I firmly believe that this is not the way it should be. A friend of mine, named Kwan-sik Min, is a good example of how I think we should live. Mr. Min, who served as a minister of education in Korea before his retirement, was the picture of good health to the day of his death at age eighty-nine.

1. Lie on your back with your hands on  your lower abdomen.

2. Inhale and bend  your right knee 90 degrees above your hip while flexing your right foot.

3. Exhale and straighten you right leg, letting it hover above the floor. Keep you knee soft and your toes flexed.

4. Lower your right leg and repeat exercise with your left leg. Hold each position for 3 minutes in the beginning. Extend the length of time as you grow stronger.

You can also try Pressing the Palm and Intestine Exercises to improve your gastrointestinal health. Let me know how these exercises work for you.

Physical Health

By recovering the body’s natural healing ability, one can recover vitality and heal the body.

Emotional Stability

By recovering the healthy and normal bran wave, one can feel more relaxed and peaceful. Through continuous experience of healthy brain wave, one can be able to naturally control emotions.

Communication with inner self

Through the awakening and healing, one can communicate deeply with the true self and have motivation to grow.

Changing Habits

Through releasing negative emotions and patterns, one can create good habits, which can eventually change life for the better.

I enjoy my Dahn Yoga program because:

•    It helps me relax

•    Ms. Ahn & Kevin are both so wonderful. They are very helpful in recognizing problem areas on how to make the yoga exercises work to help strengthen and heal them.

My Dahn practice has benefited me in the following ways:

•    It controls my blood pressure from increasing.

•    My leg problem has gotten better, where the knees used to crunch.

•    It helps me breathe properly.

I believe Ilchi Lee should be recognized because:

Because it helped me a lot, I would encourage others to also be able to benefit the same experience I had.

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I love Dahn Yoga!

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Before I started dahn I was always restless, tired, sleepy, low energy, nervous, tense, uneasy about everything. I did not have much energy to try something new and challenging and always stick to the known. And I kept on worrying and thinking on something and did not realize how tense my body and mind was. I knew something was wrong in my life but could not figure it out.

After two years of practice of dahn yoga, I am having more energy to try and challenge something new with clear mind and light body. Even if I still have tendency to keep thinking and worrying on something, it becomes easier for me to control my thoughts and mind since I have realized the true self of me is not my mind and thoughts but watcher deep within me.

The biggest discovery of my two years in dahn yoga is that how fun and interesting to watch my own mind and thoughts with clear being within me called “watcher” Once I realized my mind and thoughts are not me, it becomes easier to control my emotions, feelings, thinking, mind and thus my life. Another biggest discovery in dahn is the secrets of humans and universe. The movie Secret has been so sensational worldwide since its first release but dahn masters have known this for a long time before the release of the Secret. And their knowledge expands into deeper and profound principles of universe, death, life and human life.

Ilchi Lee Brain Educator

I once believed the truth about fundamental human issues about death and life does not exist or simply beyond human scope but now I can say it is there out there. What we have got to do is just seek and knock on the door for the truth and it will be open for those who seek and knock as happened in Bible.

Sincerely, Yolanda

Out of desperation, I came to the Dahn Yoga and Healing Center six months ago. I was desperate for relieve from chronic muscle and joint pain. To function, I needed more than 10 hours of sleep a night, plus long naps over the weekends. My weekly chiropractic visit no longer offered even brief relief. At the Energy Check-up, Master Tara worked on a charka point and my upper back pain dissipated. This was not a tradition yoga program!

The classes seemed strange, but I believed in the process and didn’t go back to the chiropractor. Slowly my body began to feel better. I had a two-hour healing session that further helped with pain relieve and flexibility. Plus the healing awakened a creative part of my being, resulting in several paintings of my body in healing process.

Through the Initial Awakening workshop, I began to understand the Dahn philosophy and touch on a deep river of emotion pain deep within myself. I resisted the idea of another weekend away from my family but Master Tara explained the importance of Shim Shun (Finding the True Self) to rid the body of the burden of emotion pain The Shim Shun weekend changed my life. I knew I had a lot of emotionally painful experiences, but the depth of some of the pain surprised me. I left that weekend free of the fearful inner child that stopped me doing what I wanted to do. I let go of my rock and now I flow with the river of life.

I feel more connected to people and the world around me. One dental patient remarked that she noted a change in me. She felt I was a real person, not putting on a front, but genuinely connected to people around me.

After six months my muscle pains occur only occasionally. I am no longer hunched over, but standing tall. My emotions are present, but not overwhelming. I have decreased my medications by a third, and my hormones have stabilized. I am no longer running out of class because of an irritated bladder. Its not enlightenment yet, but I am comfortable in my body, in better control of my emotions, more connected to my kids and husband, and free of a painful emotional past that was ruling my life.

I look forward to coming to class. The Dahn Center is a supportive place for me. With so many demands from job and family, here is a place for me. I am more in tune with my body and understand the signals of what is wrong and have more tools to help myself. I am embraced the notion that joy comes from within, and I am finding that joy. Even my voice is lighter! I haven’t lost weight because I have gained muscle – my clothes fit better and my body doesn’t wiggle like Jell-o.

I have defined a life purpose of helping others start their life-healing process-giving others a point to ponder to change their direction for the better.