Karuna Dartmoor
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Maura has partnered with Satimudita
in Italy to offer a new course.
The Womb Of Spirit: Prenatal Sentience In
Dharma-Based Therapeutic Practice
This is offered via the Satimuda website.
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For those UKCP members applying this Course is designed to meet the HIPC, UKCP Supervision Requirement. We ask for the following prerequisite. Candidates should be at least 3 Years post-registration practice or have a minimum of 600 post-registration client hours. We welcome experienced colleagues such as other Psychotherapists, Counsellors, Psychiatrists and those working therapeutically with clients. UKCP members are eligible to apply for the HIPC of UKCP Directory of Recognised Supervisors. Everyone attending the Diploma accrues CPD (80 hours) for participation in this model of Contemplative Supervision developed at the Karuna Institute. MORE INFORMATION HERE.
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This retreat is experiential and held within awareness-based practice, including periods of silence, meditation, and walking practice. Contemplative Group Practice will be established as part of every day. It is open to psychotherapists, psychologists, experienced meditators, spiritual teachers and those already working in groups.
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In this immersive lucid dreaming retreat, we’ll explore how to transform the third of our lives we spend in bed by learning to dream lucidly and consciously transform our shadows.
A lucid dream is a dream in which we are actively aware that we are dreaming as the dream is happening.
Once we are lucid, we gain access to the deepest depths of the unconscious mind, which allows us to engage in psychological healing at a level often unattainable in the waking state.
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Those of us who work with trauma, as psychotherapists, often carry more than we know. The body registers what we sit with; over time this can constellate as depletion, tension, or a closing of the senses.
Kum Nye offers a gentle way back. Through slow movement, breathing practices, and self-massage, we soften what has been held and reconnect with the body's own capacity for nourishment and ease. As the senses relax and open, feeling flows again, and with it a natural replenishment; the ground of our own Health, which is never lost, only obscured.
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This series of winter retreats offer a wonderful opportunity to reflect the natural world by slowing down, connecting more deeply and touching into our being nature.
We will be attuning to the elemental energies through sensation and the senses, experiencing the elements not simply as concepts, but as qualities that can be directly sensed through the body and relationship with nature offering a portal in through the embodied experience to a deeper sense of belonging and interbeing. MORE INFORMATION.
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This residential seminar offers a supportive and immersive space for personal reflection, professional development and embodied learning. Over four days together we will explore the field of trauma and the ways traumatic experiences can shape the body–mind, emotions, relationships, and spirit. Through the lens of Craniosacral Biodynamics, we will deepen our understanding of how trauma imprints our physical and energetic systems, while exploring the body’s inherent capacity for regulation, resilience, and healing. MORE INFORMATION.
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These three retreat-workshops are designed to provide opportunities to walk together with others on a path that explores our own personal mortality, wherever we currently are in our lives. We can never know how or when we will die, but many who work with the dying share the view that it can potentially be a time of healing and spiritual transformation. With this possibility in mind, we will practice together, in times of silence and sharing, continuing the journey towards our death, which we started at birth. If we choose to enter the threshold of our own death now, our heart practices and enquiry in this territory may enable us to accompany others with ‘emptier’ hearts, so that more love shines through. And perhaps we ourselves can transition with less fear when it is our own time to die.
A new course led by Anne Overzee. MORE INFORMATION HERE.
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The baby in the womb is a sentient, relational being, although this is often not acknowledged. Prenatal experience, including trauma, also tends to be denied and ignored in our modern world. This experience includes cultural, collective, and inter-generational influences as well as personal challenges of the parents, especially the mother. MORE INFORMATION.
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This residential seminar offers an immersive space for personal reflection, professional development and embodied learning. Over four days, we will explore the final life transition—death—as a reflection of birth and a return to Source.
Together, we will study the physical, psychological, emotional and spiritual dimensions of dying, while gently meeting our own experiences of loss and grief, and the beliefs, hopes and fears that arise as we approach this profound threshold.
Karuna Dartmoor
Training & Retreat Centre
Karuna is a Sanskrit word that means compassion. This is understood to be a natural dimension of our human condition and manifests through bringing a quality of awareness and presence to our experience. In everyday life, the challenge is to cultivate a state of presence within which we can rest so that this nourishes our perceptions of ourselves and others.
Based in the heart of moorland in Devon, Karuna Dartmoor (previously The Karuna Institute) is a world famous centre for Core Process Psychotherapy and Kum Nye training. We provide opportunities for deepening embodied awareness and cultivating presence and open-heartedness in relationship.
The integration of mindfulness practices with western psychotherapeutic practices is entirely unique. Karuna Dartmoor is evolving its own wisdom tradition, which acknowledges its ancient roots in Buddhist psychology, ethics and practice and also its roots in western psychodynamic psychotherapeutic practice. It provides unique contemporary trainings at the forefront of orthodox and complementary healthcare.
We have a selection of media about what we do and more here.
VENUE HIRE
Karuna Dartmoor is an ideal venue for Mind and Body Retreats, the venue facilities lend themselves particularly to Yoga Retreats, Meditation Courses and Holistic Therapy, as well as Counselling and Psychotherapy retreats. We also welcome bookings from groups that are oriented to other contemplative practices.
If you are looking for the Karuna Institute Bristol website, please CLICK HERE.
