Body & Brain Washington

I not only got stretched and worked out, I learned how to balance myself internally as well. This is essentially a mixture of martial arts training and traditional yoga techniques designed to calm you down and teach you how to relax. I had no idea how tense I really was before I started coming here. And furthermore, how that stress was affecting my life. I’ve become much calmer since attending class regularly. And I’ve also become much stronger as well, because these classes do not just focus on one area of the body they go along. When you attend the classes and the workshops you learn how your body is connected as a whole, and how certain problems can affect that balance and what to do about it when they do.

Highly recommend them to everyone that values their time and life! I love this place! Adahae the center manager is a wonderful manager, instructor and healer. I have gone to workshops, classes and private sessions with him and I really enjoyed every second of it. I am very grateful to finally find a center full of love, energy and healing! You can’t even compare!!! I highly recommend them and would def continue with them for more awakenings, healing and of course the yoga and Tai Chi.
Thank you all. :)

I am just terribly sad and broken at the treatment that I have received from my supposed «friends». After all the money I spent, all the classes I attended, all the classes I have taught, I would think that you would have stood by me in this quest. Unfortunately, I was terribly, terribly wrong. I guess that the money that you take in is REALLY the end game for dahn, no matter what you say and say and say.
I want my $ 50.00 refunded to me immediately.
10−3−14 email to customer service
I received my $ 1000 check today. I need to reiterate that the refund took OVER 2 Months for Customer Service get to me and I had to repeatedly request it by phone, text, and by email. Since I had requested this refund through my local dahn center prior to my formal request, the total time to get this almost total refund was over 6 MONTHS! By Any standard, that is outrageous and excessive.
My previous refund too 4 MONTHS to receive from Customer Service after asking for the refund through my local dahn center so total time for that refund was almost 1 YEAR. Again, By Any Standard, that is outrageous and excessive.
You had the nerve to withhold $ 50.00 of my refund WITHOUT ANY EXPLANATION. I want that $ 50.00 refund immediately. Consider this to be my THIRD CERTIFIED LETTER. It is unconscionable that an organization supposedly devoted to peace and good will would treat its members in this fashion. I will contact Ilchi Lee directly and also his staff, and my local dahn center and Dami. If that does not work, I will go to the press. I am exceedingly angry and disappointed.
After all the money I spent on dahn and all the teaching I did, I feel as if I have been thrown away and treated very, very badly.

I feel bad writing this review, because the people that operate this studio are very nice, and they clearly have people that regularly attend classes and swear by it. But I think it’s important to clarify what this studio is before people spend money checking it out and expecting something different.
I didn’t google Dahn yoga before I attended, I thought it was just a name of yoga studio and it happened to be downtown. But it turns out Dahn is a very specific type of practice that is NOT yoga. I am disappointed the institution incorporates «yoga» into its name when nothing about it is yoga. It’s a Korean based practice (not Indian Sanskrit-​based, which is where yoga comes from) and is much more meditative and Tai-​chi based. Saying that, there are people who like this type of exercise, but its not for me. I want to sweat and hurt after class (and real yoga can definitely make you do that!), and these classes were far too brain focused for my liking.
I hope that helps for people who were not sure what it is.

Fantastic! I love classes with Laura and Soyoung. I feel they have a genuine concern for each person’s mind and body improvement. I released a lot of stress when I took a few classes here and it made a huge difference in my trip! Highly recommended!

I try to hit this place whenever I’m in DC. Like the Dahn studio I go to at home, the classes are fun and engaging. I get a good workout and leave relaxed. I’ll go back. Should be required for all the politicians!

when I arrived there, they warmly welcomed me. The class was fun and also very calming. It really helped me to quite my mind down. And i slept so soundly that night!!! I like it!!!

I’ve visited this Dahn Yoga center a few times — basically whenever I visit my sister who lives in DC. I practiced Dahn Yoga when I was a student in Cambridge, MA, and I have to say that I love this place.
More than anything, I really love the staff — Laura and Soyoung (sp?) are really cool and approachable and sincerely interested if you get a good class. Even though I’ve been practicing for a while, and am technically just a visiting student, before or after class they always try to check my basic exercises to make sure I’m doing them properly.
I appreciate the care and concern they show for me, and it is apparent that they love the studio as well — it’s always pristine and clean.
Thanks for all the great times and classes! I recommend this place to anyone interested in Dahn Yoga and/​or open to really understanding themselves.
As per all the pros v. cons about Dahn Yoga I’ll just drop in my small opinion — yes, it is different than «Indian Yoga» as Americans understand it (which isn’t real yoga, anyways), it is actually much more like how «real» yoga is than most think, it is wonderful, different, great, challenging, and incredible. Yes, some instructors have not represented it well, but hey, that’s why you have Laura here ;)
Try it out and I’m sure you won’t be disappointed.

