| Doctors say that they can treat only 20% of the | | | | possessed. I stopped my medication for allergy, a |
| problems that patients bring to them. As for the | | | | chronic struggle that had been with me for half of |
| other 80%, in most cases, the problems can be | | | | my life. I no longer need to use artificial teardrops for |
| traced to excessive stress. This all-too-common | | | | my dry eyes. Virtually all my physical ailments just |
| aspect of modern life causes a profusion of physical | | | | miraculously disappeared." |
| and emotional conditions. High stress is likely to be | | | | Typically, highly satisfied Dahn Yoga members share |
| involved in contributing to the 20% that doctors can | | | | their positive experience with their family, friends and |
| treat. | | | | acquaintances. According to Julie, "My friends and |
| Is there a solution to dealing with the 80%? For | | | | co-workers noticed that I was always smiling and |
| many people in the United States and worldwide, the | | | | looking younger. After I introduced Dahn Yoga to |
| answer is Dahn Yoga & Health Centers , a holistic | | | | them and they joined a center, they too changed for |
| health fitness system based on Brain Education, | | | | the better. At work, we Dahn Yoga members |
| developed by Ilchi Lee. | | | | became a happy supportive group, known for our |
| The power of Dahn Yoga to help when people are | | | | frequent laughter and occasional parties. My whole |
| not aging well, with a variety of major and minor, | | | | family now practices Dahn Yoga. While it took a long |
| temporary and persistent, physical and mental (and | | | | time for my husband to be convinced that Dahn |
| even life purpose and inner peace) problems is | | | | Yoga might benefit him, now he goes there willingly, |
| exemplified by the case of Julie, in her early 60s and | | | | without any coaching from me." |
| living in the Northeast. She has practiced Dahn Yoga | | | | Besides the physical improvements attributable to |
| for seven years. | | | | Dahn Yoga practice, members usually feel an |
| Ten years before she joined a Dahn Yoga center, | | | | elevation of their self-confidence and self-esteem. |
| Julie's health was at low ebb. This is how she | | | | This happened with Julie, "Through the many |
| described it, "I would feel sick with a headache for | | | | programs and workshops that I attended, I grew |
| days whenever I did physical exercises. So by the | | | | stronger internally. Although I still have ups and |
| time I found Dahn, I felt miserable and frustrated, | | | | downs, I know that my inner core is full of love and |
| my body seemed to be falling apart, my stress level | | | | joy. Whenever I have struggles these days, I reach |
| was extremely high, and my energy level was | | | | deep down into myself, and find the love and |
| nonexistent." | | | | support within to face and work out my problems. |
| For many people starting Dahn Yoga, there is a | | | | Through volunteering at my Dahn Yoga center with |
| moment when they realize that they have found a | | | | teaching classes and supporting members, I can feel |
| healing home. As Julie explained hers, "I started out | | | | my heart reaching out to them with love, hope and |
| with a trial class at the Dahn Yoga center. During the | | | | compassion. |
| deep breathing relaxation part of the regular class, I | | | | "I completed a DahnMuDo Healing Martial Art |
| felt as if I did not know how to breathe. I was | | | | workshop which was a profound training for me at |
| almost gasping for air. The gentle instructor helped to | | | | my age. After the workshop, my tension was |
| release my body's tension and calm me down. Then | | | | released from my muscles; I can actually feel the |
| for a brief moment I was actually meditating. At that | | | | inside of my whole back; I had never felt my body in |
| moment, I knew that Dahn Yoga was the right place | | | | this way. It gives me a renewed sense of love and |
| for me." | | | | respect for myself - my body, my mind and spirit as |
| The majority of members who stay with Dahn Yoga | | | | a whole. Now I have a daily feeling of immense joy in |
| make steady and sometimes quite amazing progress. | | | | being alive in every sense. Life is just so beautiful!" |
| Julie tells her story, "At the beginning, I was reserved | | | | Through 600 Dahn Yoga centers worldwide - |
| and a typical bystander. Slowly I got more involved | | | | currently in the United States, Canada, South Korea, |
| and became a teaching assistant. My energy and | | | | Japan, United Kingdom, Germany, Russia and Brazil), |
| outlook started to change. I began to feel peaceful, | | | | around 1,000,000 people use its methods daily. In the |
| happy and very energetic. I was often asked by the | | | | U.S. since 1991, 120 Dahn Yoga centers can be found |
| Dahn Yoga instructors to stretch to my limit, which | | | | in 15 metropolitan areas. |
| brought out talents that I never suspected that I | | | | |