Dahn Yoga Health Centers in Nevada

Rosenberg

Last summer I returned to Maryland from a trip to China with digestive distress. Suddenly other health problems came up. So, at 60 years of age, I was feeling old – belying the headline I had seen in a magazine, “60 Is the New 30.” I made the rounds of physicians and alternative health practitioners, but with minimal progress. Then a friend told me about Dahn Yoga in Bethesda. I tried it, felt it made sense, liked it and committed myself to go regularly.

I feel that I am investing in improving my health for the next 30 years; otherwise I firmly doubt that I will make it in terms of quantity of years or quality of life. I embarked on a routine of hour-long yoga classes (actually they encompass an Asian-wisdom and Western brain-knowledge body-mind-spirit exercise system that is much more than yoga), transforming workshops of many hours or days, and private healing-acceleration sessions.

In a matter of months, the results have been positive, bordering on astounding Thanks to Ilchi Lee:

* My digestive trouble is under control, and without medication.
* Previously unable to walk up Metro escalators without leg pains and hyper breathing, I now take them in stride with hardly breaking a sweat.
* Compared to prior hectic three-week business trips to Japan, during the last one I raised my vitality, increased my productivity, lowered my stress, and reduced significantly the debilitating jet lag of two flights half-way-around the world.
* After decades of mild panic attacks when needles were inserted to extract blood for tests (and of singing silly songs to distract myself), now I practice a deep-breathing exercise to get through the pain with ease.
* After a surgeon suggested an operation to fix a returning hernia, abdomen-strengthening exercises have reduced its protrusion enough for me to live with it and thus avoid surgery, at least for now.
* I lost five pounds in the right place so that after 30 years I have no more potbelly.
* After a life of not being able to do real push-ups, I now can do 20, with the number going up.
* Besides feeling more fit and energetic physically, I also have greater peace and clarity to deal with stressful episodes – from traffic jams to bad service to a client complaints.

With family and friends of my generation so often paying the health price of too much stress and too little inspiration in their lives, I now see healing myself as only the stepping-stone of becoming a healer for others. And it all started with the wake-up call of an intestinal disorder in China, seven months ago!

Barbara

In October of 2000 I was diagnosed with Interstitial Cystitis a painful, chronic disease of the bladder. I had been suffering with symptoms since 1995 and was relieved to finally know what was wrong with me. The problem though was that this condition is very difficult to treat and there is not one treatment that works for everyone. In the years to follow my diagnosis, I tried many different medications and therapies. Though some of these helped, I was not able to find something that consistently helped with the pain I was going through. I had taken a year off from work and then went back only part time.

During the summer of 2006, I joined the Dahn Yoga center in Buffalo Grove. I really didn’t know much about Dahn, but was looking for a way to exercise and to hopefully improve my health. I was skeptical at first, but I started taking classes regularly and scheduled healing sessions. At the time I started doing Dahn Yoga, I was taking pain medication every morning and sometimes again later in the day. It was the only way that I could get through the day. I spent much of my free time lying on the couch with a heating pad on my abdomen. Soon my condition began to improve. I found that if I had pain at the beginning of class, it would be gone when the class was over. I learned to accept my pain and to relax my body. I became aware of habits and negative emotions that were negatively affecting my health. I could feel myself becoming stronger physically and emotionally. When I did have pain I was able to work through it. During the summer I attended Healer School and the Tao Holistic Healing Program in Sedona, Arizona. My condition continued to improve and still continues to improve on a daily basis. I no longer need pain medication regularly, and in fact have seldom taken any over this past year. Friends and family members have commented on the changes that I’ve gone through. I am now a healthier and happier person than I was before being diagnosed with IC. I am calmer, centered, focused and better able to handle problems that I encounter. I am not “cured” but my condition no longer rules my life. Dahn Yoga has helped to improve my health and my life in ways that I could only imagine before beginning this journey!

Ilchi Lee Brain Philosopher

There is no expert for human experience.  Each of us is the specialist of our own lives.  Human Technology is about living a life of creation.

