Your “arguments” seem the same as Naysayer on squidoo.com and and healthyhappyheart on yogabasics.com. You are either the same person or using a script used by Dahn. If you are the same person why not post using the same name?

This is quoted from happyhealthyheart from yogabasics.com:

The Definition of Yoga

Yoga (Sanskrit, Pāli: योग yóga) refers to traditional physical and mental disciplines originating in India. The word is associated with meditative practices in Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism. In Hinduism, it also refers to one of the six orthodox (āstika) schools of Hindu philosophy, and to the goal toward which that school directs its practices. In Jainism it refers to the sum total of all activities—mental, verbal and physical.

Dahnhak is none of those. Did it originate in India? Is it associated in Hinduism, Buddhism or Jainism? No! So it should not be called yoga. Dahn started out in the U.S. being called Dahnhak and changed their name to Dahn Yoga. Why was that?

Mass media is not a cult. They do not try to isolate you from family and relatives. Dahn will try to get you to sign up to their retreat where you are miles away any civilization and feed you a low protein diet while keeping you up until early hours of the morning….well until the City of Cottonwood got involved and Tao Fellowship (front company for Dahn, look at who owns the so called non-profit) agreed to limit their hours. Why not do BMC in the same city in which you normally attend classes? Wouldn’t that be better for the Earth, than burning a ton of carbon, flying to the desert in Arizona?

Have you actually been to El Salvador to witness yourself the job IBREA is doing? Or are you just believing what you see on the internet? Do you know that IBREA’s President is Ilchi Lee?

Feel free to research my facts, no rumors here.

For those people who say Dahn Yoga is not “yoga” need to rethink what the sanskrit meaning of “yoga” is. Yoga means union of body & mind. Yoga doesn’t mean exercise as many of the yoga studios in the western world have come to define it.

To feel “pressured” to sign up for a membership = cult? Really? C’mon, really? Calling yourself “victims” to make it seem like real issues. The vocabulary that’s used sometimes is ridiculous.

With CNN, Rolling stone, etc., these are all mass media outlets. As a practitioner of any yoga “real yoga” not exercise form of yoga, I hope you will know the difference between mass media “facts” vs. reality.

As an American, it saddens me to see how mass media influence has taken place in the judgements of the Dahn Yoga practice. But I suppose that is the obvious. Everyone’s believing everything they read and see in the media. And yet, those are the same people who claim themselves “spiritual paths” that aren’t influenced by the media.

Anyone who has a brain knows that the mass media is a cult itself brain washing consumers into buying their brands. And yet, those of you who claim you are free from the binds of mass media believe those words of hate.

With any company that grows larger, there will ALWAYS be an anti-parallel/critics. Not even just a company, but for anyone who’s looking to go against the “norm” will always face criticism.

In my eyes and in many it’s amazing that Dahn Yoga has managed to survive the many years of criticism and threats it’s received. If none of what it was doing is considered “real,” I don’t think it would have been able to survive till now.

For example take Bikram Yoga. It’s a multi-million making industry in it’s own. They’ve created Yoga competitions. Really? Yoga shouldn’t be categorized as a contest. The founder has also been accused of an incredible amount of sexual assault claims. Yet, it doesn’t get the mass media’s attention of being a cult.

Please take into consideration what Dahn Yoga is doing as a non-profit organization. (For example http://www.ibrea.org) Recently they have been providing education classes for the teachers and students of El Savador who are living in traumatized areas through the funding they receive from Dahn Yoga.

We always look for the negative things in life to exemplify, yet we shrug off the greater good that’s being created around us.

Before you go and judge Dahn Yoga, anything else, or anyone else for that matter, please take into consideration all the facts and not all the rumors that float around.

I have been asked to attend the many retreats and have never felt threatened or put out in any way to spend money I don’t have. When I say no the instructor respects it.

Dahn Yoga has some of the very same concepts as the Emotional Freedom Technique and children around the world are using the Body and Brain technique in their classrooms which is having an amazing result in the lives of both students and staff alike. You tube it. It’s phenomenal.

I don’t deny anyone else’s experience but can only give them my thumbs up!

The Body & Brain yoga has changed my life in a VERY POSITIVE way, but you have to really hold onto your wallet here. The yoga people seem so nice and caring until you stop parting with cash. The most moving part of this story is with regard to the company employees. They should be paid higher right wages and be provided with health insurance in light of the company profit numbers mentioned in the article.

here’s a link directly to the article rolling stone