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Wonderful! thank you for organizing this, even with your busy schedules! It will benefit you all greatly
Hi, in response to this idea, I believe there is a long time Kum Nye student and practitioner in South America who is in the process of doing just this: using her extensive study and practice of KN massage and writing a book. Abbe know more about it, I have only heard this indirectly. I am assuming that DP would be the publisher.
Thank you, both Wally and Jonathan. I have noticed that with practice, I am learning to “listen” more sensitively to that “inner voice” that often does know the wisest course of action or even a novel way to frame or think about something in my life that lessens my own “suffering”.
One thing I love about Kum Nye, Jonathan, is that the instructions are sometimes so intriguing that we are encouraged to find our own way with them. I had never “thought” about breathing in the mind with this instruction & now I can’t wait to try it. Instead I have done the opposite-imagining the worries, thoughts, images “traveling down, as it were, to the throat and the body where the physical breath is moving & massages the mental images….bringing the “mind into the body”.
Hi Eliza, I know I am late replying to this, but thank yo for sharing this experience. I too have had a lot of discoveries with “micro” adjustments, especially in the chest are with tightness affecting my mid back. Once adjusted, my experience of sitting completely changed!
This is very useful information for your future teachingOh my goodness! I am so sorry to hear that. I don’t have a particular suggestion, Sandy. It may serve her best to simply engage in the practices she already knows are very nurturing and supportive for her at this challenging time, to help her stay present and relaxed as possible with such strong news.
Hi Christina: what you are describing can be a form of level 2, especially feeling heavy and hard to stay awake. Notice the description of “dull” in the book. This place can be very restful, peaceful and recharging, but in and of itself, it does not lead anywhere. Eventually what we are cultivating is a very alert, aware but still quality…but it will come with more practice. But it is a very good sign that you are “relaxing” at a deeper level!
Really good point, Olenana. So much of the time we “wait” for the perfect practice conditions to be available,enough ‘time’, the ‘right’ space etc, when in our daily lives there is so much we can do right now to relax, be in touch with ourselves and open our awareness in the process.
Hello Olena,
I think this is an important question. We have some very knowledgeable students in this training who are interested in and experienced in trauma-based practices. I would encourage you to keep this question alive and open for now, as I believe that as you progress through the training there will be insights and answers that will come, both from your own experience and from others in our Kum Nye community.
As for the appropriateness of these practices, very deep healing is available through Kum Nye, and it is a wonderful aspiration to desire to help those who have been deeply traumatized.
For now, use your own experience that you referenced, from your own surgery, as it sounds like you made some important discoveries. Perhaps journal about it, so that it stays fresh. We learn so much when we focus on our own healing that we can use to help others.This is a great exchange…we will continue to explore in depth feeling and sensation as distinct from emotion. It is an important topic in Kum Nye and one, as future teachers, you will want to be very familiar with, as many will have questions about it.
I am so glad that it spoke to both of you. It was a new instruction for me to give, inspired in reading Kum Nye somewhere as I was preparing to teach. It evoked something that deepened my understanding of following sensation as an “open ended” and non-mental activity.
Thank you for bringing this up, Jonathan. I have often wondered about this area, and after your comment, read the massage area #6 again. To add to the part that Abbe quoted, after that he says ” Feeling washes through the spine and the backs of the shoulders, sometimes reaching the heart”. A “warm happy baby” evokes a joyous, spontaneous feeling of being alive that transcends limited “personal” identity.
Hi Elizabeth,
Yes, Tasting Relaxation (#3 ) is something we continue to develop in Kum Nye to more and more subtle levels…thank you for sharing your daily practice with it. There is so much enjoyment and deep nourishment available in our daily lives, once we learn how to tap into it.
Thanks for sharing your experience.
Anita
