The Minded Institute

The Minded Institute We are a world leader in yoga therapy, providing research-based professional training. We hope you enjoy learning with us!

The Minded Institute is an international leader in yoga therapy and mind-body training. We wholeheartedly believe that yoga therapy and aligned disciplines can play a vital role in prevention, management, and treatments of various mental and physical long-term conditions. To support this mission we provide expert education to help yoga and health professionals in the service of this goal and work to translate the benefits of yoga therapy to health services. https://themindedinstitute.com/product-category/courses/

All of our courses incorporate a yogic therapeutic perspective, the psychological and physiological understanding of conditions and related yoga practices, up to date research, and guide for best practice - based on years of clinical experience. As the body-brain-mind connection is often crucial in unearthing the benefits of yoga therapy we also like to do a deep dive into neuroscience when appropriate!

“Enduring patience is the highest austerity.”The Buddha understood that true discipline is not found in physical hardshi...
05/01/2026

“Enduring patience is the highest austerity.”

The Buddha understood that true discipline is not found in physical hardship, but in staying present with the movements of the mind, without numbing, defending, or turning away. This kind of patience asks far more of us than endurance. It asks us to remain steady with irritation, fear, longing, and discomfort, allowing clarity to emerge rather than reaction.

At The Minded Institute, this understanding sits at the heart of our work. We focus on cultivating the capacity to meet experience as it is, so that insight and change arise from awareness rather than force.

Patience reshapes the mind slowly. It widens perspective. It strengthens our ability to respond with care, to ourselves and to others.

Where in your life are you being invited to practise this kind of patience?

01/01/2026

New Year’s Day can arrive quietly, or with a tired body, a foggy head, or a nervous system that needs a little care.

This 10-minute practice offers a slower, more spacious way to support clarity and freshness at the beginning of the year. It unfolds gently, allowing the system time to settle, clear residual tension, and reorganise itself without effort or pressure.

If you are short on time or energy, a 90-second version of this practice is also available. If you have the space today, you may wish to stay with this longer practice and allow its effects to deepen.

As the practice comes to a close, take a moment before moving on. Let the body register what has shifted, and notice how you enter the day from here.

01/01/2026

New Year’s Day can begin in many ways.
Sometimes with clarity and energy. Sometimes a little slower, with a foggy head or a tired nervous system.

This 90-second practice is designed to help you feel fresher and more lucid, gently clearing the residue of the night before and supporting an easier entry into the year ahead.

If you’d like to go more deeply, we’ve also shared a longer 10-minute version of this practice. Take what suits you today.

Notice what shifts.

31/12/2025

New Year’s Eve does not need to be loud or full of resolution.
It can be a moment to pause, breathe, and let the year settle.

This meditation is an invitation to slow down at the turning of the year. To listen inwardly, allow what has been carried to soften, and meet what is coming with steadiness rather than pressure.

If it feels supportive, take this time for yourself.
You are welcome to share what you notice, and how you feel as we move into 2026.

29/12/2025

The Yoga4Health podcast continues with episode two, a timely conversation on how yoga might be meaningfully integrated into primary care.

In this episode, Paul Fox and Heather Mason are joined by GP and yoga teacher Dr Chang Sun Park to explore lifestyle medicine, behaviour change, and the role of yoga at the first point of contact with healthcare in the UK.

If yoga is to play a role in addressing lifestyle related disease, it needs to meet people where they are. For many, that begins in General Practice.

In this short excerpt, Chang reflects on the capacity of yoga to support sustainable behaviour change and healthier ways of living.

🎧 Listen to the full episode via the link in bio.

Huberman’s statement points to something many people overlook. What we call hope is not an abstract quality, but a direc...
29/12/2025

Huberman’s statement points to something many people overlook. What we call hope is not an abstract quality, but a direct reflection of how the brain interprets the possibility of change.

It emerges when our internal landscape shifts enough for us to sense that we are not confined to a single trajectory, that things are not fixed. This shift may be subtle; it often happens in the nervous system long before we consciously recognise it.

As we continue to engage in mind-body practices that create the conditions for flexibility, the system begins to register that another outcome is available, and from one moment to the next the idea that things can be better or different may emerge.

When we have felt hopeless and then notice even the slightest return of hope, we are already experiencing neuroplastic change. The system is responding to what we are doing in our lives, even if the direction of that change is not yet visible.

From this we can recognise that sustained engagement in practice, even when change feels impossible, still creates the conditions in which change begins to occur. We can be hopeful that hope will arise.

