Kum Nye UK include Jonathan Clewley, Roger Minifie, Bram Williams and Angela Bushaway. All have attended Kum Nye teacher training retreats in the US and intensive retreats in Europe and have permission to teach from Arnaud Maitland, director of Dharma Publishing and a senior student of Tarthang Tulku Rinpoche.

Meet the Kum Nye UK teachers (from left to right):

Jonathan Clewley is a Dharma Bum extraordinaire...

Roger Minifie, a horticulturist writes: ‘I've been fortunate to attend both teacher training retreats, and have just been to Holy Isle as well as many other retreats over the past 10 years.

What is joyful about participating in Kum Nye is working with the belly and heart; the five elements; earth, fire, water, air and space. Also: space, time, and light. Why? Because they are all non-dual and there is no 'element' of doubt in any one of them.

Bram Williams takes refuge in Kum Nye and in his meditation practice. He draws inspiration from the phrase ‘Kum Nye is life’ and sees Kum Nye Yoga as a means to investigate the self and refine the way he interacts with the environment. The dharma student in him loves exercise #13 - ‘the Cleansing Breath’ while his compassionate side never tires of ‘Opening the Heart’ (#57). His inner adventurer likes the challenge of ‘Touching the Present body’ (#108) and the performer in him warms to the exercise ‘Evoking Presence’ from the book Joy of Being. Bram has attended workshops at Ratna Ling including: ‘The Healing Dimensions of Awareness’, the teacher’s retreats and most recently: ‘Questioning Mind - Inner Knowing’.

Angela Bushaway, a Shiatsu practitioner and acupuncturist: I have been a student of Kum Nye since 2003 and have participated in a number of retreats with Arnaud Maitland in UK, Holland, Germany and US. For me one of the biggest benefits is working with the breath. Breathing is something which we take for granted and yet how we breath can really affect how we relate to people and situations.

My favourite Kum Nye exercise? That tends to change over time! Often ones I really struggle in, to begin with, become real favourites.