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The Karuna Institute is a non-profit centre. It offers professional trainings in Core Process Psychotherapy and Craniosacral Biodynamics. Its courses are deeply influenced by Buddhist principles and world view. It is located in beautiful Dartmoor National Park in Devon, England. Students come to the Institute from all over the world.

Core Process Psychotherapy

Core Process Psychotherapy is a Buddhist influenced psychotherapy form developed at the Institute. Its fundamental premise is that awareness is inherently healing. Much of clinical work is geared to initiate an enquiry, by both therapist and client, into the nature of our arising sense of self in the present. It is grounded in the perception that awareness is a wider universal principle which underlies all states of consciousness. At the core of our being is a ground of universal intelligence which is never lost and becomes the heart of therapeutic process. This is sometimes called "Big Mind" in Zen, or "Brilliant Sanity" in Tibetan tradition. Training consists of a six month Foundation course in Core Process Psychotherapy  and a four year