Mindfulness Courses in Cape Town | In-Person and Online
Evidence-based mindfulness training in Cape Town or online. Through established approaches, such as the 8-week Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program, learn practical skills for stress reduction, self-awareness, and wellbeing in daily life. Suitable for both beginners and those wishing to deepen their practice in a supportive and reflective learning environment.
Stress is a Universal Experience
Whether it is the pressure of a deadline or the complexities of a challenging relationship, stress is an inevitable part of being human. While a surge of adrenaline can be helpful in emergencies, chronic stress has a profoundly negative effect on our physical and psychological wellbeing.
Mindfulness: A New Approach to Stress
This is where mindfulness comes in. Mindfulness offers us a new and profound way to change our relationship to stress. Specifically, it is a participatory practice that allows us to contribute directly to our own psychological and physical wellbeing, thereby easing the adverse effects of stress on the body and mind.
Try Mindfulness Now
Take a few minutes to ground yourself with a Three-Step Breathing Space practice.
“Daily cultivation of moment-to-moment, non-judgmental awareness, or mindfulness, can have a profound effect on our health and wellbeing, on our symptoms, our anxious thoughts and emotions, our body, and our relationships at home, at work and beyond.”
Jon Kabat-Zinn
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)
The above Three-Step Breathing Space meditation is one of several mindfulness practices taught in the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program. Developed by Professor Jon Kabat-Zinn in the late 1970s, MBSR is the global gold standard for mindfulness training. Its evidence-based curriculum is designed to help you transform your relationship to stress using mind-body awareness.
Cultivating Emotional Resilience and Lasting Wellbeing
The MBSR program utilizes mindfulness meditation and gentle body movements to cultivate moment-to-moment awareness. As the course progresses, participants are encouraged to integrate their new skills into the challenges and adventures of everyday life. Ultimately, this innate awareness serves as the foundation for emotional resilience and a lasting sense of wellbeing.
Join an upcoming Mindfulness Course in Cape Town or Online
Join the next in-person mindfulness course in Cape Town or online with Mindfulness Practice. Experience the benefits of learning mindfulness in a small, supportive setting. Find out more below or, alternatively, email bianca@mindfulnesspractice.co.za
About the Facilitator
Mindfulness Practice was established in 2021 by Bianca Browne. She holds a Trained to Teach MBSR certification from the Mindfulness Network in partnership with Bangor University (Wales, UK). In addition, she is a trained .b teacher and a certified .b Foundations facilitator through the Mindfulness In Schools Project.
Bianca has been facilitating mindfulness-based programs across the education, not-for-profit, and private sectors since 2015. She is part of an international network of mindfulness teachers dedicated to supporting mental health and well-being by helping people develop and sustain a regular mindfulness practice. As part of this work, and in partnership with Oxford Mindfulness, a selection of her guided mindfulness practices is available on the new Oxford Mindfulness App.
In addition to her teaching work, Bianca is completing an MPhil in Mindfulness through Stellenbosch University. Her research explores mindfulness training for African Xhosa brides navigating customary renaming and identity transition, using a longitudinal interpretative phenomenological analysis of participant experiences.
Testimonial
A recent participant of the MBSR captured her mindfulness journey in the following poem.
The Practice of Returning (Nosiphiwo Kulati, Sep 2025)
I learned to sit with silence,
to feel the rise and fall of breath,
a gentle tide within the body,
reminding me that nothing is fixed,
everything comes,
and everything goes.
I learned that thoughts are like clouds—
drifting, dissolving,
never needing to be chased or held.
That even sorrow has its own rhythm,
and when I soften into it,
the ache becomes less sharp,
the heart more open.
I discovered the gift of pausing—
how one mindful step,
one mindful sip,
one mindful glance at the sky
can turn an ordinary moment
into something sacred.
I learned that joy doesn’t arrive with fanfare,
but often whispers,
hidden in the warmth of a smile,
the stillness of morning,
the sound of birdsong,
the weight of my own body resting.
Here, in this practice of returning,
I am no longer waiting for tomorrow.
I am breathing the fullness of now.
Whole.
Alive.
Enough.
Get Connected
To learn more about the mindfulness courses I offer in Rondebosch and Langa, Cape Town, or about my online mindfulness courses, please email me at bianca@mindfulnesspractice.co.za or complete the form below. I look forward to hearing from you.