Carla Burns
CACE Program Manager, Core Candidate Assistant Professor
Center for the Advancement of Contemplative Education, Center for Contemplative Chaplaincy, MA in Clinical Mental Health Counseling
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Carla Burns, MDiv, is a Core Candidate Assistant Professor in Naropa College including BA Psychology courses and meditation practicums. She serves as faculty for the MA in Clinical Mental Health Counseling, concentration in Buddhism-Informed Contemplative Counseling residential retreat program, and for Naropa’s Compassion Initiative. She co-developed Naropa’s Embodied Mindfulness in Teaching retreat program and is the Program Manager for the Center for the Advancement of Contemplative Education.
Her specialties include the integration of corporeal, elemental and spatial knowledge as a means to bring more dimension into our field of awareness; to cultivate the natural-receptive wisdom energy of the body that is inherently connected, wise, and spacious; and to close the distance between enlightenment and ordinary freedom.
