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This training is to bring separated divinity into the original Oneness. Through the process of meditation, you will bring body and mind, logic and emotion, False-Self and True-Self, and all other forms of duality together. As you meditate in this position, your breath will deepen naturally and your body will be replenished with energy.

Touch your fingertips together. Since all meridians of the body are connected through the fingertips, this brings all energies of the organs and Chakras together. The place of emptiness is the place where duality no longer exists. This is the place of pure conscious­ness where cleansing and purification occur. This meditation will return you to yourself, beyond all space and time. This meditation will allow you to meet with the essence of life before it had a name. You may practice this meditation in any comfortable position, sit­ting or standing.

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Of darkness and stagnation. Bars that imprison the soul, Fear, doubt, hatred, attachment… Draw out all of these energies. Brighten your sixth Chakra With a silvery-white light, Translucent and beautiful…

Now imagine the cosmic energy connecting the sixth and seventh Chakras, as the brightly shining Big Dipper Descends into your Baek-hwe and In-dang. Let your soul assume the shape of a bird and fly from the lotus flower of the seventh Chakra…

The soul, pure and white freed from the bars of preconceptions and attachment. flies away into the blue sky…

Your soul exists with true freedom in the infinite space of the cosmos…

Breathe in and out three times and raise your consciousness slowly to the surface.

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As your breathing deepens, the flower opens wide, its roots extending in all directions…

As the flower blossoms, your soul blooms beautifully, communicating freely with cosmic energy, bringing the message of the cosmos through the beauty of the lotus flower…

Now, with both hands, envelop the sixth Chakra. A golden light is seeping through your sixth Chakra, Heaven’s Palace…

Energy emanating from your hands is going into the cells deep inside your brain. It softly soothes the brain stem, awakening the pure soul sleeping therein.

Meet the light of life That existed before your name in the palace of the sixth Chakra…

“I am eternal, without beginning or end.” “I am light, sound, and vibration existing by itself.” “Light, sound, and vibration are my reality.” “Until now, my soul was imprisoned by a name.” “Until now, my soul was caged by a body.” “Now I am free of my body… and my name…”

From the Baek-hwe, In-dang, and the temples… From the four points of your head, You are drawing out the energy.

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As we enter the world of the limbic system, we realize that we share the same emotional and instinctual make up, a commonality found to an even more profound degree in the brain stem through which we are all tethered to the same life energy that animates the cosmos.

-from “Brain Respiration” by Ilchi Lee

We are sharing our life energy.

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Brain Wave Vibration created by Ilchi Lee is a rhythmical training method; it begins with moving your body to the beat of music, and from there the sensation expands as you find your body’s natural rhythm. In a sense, you could say you are calibrating your brain to get back in sync with your body.

People use rhythm instinctively to help calm their own brain waves. When a baby cries or fusses, asks Ilchi Lee, what does a mother do? She rocks and gently bounces the baby until the baby quiets down. No one had to teach the mother how to do this; she does so very naturally. Children will also rock and bounce themselves on their own to calm themselves, if the parent is not there.

In Korea, we teach children the do-ri do-ri movement, which is strikingly similar to basic Brain Wave Vibration. The child rocks the head side to side and repeats, “Do-ri do-ri,” which translates as “truth” or “principle.” Because many energy pathways meet at the neck, Ilchi Lee adds, it is thought to advance children’s development, especially brain development.

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Ilchi Lee likes to demonstrate this for people because it also demonstrates how to live in harmony with the flow of life, letting each note come as it will, without resistance or judgment. To me the difference between great musicians and an ordinary ones lies not in how they play the music but in how they play with the music. Likewise, we must learn to play with the reality of our lives by living completely in the flow and rhythm of each moment, rather than trying to play it according to the preconceptions and restrictions of the past.

Many years ago, Ilchi Lee developed a training method called Dahnmu, which is meant to open people completely to this sort of universal rhythm. The word dahn refers to the basic, vital energy of life, and mu means “dance”; thus it could be called “energy dance” in English. In this practice, says Ilchi Lee, which is a form of Brain Wave Vibration, you are encouraged to let go of all limitations and simply follow the energy of the moment, letting the flow of energy move your body as it will.

Serendipitously, the word mu can also translate as “nothingness.” The state of mu, or nothingness, is achieved during Brain Wave Vibration when the mind is truly empty of thought, and you are able to simply follow the rhythms of life without hesitation. According to Ilchi Lee, at this point, the boundaries of your body cease to exist, and you may experience a profound sense of oneness – first with the rhythms of your own body and ultimately with the universal rhythms of all life as your sense of separation fades away.

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Ilchi Lee says in his new book, Brain Wave Vibration, that in reality, when you respond to a piece of music, nothing actually changes in the world around you. Do you respond to a happy tune with a smile because that song somehow fixed all your problems? Of course not. Your life condition remains the same, with or without the song. But something did change – something within your brain – that allowed your perspective on life to change as well.

Dancing with Energy

Did you know that Ilchi Lee is a musician? He has not received training in the usual way, but Ilchi Lee often plays instruments during my lectures, including flutes, ocarinas, gongs, chimes, and other sorts of folk instruments.

As he plays, Ilchi Lee does not follow any written music, just what comes naturally to me through the flow of energy. He says “During the experience, I am transported, and I hope the audience along with me, into the movement of the music itself. Even if I did know how to read music, I would not use it during the lectures. If I did have a piece of music sitting in front of me, part of my awareness would be on the printed page, not in the actual pure vibration of each individual note as it is played.” Ilchi Lee continues, the point of these demonstrations is to lose oneself in the music, letting go of all thought and judgment.

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Ilchi Lee’s initial interest was to create health through the enhanced flow of energy in the body. Ilchi Lee began simply by teaching stretching exercises in a park. At first, only one person came–a man who had suffered a stroke. Ilchi Lee worked with him to stretch his body and to open the meridians that carry energy through his body. Overtime, he gained more and more movement, attaining a remarkable degree of recovery.

As Ilchi Lee gathered a larger number of students, Lee worked on developing more training methods, hoping to find the simplest, most effective means of returning people to physical, mental and spiritual health. The results included Dahn Yoga, DahnMuDo (a gentle form of martial art), Jung Choong Breathing, and many other healing exercises and techniques. Many of these are very effective, but they all require a certain amount of guidance to understand and practice. He was still seeking simplest mode of healing, one that could be instantly understood and practiced by anyone.

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Wow! Ilchi Lee hosted Brain Education conference at the UN conference room #4 on June 20th 2008.

Over 400 educators and parents from the United States participated in the conference, as well as educators and members of foreign IBREA chapters from South Korea, Japan, England, Germany, Israel, and Canada.

The Conference was hosted by the Korea Institute of Brain Science (KIBS, president: Ilchi Lee) and the International Brain Education Association (IBREA, chairman: Ilchi Lee) at the UN complex in New York City. According to organizers, this conference “marks a new era of awareness—that the future of education and hope for the earth depend essentially on how we access and use the brain.”

It’s great!

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Dahn centers have open classes where people can try classes for free–go to dahnyoga.com to find a listing of centers and the times and dates for open classes.  through an open class was the way I signed for membership.  I had done many yogas, but by experiencing class, i felt something so different about dahn yoga.  Open class is a great way for you to experience for yourself!

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