1.  Return to your breath and body as tools for your health.

2.  Breathe slowly, deeply and lightly, especially when you are upset.

3.  Keep a fire in the belly and a cool head.

4.  Celebrate your sexuality with purpose and responsibility.

5.  Listen for the voice of your soul until you find your passionate life purpose.

6.  Embrace suffering and emptiness as the foundation of enlightenment.

7.  Live as your soul directs with honesty, integrity, and diligence.

8.  Train your body so that change feels better than habit.

9.  Smile and be at peace for no reason.

10.  Recognize that you are what you choose and what you act.

11.  When you need an answer, ask your brain.

12.  Remember to exhale at the moment of death.

             HEALING CHAKRA TRAINING

is a way to restore balance and harmony to our body’s CHAKRA SYSTEM.   It is also a way to restore the energy balance between humanity and today’s world. 

When you know the CHAKRAS, you will know health, happiness, and peace.  You will even know the truth of life and the universe.

from DC Metro Dahn Yoga blog:

Sometimes during training you can get frustrated — and even though you are going forward it feels like a set-back. Like feeling sad or sick. Sometimes we feel if we are “getting better” we shouldn’t feel sad, or angry, or anxious, or sick. But we have SO many layers of these feelings in our body — in continuing our training it is like opening a door — and walking forward, and then opening another door — and another — before we open a door and not only feel, but know, love and trust our true self. Acknowledge your feelings and just go through them to the next. No need to hang out in the room with them — we don’t have to relive our past — we just go to the door and open it.

from Human Technology by Ilchi Lee 

Intestinal Exercise refers to the rythmic pulling in and pushing out of the abdominal wall.  This exercise will increase the flexibility of the intestines and facilitate efficient circulation of both energy and blood.  There are many benefits to intestinal exercises including better digestion and help for headaches.

1. The exercise can be performed standing up or lying down.  Form a triangle with your thumbs and forefingers and place lightly on the lower abdomen.  Remember to curl your tailbone.
   -  When standing, have knees slightly bent and toes turned inwards.
   -  When lying, lie on your back with your legs shoulder-width apart.
2.  When pulling in, pull as if your are trying to touch your belly button to your spine.
3.  Push your abdomen out.
4.  Start with a set of fifty and work your way up.

Do not overdue this exercise in the beginning.

from Human Technology by Ilchi Lee

Su-Seung-hwa-gang means “Water Up, Fire Down”. This is the core principle for human health. When the body is in balance, the cool water energy travels upward toward the head along the back side of the body, while the hot fire energy flows down the front side of the body to the lower abdomen. This is the complete cycle of energy circulation. By repeating this circulation, life maintains its balance and continuity.

From Ilchi Lee: A Fan blog

Number 21 has a special meaning.All of us have lots of habits. Physical or Emotional,Good or bad, …… Many people agree on that changing habit seems so difficult. Because sometime we try it. It seems sucessful for a while. But sometime later, we found we are repeating it again. Then we feel hopeless about it. I have many similar experience so far.Ilchi Lee says when a person has to repeat it at least 21 days, he can say he is changing from an old habit to a new one. Because we have certain circuits in our body and brain to cause a previous habit repeatedly. To change the circuit, repetition of any other good habit instead is necessary. It takes a certain amount of time, which is 21 days.

Recently I started a 21days training for changing one of my habit not good for my body and mind. That is posture. When I work or walk, my posture seems not correct. For example, spine and neck are bent forward, Chest is not open, Shoulders are stiff. I think those postures are not good for keeping good conditions. But it was difficult to improve those postures so far. So I reminded 21 days training.

Especially, in this time, we make a group of 5 to help each other to check each other’s status for caring mind as Ilchi Lee recommended. I think that is very good idea. In many cases, we got to gave up before reaching 21 days. But when we have a colleague of 4 going together, it will be not lonely but very enjoyable. Our group decided to do that using blog ‘dahnyoga.wordpress.com’.

I believe that by changing habit we can do changing destiny.