KNR416: Increasing Brain Health through Tibetan Yoga Retreat

This workshop presents an integrated program of Kum Nye movement, breathing, and awareness exercises that can increase the healthy functioning of the brain. You will also learn about foods that nourish brain health and how exercise and good sleep patterns can rejuvenate the brain.

Recent research studies provide clear evidence that regular meditation, healthy eating, exercise, regular sleep, and a positive mental outlook slow the aging process in the brain—allowing us to stay healthy and happy longer. Kum Nye decreases stress and negative thinking, while increasing circulation throughout the body as it opens the senses to positive stimuli. Tibetan Yoga instructor, physical therapist, and nutritional consultant Donna Morton firmly believes that we are never too old or too young to make healthy lifestyle changes.

KNR409: Integrating Flow of Feeling in the Energy Centers Retreat

Practices in this 3 hour workshop stimulate awareness and address tension in the head, throat, heart and belly centers. Learning how energy flows through or may be blocked in various centers, we can encourage positive energy, clarity, and more balance in our lives.

This workshop is intended to support the Kum Nye students taking the weekly Working with Energy Centers class. Others are welcome to join in.

KNR408: Mindfulness through Tibetan Yoga Retreat

“Kum Nye is based on mindfulness or body and mindfulness of feeling, the first two of the four foundations of mindfulness that are the traditional basis of the spiritual path.” Tarthang Tulku, Joy of Being.

Tibetan Yoga (Kum Nye) practices take us to direct sensory experience, free from labels or identification. Touching the very roots of perception, they activate the latent power of penetrating insight. This workshop presents Tibetan Yoga practices that develop and maintain mindful attentiveness of body and feeling.  As we partake of a symphony of rich and relaxed sensation, we learn to use the senses as agents of awakened awareness.

Based on Tarthang Tulku’s Joy of Being.

KNR413: Embodiment of Beauty Retreat

“As we let beauty speak to us, if we bring our experience close to the heart, it will expand, and even overflow the ordinary boundaries between self and world. We may touch a quality of bliss or openness or merging where being itself is celebrating ecstatically.” Tarthang Tulku, Seeing the Beauty of Being.

Our physical senses are capable of receiving great beauty, bringing moments of exquisite feeling and deep satisfaction. To activate this capacity for beauty, confusion and repressed anger must be cleared out of the pathways of the senses. The Kum Nye practices introduced in this workshop initiate a stream of inner feeling that purifies the senses.

Based on Tarthang Tulku’s Seeing the Beauty of Being and Joy of Being.

KNR203 Stimulating Inner Energy

As we move and experience, even as we breathe, the energies within and around us continuously interact… When these energies are flowing smoothly, we have access to an abundance of energy, the body becomes healthy, the mind clear, and the senses vital as every aspect of our being regenerates. Tarthang Tulku, Tibetan Relaxation.

Tibetan Yoga practices in this class stimulate the free flow of inner energy, increasing health and vitality. Our embodiment grows toward the harmonious fulfillment of physical, emotional, and spiritual goals. Our body is revealed as a treasure house of experience that is already ours.

Based on Tarthang Tulku’s Tibetan Relaxation.

KNR108 Working with Energy Centers

This class explores how we can enhance our well-being by activating the flow of energy in the four main energy centers of the body. We can learn to contact and enliven what is dormant within us and calm what tends to be overactive. Our bodies can become more healthy, and our minds more clear.