Restoring Balance Through Breath
Our breath is a powerful tool for restoring balance, yet it’s often taken for granted. When stress, anxiety, or tension builds, our breathing patterns can change, affecting both body and mind. Mindful breathing offers a way to calm the nervous system, improve focus, and enhance overall wellbeing.
This two-hour online workshop provides a supportive space to explore simple, effective breathing techniques that help reduce stress, regulate emotions, and bring balance to daily life. Through guided exercises, practical strategies, and peer support, you’ll learn how conscious breathing can help you feel more grounded and in control.
Ideal for anyone looking to manage stress, improve relaxation, or simply reconnect with themselves, this workshop offers tools to pause, breathe, and restore inner harmony.
When: Thursday 26th of March 2026
Time: 2 - 4pm
Location: Online via Zoom
This two-hour online workshop offers a supportive space to explore common sleep challenges and understand what gets in the way of restful, restorative sleep. Together, we’ll look at how sleep cycles work, identify habits and patterns that may be disrupting your nights, and learn practical strategies to improve sleep quality and overall wellbeing.
You’ll also have the chance to connect with others experiencing similar difficulties, offering reassurance, shared understanding, and peer support.
Ideal for anyone wanting to develop healthier bedtime routines, improve rest, and feel more refreshed day-to-day.
Date: Thursday 12th March 2026
Time: 2pm – 4pm
Venue: Online Workshop via Zoom
Find understanding, connection, and gentle guidance through grief.
This compassionate four-week course offers a safe and supportive space to explore the complex emotions that accompany loss. Whether your bereavement is recent or something you’ve carried for years, you’ll find room to reflect, share, and learn ways to nurture your wellbeing as you navigate life after loss.
Together, we’ll explore practical self-help strategies for coping with grief, honouring your loved one’s memory, and beginning to reconnect with life at your own pace. Through guided discussion, creative reflection, and peer support, you’ll have the opportunity to build meaningful connections with others who understand and to set small, achievable intensions to support healing and self-care.
Led by our experienced and empathetic wellbeing practitioners, Braving Bereavement helps you find moments of hope and balance while acknowledging the depth of your loss.
When: 4 x weekly sessions
- Wednesday 4th of March 2026
- Wednesday 11th of March 2026
- Wednesday 18th of March 2026
- Wednesday 25th of March 2026
Time: 10:30am - 12:30pm
Location: Online via Zoom
Suitable for: Anyone in Devon aged 18+ who has experienced bereavement and wishes to explore their grief in a supportive group setting
Join us in this compassionate space to remember, reflect, and take the first steps toward rediscovering hope.
This two-hour online workshop explores the power of connection and how nurturing relationships can support mental wellbeing. Through interactive discussions, practical exercises, and self-reflection, you’ll discover strategies for forming and sustaining meaningful connections, building personal support networks, and engaging with your local community.
The workshop will also introduce a variety of local and regional opportunities for connection, including directory apps that provide easy access to social activities and community resources. These tools empower you to find opportunities that match your interests and needs.
Ideal for anyone looking to strengthen relationships, expand their support network, and feel more connected to others and their community.
With constant notifications, screen time pressures, and always-on communication, it’s easy to feel digitally drained or overwhelmed. Digital wellbeing offers practical ways to create healthier tech habits, regain balance, and feel more in control of your online life.
This two-hour online workshop provides a supportive space to explore simple, evidence-informed strategies for managing screen time, improving focus, and cultivating mindful digital use. Through guided reflections, practical tools, and group discussions, you’ll also discover how technology can be harnessed positively from digital tools that support wellbeing to ways tech can help us connect, learn, and make a meaningful impact.
You’ll have the chance to connect with others, share experiences, and learn from collective insights.
Ideal for anyone looking to reset their digital habits or reduce tech-related stress, this workshop provides practical guidance to help you navigate the online world with greater clarity, balance, and a renewed appreciation for how tech can genuinely support wellbeing.
Understand your emotions and regain control with confidence.
Anger is a natural and human emotion, but when it starts to feel overwhelming or hard to express safely, it can affect our relationships, health, and wellbeing. This four-week course provides a supportive space to explore what lies beneath your anger and learn how to respond rather than react.
Together, we’ll look at the triggers and cycles of anger, identify the thoughts and feelings that drive it, and develop practical techniques to manage anger in a healthy, controlled way. The aim isn’t to eliminate anger altogether, but to help you express it more constructively, communicate more clearly, and improve emotional balance.
Guided by our experienced wellbeing practitioners, you’ll gain insight into yourself, build new coping strategies, and leave with a renewed sense of control and confidence.
The course involves attending 4 weekly 2 hr sessions each running from 10.30am - 12.30pm.
Course dates: February 4th, 11th, 18th, 25th
Venue: online via ZOOM.
