Kum Nye One Year Residential Training
This training is a Foundation for those wanting to teach Kum Nye, or to further their experience with Kum Nye. You will receive a Certificate Of Completion from this training.
This training consists of 20 days residentially at Karuna Dartmoor.
COURSE DESCRIPTION
A one-year training in the Kum Nye practices is offered at Karuna Dartmoor. These practices involve the deepening embodiment practices with their origins in Tibetan Buddhism and are taught here at Karuna within the context of the awareness practices of Theravadin Buddhism. Karuna has integrated these practices as an important part of its Psychotherapy Training in Core Process Psychotherapy for over thirty years and also offered Kum Nye Retreats for all who are able to embrace the silent tradition of meditation.
INTENTION
To offer the practices for those who may want to deepen their personal Kum Nye meditative practice. This may be extended to those practitioners who wish to offer introductory classes in Kum Nye. The training will continue to be offered in Noble Silence but will include opportunities to extend a theoretical understanding of the psychospiritual practice within the Buddhist paradigm and a Western psychodynamic orientation.
You need to be comfortable with silent retreats.
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Kum Nye Residential Training - 1 Year
DATES: 20 days made up from the retreats we run throughout the year. Please see here for the current dates we have on offer.
VENUE: Karuna Dartmoor, Devon, TQ13 7TR
TUTORS: Maura Sills (Founder, Karuna Institute)
COSTS: WAGED £2000 (with a deposit of £1250) / UNWAGED £1480 (with a deposit of £1000). This one year training is £80 cheaper than if you booked the retreats individually. Deposits must be paid within 7 days of acceptance onto the retreats.
Plus dana for the tutors.
We can offer payment plans to spread the cost of the course over a longer time. If this is something you would be interested in please let us know once you’re accepted onto the course.
Guidelines for Dana
Dana means “generosity” and “giving” in Pali, the language in which the Buddha’s teachings were originally recorded. The Buddha regularly emphasised in his teaching the value of generosity and sharing what we have with others, as an essential practice of cultivating happiness and wellbeing.
Dana is a foundation principle underlying the running of Retreats, and also at other Insight Meditation centres and Buddhist monasteries, around the world. This follows a two and a half thousand year-old tradition in the transmission of the dharma.
In order to make this opportunity to practice as accessible as possible, Karuna Dartmoor seeks to keep costs to a minimum. The charge you paid to attend this retreat covers only the ongoing costs of running the centre, including: food; heating; electricity; water; administration etc. The teachers serve and support your retreat out of kindness and generosity: they are not paid for the work they do.
As your time here comes to an end, you have the opportunity to support the teachers who have supported your retreat.
The Buddha encouraged dana and generosity, in recognition of our interdependence, and as a wholesome practice which helps release the heart and mind from greed and negativity. In receiving with gratitude, and giving with generosity, we become more fully conscious participants in the interconnected web of life that supports us all.
Take it as a practice: there is no expected “right amount”, so please listen to your heart and give what you are moved to offer, while also respecting your practical circumstances. Your dana ensures the continued transmission of the dharma teachings, and their accessibility to all who wish to receive them.
The Directors and Teachers at Karuna Dartmoor deeply appreciate and thank you for your kindness and generosity.
Thank you.