Your condition – physically/medically, mentally/emotionally – before you started the program?  Prior to starting the formal Outreach Program (7 years ago) , I was physically a mess.  Although I was on medication for high blood pressure and high cholesterol, I was seeing a cardiologist twice a year and her concern was always evident. Mentally without knowledge of the body and mind connection and very little understanding about focusing inside of myself, I had time only for judgments, gossip, complaining.

Ilchi Lee

Your condition – physically/medically, mentally/emotionally – now or after completing the program?       The Outreach program has no completion.  It is  without  end.   I can explain that seven years later my physical condition is excellent.  My medical condition is checked each year: cardiologist, internist, gynecologist…. Each of these entities gives me “thumbs up”.  I have just completed my yearly check up and everything is excellent.  At 66 years this is what I want to hear.  Mentally/emotionally,  this is a journey that too has no end.  As I grow in working Outreach programs, I learn more about myself.  I particular learn how to stay very much in my core, dahn jon,   Each time that I am teaching a group of individuals I am there to exchange pure energy.  From me to the individuals.  My passion to achieve this is as deep as my practice.  If I am focused, sincere and my heart is open, the individuals feel this and accept this in my teaching class.

What happened in between – or what about the program or other realizations – describe the experience, as you are aware of it – internally and externally?

Prior to seriously focusing on Outreach work, I merely put my toes into the projects I took.  I did  not give my full true self.    I had too much fear, too much ego,  too much emotions.   I continued to work my physical body in class at least three to 5 days a week.   I continued to take specialized programs, Healer School, PBM, Dahn Yoga Chun Myuong training, Chakra training, Brain Wave Vibration training, AWS, Brain Respiration programs, etc., etc.    My vision from day one, over 7 years ago,  was to give what I learn at Dahn Yoga back to my community.   My community consisted of many tentacles.

As a 12 step member,  substance abusers were definitely one tentacle  of my community.   I would receive calls over the years from  Program Directors of Senior Assisted Living environments  and be asked to give class to Seniors.  Although there is great satisfaction in bringing the “successful aging” teachings to this environment, it was not my original vision. I would continuously send proposals to different  D&A rehabilitation centers.  It took almost 5 years before one responded with a full heart and eager to have Dahn Foundation services.   I truly believe that everything that I need will come to me, if I put the work into it.   I have at the present time three (3) Outreach programs : **young people mandated to a specialized D&A program, **substance abusers with HIV and **unwed mothers .    This is now the path that I envisioned.  This is the path where I can grow my soul and give back to those that I love.

The greatest reward is how I internally feel.  How can I explain the process that makes my heart so big that I feel my body will burst.   How can I explain a smile on my face that comes from knowing;   “ah this is why I came to this earth, this is my purpose”.   How can I explain by giving this service to others, fear, anger, jealousy, uncertainty is released and replaced with Happiness, Smile and Peace (HSP phenomenon).   These are small words to explain big changes.

Thank you for this vehicle to express some of my thoughts.

Joy