Tibetan Massage and Relaxation

14 Hour CE Course

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Description

This beautifully illustrated course introduces the core principles of the ancient Tibetan yogic practice of Kum Nye. This course includes breathing exercises, sitting postures, stretching movements and massage. It is suitable for persons of all ages and fitness levels. It provides helpful preparation for seeking hands-on training. This course does not teach hands-on skills. Please seek additional experience, with a mentor, to add hands-on skills.

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Content Outline

Discovering Kum Nye Context: Buddhism & Tibetan medicine The balance of Kum Nye The practice of Kum Nye Preparing for practice	1.5 Hours
Sitting and Breathing The sitting posture Sensation and breath	1.5 Hours
The Self-Massage Sequence The language of touch The hands The face The head The neck The shoulders The chest The belly The arms The back The legs The hips The feet	2.5 Hours
The Inter-Relatedness of the Core Concepts of Gentle Movement: Guiding practice Loosening up Touching feeling Lightening thoughts Revitalizing energy Hand magic Touching body energy Healing body and mind Flying Balancing body and mind Being and body Calming inner energy Touching nurturing feeling Body of knowledge Expanding awareness Clear light Touching body, mind and energy Energizing the lower body Inner gold	2.5 Hours
Understanding the Core Concepts of Balance and Integration: Body, mind and the senses Loosening up the mind Awakening the senses Balancing the senses Swimming in space Integrating body and mind Interacting body and mind Vitalizing energy Loosening up the self-image Balancing mind and senses Coordinating the wholeness of energy Transforming emotions Opening the heart Increasing endurance Embracing space Increasing inner balance	2.5 Hours
The Core Concepts of Stimulation and Transformation Energies of life Clearing confusion Releasing tension Feeling embodiment Nurturing satisfaction Building strength and confidence Being and energy Transforming energy Activating healing energy Channeling body energy into the senses Wholeness of joy Touching positive feeling Texture of joy Heart gold thread Expanding inner energy Energizing body and mind Trinity of practice: breath, energy & awareness The Value of Retreat	2.5 Hours
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Open-book Test and Course Evaluation	1 Hour

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Testimonials

Wonderful compliment to energy work and stress management.

Patricia Dooley Certified Holistic Stress Management Specialist

I loved this course!

Vivian Beran NCMT

I enjoyed this course! I think it will be beneficial to myself then to clients. I look forward to putting the concepts into my personal daily practice. Thank you!

P. Williams, CMT, NCTMB

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Learning Objectives

Identify and describe key points in the history, definition and value of Kum Nye so that you can communicate it to clients, students and peers.
Describe how to use your own body as the primary guide to the choice of Kum Nye exercises, including when and how to use them.
Identify the sequence of self-massage techniques for taking care of and freeing up your healing energy.
Identify the basic concepts that underlie all of the methods and relate them to each other, with examples.
Identify the concepts and methods of balance and integration and describe how they can be incorporated into massage and bodywork practice.
Identify how and why energy flows (or doesn't flow) and choose examples of how that awareness applies to your work.

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Sample Text

"Participate in each exercise as fully as you can, involving your whole being-your heart, senses, awareness, feelings and consciousness. Bring all of yourself into the form of the exercise, allowing your negative as well as your positive feelings to be part of the experience. When you feel something, keep the energy of the feeling alive as long as possible, allowing it to expand and fill you. Broaden your feelings, letting them expand in every dimension of time and space.

The experience of each exercise has three characteristics: positive, negative and neutral. These terms are not judgments; it is as important to feel and work with negative qualities as it is to work with positive ones. Awareness of these qualities is an important part of each exercise: positive feeling can be recognized as a warm, soft and gentle sensation located primarily in the heart area; negative feeling tends to manifest itself as a dull, dark heaviness in the lower abdomen; neutral feeling possesses a quality of light, balanced stillness, which permeates the entire body and beyond into the surrounding space." (Tibetan Relaxation: The Illustrated Guide to Kum Nye Massage and Movement by Tarthang Tulku, 2007, p. 22-23)

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