On Healing Our Communities
Recently, Prof. Ilchi Lee had the opportunity to teach Brain Respiration in Peru. His workshops there emphasized Brain Respiration as an innovative method to be integrated throughout the daily classroom curriculum. The exercises create positive classroom energy, thereby reducing the need for stressful disciplinary techniques.
Students, teachers, administrators and parents enthusiastically received the teachings. The participants felt a vibrant spirit ot aliveness, openness, and collaboration. A young student shared, “This is good tor everyone because we feel more energy and more happiness, and in this way we can understand and learn better.” A teacher shared, “These exercises are appropriate for children of all ages, beginning at age five, but it would be of great help tor teachers to practice them too, to ease the tensions of the day.”
I now include Brain Respiration practices in my college classes. My students practice Brain Respiration DahnHak exercises everyday at the beginning of class. One of my students shared, “College students need to do more soul searching and less book searching, so, if Brain Respiration was practiced by more students I believe they would be able to learn more about themselves through self-exploration. This would make them better students and better people.”
October 14, 2008 8:40 am