Here at Just Breathe we are dedicated to sharing everyday practices for your mind and mental health.
We work with leading experts and teachers to share training courses, conversations and tools to help more people see the value of mindfulness and meditation in the real world.
Our story began in 2016, with an event on Brick Lane in East London, where we gathered in a warehouse for a few talks and planned a short meditation to live music, guided by our Founder Michael James Wong. We had hoped 30 people might come, but to our surprise 300 people turned up. Since then we’ve sat together in the thousands to meditate at iconic locations including The British Museum and the Tate Modern as well as retreats, festivals, talks and training courses. No matter the event or occasion, we’ve always celebrated coming together, and it became clear that this was evolving into something much bigger than we ever knew.
In 2018 we launched the Just Breathe app, a support tool allowing people to practice with Michael any time, any place. What began as a free app with just one meditation is now a place where you can find one new practice daily. With meditations and breathwork practices to help guide you through life’s challenges, collaborations with musicians and mindful practices to welcome a moment of quiet.
We’ve welcomed two podcasts Good Intentions; a collection of short mindfulness tools and stories for on the go, and The Quiet Life; where our Founder Michael interviews world renowned psychologists, neuroscientists, teachers and coaches to share tools, practices and ideas to help support your mind and mental health.
Following our many events, talks and festivals we’ve found a wonderful community of people from across the globe from many different backgrounds who have become interested and inspired at how meditation and mindfulness, meditation and breathwork practices can support them. This has led us to create a series of both online and offline training courses; to support anyone from first time meditators right through to our teacher training, aimed at teachers and coaches looking to add to their toolkit and support their clients.
Our Daily Meditation App
Our daily meditation app helps you to find a moment of calm amongst the chaos, one day at a time.
We’ve brought thousands of people together to meditate, hosted training sessions, workshops and podcasts, and now we’ve built our own app to help people meditate wherever they are. Our daily meditation app brings together music collaborations, mindfulness techniques, breathing practices and support for sleep, stress and anxiety. It’s the toolkit we need to help you to find a moment of calm amongst the chaos.
Our Events
As we continue to grow our Just Breathe community, our local and international events will return.
We’ve hosted small gatherings and grand ones, courses, conferences and have even graced a few big stages at music and lifestyle festivals around the world. Our events are a chance to bring mindfulness into the real world, with the help of artists, musicians and speakers we share practices, ideas and techniques to help us live more mindfully and find moments of quiet and connection with each other.
Our events are where we began, and we have no plans of stopping what we started. It’s where we celebrate the power of community, and bring people together, to simply be together. We can’t wait to see you there.
Our Founder
It’s impossible to talk about Just Breathe without talking about Michael James Wong, our founder, meditation teacher and the voice behind many of the well loved practices on the app.
Michael has been a meditation and mindfulness teacher since 2008, and has travelled all around the world teaching and sharing the wisdom of these ancient practices. Born in New Zealand, but raised on the beaches of sunny Santa Monica, Michael has dedicated his life to ensuring that these quiet practices are easy and accessible in the modern world.
In 2016, five years after moving to the UK, Michael founded Just Breathe as a way to celebrate these practices and create a community that was both breath making and breath taking. Today, that is still the vision and drive behind the Just Breathe community. You can find out more about Michael here