Dahn yoga
I have just returned from a yoga retreat in New York where I have been staying since classes finished a month ago. The retreat was centered around the practice of Dahn Yoga which was a foreign practice to me before I began and has become something I will integrate in to my practice as much as possible. It is a form of Yoga from Korea that, at this event in particular, integrates many different types of mind and body practices. At this even we were doing what I could tell was a blend of both Dahn Yoga and Qigong which is a form of mind body work from China. When I used to teach I had just begun to integrate Qigong in to my classes when I had to stop for school scheduling reasons. I eventually want to go back and teach again and I think that I would like to do a few more of these Dahn Yoga retreats first so I can integrate some of their ideas in to my particular style of yoga. I don't think that I want to name my yoga style any time soon because it really is just a blending of all of the different mind body practices I have done over the years. This retreat lasted for about two weeks and was actually two retreats that I purchased as one and did back to back. Now I have been practicing the techniques I learned there and trying to figure out how I can fit these exercises smoothly in to my practice and the practice that I may one day teach again. I have been influenced mainly by the Indian styles of mind body work so the Korean style of Dahn Yoga is quite a bit different than the typical movements I am used to. I have found a few avenues of crossover that are a bit more subtle than just gross motion similarities. There are certain movements within this style that act in different ways on the broad view but then cause very similar internal physical and energetic changesto those that occur in Indian Yoga styles.