The Art of Living Well

A practice-informed and evidence-informed approach to cultivating the capacities that support human flourishing.

Meditation, yoga, calisthenics and mobility, breathwork, and cold immersion — developed and taught over two decades, refined through NHS programme delivery and ongoing evaluation research.

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What is The Art of Living Well?

The Art of Living Well is the practice and the framework behind everything I teach — meditation and mindfulness, yoga and movement, breathwork and cold immersion, and a structured six-course curriculum built from all of it. It doesn't offer fixed answers or a single method. It's an evolving approach to the capacities that let people live with more awareness, balance, and resilience — built from practice, refined through teaching, and increasingly tested through research.

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A six-year journey, or a single course

At the centre of this work is a structured six-course curriculum — Art of Living Well, Compassion, Insight, Recognition, the Eight Limbs of Yoga, and the Hero's Journey — designed as a coherent developmental arc, though each course also stands on its own.

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Mixed Movement Arts, breathwork, and cold immersion

I teach yoga, calisthenics, mobility and animal locomotion alongside breathwork and cold immersion — the same practices that underpin everything else here, taught on their own terms.

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Workplace wellbeing, grounded in a decade of NHS delivery

I've led mindfulness and compassion programmes within the NHS since 2015, alongside a ten-year service evaluation of that work.

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Ian Rigg is a mindfulness teacher, contemplative practitioner, and NHS programme developer with over two decades of experience in mindfulness-based interventions, movement practice, and contemplative education. He is the developer of The Art of Living Well.

I don't claim to have reached the end of this path — I don't think there is one. The Art of Living Well grew out of years of teaching, practice, research, and a fair number of mistakes along the way. I offer it as an invitation to explore, not a finished answer.

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