“We do a stimulating exercise with our hands first. Rub your hands, feeling the energy pool as they get warm. You’ll take that with you to the exercise afterwards.”
Sukhavati means “pure land”
Says course leader Ursula Rosemann at Sukhavati, a Buddhist center for spiritual care in Bad Saarow, Brandenburg. The word Sukhavati means “Pure Land” – and Kum Nye is offered on Wednesdays alongside hospice work, nursing and more.
Course leader Ursula Rosemann:
Kum Nye is a Buddhist-Tibetan healing yoga and a holistic healing method. A method that involves many things. Classic yoga, traditional yoga, breathing work, very intensive, some shiatsu, acupressure, relaxation, massage exercises, so a variety of ways to get to know yourself. The exercises are very, very slow, so it’s actually an adventurous journey into my body.
Slowness is sometimes very exhausting
The exercises are aimed at more conscious breathing, relieving muscle tension, reducing anxiety, an even heartbeat, energetic balance and much more.
The Sukhavati in Bad Saarow is Germany’s only Buddhist center for spiritual care.© dpa / picture alliance / Patrick Pleul
“Kum, meaning body, and Nye-Daui is translated in the book as ‘knead like leather’. This simply means that this slowness is sometimes very exhausting for us who are used to speed. The muscles are not used to slowness, and this slowness kneads the muscles in a certain way. Basically, this is also realized today in fascia training.”
But why the opposites of hard and soft? It’s a body.
Why opposites matter
“I think the contrasts are important in order to perceive both. Today we often have hardened muscles. That’s where a lot of back pain comes from, for example. So it is necessary to know: How does it feel when the muscle is hard? How does it feel when the muscle is soft? How does it feel when my heart is hard? How does it feel when it’s soft? In Kum Nye there is intensive energy work, in the heart area, in the back, stomach, in the hands, in the whole body.”
The body positions are called asanas, as in classical yoga. There is the “unhook”, the “H position” or “The Priest”, “Energy Distribution” and other positions.
Class while sitting
Some of the course participants cannot stand continuously for the 90 minutes that the course lasts. You perform the asanas while sitting on a chair or soft cushion.
One participant is even unable to move in a wheelchair. Imagination of the asanas is important for them.
Deep inner serenity
At the end of the Kum Nye course, all participants experience a deep inner serenity:
“I find it amazing that certain things first have to go through the head and into the muscles.”
“It was good, even sitting down. Fantastic for mind and body.”
“You pay much more attention to your breathing. I also have a feeling that I can breathe much easier now. And now you have such a great warmth when you feel it.”
2023-04-23 23:27:29
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