Lately Brain Wave Vibration (BWV) Training has been all the rage at Dahn Yoga centers around the world. On dahnyogany.com, I found this sharing from Japan:
A late 20’s female member in Japan said that after not having a menstrual cycle for over ten years after an earth quake trauma, she started having it soon after BWV training classes. Once she gave up being a woman, but she got her womanhood back through the training.
Announcing: The “YEHA Holiday Heart Warmer”. This is an exciting event happening on Friday December 14 at the Jamaica Plain center. Hosted by the Boston Young Earth Human Alliance/Phoenix Team, they are bringing together Dahn members, friends and family for a heart warming holiday celebration.
The event will include Dahn Mu Do, Dancing, and some special performances by some of The Boston Phoenixes. Before and after the event people will be invited to take part in the silent auction. So far the auction will include items from Verizon, Trader Joe’s, Starbucks, Henry Bear Park, Lush, many local artists (framed artwork, holiday cards, handbags), CD’s from Snatam Kaur, Organic Health products, Not Your Average Joe’s, CVS, and more!!! Starbucks will also be generously donating food and refreshments for our event and sending some of their employees to participate. And canned goods will be collected as a donation to The Greater Boston Food Bank.
The proceeds will go to the 302(c) non-profit Dahn Foundation for grants to help future passionate young adults participate in the Phoenix Project. Please come out and celebrate for a good cause!
Kue Ho Lee just arrived this week from the Brea Center in Orange County, California. Based in Andover Center at the moment, Master Lee is Boston’s newest regional DahnMuDo trainer. He has been busy this week starting private DahnMuDo healing with many members. On Sunday, November 25th, he will lead the DahnMuDo workshop at the Beacon Hill Center from 9 am to 5 pm. I haven’t seen Master Lee’s stuff yet, but he’s received rave reviews from everyone who has.
I’m very excited with the anticiption of DahnMuDo growing in New England! I love how grounded, real, and open DahnMuDo makes me feel. I am able to feel much closer to my true self through DahnMuDo exercise.
Tonight current healers and potential future healers got together at Arlington Center to hear sharings about Dahn Healing System, practice healing techniques on each other, and share food and laughter. It’s one of those special events when members of the Dahn healing community can get together and share their beautiful healing energy in a space where people are open and happy. I’m so happy we have something like that here in Boston!
Last year a Boston College researcher asked Dahn Yoga members in Boston (among members of other practices) if they would take a survey about their mind-body-spirit (MBS) practice. The results of the study was recently published in the International Journal of Mental Health Promotion in the August 2007 issue (Volume 9, Issue 3). The study addresses how MBS practices “affect psychological wellbeing, health, and spirituality and altruistic behaviors”. The Dahn Healing Research Center is mentioned in the article!
In other news…one of the members who touched his toes last week can now make a half-lotus posture with at least one leg on top. He’s working on the other one now. He’s very diligent and comes almost everyday and has only been coming for about 2.5 weeks. Now that’s progress!
Senior instructor Chun Shim nim offered her group healing program for several years. After taking a hiatus for about a year, the program is back at the Newton Center. This program offers intensive healing in a supportive small group setting. It teaches participants to heal themselves, especially their organs, and deeply understand the connection between their 3 bodies– their physical, energetic, and spiritual (set of information) bodies. Participants have seen dramatic results, including weight loss. Here is a sharing from Maryann from the Beacon Hill Center:
I have been a nurse for 26 years and I have spent 22 of them at Massachusetts General Hospital. I was diagnosed with bladder / ureter cancer in 1997 and endured 2 years of chemotherapy treatment, various surgical procedures and chronic back pain. My work as a labor and delivery nurse was adversely affected as I found myself tired, over stressed and too uncomfortable to perform the duties associated with my position. I decided to take an office position in 2000 to let my body rest. During the five years in that position I became very depressed, I gained excessive weight and I began to consume an excessive amount of alcohol. I believe that I was attempting to anesthetize myself so that I would not feel anything. I was about to have my 45th birthday in May of 2005 and I decided that I wanted to
do something about my poor physical condition. I found myself in a Dahn Center and I immediately signed up for the 6-month intensive program, which included 3 workshops. I felt strong energy awakenings from the very first class and found myself very confused and frightened because I had no prior experience or knowledge of energy and I was not accustomed to feeling anything in my body. I reluctantly agreed to trial the group healing class and I stopped after one month because I was skeptical about the expense, the time commitment and the benefits of the exercises. Something prompted me to continue and I found myself returning to group healing classes for 1 day/week from January to June. One aspect of healing involved being guided to watch my habits, my emotions and my body’s response to my emotions. I became awakened to the stiffness and rigidness of my intestines through abdominal massage and then I gradually witnessed my intestines soften with daily morning abdominal massage. The next step for me involved learning to focus my attention to isolate and move each individual organ through an exercise called “organ dancing.” I’m now able to sense and feel more subtle and deeper vibrations in my spine.Through this healing process I have become sensitized to the effects of fear on my kidneys, my bladder and their associated meridians. Because this healing process for me involved pushing through a great deal of fear, I now feel that I have more insight to my body’s way of holding fear and the association with my urinary cancer. I have lost 55 pounds, stopped drinking alcohol completely, stopped all of my prescription medications for depression and anxiety and I have returned to patient care nursing on the OB unit. I am enjoying good health again for the first time since 1997.
