Vidyamala Burch is a mindfulness and compassion teacher, speaker, coach, and award-winning author. She is founder and codirector of the leading mindfulness and health charity Breathworks and the Mindfulness-Based Pain & Illness Management (MBPM) program.
 
Vidyamala is author of Living Well with Pain and Illness, Mindfulness for Health, and Mindfulness for Women. She was awarded an OBE for services to Wellbeing and Pain Management, announced in the Jubilee Honors List in June 2022. She has been awarded an honorary membership from The British Pain Society for her outstanding work for the alleviation of pain and named on the Shaw Trust Power List’s award as one of the 100 most influential disabled people in the United Kingdom for four years running. 
 
Vidyamala began teaching her mindfulness approach for managing pain and illness following her own personal experience living with health challenges. At age 23, she sustained spinal injuries that required multiple surgeries and left her with partial paraplegia and chronic pain. She began to explore mindfulness and meditation as a way to manage her pain and found the results to be life-changing and transformative. She offers wise and kind guidance and through her work hopes to pass on the tools that have helped her reclaim a full, happy and meaningful life.