Vidyamala Burch

Vidyamala Burch is a mindfulness and compassion teacher, author, disability spokesperson, and co-founder of the Breathworks Foundation. She has lived with partial paraplegia and chronic pain since 1976, after accidents and surgeries in her teens, and has found meditation and the dharma life-changing and transformative.

Vidyamala is the author of several books, including Mindfulness for Health, which was awarded first prize in Popular Medicine in the British Medical Association Books Awards in 2014. 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.