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Structured eight-week programmes such as MBSR and MBCT. Birmingham's wellness offering is shaped by its business visitors as much as its residents.
One centre currently offers mindfulness courses in Birmingham, verified by our team. Listed prices run from £42 to £55, with an hour typically around £55. Visits are priced for 45 minutes or 60 minutes. It welcomes guests on its own premises. It is in Edgbaston. Besides English, the team also speaks Urdu.
A mindfulness course is a structured programme, usually eight weekly sessions of two to two-and-a-half hours, that teaches mindfulness meditation and how to apply it to everyday life. The two best-known formats are Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) and Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT), which includes elements of cognitive therapy and was developed to prevent depression relapse.
NICE recommends MBCT for adults with recurrent depression who are currently well, and it is offered on the NHS in some areas. MBSR has good evidence for reducing stress. Courses involve home practice of around 30 to 45 minutes a day, so they work best when you can commit to the full eight weeks; many centres also run a day of silent practice midway through.
An eight-week course costs about £200 to £450 at a wellness centre, with concessions often available, and online versions are cheaper. Choose a teacher listed with the British Association of Mindfulness-Based Approaches (BAMBA). If you are currently in an acute episode of depression, trauma or crisis, speak to your GP first; a good teacher will hold a pre-course conversation to check the timing is right.
Read the full guide to mindfulness courses — what it involves, who it suits and what it costs. Also known as MBSR course, MBCT course and eight-week mindfulness course.
The City Centre and the hotels around the canals sell spa days and day passes to conference guests and shoppers, and the large hotel and country-club spas near the airport and the NEC draw people from across the West Midlands for full spa days with lunch. Solihull has become a wellness destination of its own, with leisure clubs and spas offering memberships alongside treatments. The Jewellery Quarter is the creative end, with independent yoga and Pilates studios, a social sauna and small holistic practices in converted workshops.
More on spas and wellness in Birmingham as a whole — areas, pricing and how booking works locally.
For mindfulness courses specifically, the centres listed here are in Edgbaston . You can also browse everything in Birmingham .
Listed prices run from £42 to £55, depending on the length of the visit and what is included. An hour typically costs around £55.
Not at the moment. The one centre offering mindfulness courses in Birmingham welcomes guests on their own premises only.
The one centre here is in Edgbaston.
