Dahn Yoga

Lie down comfortably. Have both of your hands side of your body having your palms facing upward. Breathe in and out naturally and slowly. Focus on your breathing. Feel your body. Once you feel that you are centered and calm, raise your hands and feet. Straighten the elbow and flex the wrist. Your palms should face upward. Bend your knees to 90 degrees. Bend the ankles to 90 degrees too.

You can feel that your lower abdomen is naturally tensed. As you breathe in and out, you might be able to feel that your lower abdomen goes up and down naturally. Keep the posture for 5 minutes. If you feel your lower back hurt, don’t push yourself too much.

This is called the Sleeping Tiger posture. This posture helps a practitioner strengthen the lower abdomen and accumulate energy. It’s great for circulating fresh energy in the body and releasing stress and tension.

One of the hottest trends in the tourism field is the integration of hospitality with ecology and sustainability. A leader in this area is the Tao Fellowship, a nonprofit foundation with the mission “Love for the Earth and Love for Humanity.”

The best way to describe Tao Fellowship’s expression of its commitment to ecotourism and sustainability is the term eco-harmony. Humans are the children of the Earth and the Earth is our mother.

Tao Fellowship’s most complete example of its ecotourism commitment is the Sedona Mago Garden, which has accumulated many green credentials and it has plans for more. Mago means Mother Earth in several Asian cultures.

Partnering with the Institute of Ecotourism, Sedona, Tao Fellowship’s Mago Garden earned Five Leaves, the highest level possible on the Green Checklist, a system for evaluating eco-sensitive and sustainability performance. On a 100-point scale, an organization needs a score over 90 to get the Five Leaves designation. Very few businesses in the greater Sedona area come close to Tao Fellowship’s achievement of earning the highest category.

Tao Fellowship has used its goals and resources at Mago Garden for 10 years to create a paradise on Earth in Sedona. With its unique natural beauty and vortex-energy amid Coconino National Forest, the 160-acre Mago Garden has become an ideal environment for the renewal, training, and healing for guests from around the world. Tao Fellowship is not just talking the talk but instead genuinely walking the walk.

Because of Tao Fellowship’s development of Mago Garden, innovative holistic training programs aim to enhance health, happiness and peace, based on the Brain Education System Training (BEST) methods, developed by Ilchi Lee during the past 30 years, first in South Korea and lately in Sedona. The perfection of Nature at Mago Garden provides a prime force to help all guests and training participants learn, heal and grow.

The Tao Fellowship has pursued a strategy for Mago Gardeb that enhances its natural setting – with its mountains, hills, red rocks, gardens, a lake, ponds, and abundant greenery. Also regarding facilities at Mago Retreat, Tao Fellowship has created a genuine harmony with Nature based on green criteria – regarding its meeting rooms, guest rooms, meditation areas, pool-spa, horse stables, and a water management system.