Comments on: The Woo Around Us: Dahn Yoga

By: bharper

bharper — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 16:11:56 +0000

As an employee of several local Boston Dahn Yoga centers, I want to point out that everything written on this website and in the comments can be deemed as a “big misunderstanding”.

It is so unfortunate that such well intentioned and positive actions can be so grossly misinterpreted by the general public. But, such is the reality of trying to raise awareness and conciousness of human beings.

If you are not sure if Dahn Yoga is good or bad, you simply need to walk into a Dahn Yoga center and speak honestly with one of the long time instructors. You will quickly find a depth of love and sincereity that you have not likely encountered before

Dahn Yoga daily helps thousands of people across this country and the globe recover their natural health and vitality through simple mind-body techniques.

Americans are loosing touch with themselves, with their bodies and with their minds. If you need proof, just walk down any street and look at the general health condition of our population. We are overweight, smoking, drinking, aimless and lost. Dahn yoga is working tirelessly to reconect and rejuvinate our human potential and natural essence for the good of all.

Please check your facts before spreading such harmful garbage for your own pleasure.

By: Maria

Maria — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 03:09:18 +0000

With the coming of new students this Fall, Dahn Yoga in Cambridge was recruiting on the streets for free classes. There is no harm at first, but they are weirdly pushy when it comes to signing up for a set of classes. Not the kind of atmosphere you want when you are supposed to be relaxing and stretching, anyway.

By: Will Walden

Will Walden — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 04:39:50 +0000

Great to read this write up. I live near Sedona where this drama continues to unfold. The 3000 bows – true. People getting injured doing shim-sung – true. Business activity at the Mago Retreat, supposedly a non-profit “religious” retreat – true. Not getting a permit to put up a statue – true. Oh there’s more and a lot of it came out in the Rolling Stone article. And yes, Ilchi Lee is driven around in his hummer in Sedona. Exhorbitant membership costs – true. Best of all, yes it is true that the staff encourage prospective members to put the course fees on their credit cards if the member can’t afford to pay any other way. Most folks go broke and then are “shunned” being found “no longer worthy”!

By: Akiko

Akiko — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:43:55 +0000

BrainWellCenter.com
Dr. Lee is still working under Ilchi ?

By: John

John — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 23:03:07 +0000

ALERT: Law firm preparing new lawsuit on behalf of New England residents against DAHN YOGA & HEALTH CENTERS, INC. and related parties. Please provide details of your experiences including recruitment, indoctrination, psychological and financial manipulation, coercion and undue influence resulting in the spending of excessive amounts of money on DAHN services and other illegal activities. Contact jff@finnertylawoffices.com. Thank you.

By: Demitri Pevzner

Demitri Pevzner — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 23:30:15 +0000

There is currently a thread on the bullshido.net forum discussing this issue.

http://www.bullshido.net/forums/showthread.php?t=18606&page=17

Mr. Croft, would you be willing to provide some of your comments on the topic?

By: antidahn

antidahn — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 04:25:28 +0000

this organization, in my opinion, is a mind controlling cult. I fought them for over a year trying to get a loved one out. I hired a professional therapist who specializes in cults in order to get proper guidance. It has been scary to see the changes my loved one has gone through as she worked for them. In one year she gave up her life long religious beliefs and now has a picture of Ilchi Lee over their bed. That is something someone does for an object of worship. Relationships with family and friends have been damaged or destroyed. Anyone who questions Dahn is quickly removed from her life. She left a good paying job to work for Dahn at near minimum wage and doesn’t get paid for all the hours worked. We recently attempted an intervention that ended up failing to break their grip.

In my opinion if you have issues that you are seeking help with, stay away from Dahn. They will get that information out of your during healing sessions and shim sung and then exploit that information to get you to spend money on more training. My loved one is nearly $20k in debt in less than two years because of this place. Does this sound like a healthy place to be?

By: James Croft

James Croft — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 18:07:16 +0000

@Jared:

Indeed – and in fact this Mayor made May 6th “Brain Education Day”, so they have TWO days in the year it seems =S

I also notice in their article they make no mention of the rather long speech I gave during the Q&A about pseudoscience and the need to be critical. No surprise there…

By: Jared

Jared — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 18:01:36 +0000

@James Croft:

Thanks for pointing that out! I couldn’t find too many references to the event NOT on a Dahn-affiliated site, so I just used what was available :)

Glad to hear that Mayor Simmons caught on about Dahn’s dark side. Unfortunately, Dahn will always be able to claim Cambridge as an ally thanks to the actions of the previous mayor. They’ll be boasting about “Ilchi Lee Day” from now on, no matter what.

By: James Croft

James Croft — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 17:51:24 +0000

I would like to point out that I was at the Dahn Yoga Forum at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and it was not “sponsored” by the school – they simply provided the space. When I made the school aware of the pseudoscientific nonsense that suffused the three hour presentation (and the vaguely disturbing chanting they encouraged us to do) the Dean ofthe School was appalled, and has reviewed HGSE’s policies regarding which organizations to rent its space to.

Furthermore, I did write to the mayor about her endorsement of this nonsense, and did receive a very swift reply from her office saying they were also appalled, had confronted Dahn Yoga, and had received an extremely unsatisfactory resonse (the mayor’s representative described it as “scary”). The mayor’s office has also reviewed their policies, I am told.

James Croft
Harvard Graduate School of Education