Karuna Dartmoor
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We offer International Retreats through some of our partners.
Maura has a session with London Insight on Saturday 19th September 2026.
See here for more info and to book (external link).
Maura is also leading a session with Bristol Insight Meditation on Saturday 6th June 2026.
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In this immersive lucid dreaming training offered for Psychotherapists, Counsellors, Health Care Professionals, long-term Meditators and Meditation Teachers we’ll explore how to transform the third of our lives that we spend in bed by learning how to dream lucidly and sleep consciously.
The retreat will be led by Charlie Morley, who has been teaching lucid dreaming for the past 17 years and will include everything you need to learn how to lucid dream yourself while forming the foundation course for possible future training in how to offer lucid dreaming to clients.
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We’re offering a series of one-day, online Kum Nye retreats on Saturdays. See here for more information.
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A new Diploma course in October 2026. MORE INFORMATION HERE.
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This is a foundation week for Contemplative Group Work, intended as Continuing Professional Development for Accredited Practitioners. It is open to psychotherapists, psychologists, experienced meditators, spiritual teachers and those already working in groups.
The intention of the training is to establish the Contemplative Holding Field through the power of shared attention and awareness. This contributes to building safety and trust, helping to constellate a robust and benign field of cooperative enquiry. In this environment, receptivity deepens to include the individual and the group and deepening realms of subliminal and subtle collective wisdom.
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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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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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During this week-long Kum Nye retreat, we explore our senses and the six sense organs—eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, and mind—through exercises and breathing practices of Tarthang Tulku's second book, The Joy of Being. As we relax and heal the gates of the senses, they open inward, transmitting the full richness of experience and bringing more pleasure and joy into our lives. We will take full advantage of the incredible nourishing environment of Karuna Dartmoor and the special summer season. MORE INFORMATION HERE.
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A new kum Nye retreat in September 2026. More information here.
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More information here.
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For practitioners who recognise that the body holds the keys to transformation, this intensive CPD offers a dynamic expansion of practice—bridging the quiet depth of the 'felt sense' with the vitality of letting the body 'speak'. By integrating the subtle currents of somatic awareness with creative movement and embodied inquiry, we cultivate the agility to inhabit the full spectrum of presence—from deep stillness to dynamic expression. We learn to dynamically track and follow the therapeutic process in and through the body, reading somatic narratives in real-time to safely guide clients from habitual holding patterns into more fluid, authentic expression.
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The mindful movement practice of Continuum naturally takes us into fluid states reminiscent of the embryo. Using the gentle breaths, sounding, and often subtle movement of Continuum, we find our tissues melting, patterns dissolving, thoughts softening. As we return to our essential fluidity, we can experience embryonic creativity, re-form and emerge renewed, refreshed, and ready for what life presents next with enhanced resilience.
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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.
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.
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.
