templemu (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

My yoga training lasted 5 years and cost about 60 sterling pounds a year, with the Adult Education scheme in the UK; it takes years of training, that is why it is hard to charge very much per lesson; but I was unhappy to charge 70 euros for six lessons, you can't learn yoga in six weeks!! But you might get some insight into yoga.

HeeMang10 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

And if you ask the boss I left, he would tell you I went crazy and joined a cult. What is your perspective, what is your experience?

HeeMang10 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

The Puritan Christian dogma taught in the US deprives people of the direct experience of God and of seeking God consciousness--of which Jesus spoke. Dahn hak is a way back to that path. It's not the only way, but it is an effective way. In this country of drive thru everything,free everything,and where no value is placed on self efficacy of course people will object to paying for their training. They don't value their own lives, why would they value training to restore their life?

HeeMang10 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Yoga in the US has been bastardized and become a stretching/pilates class and not what Yoga is: harmonization of the physical body, emotional body, and spiritual body. Dahn Yoga is brave enough to challenge this concept and bring back true Yoga and backs it up with historical and scientific research.

HeeMang10 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

I have been practicing Dahn hak for 2 years and it fundamentally changed my life from an angry, overweight, hormonally imbalanced middle aged woman trapped in a work relationship with a verbally abusive employer to a healthy, happy, and now successfully self employed woman. The claims of these individuals and this news report reflect a lack understanding of the principles taught in the study of Dahn hak and a general fear based attitude towards things which they have not personally experienced.

gejoe (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

this is actual quote from a dahhak master: "If you are on the inside and higher in rank it only gets darker, more corrupt, and more dangerous. Dahn Hak is a big underground business."

elljaye (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

The statement about costs of 150.00 to 5,000.00 is misleading. 150.00 is a three week (go as many times as you like) fee. 5,000.00 is a lifetime membership including many extra workshops. The so called "cult expert" obviously has not done a Dahn Yoga class because everything he said was incorrect. They charge money like any other buisness. They have rent, employees, etc, But they also encourage you to teach others who cannot afford to come what you learned.

soycheezy (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

What is happening to the newscaster's face at the end? Looks like a sudden onset of wartiness.

ldbiv (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

In any large membership activity, I suppose, there will be people who are genuinely disappointed in their experience, and who may resent that it didn't help them more. But against this we have tens of thousands of highly happy people who have attained better health and focus in their lives, and show it as they go about their lives and activities. Too bad Fox failed to get the story as it really is!

ldbiv (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

The instructors ARE enthusiastic and they are happy when people stay with the yoga because they believe in the benefits that will come with practice. There is no cult here, much as the press might like to find it. Steve Hassan is entirely wrong, and one must wonder what his 'investigation' amounted to. Perhaps his primary goal is to sell books and get fees for 'counseling cult members'?