Kum Nye (Tibetan Yoga) Healing Practices for the Modern World

Winter 2012 Workshops

Weekend workshops offer fresh insights in a gentle, meditative atmosphere. Unless otherwise noted, Saturday workshops begin at 10 AM and conclude at 4:45 PM and include a vegetarian buffet lunch. Workshop participants may arrange to stay overnight at the Institute for an additional $40 per night. If no prerequisite is listed, then the workshop is open to students at all levels of experience. Courses or workshops marked with an asterisk (*) meet the qualifications for continuing education credit for MFT’s and LCSW’s as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. Provider: Nyingma Institute #2513. 

MED401 How to Meditate
January 7, 10 AM—1 PM, followed by lunch.
Learn how to begin and sustain a daily meditation practice. This half-day workshop introduces sitting and walking meditation and Tibetan chanting.
Cost: $45. Instructor: Ken McKeon.

MED409 Silent Mind, Peaceful Mind
January 7
By letting go of expectations the mind becomes silent, peaceful, and aware. Meditation practices that transform mental experience can lead to this form of perfect equanimity.
Cost: $80. Instructor: Barr Rosenberg. Based on Tarthang Tulku’s Hidden Mind of Freedom. For intermediate meditators.

DHS401 Visions of Enlightenment
January 13-14
This workshop explores ways to connect with enlightened being: visually, through a slide show on Tibetan sacred art; experientially, through mantra and meditations that evoke the Buddha; and cognitively through considering the three specific aspects of a Buddha’s embodiment.
Cost: $95. Instructors: Sylvia Gretchen and Rosalyn White. Friday, 7-9 PM; Saturday, 10 AM-4:45 PM. Open to all with a sincere interest in the Buddha’s teachings.

NPS401 Transforming Negative Emotions *
January 21
Powerful meditations and analysis pacify unwanted emotions without suppressing them. First you will learn to balance and clear the mind, leading to insight into how emotions arise. Then you will be trained in techniques that transform negative emotional energy.
Cost: $80. Instructors: Sylvia Gretchen and Erika Rosenberg.

TSK406 Waking to Space; Opening to Freedom
January 28
We live our lives within narrow limits. Accepting these limits as “the way we are” we never notice how they channel us into pathways of frustration and disappointment. We can learn to be otherwise. We can wake up to lives of freedom, power, and ease. The Time, Space, and Knowledge vision offers us a path of transformative knowledge. Learn to penetrate and transcend limits, to taste freedom in each moment, to engage life as a blossoming vision. The gateway is space, a space opened by the teachings and practices of TSK.
Cost: $80. Instructor: Ken McKeon.

KNR403 Opening the Heart *
February 4

We need to encourage our warm and positive feelings… a genuine openness that is felt as a deep warmth in the center of the heart, which is our inner sanctuary, our own home. Tarthang Tulku, Gesture of Balance.

The heart holds the key to living in harmony and in loving accord with others. Kum Nye practices open the heart to deep levels of feeling and appreciation. Movement exercises presented in this workshop help loosen physical tension in the chest and upper back, enhancing the flow of positive feeling in the area of the heart.
Cost: $80. Instructor: Jack van der Meulen. Couples attending this workshop together receive a 20% discount.

DHS402 Faith in Dharma
February 17-18; Friday 7-9 PM and Saturday 10 AM - 4:45 PM
The awakening of faith in the Dharma means that we have surrendered our heart to truth. This workshop teaches how to distinguish faith from mere belief and inquiry from skepticism. Discussion and practice will focus on how to build inner confidence in our own abilities as we seek guidance from those who are wiser.
Cost: $95. Instructors: Sylvia Gretchen and Robin Caton. Open to all with a sincere interest in the Buddha’s teachings.

KNR405 Tasting Relaxation *
February 25
The relaxation that comes through Kum Nye (Tibetan Yoga) practice is like a rich nectar that flows through the body and feelings. This workshop presents practices that allow us to “taste” this deep relaxation.
Cost: $80. Instructor: Jack van der Meulen. For all levels of students.

NPS415 Essential Practices for Well-being
March 3
This workshop presents ways to enhance well-being. Students will learn experiential practices that heal and relax, including meditation and Tibetan Yoga. The workshop will also include discussion of how to maintain a healthy diet and will include a special vegetarian lunch that illustrates the principles of good nutrition and mindful eating. The focus will be on how to lower blood pressure and reduce cholesterol.
Cost: $80. Instructor: Donna Morton. Register early, since class size is limited.

SKM402 Problem Solving: A Unique Approach
March 3
Facing a problem in work or personal life that is difficult to solve, we may need to think differently. This workshop presents three fresh approaches that coordinate different modes of thought for best results: verbal and visual analysis, conscious thought and silent attending, and expert knowledge and verbal explanation. These tools can yield startling successes and teach us about mind’s ways of working.
Cost: $80. Instructor: Barr Rosenberg.

KNR409 Opening Energy Centers
March 10
Precise Tibetan Yoga exercises work with the circulation of inner energy to increase sensitivity within and between the four “energy centers”—head, throat, heart, and navel. Tension in these areas is loosened, increasing inner vitality.
Cost: $80. Instructors: Sylvia Gretchen and Santosh Philip. Prerequisite: One year Kum Nye practice.