This is the second anniversary of Julia Siverls death at a Dahn Yoga masters' training session. Our Best Wishes go out to her family. I have reprinted a prayer from another website for her tribute.



For Julia,

A dedicated Healer of the Earth.

May You Rest in Peace.


PRAYER OF ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISSI

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
Where there is injury, pardon.
Where there is doubt, faith.
Where there is despair, hope.
Where there is darkness, light.
Where there is sadness, joy.

O Divine Master, grant that I may not
so much seek to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand;
to be loved, as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive.
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.
It is in dying to self that we are born to eternal life.

Here's another fitting memorial to Julia Siverl on the anniversary of her death two years ago: a Wrongful Death summons against Ilchi Lee (aka Seung Heun Lee, etc, etc., etc.) for $84 million in damages.

See [www.culteducation.com]

From the New York Post. Sunday September 04,2005;

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 is a news story on [www.cbs4boston.com].

It highlights the family's lawsuit against Dahn Yoga.

Case History : A bored housewife pays a cult to give her thrills that her work-a-mommy life doesn't. Then when she get's the thrill of their life..oops death..the ambulance chasers have a free for all.

Cult organizers vs Accident Lawyers, hmm - both seem slimy. A classic Yin/Yang.

What are you talking about? Do you know anything about this particular case or this group?

Bellinghamsailor:

Watch it.

That is a very cold and awful thing to say about a woman you don't know and a terrible family tragedy.

Another news story on the cult of Dahn Yoga.


[cbs2chicago.com]

Here we are on the third anniversary of Julia Siverls' death. The case is still in court. The Dahn organization still manipulates and takes advantage of people in need.

Dahn Yoga continues to be a dangerous cult.

[www.villagevoice.com]

[villagevoice.com]


Rest in Peace Julia.