This two-hour online workshop offers a supportive space to explore how your inner dialogue affects your confidence, mood, and wellbeing. Together, we’ll identify unhelpful patterns of negative self-talk and learn practical strategies to reframe these thoughts into more constructive, encouraging messages.
You’ll also have the opportunity to connect with others, share experiences, and gain reassurance through peer support.
Ideal for anyone looking to build a healthier, more balanced relationship with their inner voice and develop a more positive mindset.
When: Thursday 29th of January 2026
Time: 2:00 -4:00 PM
Location: Online via Zoom
Join us to begin building a healthier, more supportive relationship with your inner voice!
Yoga4MentalHealth YOGA CLASSES. For NHS and Non NHS patients: Chair and Mat based applicability.
Face to Face at the X Centre, Commercial Road, Exeter, Devon, EX2 4AD.
- with stress, anxiety or mild or moderate depression
- at risk of Type 2 diabetes or cardiovascular disease
- suffering from social isolation
The Yoga4MentalHealth Yoga on Prescription 10=week programme supports NHS patients and Non NHS patients to gain self-care skills by learning yoga breathing, relaxation and mindfulness techniques. No prior experience is needed, and the gentle stretching and strengthening yoga postures can be done in a chair or on a yoga mat. This is a PCI (Personalized Care Institute) standardized course.
The course follows a weekly theme, 1 hour 10 minutes of poses, followed by relaxation, a formal breathing practice and an opportunity to ask questions and share your experience in a circle.
Good quality mats, blocks, straps and chairs are supplied.
Where? X Centre, Commercial Road, Exeter, EX24AD
Google Maps: https://maps.app.goo.gl/DNno3B3sQuToiL286
When? Our next 6 session program starts on 19th of January 2026.
Time: 9.45 am - 11:45 am
Session dates: January 19th, 26th, February 2nd, 9th, 16th & 23rd March 2nd, 9th, 16th & 23rd.
Pre-enrolment is required to participate on this course. Click on the course name at the top of this information to enrol.
*Please note: We will require all participants to complete a consent form, a Physical Activity Readiness Questionnaire and Pre-course wellbeing survey prior to the first session. These forms will be found on the course page on this site once you have enrolled, and can be completed electronically. If you have difficulties in completing them we will do all we can to help. Please contact us accordingly.
- Facilitator: Davinia Allbrook
Mindfulness for Everyday Living
In the rush of daily life, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed, distracted, or stuck in autopilot. Mindfulness offers a way to slow down, reconnect with the present moment, and cultivate a greater sense of calm and clarity.
This course introduces simple yet effective mindfulness techniques to help you navigate stress, improve focus, and enhance overall wellbeing. Through guided exercises, practical strategies, and group discussions, you’ll learn how to integrate mindfulness into your everyday routine. You’ll also have the opportunity to connect with others, share experiences, and benefit from peer support.
Whether you're new to mindfulness or looking to deepen your practice, this course will provide the tools to help you live with greater awareness, balance, and resilience.
When: Thursday 11th of December 2025Time: 2 - 4pm
Location: Online via Zoom
Yoga4MentalHealth Classes. Suitable for NHS and Non-NHS patients: Chair and Mat based applicability.
Face to Face at the Torbay Foyer, Teignmouth Road, Torquay,TQ1 4DZ.
- with stress, anxiety or mild or moderate depression
- at risk of Type 2 diabetes or cardiovascular disease
- suffering from social isolation
The Yoga4MentalHealth Yoga on Prescription 6=week programme supports NHS patients and non NHS patients to gain self-care skills by learning yoga breathing, relaxation and mindfulness techniques. No prior experience is needed, and the gentle stretching and strengthening yoga postures can be done in a chair or on a yoga mat. This is a PCI (Personalized Care Institute) standardized course.
The course follows a weekly theme, introduction to breathing, warm up mobilizations, 35 minutes of poses in total, followed by relaxation, a formal breathing practice and an opportunity to ask questions and share your experience in a circle.
Good quality mats, blocks, straps and chairs are supplied.
Where? Torbay Foyer, Teignmouth Road, Torquay, TQ1 4DZ.
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When? Our next 6 session program starts on 16th of January 2026.
Time: 10:00 am - 11:30 am
Session dates: January 16th, 23rd & 30th, February 6th, 13th & 20th
Pre-enrolment is required to participate on this course. Click on the course name at the top of this information to enrol.
*Please note: We will require all participants to complete a consent form, a Physical Activity Readiness Questionnaire and Pre-course wellbeing survey prior to the first session. These forms will be found on the course page on this site once you have enrolled, and can be completed electronically. If you have difficulties in completing them we will do all we can to help. Please contact us accordingly.
- Facilitator: Davinia Allbrook