Dahn Yoga in California

Tao Fellowship’s Sedona Mago Garden – Eco-Harmony in Action

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.

Holiday special class in Moraga 

Healing Night for community

Date : DEC 23. Tue  7~9pm

Place : Moraga Dahn Yoga center(452 center st. Moraga, CA 94556)

Contact : 925-377-9642, Jung Ae Kim

Who : anybody(come with your healing partner)

Contents : learn basic healing(meridian channel, acupressure points)

Fee : No admission fee.

visit : www.brainwavevibration.com   www.dahnyoga.com

My 21days Miracle story  (Dahn Yoga and Brain wave Vibration)

 Fear of the blank page, plain old inertia, writer’s block.

I was stuck. For a year my unfinished manuscript gathered dust.  I’d given up on the project, and I didn’t have the heart to start another one. Negative thoughts bombarded me. You’re a hack.  Does the world really need more bad writing? You’re too old write anything good.
I busied myself with other things, yet I felt something missing in my life.  When Master Kim offered 21 Days of Miracle Training, I signed up hoping to discover a new path.  But when she asked, What do you really want?, I realized that I want to write something beautiful before I die. To do this I needed a new attitude, as well as renewed discipline and focus.
During Brain Wave Vibration on the first day of class, I realized I want to finish the project I’d abandoned.  That day I bought new pens, a ream of paper, pulled out my research and manuscript. Getting up for class at 6 a.m. helped me establish new discipline and added two hours to my day.  BWV got me past negative thoughts and fears. As I gained focus, new ideas and words began to flow. My goal is to write every day for one hour or until I have one good page, whichever comes first. I choose to make this a priority in my life, and I dream of writing a piece good enough to be called literature.

Written by Carole H.  Moraga Dahn Yoga

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.