LEVELS: ALLROOM TEMPERATURE: 92-95 DEGREESDURATION: 60-75 MINUTESThis Power Flow heated class will provide more time and instruction fly yoga groupon explore and practice a wide array of arm balances in a way that will dissolve fear and create lightness and playfulness! The class is open to students of all levels looking to establish a foundation and grow stronger in their practice, with a focus on arm balancing poses. Bring your curiosity and we will soar together!

LEVELS: ALLROOM TEMPERATURE: 92-95 DEGREESDURATION: 60 MINUTESLike our Power Flow class, but slowed down. This all-level class following the Baptiste Vinyasa Power Yoga philosophy, gives particular emphasis to body alignment, principles of breath, and modifications for greater accessibility. LEVELS: ALLROOM TEMPERATURE: 80-85 DEGREESDURATION: 60 MINUTESIf Power Flow is a little too fast for you and the Slow Flow is a little too warm, then Yin Flow may be just right! It slows everything down in an unheated room. Yin Flow energizes the body, mind and heart, leaving you feeling strong, stretched and relaxed by the end of the class. Instruction is detailed and modifications are many, so it is also a great class for beginners, and those with different types of physical limitations. Yin Flow is also known as Vin Yin or Yinvasa.

ROOM TEMPERATURE: 78-82 DEGREESDURATION: 60-75 MINUTESYin Yoga is a gentle and relaxing all-level class that works deeply into the connective tissues and joints of the hips, pelvis, and lower spine and is suitable to all levels of students through extended holds of postures. LEVELS: ALLROOM TEMPERATURE: 78-82 DEGREESDURATION: 60 MINUTESIn this class, you will be lead through a relaxing MEDITATION practice followed by YOGA NIDRA. The Meditation will soothe the nervous system and still the mind, while relieving the stresses of the day, thus preparing the mind and body for Yoga Nidra or yogic sleep. In truth, the reason why I haven’t written about the Dahn Yoga controversy is because I don’t know much about the practice. So last month when 24 practitioners filed suit in an Arizona U. District Court alleging the organization was a cult which mentally coerced them and defrauded them, I decided to learn more. Dahn yoga is a Korean system founded by Ilchi Lee which most closely resembles non-violent martial arts such as qi gong.

Through the practice of simple exercises of the brain and body, Dahn yoga claims to enhance the mind body connection, also known as Brain Education. Based in Oriental Medicine, it includes asana like exercises and meditation elements. The practice is meant to lower stress levels, release tension, and improve quality of life. I have been practicing Dahn for more then five years and I am very happy to open a dialogue with you about it. I remember an ashtanga teacher who I studied with who had often referred to yoga as the union of body and mind.

I believe that yoga as well as Dahn are hard to define with words. Rather, I appreciate the beauty and infiniteness that is inside of us. It is how I grow through and use my practice which is important to me. Anyway, I am really happy with Dahn, and I am having a great experience. My opinion came only from the research I’ve done independently.

I agree with you that the suffix yoga is not an entirely accurate word to describe the Dahn practice. The name Yoga became associated with Dahn when Dahn came to the United States. It was used as the closest word that American people would be able recognize that describes the practice. However, as I stated before, I also believe that it is not entirely inaccurate. Yoga has become more then just a tradition, it has a broader meaning that can be used to describe many different types of mind body union practices such as Tao yoga and taoist yoga which are also coming for eastern culture. Someone could accurately refer the breathing, stretching or meditation that they do on their own in the privacy of their own home as yoga. In some cases, even the traditional forms of yoga being taught are often watered down to the point of being simply exercise.

However, in my experience, Dahn has always been authentic. Perhaps the practice will eventually drop the suffix yoga. Either way the practice itself is a powerful tool for physical health, mental wellness, energetic balance, and spiritual development. If you do get a chance I would recommend trying it out. Center locations are available at dahyoga. It has nothing to do with yoga. Its roots do not come from yoga.

As Healthybodyhappyheart noted, the name was changed to market Dhan to Americans, to make this practice sound safe and familiar. Seems the antiquity of Sundo’s lineage is based on Korean mythology, folklore, and Korean 13th century scripture, which goes the same for Ilchi Lee’s Dahnhak. Many Koreans believe the nationalist sentiment that the entire Korean race descend from Tangun, the son of a god and a bear who the god helped become a woman. I read that Sundo was made popular in the 60’s in Korea by a man who claimed to have lived in the mountains for decades under a teacher who told him to spread the practice. If you believe that the original ancient Korean society existed as an advanced spiritual, shamanist, taoist society in regions that later were claimed by China, you can argue that Taoism originated in Korea and later influenced Chinese culture. I think that you are using a very narrow of a view point Timothy.

The word is associated with meditative practices in Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism. Hindu philosophy, and to the goal toward which that school directs its practices. Major branches of yoga in Hindu philosophy include Raja Yoga, Karma Yoga, Jnana Yoga, Bhakti Yoga, and Hatha Yoga. Raja Yoga, compiled in the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, and known simply as yoga in the context of Hindu philosophy, is part of the Samkhya tradition.