James Scurry
MA BA UKCP ACPP
Tibetan Yoga
About Kum Nye
Kum Nye Tibetan Yoga is a gentle system of embodied movement, breathing and self massage practices which is particularly effective for those of us who have experienced mental and emotional distress and trauma.
In a Kum Nye session, participants are taken through a series of gestures designed to stimulate feelings and sensations in the body. After each gesture participants are invited to sit for a short time in order to deepen into the internal experience generated by the movement, breath and massage.
Over time, many Kum Nye practitioners attest to the cumulative beneficial effect on the mind and body generated by the practices. Unlike the various branches of Indian yoga, Kum Nye tends to be a gentler form of embodied movement which is suitable to people of all ages.
History of Kum Nye and Tarthang Tulku
Kum Nye was introduced to the west by Tarthang Tulku, a leading Tibetan master and teacher who was one of the last Tibetan lamas to receive a full monastic training prior to the Chinese invasion of Tibet in 1959.
Tarthang Tulku, or Rinpoche as he is known as to his students, introduced the Nyingma school tradition of Tibetan Buddhism to the United States and founded the Nyingma Institute in Berkeley, now one of America's oldest Tibetan Buddhist centres of learning.
The Kum Nye teachings were originally designed to assist Western meditation students who Rinpoche noted struggled at times to move into a state of relaxation.
(photo courtesy of Nyingma Institute)
James
Scurry
James is an accredited psychotherapist and an authorised Kum Nye instructor based in London in the United Kingdom. He specialises in using Kum Nye to assist those who have experienced trauma to heal and to feel at home in their bodies.
James has worked with journalists, police and the military, but his classes are open to anyone who has an interest in learning Kum Nye. He has an interest in Tibetan Buddhism and co-facilitates workshops on Tibetan lucid dreaming practices for trauma alongside the lucid dreaming teacher and author Charlie Morley.
He has a Masters Degree in Mindfulness-based Core Process Psychotherapy from The Karuna Institute in Devon, England.
Elizabeth Morris is a licensed independent clinical social worker (LICSW) in the state of
Minnesota and New Mexico and currently lives in St. Paul, Minnesota. She has been a Buddhist
practitioner for over 11 years and a student of Vidyadhara Acharya Mahayogi Shridhar Rana
Rinpoche since 2015. She holds an MSW in Social Work from Boston University and an M.Div. degree in Buddhist/Hospital chaplaincy from Harvard Divinity School.
Elizabeth has been teaching and studying yoga for over 20 years and is a registered teacher with Yoga Alliance in the US as well as a licensed massage therapist. Elizabeth completed her 11-month yoga teacher training in Kum Nye, Tibetan yoga at the Nyingma Institute in Berkeley, CA.
Elizabeth’s Kum Nye Yoga classes combine her background in somatic therapy, trauma-informed psychotherapy, and bodywork with her current focus on meditation to help students deeply relax their bodies and prepare for more ease in daily life.
Elizabeth
Morris
Eliza
Bishop
Eliza Bishop is a professional teacher, lecturer, coach, writer and editor, with degrees from Carnegie Mellon and Oxford Universities. She is a Level 2 Internationally Certified Iyengar Yoga
Instructor and an editor and proof reader for Namchak Translation Committee specializing in sacred texts.
She is a Tibetan Buddhist and Yoga practitioner for twenty years, who has studied extensively in
India and Europe, and now resides in North America, sharing her time between Canada and the
USA. She appreciates and shares these modalities as tool’s for developing the mind of the heart. She has given accredited courses in universities, 6-week webinars to Superior Court Judges, Child Protective Services, a team of Book Publishers, Social Workers, and numerous other organizations.
As a Kum Nye facilitator, her focus is on the inner healing and greater well-being that naturally occurs by expanding one’s ability to be fully embodied and present. The aim is to learn to be at ease – with on-the-spot presence – which is healing and awakening, simultaneously, for one’s self and others. She works globally, online, and in person.