Dahn Yoga, bad experiences?
Posted by:
justps4
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Date: August 05, 2005 11:24PM
Hello. I am a journalist working on a story regarding the group behind the Dahn Tao Institute (among its many names). I am reaching out to contact someone who has experienced this group first hand. I have read many bad stories of things that have happend so I know victims do excist. I just would like to have one who would be willing to share their story and expereince all in hopes of helping others.
Dahn Yoga, bad experiences?
Posted by:
BuddyBear
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Date: August 21, 2005 11:34AM
Many former members are afraid to come forward due to a misunderstanding of their time spent in Dahn Yoga. Some former victims would just like to move on with their lives and forget their experiences with Dahn Yoga.
I don't believe many members realize they are or were involved with a cult. How else can you explain the continued growth of this organization. There are many websites which offer a deep insight to the goings on at Dahn Yoga. Please do research these sights and ask if anyone is willing to come forward. According to some posters on these websites, the founder of Dahn Yoga has a way of settling scores with violence.
This group which claims to be for world peace and healing is a scam. The only purpose for their existance is to make Ilchi Lee a very rich man. It is also used by him and his top masters for sexual conquests of the female masters. One website posted a letter from an insider which claims Ilchi Lee had sexaully abused between 200 and 500 female members.
This is a dangerous group which is run by a very pathetic,sick, deranged man. Please don't give any of your money to them. It will only go to do harm to the masters who believe they are helping humanity.
There are plenty of legitimate exercise schools out there who will help you.
Please do your research and be careful.
www.newdahn.com/usa
[www.selectsmart.com]
[www.wholehealthclinic.com]
[www.myspace.com]
I don't believe many members realize they are or were involved with a cult. How else can you explain the continued growth of this organization. There are many websites which offer a deep insight to the goings on at Dahn Yoga. Please do research these sights and ask if anyone is willing to come forward. According to some posters on these websites, the founder of Dahn Yoga has a way of settling scores with violence.
This group which claims to be for world peace and healing is a scam. The only purpose for their existance is to make Ilchi Lee a very rich man. It is also used by him and his top masters for sexual conquests of the female masters. One website posted a letter from an insider which claims Ilchi Lee had sexaully abused between 200 and 500 female members.
This is a dangerous group which is run by a very pathetic,sick, deranged man. Please don't give any of your money to them. It will only go to do harm to the masters who believe they are helping humanity.
There are plenty of legitimate exercise schools out there who will help you.
Please do your research and be careful.
www.newdahn.com/usa
[www.selectsmart.com]
[www.wholehealthclinic.com]
[www.myspace.com]
Dahn Yoga, bad experiences?
Posted by:
BuddyBear
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Date: September 04, 2005 02:57PM
Does this count?
There are probably many more incidences of bad happenings at Dahn Yoga but go unreported out of fear.
HOLISTIC HORROR LAWSUIT
By DAVID HAFETZ and PHILIP RECCHIA
Julia Siverls was voracious, racking up advanced degrees in a dogged pursuit of knowledge that eventually led the Queensborough Community College education professor to a fateful spiritual retreat in the Arizona desert.
Dahnhak, a yoga and holistic-health group, offered to make her a master of its discipline if she completed one last test.
But that test cost Siverls, 41, her life, her family charges in an explosive $84 million lawsuit.
The suit calls Dahnhak a cult and alleges that it drugged Siverls, loaded her backpack with 40 pounds of rocks, gave her little food or water, then took her on a hike up Casner Mountain, near Sedona, Ariz.
She collapsed from dehydration and exhaustion in the desert heat but was forced her to go on and died halfway up the mountain on July 12, 2003, the suit says.
"It was total, total neglect," her sister, Veronica Siverls-Dunham, said. "This was a senseless death."
According to police reports obtained by The Post, an off-duty officer spotted the group on the mountain. The officer said Siverls was "hunched over" and had fallen.
