Stress

My personal understanding of stress is when I have lost control of my brain.  When I am stressed, then I have let my thoughts and emotions become master.  They run around out of my control, with focus on negative or unhelpful energy.  Stress happens, but how quickly can we recover from it?  What training works?  So far Dahn yoga is the best way for me to handle my stress.  Most of my life stress has ruled and life has been very difficult, but through Dahn now I have tools to cope with my stress.  It is still my responsibility to choose to use those tools and do the work to release the stress, otherwise I am stuck in it. 

Dahn Yoga: The power of Yoga

The power of yoga

Stars do it. Sports do it. Judges in the highest courts do it. Let’s do it: that yoga thing. A path to enlightenment that winds back 5,000 years, yoga has suddenly become so hot, so cool, so very this minute. It’s the exercise cum meditation for the new millennium, one that doesn’t so much pump you up as bliss you out. Yoga now straddles the coninent — from Hollywood, where $20 million-a-picture actors queue for a session with their guru du jour, to Washington, where in the gym of the Supreme Court, Justice Sandra Day O’Connor and 15 other faithfully take their class each Tuesday morning.

Everywhere else, Americans rush from their high-pressure jobs and tune in to the authoritatively mellow voice of an instructor, gently urging them to solder a union (the literal translation of the Sanskrit word yoga) between mind and body. These Type A strivers want to become Type B seekers, to lose their blues in an asana (pose), to graduate from distress to de-stress. Fifteen million Americans include some form of yoga in their fitness regimen — twice as many as did five years ago; 75% of all U.S. health clubs offer yoga classes. Many in those classes are looking not inward but behind. As supermodel Christy Turlington, a serious practitioner says “Some of my friends simply want to have a yoga butt.” But others come to the discipline in hopes of restoring their troubled bodies. Yoga makes me feel better, they say. Maybe it can cure what ails me.

The article above is from Time Magazine. I hope many people can benefit from Dahn Yoga. Thank you.

Cool Brain

A cool shoulder and cool head makes for a happy body!

Space and Time

In the process of allowing yourself space and time to come to an understanding, there is real peace involved.  I have discovered through Dahn training that when I surrender and release my attachment to understanding, then the understanding comes.  I’m not talking knowledge, but real awareness.  This is a good lesson that Dahn yoga has taught me.

Dahnjon Clapping

Now I see the benefit of this exercise.  I can feel the vibration in my body and in my brain.  I feel clearer and more focused.  This is so powerful!