditation helps you draw your attention to how (and when) we connect or disconnect through reflection.
Use Curiosity to Get Present
Approach this moment with fresh eyes, letting go of all expectations. In this reflection practice you'll learn how to draw fresh awareness to the present moment.
Engaging Imagination: Moon Meditation
Conjure the image of a bright moon to illuminate your meditation practice. Vishvapani Blomfield leads this meditation using nature-based imagery to engage the imagination.
Engaging Imagination: Bright Jewels
Picture the beauty and resilience of glittering jewels lying hidden beneath the earth. Vishvapani Blomfield leads this series of live visualization meditations using nature-based imagery to engage the imagination.
Engaging Imagination: Unfurling Flower
Focus on the image of a blooming flower to inspire your inner growth. Join Vishvapani Blomfield live for this series of visualization meditations using nature-based imagery to engage the imagination.
Follow Your Imagination
Connect with the space of imagination and allow significant images to emerge. Vishvapani Blomfield leads this visualization meditation using nature-based imagery to awaken your intuition.
Blazing Fire Visualization
Enliven your heart, mind, and body using the image of a fire. Vishvapani Blomfield leads this visualization meditation using nature-based imagery to awaken your energy.
Clear Blue Sky Visualization
Connect with the blue sky as an image for the infinite scope of the mind. Vishvapani Blomfield guides this visualization meditation using nature-based imagery to engage the imagination.
Engaging Imagination: Setting Sun
Use the setting sun as an image of the heart and the emotions, illuminating you both outside and in. Join Vishvapani Blomfield for a visualization meditation using nature-based imagery to engage the imagination.
Engaging Imagination: Strong Mountains
Ground your awareness in the body and connect that with the image of a mountain rising out of the earth, live with Vishvapani Blomfield. This is the fifth in a series of visualization meditations using nature-based imagery to engage the imagination.
Engaging Imagination: Deep Forests
Tap into an awareness of the forest to bring a sense of interconnectedness. This is the fourth in a series of live visualization meditations with Vishvapani Blomfield, using nature-based imagery to engage the imagination.
Engaging Imagination: Rooted Trees
Picture your body as a tree to deepen your awareness and your connection with the earth. Join Vishvapani Blomfield live for the third session in this series of visualization meditations using nature-based imagery to engage the imagination.
Engaging Imagination: Ocean Currents
Picture the ocean and its currents to connect with your emotions and energy. Vishvapani Blomfield leads the second session in this series of visualization meditations using nature-based imagery to engage the imagination.
Engaging Imagination: Gentle Waves
Use the image of a wave to connect with your breath and stay with the rise and fall of your breathing. Join Vishvapani Blomfield live for the first session in this series of visualization meditations using nature-based imagery to engage the imagination.
Ease into Deep Sleep
A simple, relaxing body scan helps you release physical and mental tensions from the day so you can ease into slumber.
Prepare for More Restful Sleep
If you find yourself struggling to sleep, practice this guided sleep meditation to tame your busy mind.
Rest and Recharge in 10 Minutes
Recharge your energy with a body-focused, 10-minute meditation to rest and relax.
Eating with Wisdom
Explore the impulse to mindlessly eat and connect to an inner wisdom that can help you make purposeful food choices.
Pain SOS
Lean on this mindfulness practice when you’re suffering with pain and feeling raw.
Grow Your Pain Resilience
Contact your natural capacity to soothe yourself when you’re experiencing pain or facing a difficult situation.
Find Strength to Meet Challenges
This guided meditation will help you find the resources you need to respond well to the challenges you’re facing.
Being Mindful As a Parent
Connect with the inner resources you need right now to meet any challenge you’re currently facing as a parent.
Eating With Awareness
Practice this mindful eating exercise with a small portion of food ready, learning to savor every bite you take.
Find Joy in Everyday Situations
Connect with what makes you feel fully alive — instead of drained and depleted — using this guided meditation.
Feel Grateful for Your Kids
Cultivate appreciation and kindness towards your children with this loving-kindness practice.
Morning Meditation for Focus
Focus, settle, and prepare for the day ahead by connecting to a calm and confident space within.
How Meditation Opened My Mind
I learned my current reality was one-dimensional and shaped by various habits and emotions.
Featured Works
View AllEase into Deep Sleep
A simple, relaxing body scan helps you release physical and mental tensions from the day so you can ease into slumber.
Eating With Awareness
Practice this mindful eating exercise with a small portion of food ready, learning to savor every bite you take.
Morning Meditation for Focus
Focus, settle, and prepare for the day ahead by connecting to a calm and confident space within.
Training
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Bangor University, Centre for Mindfulness Research and Practice
Teacher Training Retreats, Other Jan 2021 - Present (4 years) -
Prison Mindfulness Institute
Path of Freedom Training, Workshop Jan 2021 - Present (4 years) -
Mindfulness in Schools Project
.b Foundations, Workshop Jan 2021 - Present (4 years) -
The Present
The Present for Adults, Workshop Dec 2020 - Present (4 years) -
Breathworks
Mindfulness Teacher Training, Workshop Jul 2006 - Jul 2007 (a year)
Education
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University of London (Royal Holloway College)
MA 1988 - 1990 -
Cambridge University
BA/MA 1985 - 1988
Experience
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Director
Mindfulness in Action Apr 2010 - Present (15 years) -
Associate Teacher
Breathworks CIC Feb 2007 - Present (18 years) -
Freelance Writer, Broadcaster & Editor
Self-Employed Feb 2005 - Present (20 years)