Online Kum Nye Retreats - Single Days
Kum Nye is a body-oriented movement and contemplative practice, developed by Tarthang Tulku, a contemporary Vajrayana teacher at the Nyingma Institute in Berkeley. This practice helps develop multi-level awareness skills that are rooted in embodied experience within a meditative context. It also enables us to experience at subtle and deep levels, the healing potential within the human energy system.
The practice of Kum Nye helps develop stamina and the capacity to enquire into resistance as it is held in a person’s psychophysical structure.
‘In mastering Kum Nye, we learn how to benefit from all manner of experience, we gain confidence that is grounded in self-knowledge and establish a foundation for joy that can sustain us throughout our lives. We learn what it means to be complete in ourselves. We discover what it means to be.’ (Tarthang Tulku, 2006)
Kum Nye Winter Retreats 2026-2027
“Kum Nye can balance, integrate and energise the whole of our being, opening clearer channels of communication between senses, body and mind and inviting a sense of wholeness and calm that is deeply refreshing”
The Joy of Being- Tarthang Tulku
This series of winter retreats offer a wonderful opportunity to reflect the natural world by slowing down, connecting more deeply and touching into our being nature.
We will be attuning to the elemental energies through sensation and the senses, experiencing the elements not simply as concepts, but as qualities that can be directly sensed through the body and relationship with nature offering a portal in through the embodied experience to a deeper sense of belonging and interbeing.
“When we learn to open our senses and touch our feelings directly, our bodies and minds make full contact with one another, and all our experiences become richer, healthier and more fulfilling”
Tibetan Relaxation -Tarthang Tulku
These retreats are all online. An intention to attend the whole day retreat is requested.
Below is a list of all the Kum Nye Online Retreats we currently have coming up. For residential Kum Nye retreats, click HERE.
The teachings are offered freely according to the Buddhist tradition. Voluntary donations to support the teachers can be given separately at the end of the retreat. There is more information on dana at the bottom of this page.
The retreats are listed in date order, with the soonest retreat listed first.
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Kum Nye Winter Online Retreat (November 2026)
Kum Nye Winter Online Retreat (November 2026)
DATES: Sunday 22 November 2026 from 7.30am to 6.00pm
PLEASE NOTE YOU MUST INTEND TO ATTEND THE WHOLE DAY.
VENUE: Online, via Zoom
TUTORS: Gráinne Delaney, Dharma talk offered by Maura Sills.
COSTS: £25 - Plus dana for the tutors.
The charge you pay to attend only covers administration fees. The teachers serve and support your retreat and training out of kindness and generosity. they are not paid for the work they do. Therefore, Dana to the teachers is welcomed.
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Kum Nye Winter Online Retreat (December 2026)
Kum Nye Winter Online Retreat (December 2026)
DATES: Sunday 13 December 2026 from 7.30am to 6.00pm
PLEASE NOTE YOU MUST INTEND TO ATTEND THE WHOLE DAY.
VENUE: Online, via Zoom
TUTORS: Gráinne Delaney, Dharma talk offered by Maura Sills.
COSTS: £25 - Plus dana for the tutors.
The charge you pay to attend only covers administration fees. The teachers serve and support your retreat and training out of kindness and generosity. they are not paid for the work they do. Therefore, Dana to the teachers is welcomed.
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Kum Nye Winter Online Retreat (January 2027)
Kum Nye Winter Online Retreat (January 2027)
DATES: Sunday 24 Janaury 2027 from 7.30am to 6.00pm
PLEASE NOTE YOU MUST INTEND TO ATTEND THE WHOLE DAY.
VENUE: Online, via Zoom
TUTORS: Gráinne Delaney, Dharma talk offered by Maura Sills.
COSTS: £25 - Plus dana for the tutors.
The charge you pay to attend only covers administration fees. The teachers serve and support your retreat and training out of kindness and generosity. they are not paid for the work they do. Therefore, Dana to the teachers is welcomed.Description goes here
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Kum Nye Winter Online Retreat (February 2027)
Kum Nye Winter Online Retreat (February 2027)
DATES: Sunday 21 February 2027 from 7.30am to 6.00pm
PLEASE NOTE YOU MUST INTEND TO ATTEND THE WHOLE DAY.
VENUE: Online, via Zoom
TUTORS: Gráinne Delaney, Dharma talk offered by Maura Sills.
COSTS: £25 - Plus dana for the tutors.
The charge you pay to attend only covers administration fees. The teachers serve and support your retreat and training out of kindness and generosity. they are not paid for the work they do. Therefore, Dana to the teachers is welcomed.
Guidelines for Dana
Dana means “generosity” and “giving” in Pali, the language in which the Buddha’s teachings were originally recorded. The Buddha regularly emphasised in his teaching the value of generosity and sharing what we have with others, as an essential practice of cultivating happiness and wellbeing.
Dana is a foundation principle underlying the running of Retreats, and also at other Insight Meditation centres and Buddhist monasteries, around the world. This follows a two and a half thousand year-old tradition in the transmission of the dharma.
In order to make this opportunity to practice as accessible as possible, Karuna Dartmoor seeks to keep costs to a minimum. The charge you paid to attend this retreat covers only the ongoing costs of running the course. The teachers serve and support your retreat out of kindness and generosity: they are not paid for the work they do.
As your time on the retreat comes to an end, you have the opportunity to support the teachers who have supported your retreat.
The Buddha encouraged dana and generosity, in recognition of our interdependence, and as a wholesome practice which helps release the heart and mind from greed and negativity. In receiving with gratitude, and giving with generosity, we become more fully conscious participants in the interconnected web of life that supports us all.
Take it as a practice: there is no expected “right amount”, so please listen to your heart and give what you are moved to offer, while also respecting your practical circumstances. Your dana ensures the continued transmission of the dharma teachings, and their accessibility to all who wish to receive them.
The Directors and Teachers at Karuna Dartmoor deeply appreciate and thank you for your kindness and generosity.
Thank you.