Dahn Yoga in California

Ilchi Lee suggested that:

The three internal Dahn-jons are defined by the roles they play. The lower Dahn-jon is associated with the physical body, acting as the fuel tank in which energy is stored for circulation throughout the body. When your lower Dahn-jon becomes strengthened, the overall energy balance of your body will be restored, amplifying your natural healing power. You will exhibit more patience and drive, developing a fuller sense of self-confidence. Red is the symbolic color of the lower Dahn-jon.

The middle Dahn-jon is associated with control of the energy. It is located at the exact center of the chest, between the breasts. Because emotional energy is controlled at this point, strengthening of the middle Dahn-jon will impart a peaceful and loving feeling. Blockage of the middle Dahn-jon, which can occur due to negative emotion and stress, can have a deleterious effect on the nervous system, leading to many different diseases. The color of the middle Dahn-jon is gold.

The upper Dahn-jon is intimately associated with the spiritual aspect of our existence. When the upper Dahn-jon is strengthened, our spiritual body awakens and we feel a direct connection with the divine energy of the cosmos. Blue violet is the symbolic color of the upper Dahn-jon.

As a continuation of my last post, here are simple Dahn Yoga neck exercises for strengthening and releasing tension from your neck. Be sure to concentrate on your neck as you do the exercises.

1. Place your hands on your waist. Move your head very slowly in a large circular motion, touching your chin to your chest as it moves forward. Repeat this 5 times. Breathe naturally and make a circle in the other direction.

2. Relax your neck muscles completely and lower your chin to your chest. Clasp your hands behind your neck and relax your arms. Inhale, and using your arms, pull your chin to your chest. Hold for 5 seconds. Exhale and return. Repeat this exercise 5 times.

3. With your head facing forward, inhale and try to touch your ear to your right shoulder. Hold for 5 seconds. Exhale and return. Repeat on the left side. Repeat this motion 7 or 8 times. Move your head very slowly, with the rest of your body relaxed.

Have any problems with your stomach or digestive tract? Most of us could be healthier in that part of our body, yet our digestive health can affect our overall well-being. It is also the part of our body where we store negative emotions we’ve held onto.  Here is a simple Dahn Yoga exercise for your stomach meridian:

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.

For more than twenty-five years, we have worked to understand the truth about the brain and its role as the source and mediator of all human activity.
More importantly, we have sought knowledge about the ways that each of us can tap the brain’s virtually limitless potential for growth, happiness, and peaceful, healthful living. In our search, we have discovered a new truth about the brain: It is infinitely adaptable. Because our brains are the final determinants of our culture, consciousness, and behavior, by developing our brains as we would develop a muscle, we give ourselves the power to change our reality. Our brains make our world; it is high time we took control of
our brains to make a world we want to live in.
Brain Education System Training(BEST ) is a method through which you can develop your innate human capacities for health, well-being, achievement, and inner peace through optimal management of your brain. With BEST , you can teach your brain to become more productive and creative even as you age. You can foster greater harmony between your mind and your body and discover new joy and peace in your life and in the world around you. In essence, you can defy traditional thinking about the aging brain and enjoy more mental agility and enhanced creativity in later life.

In full Bloom – by Ilchi Lee -

The brain is the seat of our humanity. The first spark of brainwave activity
marks the beginning of each human life; the final cessation of that activity
marks that life’s end. Every experience, emotion, and memory reaches us
through the brain’s mediation. It is the source of all our art, science, and
culture. Powered by untold trillions of neural connections, we hug our children,
learn to hit a baseball, write first novels, pray to our gods, and reach
out to help our fellows in need. In practical terms, we are our brains.
Consequently, it can be disturbing to reach middle age or beyond and hear what the popular media has to say about the things that are in store for our brains as we grow older. Our culture is filled with images of aged individuals whose minds are foggy, confused, and useless.

When we think of old age and the brain, we think of words such as dementia, Alzheimer’s disease,
and Parkinson’s disease. Even if our thoughts are not concerned with such doom and gloom, conventional wisdom still tells us that finding a vigorous, creative, energetic, improving brain in an aging body is as rare as finding buried treasure at the bottom of the ocean.
None of us like to think about losing our memory or our ability to think and reason as we age. Yet that is precisely what most of us believe will happen no matter what we do. So we passively accept the notion of
becoming forgetful and assume it’s inevitable. We fret over memory lapses in our fifties and sixties and worry that we are experiencing an early onset of Alzheimer’s or some other form of dementia. We tell uneasy jokes about seniors who have lost their identities and laugh while we pray that we won’t be the butt of someone else’s joke when we’re ninety. Well, perhaps it’s high time for some myth-busting about the aging brain.

In Full Bloom -by Ilchi Lee -

The soul is pure. Since it is pure, it is simple.

It knows that it wants and it is always ready to do anything to get it.

Once you have asked your soul and received the answer through your heart, then it is time to discuss how to go about getting it with your brain.

Your brain is monitor that displays the movement of the life current and records its path.

Your brain is part of your basic equipment to help you on your journey, much like a notebook computer you take on business trip.

Always remember to “surprise your brain” Easy, familiar tasks do not offer the best stimulation for your brain or that of your child.

Tasks that are awkward at first are in fact the once that create more new connections in your brain.

So always be persistent in the mastery of these activities, and deliberately seek out new challenges for your brain.

What would you really like to do with your brain  that you’ve never than before.

Find out those things and be confident that your brain can master them, even if it does not come easily to you.

Develop the habits of brain-centered lifestyle for your family, always looking for new experiences and new challenges for your brain and that of your child.

This is the simple and fun way to build brains to last a lifetime.

Welcome  to our power brain journey.

As you and your child work through these lessons together, you will have many opportunities to smile and laugh together.

Some activities will be very familiar to you, while others may seem unuasual.

Some exercises will be easy to accomplish, and others may elicit great frustration.

Regardless of whatever tasks are at hand, please face them with an open and positive mind.

And of course, always have fun.

The best thing you can do to bring a sense of hope to your life is to discover a sense of purpose.

But how can you know your real purpose? Maybe you have searched for that for thirty or forty years and have never found the answer.

I cannot answer that question exactly for you because it is ultimately up to you.

What I do know is that whatever your mission in life, you will be of great service to humanity.

I believe that every person has a great internal desire to find a harmonious way of living on the planet and to contribute something of value to the world.

In Korean we call this the Hong-ik ideal, which refers to the desire to be beneficial, not just to yourself but to all of humanity.