Meditation is often presented as a path to change.And it can be.But insight alone is not always transformation.Especiall...
26/12/2025

Meditation is often presented as a path to change.
And it can be.

But insight alone is not always transformation.
Especially when the nervous system remains organised around effort, threat, or survival.

Real change happens when the system itself shifts.
When the body moves into a state of restoration, not through management or control, but through experience.

In the new year, The Minded Institute will be offering monthly spaces to explore this more deeply through guided retreats, alongside reflective writing on the blog.

Sometimes the body needs experience, not explanation.

- Read the blog to explore this further
- Join us in practice through upcoming retreats

Comment below:
What helps your system settle, rather than strive?

Yoga nidra is often translated as yogic sleep, but its relevance to mental healthcare lies in how the practice is struct...
24/12/2025

Yoga nidra is often translated as yogic sleep, but its relevance to mental healthcare lies in how the practice is structured rather than in rest alone.

This carousel outlines the core stages of yoga nidra, from guided attention and the removal of effort, through to breath awareness and visualisation. Each element is deliberately sequenced to support state change, receptivity, and psychological flexibility.

The full blog explores the psychophysiology behind this sequencing, the clinical responsibilities involved when working with altered states, and how yoga therapy training supports safe, ethical application in mental healthcare.

Read more at themindedinstitute.com/blog

Christmas Day can hold many emotions: joy, quiet, tenderness, nostalgia, or simply the unfamiliar rhythm of a day that f...
23/12/2025

Christmas Day can hold many emotions: joy, quiet, tenderness, nostalgia, or simply the unfamiliar rhythm of a day that feels different from the rest of the year. Wherever you find yourself, you’re warmly invited to join Heather Mason for a free online Christmas gathering: a gentle blend of movement, breathwork, meditation and stillness to help you feel grounded and supported.

🕊 25 December | 1pm–3.30pm (UK)
🎁 Free to attend
🎥 Recording included

A soft space to pause, breathe, and settle into the day with ease — whether you’re spending it alone, with loved ones, or somewhere in between.

Sign up via link in bio.

Jung’s line points to something essential about the nature of healing. Healing unfolds as we become more honest with our...
22/12/2025

Jung’s line points to something essential about the nature of healing. Healing unfolds as we become more honest with ourselves, not in dramatic moments but through the steady work of recognising what is true in our own minds.

This is difficult because honesty asks us to look at parts of ourselves we have avoided or shaped to meet old expectations. It requires us to ask whether our patterns are simply that, rather than the nature of who we are or what the world is. It also asks us to take responsibility for our own actions and to see the part we play in our own suffering without exonerating those who may have initially caused it. As we begin to tell the truth to ourselves in this way, something shifts quietly. We stop relating to ourselves through habit and begin to see our experience with greater clarity.

This clarity is its own form of healing. When we recognise what is actually happening within us, the internal confusion that once shaped our suffering begins to settle. We are no longer working against ourselves without realising it.

This is not simply psychological insight. It is the slow reorientation that occurs when we stop relying on familiar distortions to manage our lives. Inner truthfulness changes the ground we stand on, altering how we make sense of our past and how we inhabit the present.

Healing, in this sense, grows out of the moments when we stop hiding from ourselves and allow the truth to be known.

Before the holidays begin, take a few hours to come back to yourself.On 23 December, Heather Mason is hosting a gentle h...
18/12/2025

Before the holidays begin, take a few hours to come back to yourself.

On 23 December, Heather Mason is hosting a gentle half-day online yoga retreat: a space to pause, breathe, and lay down the weight of the year. Expect calming movement, restorative breathwork, meditation and quiet reflection to help you meet the festive season with clarity and ease.

✨ £40 | Recording included
✨ Open to all levels

A soft reset before the year closes.
Book via link in bio.

And if you’d like connection on the day itself, join our free community event on 25 December.

Yoga therapy and psychotherapy address different dimensions of human experience. When integrated thoughtfully, they offe...
17/12/2025

Yoga therapy and psychotherapy address different dimensions of human experience. When integrated thoughtfully, they offer a whole mind–body approach to mental health that can meet the complexity of modern psychological suffering.

Integrative Minded Psychotherapy (IYP) was developed for qualified yoga therapists (whether trained at Minded or elsewhere), seeking to extend their scope of practice and work with greater psychological depth, while maintaining an embodied, nervous-system-informed approach. The training aligns yoga therapy with established psychological inquiry and supports practice within a biopsychosocial framework that is increasingly recognised across healthcare.

This carousel introduces the rationale behind Integrative Minded Psychotherapy and the kind of integrative work it supports.
Explore the training pathway at themindedinstitute.com.

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