Dav is one of the pioneers in mindfulness based interventions for health and wellbeing. He has developed and delivers mindfulness meditation and transpersonal development courses, workshops and retreats for over 25 years.
How it all began
On 26th December 1993, Dav Panesar suffered a heart attack and was admitted to Coventry and Warwickshire Hospital. Being Boxing day, the hospital was inundated with patients – with many waiting to be seen in the waiting rooms and their corridors. While he lay waiting for medical attention to remedy the pain and real possibility of death, he practiced his meditation. His meditation comprised of both mindfulness of breath when possible and mindfulness of internalised sound as mantras. To both his surprise and the surprise of the medical staff, Dav’s physiological signs of blood pressure, heart rate and breathing rate were all influenced during his practice and became erratic and unstable as he withdrew his awareness away from the breath or sound. Dav’s upbringing and teachings in an environment where meditation was a daily part of life across all generations made this an instinctive response to the incredible danger, fear and trauma of a sudden heart attack.
His experience was in fact deeply transformative, this combined with his professional expertise in the development and delivery of bespoke training courses together with his scientific background made him realise the importance of mindfulness based interventions in the management of unhealthy states of mind, such as those dominated my stress, anxiety, anger, fear or depression.
Dav, who was encouraged by his own experience and the medical staff at the time, decided to create effective mindfulness based courses to deal with stress, pain and trauma.
Dav has proved to be a pioneer in his research and application of mindfulness for health, work and self-discovery or transpersonal growth, for more than 20+ years. He has been formally teaching mindfulness since 1995 as health interventions, and was the first person in the UK to develop and deliver Mindfulness based stress reduction courses through Coventry University.
Below are the various historic articles, products and developments marking the progress of mindfulness based interventions since 1994 to present date with Dav panesar.
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May 1995: Stress Management Thru Mindfulness - 4 week course
Bespoke 4 week course introducing mindfulness for work related stress. Introducing "Mindfulness" as a stress reduction method, featured in the prestigious "Training for Results" journal May 1995
May 1995: Stress Management Thru Mindfulness - 4 week course
Bespoke 4 week course introducing mindfulness for work related stress. Introducing "Mindfulness" as a stress reduction method, featured in the prestigious "Training for Results" journal May 1995
November 1995 - 1997: Mindfulness for SME's and Managers
Bespoke mindfulness courses and workshops developed for SMEs (Small Medium Enterprises) and Managers. Mindfulness in Management, Reducing work based stress with Mindfulness meditation
1994: StressManagement.co.uk was first developed in 1994 as one of the pioneering sites specialising in the use of Mindfulness and Mindfulness-based therapies to address the root cause of stress and anxiety. Since then, the site has grown and developed into a multi-disciplinary bank of guides, features, and psychological research reviews on Anxiety, Depression, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Stress and their mind-body interactions
2006- 2009 : Gurmat Psychotherapy
A comprehensive and systematic process rooted in mind-body connection. Gurmat psychotherapy offers a mind-body approach towards self-actualisation, into self-realisation as a self-sovereign being. A balanced approach in cultivating emotional, physical, mental and spiritual health and wellbeing.
2010: Mindfulnes4Diabetes provides effective & innovative solutions to the detrimental psychological and emotional impact of having diabetes, including stress, anxiety, fear and depression
