- Level 100
Moving Meditation, Integrating Body, Mind and Senses
Release Stress, Drop out of the Thinking Mind and come to your Senses.
- Tuesdays | 5:00–5:45 PM Pacific Time
- Term 1: Tuesday Sept 8th - Tuesday Oct 13th 2026
- Term 2: Tuesday Nov 3rd - Tues Dec 8th 2026
- Term 3: Tuesday Jan 12th - Feb 16th 2027
- Term 4: Tuesday March 9th - Tues April 13th 2027
- Term 5: Tuesday May 4th - Tues June 8th 2027
Live, Interactive Sessions
Engaging 45 minutes classes with experienced Instructors
Supportive Community
Connect, share, and learn in a private online community
Session Recordings
Watch anytime with access to recordings for six months
Risk Free Environment
Free for All
Course Summary
This weekly 45 minute session will offer the opportunity to release stress, drop out of the thinking mind and come to your senses. With movement, relaxation, and awareness, practices, we will invite the mind into the body. As Tarthang Rinpoche writes:
“…we have relied on the mind to direct the body, Kum Nye teaches us that the body can also help us relax the mind and stimulate its sensory capacities. The flow of feeling can relax the senses and open the heart…….. Relieved of constricting pressures the mind responds to deep flow of feeling and offers thoughts rich in meaning” (Joy of Being p. 114).
What is Kum Nye?
Kum Nye was introduced to the West by Tarthang Tulku Rinpoche as part of the Human Development programme in 1970’s as a way to help Western students relax and calm sufficiently to begin the path of meditation. Kum Nye is a gentle healing system that relieves stress, and transforms negative patterns. Kum Nye integrates the physical and psychological aspects of our experience and brings these energies together to function in a calm and balanced way.
The class will be primarily focused on Kum Nye and will include the possibly of other movement and dance resources. The primary aim of these sessions is to support participants in accessing the wholeness of embodied experience in everyday life. No previous experience of Kum Nye or dance is required.
Instructor
Fran Burns
Having worked as a Physical Therapist, Fran completed a Master’s in Dance/Movement Therapy (DMT) & Counselling at California State Hayward in the 1990’s. Working with children for a number of years using a combination of Physical Therapy & DMT, in 2009 Fran completed a MSc in Child & Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in Trinity College, Dublin. Following this she engaged in Kum Nye doing the teacher training in 2018. Presently Fran works with adults both individually & in groups using Dance/Movement Psychotherapy and she continues to practice & teach Kum Nye. In her spare time Fran enjoys local community activities and swimming in the sea.
- Level 200
Moving Meditation, Integrating Body, Mind and Senses
- Term 1: Tuesday Sept 8th - Tuesday Oct 13th 2026
- Tuesdays | 5:00–5:45 PM Pacific Time
- Recordings available for six months after class
- Free cancellation after first class
