with Arnaud Maitland at the Ratna Ling Retreat Center
November 14th – 23rd, 2011
Recently, Tarthang Tulku released an entire new set of Kum Nye exercises. They are quite different from what we have previously studied and serve as a wonderful complement to what has been offered in the books Kum Nye and Joy of Being.
Based on a strongly developed Nye, these new exercises are gentle and firm, swift and communicative, open and rhythmic – they are expressions of light being.
Study of these new exercises culminates in an exciting new way of working with Kum Nye in time, Kum Nye dance, full of symbolic gestures, a brief sample of which you can watch below:
While not necessary for the study and practice of these new Kum Nye exercises, Kum Nye dance flows naturally out of the movements in combination and offers an elegant new way of approaching Kum Nye. In this retreat you will learn fifty-four new exercises and a few Kum Nye dances.
In studying these new exercises we have found that vision is as important as the movement. As a complement to our Kum Nye practice, we will engage the mind in study by working with a text by Padmasambhava, often called the second Buddha, who was one of three central figures that brought Buddhism to Tibet in the eighth century. This text, which has been translated into English under the title Seeing with Naked Awareness (referring to “liberation through seeing”) belongs to the same group as the Tibetan Book of the Dead, which is a “liberation through hearing” text.
Through learning the theory of non-dual seeing and beginning to practice this while learning about Padmasambhava and his twenty-five disciples, we aim to deepen our work with the new exercises and provide a stimulating environment for body and mind.
As these exercises require an experiential understanding of "Nye," registration is open to anyone currently enrolled in any e-KumNye program as well as those who have completed the first five levels of e-Kum Nye. We look forward to seeing you in November!
Many Blessings,
The Dharma Publishing Staff
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The schedule will be as follows:
7 – 8:15am Session I – New Kum Nye plus a short text reading
8:30 Breakfast
10 – 11:15 Session II – New Kum Nye
11:15 – 11:30 Break
11:30 – 12:30 Session III – Padmasambhava
12:30 Lunch
2 – 4 pm Work practice
4:30 – 6 Session IV – New Kum Nye
6:00 Dinner
7:45 – 9 Session V – New Kum Nye and Padmasambhava
Retreat costs, incl. room and board: $ 1750
For registration please contact us at programs@dharmapublishing.com
P.S. Check out time will be Nov 23 after lunch, please bear in mind: Nov 24th is the Thanksgiving holiday in the USA. Traveling on the 24th itself, should be relatively easy though dates before and after the 24th will be very busy travel days nationwide.
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