An autopsy found the cause of death to be consistent with "acute heat stroke, dehydration and hyperthermia due to environmental exposure," the suit states.
Her family believes her meals at the retreat were laced with marijuana and methadone. A vegan, she never touched drugs, it says.
Siverls-Dunham, a high-school science teacher, called her sister, the youngest of 12 siblings, was the family's "pride and joy."
The suit says Dahnhak "lures" members with free yoga classes, then pressures them to attend pricey classes and retreats. Named as co-defendants are over a dozen allegedly related operations and Dahnhak's Korean leader, "Grand Master" Seung Huen Lee.
Chris Scanlon, a Manhattan lawyer for Mago Earth, one of the defendants, said, "The allegations of wrongful death are baloney."
A Dahnhak spokeswoman said neither Lee nor any other official could be reached for comment.
Seung Huen Lee, who also goes by the name Ilchi Lee, calls himself an "educational philosopher and world-peace leader" on a Web site that claims that Dahnhak teaches "the study of energy and how to use it to achieve mastery of mind and body and illumination of the spirit."
Dahnhak, based in Sedona, operates 50 centers in the U.S. and many more worldwide, according to the suit. There are at least 13 centers in New York, including locations on Sixth Avenue and a Dahn Yoga in Brooklyn Heights.
Arizona police say that the Siverls case is still open but that it's unlikely anyone will be charged.
There are probably many more incidences of bad happenings at Dahn Yoga but go unreported out of fear.
HOLISTIC HORROR LAWSUIT
By DAVID HAFETZ and PHILIP RECCHIA
Julia Siverls was voracious, racking up advanced degrees in a dogged pursuit of knowledge that eventually led the Queensborough Community College education professor to a fateful spiritual retreat in the Arizona desert.
Dahnhak, a yoga and holistic-health group, offered to make her a master of its discipline if she completed one last test.
But that test cost Siverls, 41, her life, her family charges in an explosive $84 million lawsuit.
The suit calls Dahnhak a cult and alleges that it drugged Siverls, loaded her backpack with 40 pounds of rocks, gave her little food or water, then took her on a hike up Casner Mountain, near Sedona, Ariz.
She collapsed from dehydration and exhaustion in the desert heat but was forced her to go on and died halfway up the mountain on July 12, 2003, the suit says.
"It was total, total neglect," her sister, Veronica Siverls-Dunham, said. "This was a senseless death."
According to police reports obtained by The Post, an off-duty officer spotted the group on the mountain. The officer said Siverls was "hunched over" and had fallen.
An autopsy found the cause of death to be consistent with "acute heat stroke, dehydration and hyperthermia due to environmental exposure," the suit states.
Her family believes her meals at the retreat were laced with marijuana and methadone. A vegan, she never touched drugs, it says.
Siverls-Dunham, a high-school science teacher, called her sister, the youngest of 12 siblings, was the family's "pride and joy."
The suit says Dahnhak "lures" members with free yoga classes, then pressures them to attend pricey classes and retreats. Named as co-defendants are over a dozen allegedly related operations and Dahnhak's Korean leader, "Grand Master" Seung Huen Lee.
Chris Scanlon, a Manhattan lawyer for Mago Earth, one of the defendants, said, "The allegations of wrongful death are baloney."
A Dahnhak spokeswoman said neither Lee nor any other official could be reached for comment.
Seung Huen Lee, who also goes by the name Ilchi Lee, calls himself an "educational philosopher and world-peace leader" on a Web site that claims that Dahnhak teaches "the study of energy and how to use it to achieve mastery of mind and body and illumination of the spirit."
Dahnhak, based in Sedona, operates 50 centers in the U.S. and many more worldwide, according to the suit. There are at least 13 centers in New York, including locations on Sixth Avenue and a Dahn Yoga in Brooklyn Heights.
Arizona police say that the Siverls case is still open but that it's unlikely anyone will be charged.
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