Lately my personal exercise practice has included 300 bows per day. I have only been doing it a couple of weeks, but it has been amazing so far. It has taught me how important deep and thorough circulation is to my body, mind, and spirit. It helps me connect to my essence, or true self, a least a little every day, so it feels truly special.
Since the last Shim Sung in Boston in November, a group of Shim Sung recent and former graduates have been doing a 21 day followup training that includes bowing exercise. It is amazing to see their shining faces when they come out of the training. They seem to be transforming themselves a little every day. That’s one thing that is amazing to me about Dahn Yoga. One simple practice repeated consistently can connect you to your true self!
The Healing Chakra Workshop was held in Boston this past Saturday at the Courtyard Marriott Tremont Hotel. I loved the workshop when I took it myself, and I’ve heard nothing but good news about this past one. One participant said that he hadn’t felt this healthy in 15 years. That’s really a great example of how tied what we call in Dahn our 3 bodies really are: our physical body, energy body, and spiritual (informational) body. We can improve our overall health by improving any of these three bodies. At the workshop I think they worked on all 3 
When my children were young, I used to take them to Karate lessons and usually waited until the lessons were finished to take them home. I never took the classes myself, Karate and martial arts were simply not for me, not until I joined Dahn Yoga where I started to learn DahnMuDo, which are variations of Tai Chi forms. I signed up for the center workshops and enjoyed them immensely, and finally attended DahnMuDo school in Sedona this September.
This is the most amazing and intense training I have ever been to. I had a recent injury on my knee (torn meniscus) and had a small operation and was afraid that, through extensive use of my knee in this program, it would tear again. But my knees and my legs actually became stronger and I was able to use them more vigorously and without any pain.
The training was very intense. We had an exceptional trainer and through her comprehensive way of training we learned what seemed to be impossible within 2 weeks. We were so busy learning and practicing everyday that I did not notice any changes in me until after I returned to New York when I started to feel my body; I can actually feel the inside of my whole back. My body seems to be coming alive and it feels wonderful. I do sometimes feel my heart and my Dahn-Jon (lower abdomen energy center), but never before did I feel my body the way I do now. It gives me a renewed sense of love and respect for myself: my body, my mind and spirit as a whole. There is this immense joy of being alive in every sense, life is just so beautiful.
I am looking forward to practicing and learning deeper with my body. Through consistent practice, I know that I will become very healthy and happy, and grow spiritually. I sincerely hope that everyone, regardless of age can join this program and have the same experience as I did.
I would like to thank Instructor Kim for her wonderful training, her firm but encouraging directions and instructions. I am grateful to have team practices where I learn to be patient, to listen and to accept advice and criticism. I love the drumming lessons through which I can release and express my inner self and inner rhythm. I really appreciate all the valuable coaching and care from the training staff.
