Catch Your Breath: Puppetry, Dance and Creative Writing
Life of Breath collaborator and arts and health workshop facilitator, Elspeth Penny, writes about her experience of running a series…
mental health
The COPD support group
Senior Research Associate on the Life of Breath project, clinical music therapist and mindful yoga teacher Kate Binnie visited a…
The Restricto-Box: Research without Borders
Life of Breath PhD student Tina Williams writes: The 2017 Research Without Borders Festival showcase exhibition ran at Bristol’s Colston…
Breathless in Bristol (3)
Life of Breath PhD student Tina Williams writes: On the 16th and 17th March 2017, The University of Bristol hosted a…
It Felt Like Drowning
The header image shows ‘In the same breath’, a 2008 artwork by artist and glass-blower Kate Williams (borosilicate glass /…
Singing Away Shyness
Singing teacher Deborah Hudson writes: There I was, lying on a couch with a whole lot of acupuncture pins in…
A phenomenology of illness, part 2
Following on from part 1, Life of Breath PI Havi Carel writes: What is breathlessness? This is a seemingly simple…
A Painful Silence: bringing domestic violence into conversation
The header image shows a representation of the three wise monkeys, see no evil, hear no evil and speak no…
The First and Last Breath: reflections from palliative and neonatal care
Kate Binnie, yoga teacher and music therapist, writes: In his brilliant book Being Mortal (2015) Atul Gawande calls for all…
Letter to my lungs
Elspeth Penny is an arts, health and communication specialist. She has a letter writing project and a creative consultancy and writes,…
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