- Level 100
Feeling Fully Alive
A six-week journey from stress, busyness, and mental overload into greater presence, vitality, embodiment, and connection with life itself.
- Saturdays | 9:30–10:30 AM Pacific Time | 12:30–1:30 PM Eastern Time
- November 14th – December 19th, 2026
Live, Interactive Sessions
Six live online classes with guided practices
Supportive Community
Zoom link sent upon registration
Session Recordings
Recordings available for six months
First Class Guarantee
Free cancellation available after the first class
Course Description
What if your body holds a wisdom that the thinking mind alone cannot access?
Many of us move through life disconnected from the body’s natural intelligence. We spend our days caught in thought, managing responsibilities, and responding to endless demands, often overlooking the profound source of insight, vitality, and well-being that is available within our own embodied experience.
This six-week course invites you to rediscover the body as a gateway to greater presence, balance, and aliveness. Drawing from contemplative traditions, somatic awareness practices, and the experiential teachings of Dharma College, we will explore how the body can become a source of wisdom, healing, and transformation.
Through guided exercises, reflective inquiry, gentle movement, and practical applications for daily life, participants will learn how to listen more deeply to the body’s messages, release patterns of tension and reactivity, and cultivate a more integrated relationship between body, mind, and awareness.
Who Is This Course For?
- Anyone seeking greater vitality, balance, and well-being
- Those feeling disconnected from their bodies due to stress, busyness, or overthinking
- Meditation practitioners wishing to deepen embodied awareness
- Individuals interested in mindfulness, somatic practice, and personal transformation
- Professionals looking for practical ways to reduce stress and cultivate resilience
- Anyone longing to feel more present, grounded, and fully alive
As we reconnect with the body’s innate intelligence, we discover not only greater ease and vitality, but also a richer capacity for joy, resilience, creativity, and authentic engagement with life.
This is not a fitness class or a study of anatomy. It is an invitation to experience the body as a living field of awareness a doorway to deeper knowing and a fuller experience of what it means to be human.
Drawing on the profound wisdom of the Tibetan tradition and the power of direct experience, this course invites you to rediscover the body’s innate capacity for awareness, balance, and well-being. Through guided exploration and practical exercises, you will learn to reconnect with a deeper sense of presence, vitality, and aliveness. No prior experience with Kum Nye, yoga, meditation, or bodywork is required.
What You Will Explore
- Learn foundational Kum Nye practices for relaxation and embodied awareness
- Release physical, emotional, and mental tension
- Develop greater sensitivity to the body's innate intelligence
- Discover how movement and awareness can support emotional balance
- Cultivate greater presence, vitality, and ease in daily life
- Explore how the body can become a gateway to deeper well-being and self-understanding
- Gain practical tools for bringing more calm, joy, and aliveness into everyday experience
Instructors
Bruce Alderman
BRUCE ALDERMAN, M.A., is affiliate faculty in the JFK School of Psychology at National University, and the Associate Director of the Blue Sky Leaders program at the California Institute of Integral Studies. He received his master’s degree in Integral Psychology, with an emphasis on Transpersonal Counseling Psychology, from John F Kennedy University in 2005. Prior to working at NU and CIIS, he taught and studied abroad in Asia for several years, including teaching courses on creative writing and inquiry at the Rajghat Besant School, a Krishnamurti school in Varanasi, India. Bruce took Buddhist refuge with a Theravadin teacher on Java in 1994, and has practiced in the Nyingma and Bön traditions since 2003. He has published essays in the Journal of Integral Theory and Practice and Consciousness Journal, as well as in several anthologies on Integral philosophy and spirituality, and recently self-published a book of collected poetry. For the past 5 years, he has produced and co-hosted The Integral Stage YouTube channel and podcast.
Kum Nye
Kum Nye is a unique Tibetan practice of relaxation and embodied awareness introduced to the West by Tibetan meditation master Tarthang Tulku. Rooted in centuries of contemplative wisdom, Kum Nye offers a gentle yet profound path for awakening the body's natural capacity for presence, vitality, and well-being. Through simple movements, breathing practices, self-massage, and mindful awareness, participants learn to release accumulated tension and reconnect with deeper levels of energy, sensitivity, and ease. Rather than striving for achievement or performance, Kum Nye invites a direct experience of balance, openness, and aliveness that can transform the way we relate to ourselves, others, and the world around us.
- Level 100
Feeling Fully Alive: Awakening the Wisdom of the Body
- November 14th – December 19th, 2026
- Saturdays | 9:30–10:30 AM Pacific Time | 12:30–1:30 PM Eastern Time
- Recordings available for six months after class
- Free cancellation after first class
