Helping our students and staff look after their health and wellbeing is important to us.
Find out more about the wellbeing support and resources that’s available to you.
Students
Exercise classes
More information to come ahead of the 2024/2025 academic year commencing.
Educational workshops
More information to come ahead of the 2024/2025 academic year commencing.
Staff
Online Posture Sessions
Are you struggling with your posture? Do you regularly experience aches and pains?
Try our 15-minute upper body postural session, offering gentle exercises for your neck and shoulders, including mobility, stretches and activation. The class runs every Monday at 12 noon.
Why not give the 15-minute lower body postural session a go, too? They target stiffness in your legs linked with a sedentary job/lifestyle. The class runs every Tuesday at 12 noon.
If you’re specifically suffering with lower back pain, try our 15-minute lower back postural session which runs every Wednesday at 12 noon.
If you’d like to improve your full body posture, try our 15-minute full body postural session which runs every Thursday at 12 noon.
Join us on the last Friday of every month at 12 noon for a 30 minute mat based session that targets different areas of the body. The content, voted for by our staff participants, varies each month, but you can expect things like Pilates based movements, core exercises and full body stretches.
All the above sessions are held via MS Teams.
Interested? Join our MS Teams group for session links, updates and recordings.
30 minute In-Person Posture Sessions
We also run a 30-minute full body posture session on campus every Wednesday at 12:30pm in The Edge. This includes both upper and lower body exercises.
Advance sign up is required. Join our MS Teams group for the sign up link, updates and recordings.
Other helpful resources
Exercise Library– Our library features a range of exercises to improve your strength and cardiovascular fitness, including Pilates, yoga and more.
Wellbeing Resources- Our wellbeing resources include lifestyle blogs on topics such as sleep, stress and anxiety as well as meditation videos.
Recipes- Sweet and savoury recipe ideas for you to make at home.
Student Counselling- The Student Counselling and Wellbeing service is a multi-professional team of Counsellors, Wellbeing Practitioners and Mental Health Advisors. They offer free and confidential support to students during their time at the University of Leeds.
Staff Counselling and Psychological Support- The Staff Counselling and Psychological Support service is set up to provide advice, information and counselling by email, phone and the secure platform Zoom.
Wellbeing, Safety and Health- Health and wellbeing information including menopause and Smokefree Campus resources.
Window on Wellbeing- Here you will find information on support services, upcoming events, awareness raising activities and health campaigns.
Contact us
We work with various teams and departments across the university to provide bespoke wellbeing activities for students and staff.
Please get in touch if you would like to hear more about these opportunities.
Contact Kate Petty, Physical Activity and Wellbeing Manager at k.petty@leeds.ac.uk.
