After Shim Sung Training
Sara Arnold
I started yoga classes at the
Dahn
Center in
Gaithersburg in August, 2006. I’ve practiced other yoga styles in other places and noticed the physical benefits, so I figured this would be the same. I didn’t realize at the time that Dahn yoga not only benefits me physically, but mentally and spiritually as well. Dahn hak is not just physical training, it involves all aspects of body, mind and spirit.
The integration of these aspects of Dahn are most evident with Shim Sung training. Shim Sung training is about who we really are, what we really want, and what our purpose I life really is. So much of our time in our daily life is spent seeking the answers to these questions in the context of our preconceptions and the perceptions of others are not who we truly are, which is why we don’t find the answers to life’s most basic questions outside of ourselves. We can only answer these questions when we find our true selves within ourselves. That is what Shim Sung is all about.
During the training, I discovered many preconceptions I had about myself and others. I am a physician in the Navy and spent several months deployed in support of Operation Iraqi freedom and Operation Enduring freedom. For several years I have been carrying around very painful memories from those deployments and other events in my life which would manifest as anger, frustration and depression. I had to take medications to control my moods and go to anger and stress management sessions for a year. This therapy only worked at the surface and did not treat the underlying problems, so I gave them up. I wasn’t until I could go to Dahn Yoga healing, meditation, and Shim Sung training that I could learn to deal with my problems and become a happier, healthier person.
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