Carla Burns
Carla Burns is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Naropa University and serves as lead faculty in the MA Contemplative Psychotherapy residential retreat programs. She also designs and implements programming for Naropa’s Compassion Initiative. In addition to teaching Maitri Space Awareness courses in the BA Psychology program, her specialties include integrating corporeal, elemental, and spatial knowledge into everyday awareness. Her research and teaching focus on embodied practices that bridge the gap between personal and collective liberation, transforming expansive views of enlightenment into everyday freedom.
Upcoming Programs by Carla Burns
Maitri Space Awareness Meditation Retreat
Also Jane Carpenter Cohn and Carla Burns
Program Description: In 1972, Trungpa Rinpoche introduced a unique way to work with the five buddha family teachings, called “Maitri Space Awareness.” This embodied practice is a powerful way to relate directly with our emotional energies and within the environment around us. We will look at the emotions in terms of five basic energy patterns, […]