
12/08/2025
FREE CONFERENCE: International Relaxation Day Online Conference, 15th August, 2025
Conference Theme: Harnessing Relaxation to Enhance Wellbeing
Depending upon your time zone, the conference is held on 14th & 15th August, 2025
Location: Virtual. Conference held on Zoom & YouTube
Cost: Free event
Key: * = Live Zoom webinar or meeting.
+ = Pre-recorded presentation premiered on YouTube.
Quick Links to register and/or attend each session below. Times in BST (UK time):
1. *Harnessing Relaxation to Enhance Wellbeing with Prof Stephen Palmer & Dr Siobhain O’Riordan 09:45 BST to 11:15 BST. Register: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_GJKJZ9o7QBWBsc0kqduiGw
2. *Relaxation Club with Prof Stephen Palmer & Dr Siobhain O’Riordan. 11:45 BST to 12:45 BST. Register: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/mzdbIvSLR26rdSKYJbk-Ig
3. +Mindfulness - a trainable dimension of health and wellbeing with Dr Karen E. Neil. 13:00 BST to 13:30 BST. View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUAlijghms0
4. +Sufi Qawwali Music for Stress Management with Yumna Ali. 14:00 BST to 14:30 BST. View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4EviXg-WKE
5. +Coping creatively and using creativity to cope: How creativity can be applied in meditation and stress management with Dr Qing Wang 14:45 BST 2.45pm. View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7t8aiq473A
6. *Leadership, self-care and relaxation with Dr. Richard MacKinnon. 15:00 BST to 16:15 BST. Register: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_zp7b5i_gQYGedK7ZU0UuXA
7. +Relaxation for All: Cultivating a Way of Being in Everyday Life with Prof Stephen Palmer PhD (32 minutes) 16:30 BST 4.30pm. View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dnmj-NZFf7c
8. +Mission Impossible? Reclaiming calmness in a highly anxious world, with Judit Varkonyi-Sepp. View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRK4v8tezR4
Welcome to the International Relaxation Day Online Conference, 2025. We have presentations from relaxation and stress experts, academics, researchers and practitioners from around the world sharing with us their knowledge about relaxation and mindfulness methods and techniques.
For ease of watching internationally with the different time zones, there are some live presentations using the Zoom Platform and some are pre-recorded which are premiered on YouTube.
For the live keynote papers, afterwards, speakers will join attendees in a Zoom Meeting room to discuss their presentations.
Visit the conference website for full programme details: https://www.internationalrelaxationday.com/ird-conference-2025/
The supports International Relaxation Day and the conference.
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Video: Introduction to International Relaxation Day and the International Relaxation Day Conference, 2025 with Prof Stephen Palmer PhD