Vidyamala Burch

Vidyamala Burch is a mindfulness teacher and co-founder of the Breathworks Foundation, which promotes mindfulness-based pain management. She has lived with partial paraplegia and chronic pain following a series of accidents and surgeries in early adulthood. She began meditating in 1985 and found that it transformed her relationship to her pain. In 2022, Vidyamala was honored for her services to pain management and well-being with an Order of the British Empire from Queen Elizabeth II.