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At the Dahn Center where I work, in Newton, Massachusetts, members anticipate Fridays with excitement and trepidation. They love how they feel after class on Fridays. But they don’t always love the process. On Fridays we do an intensive exercise to release stress that combines vibration exercise, (jin-dong), and Yeon-dahn, where participants hold a posture for 20-25 minutes.

Friday classes are for purification. First, we pat our bodies all over to awaken the blood and energy flow. Then we dance around the room wildly, eyes closed, to traditional Korean drumming music (Salmunori). We sweat, breathe hard, and release accumulated tension and fatigue from our bodies, finishing class by accumulating new energy through Yeon-dahn.

At the end of class, we finally rest. The last few minutes of breathing are luscious and pure. Our rest is well earned. Our bodies and minds feel light and clean. To immerse yourself in vibration exercise, you must understand its purpose. The exercise allows you to access Yuln’yo, the deepest vibration within your being, which originates in your brain stem. Hidden, it makes you breathe, allows your heart to beat, and sustains your life. Lost in our emotions and thoughts,we are not normally in contact with this vibration. However, during vibration training, you can move out of your conscious mind and into your unconscious. As you access this “no thought, just act” mode, your body will move freely and creatively. You can release stagnant energy that has accumulated from too many emotions, too much thinking, and too little action. Yuln’yo will open your heart and heal your body.

However, accessing this state takes effort and requires proper guidance. Many times, members have stood before me, vibrating at two percent of their possibility but swearing it is their 100 percent—they are stuck thinking they’re doing their best, instead of actually doing their best.

Helpful Tips

1. Focus on yourself. Trust yourself. Give 100% effort!
Yuln’yo comes from within. You have to focus on you or you cannot find it. To reach your depths, you have to totally throw yourself into the motion and you have to trust that your body will move in a way that heals you. One example is if you are not in great physical condition, you may not want to give your 100% because you fear injury. At this time, it is important to focus on “try again, try again, try again.” If you do, you can slowly increase your limits; if you don’t, you will stay in your fear.

2. Sensitize your body before vibration by patting all over.
It is hard to focus inside if there is no sensation to focus on. So wake up your body’s sensitivity first by patting all over. The especially important areas are your heart chakra (the middle of your chest) and your lower Dahn-jon (your abdomen below the belly button). For your heart chakra, tap first with your fingertips on your sternum, and make a gentle “aaahhh” sound. Continue for at least one minute until you can feel vibration in your whole chest. Then increase the intensity to patting your chest and upper abdomen with your palms and making your “aaahhh” sound louder. Continue for at least one minute until you can feel the sound coming all the way from your toes. Finally, become Tarzan! Beat your chest wildly and yell as loud as you can, focusing on your toes. You can deeply open your heart chakra at this moment. After patting your whole body and chest, finish with patting your Dahn-jon 100 times.

3. Focus on your feet during vibration.
Which part of your body do you use the most? Probably your head! That means energy easily stays in your brain, but no so easily reaches your heart and the rest of your body. Because your habit doesn’t normally incorporate the lower part of your body, you need to make extra effort to include it. During vibration, keep feeling your feet. When you feel your feet, energy will automatically come down out of your head and circulate through your whole body.

4. Cool down and accumulate energy in your Dahn-jon to finish.
Vibration exercise makes your energy circulate fully and rapidly. You can feel the heat, pulsation, and vibration throughout your body at the end. What is important is to catch the energy at this moment. If you don’t, the new energy will quickly leave your body and vibration exercise will be just a workout, missing its potential to be a deeply healing exercise. During the postures, keep concentrating on the sensation inside your lower abdomen and breathe naturally. Automatically, energy will collect in your Dahn-jon and you will sink into your unconscious world.

Vibration exercise is similar to many dancing traditions seen in ancient cultures throughout the world. We have an intuitive sense that by investing our full being in free motion that we can commune with our deepest selves and the cosmos. During vibration exercise, go deep inside and contact your primal self. You can travel to many places in the world, to many different times. You can become Yuln’yo and meet the part of you that is deeply creative and beneficial to all.

Yuln’yo
by Dr. Ilchi Lee, from Healing Society: A prescription for Global Enlightenment

The eternal Cosmic Order that governs all, this I call Yuln’yo. You cannot touch Yuln’yo, or smell it or see it. Yuln’yo is the essence of the order that has governed all life since the beginning, having itself no beginning or end. Yuln’yo is not some cold set of physical laws that dictates the interactions of matter, but a pulsating, warm consciousness that envelops and gathers all. Yuln’yo expresses itself through light, sound, and vibration that form the natural symphony of the cosmos. We can most immediately feel the power of Yuln’yo through our heartbeats, the steady and faithful pounding that started in the womb and is now echoing through the universe. This is the rhythm of life. Through this rhythm, we can join the everlasting harmony of the cosmos.

My Friday Class

“I think doing vibration exercise is the first time I was able to feel my organs, feel my intestines. It really makes your energy start moving, so I could feel my energy body much more strongly. Also, the first time I ever heard my hand vibrating was after vibration exercise. We did the exercise and then held our hands out and I could hear them! It gave me a very strong sense of the reality of energy, the reality of vibration, and the increasing sensitivity of my being. I mean how do you hear something like that?! But I did and more than once!”
– Jeanne Benjamin, mother and psychologist, Newton , MA

“I try to do [vibration exercise] as strongly as possible. It is a great relief of energy—the more one gives to it, the more one gets back. It’s a great way to shake [out] all the tension from the week.”
– Juan Carlos Arean, father and Program Manager for Family Violence Prevention Fund, Newton , MA

Ilchi Lee

Ilchi Lee is a pioneering Brain Philosopher and Educator. Ilchi Lee is founder of Dhan Yoga (known as Dahn Hak or Dahnhak) state it to be a Korean yoga style. For more information about Dahn Hak and Dr. Ilchi Lee visit his official website.

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1. Joyful Smile Says:
   October 11th, 2007 at 3:42 am

   I love vibration exercise. Great chunjikiun!!

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