Sooji Jung plays healing music- of the heart, and of the piano- while managing Harvard Square Dahn Yoga Center
I was unsatisfied. Yes, I was married and had a good job, but I simply was not happy. I still felt I did not finish my search for what I really want for my one precious life. I wanted to do something meaningful. I wanted to feel alive, worthy. I wanted to wake up in the morning excited about what would unfold today.
I needed a change, a wake-up call, so I made a drastic choice: leaving my country and my home to go to graduate
school in US. I was a piano player since I was 5, and heard about healing people through music and I really wanted to do that. That desire led me to Boston to enroll in Lesley University for the Expressive Arts Therapy program.
While in graduate school in Boston, I began an inner journey that turned out to be the journey I was searching for- the journey to my true self. It started when I found a Dahn Yoga center near my school in Somerville, MA. I had already practiced Dahn Yoga in Korea for about 1 year when I was in undergraduate school in Korea. I remembered how I was fascinated by the existence of energy; feeling it made me open my eyes to a whole new world that I’d never experienced before. It felt so comforting, so true and pure. I remember thinking at that time, ‘Oh, I want to know more about this energy’ , but many other distractions in life pulled me away.
The second time around, while already pursuing my love for healing through music, I could follow my attraction to this energy I felt all the way to the end. I realized the energy that I felt was the gateway for connecting to my deeper self, my soul. My soul is the purest form of that energy, and connecting with it awakened me deeply to my true purpose in my life: to truly love, unconditionally love, and to heal myself and others. When I realized it, it was that simple and true. I became truly happy that I could find my purpose and why I am here on this earth with this human form.
A while back, I came across this picture, a female catholic saint playing the organ looking up the heaven. It struck a deep chord in me the first time I saw it, and I still have it with me. Even if I was not a religious person, I always believed there was some power bigger than me, and I would go back to heaven when I leave this physical form. Now, the picture serves as inspiration to me, a reminder that I want my existence on earth to resemble that pure heart and love of heaven.
I feel lucky and grateful to have found this path that I am walking on as a Dahn yoga teacher and practitioner. Now, along with the piano, I play an internal instrument: my true heart and love, something which can touch everyone’s heart. I play songs with members having their goals, obstacles , and limitations as notes to play.
Sooji Jung is the Center Manager of the Dahn Yoga and Healing Center in Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA. To learn more about her and her center, please visit www.dahnyoga.com/harvard/.
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