With HSP love,
Lucy msn, Great Neck Center, NY
Katherine at DahnMuDo School
For most of my life, I have searched for ways to improve my scoliosis. My journey eventually led me to DahnMuDo School. My goal before going to DahnMuDo School was to straighten my spine to the degree to be out of the range of having scoliosis. I was diagnosed with scoliosis when I was 13 years old. When I was 12 years old, I was kidnapped. This was a very traumatic and physically, mentally, and emotionally exhausting experience. After being kidnapped, my spine became out of alignment. When I was 13, my back hurt constantly. My parents took me to the doctor and the doctors said that the only solution would be to do surgery and put a metal rod in my spine. Thankfully, my parents were against this idea. Instead of surgery, they sent me to a woman that they had heard about that taught exercises, called phsiosynthesis, from her home. By doing these exercises, I was able to relieve my pain, avoid surgery, and straighten my spine a little bit. In 2004, I started going to a Chiropractor in hopes to strengthen and straighten my spine more. I did have some improvements, but in 2005, the Chiropractor said that he felt that my spine was as good as it would ever be and his goal for me now was to maintain the health of my spine and hopefully I will still be able to turn my neck in 20 years. I was told by both medical doctors and a chiropractor that there was no chance that my condition could ever improve. This news was very upsetting to me. At the time, my son was taking karate lessons. I was talking with his karate teacher, Master Bob, who is also a qigong master. He started explaining to me about energy and he felt that anything could get better and he felt that I could heal myself. I decided to give this a try and started to learn all that I could about energy and healing myself. I am so thankful that Master Bob opened up this area of life for me. I took qigong classes from him for about a year and learned a lot about energy. I was able to make improvements in my spine and enjoyed the process of qigong. In the summer of 2006, I started attending classes at Dahn and continued my training in energy. I became much more flexible and stronger. In July 2007, my center’s head instructor – Donnie, suggested that I attend DahnMuDo School. I am so glad that he encouraged me to go. Although not always fun, DahnMuDo School was truly a life changing experience. First, we worked on loosening our muscles, meridians and joints and doing a lot of brain respiration so the left and right hemispheres of our brains would communicate more effectively and be more flexible. My brain was so tired. The days were so long and then we would meet early in the morning, as the sun would rise. Even though we did not sleep much and exercised so much, we were able to accumulate more energy and not feel tired. We learned to use our internal energy for our physical movements. As the days went on, I could feel my spine becoming more flexible and by looking in the mirror, my spine looked straighter.
After about a week into the program, I had an unusual experience. We were practicing Un-ki-bo-hyeong-gong. Instructor Jang told us to make the movements with our breath – to breathe in to the count of 5 as we move and then breathe out to the count of 5 as we move. This sounds simple enough, however as I would breathe in, at first, I was unable to breathe in slowly. I inhaled very fast and then I had to wait until the end of the count of 5 and when it was time to breathe out, my lungs started to spasm. It was as if my lungs did not want to let the air out. I could not tell if I needed to inhale or exhale. I felt that I never had air in my lungs. It was a horrible experience. Tears were rolling down my face and I really wanted to stop. I continued so that I could learn whatever it was that I needed to learn. I am thankful for instructor Jang – as he helped me get through this. I kept looking over at him and I could feel his strength, peace, and compassion…..and he helped me to know that I had the strength to continue. I am so glad that I did continue because what I learned was amazing. It became clear to me that I did not want to let my air out because my body did not trust that there would be more air if I did let it out. It sounds strange because clearly, there is air available to breathe at any time. When I was kidnapped, I was strangled and suffocated many times. I now realize that, at that time, I formed an unconscious preconception and my body didn’t trust that there would be air for another breath. So, as I continued this exercise and my lungs were spasming, I started to tell myself that I trust that there will be air for my next breathe…I trust there will be air….I trust there is air…..Eventually, I was able to do the exercise and breathe to the count of 5 without a problem. At that moment, I felt such peace. For 30 years, my body was feeling like each breathe could be my last so I had a tension and slight background feeling of being uncomfortable…almost a slight panic feeling…constantly and I didn’t know why. When I told myself that I trust that there is air, this feeling went away. Ahhhhhhh! My lungs relaxed, my chest relaxed, my back relaxed. I was so tight before…trying to hold on to the air. I realized that when I had this uncomfortable feeling, I would label the feeling – incorrectly. For instance, I was trying to learn the vortex sword form – which is very challenging – I had that feeling in the background and interpreted the feeling that I could not do the form…I felt anxious about it and like I wasn’t good enough. After putting this all together and identifying that the feeling I was having was that my body didn’t trust that more air was available and after telling myself that I do trust that there is air, that background feeling was gone and I was able to learn the vortex sword form –confidently, quickly and without a problem. So I now have more peace and more self confidence.
I am so thankful for all of my teachers and people who believe in me. I hope by sharing my story that others can see how preconceptions can rule their life (without even knowing it) and by becoming more conscious of your body, you can find peace and become the master of your body, mind and spirit – to attain mastery over your life. Everyone has preconceptions – both conscious and unconscious. I hope my story has people become more conscious and see what their own preconceptions are. I also hope that by sharing my x-rays, that people can see that it is possible to heal their body. That even if doctors say healing is not possible, it is important to keep a positive mind and the determination to take action. I hope my x-rays will give people confidence to continually try their best, despite the odds – like their life depends on it – because ANYTHING is possible!
Katherine Stone
July 10, 2007 DMD School
Irvine center, CA