I wanted to write this review because besides loving Dahn Yoga, which I’ve practiced for 7 years, I really admire the manager there, Laura. She’s always so peppy and welcoming, but more than that, I feel like she really cares about each person she meets. When I’ve talked to her about the center and the practice, I’ve discovered a genuine desire to help people. She’s so passionate and has so much energy!
I know some people don’t like Dahn Yoga because the Korean style is a little different from the Indian style that is the most common in the U.S. When I first started practicing, I thought the uniforms and tapping your body was weird too. But I’d like to take this opportunity to share my own experience and say that once I got passed that initial unfamiliarity, I could understand what the instructors were talking about. I was happy the clothing was baggy so that I didn’t have to worry about how I looked and could move freely without confinement. And I could feel how when I tapped my lower abdomen I readily became calmer and happier. I find it so amazing that by developing my lower energy centers with this kind of practice, which is based on the same ideas of energy circulation as acupuncture and Chinese medicine, I have so much more enthusiasm for life, while at the same time am able to remain centered even when there’s a lot going on. I’m really grateful I found it.

I started here to get into some practice of yoga and meditation to help me release alot of stress and calm down some anxiety, insomnia, and stomach issues. Within a month, my condition surprisingly improved alot. The instructors are very attentive and caring. We did alot new things I never tried before in other yoga classes, but the simple stretching, breathing, relaxation, meditation techniques they taught worked to clear alot of my tension and tightness out. If you come with an open mind and willing to try new things, you will be very satisfied. I will definitely come back! I learned alot about my body and mind connection.
Dahn Yoga integrates Korean Taoist philosophy and holistic principles of Eastern Medicine tradition. A healthy person has a healthy mind, body and spirit, and the understanding of life energy or ‘Ki’ is fundamental to this concept of health. Rather than focusing on a strict set of poses, Dahn Yoga incorporates a wide variety of mind-​body exercises, including warmups, comfortable for all ages & conditions.

Be VERY CAREFUL — google Dahn Yoga before joining lifetime membership — they are CULT organization. i repeat CULT.
Lifetime membership is about $ 3,000 -$ 4,000 and is not refundable. it doesn’t stop there, they will keep pressuring you to sign up for more workshops.
Things that i noticed:
1) Why do i have to wear all white uniform? I have to buy this, too? Why???
2) the instructor told me if i can clean their bathroom. Why should i clean their toilet? It was so obscure, i thought i heard her wrong.
3) the first workshop where everyone cries and share their most intimate/​painful experiences — The instructor will use your stories against you to sign up for more workshop in the future.
4) when i told her i’m broke, she told me «oh, money shouldn’t matter. I have a member who cashed his whole retirement fund to dedicate our practice. Now he’s with us.»
Isn’t this SCARY???
PLEASE BE CAREFUL. Keep IN MIND that practicing yoga shouldn’t cost a fortune.

I’m a yoga instructor. I visited to white house.
I stop by here because open house on Saturday.
Oh my god! I felt that my body relaxed and my energy was refreshed after 1^st class.
I want you to take their free open class.
Also location is near by Metro. So that this place is easy to find it.
I love this place .
Love Brian.

I was in D. C visiting my cousin and I experienced a wonderful place to meditate and relax. The staff was very inviting and the exercises very unique and uplifting to say the least. I went twice that week and I would decently go back again the next time I visit if I have the time.

I came to this center about 10 times to practice and found the atmosphere very relaxing and welcoming. The instructor is very friendly and has a lot of positive energy. Every time i come to practice at this center i feel so light, calm, and energized.

I’m a nurse with two bachelor’s degrees, and I’m smart enough to know an AMAZING thing when I not only see it but feel it. If you walk in with an open mind, you’ll get so much out of class, and more out of life. After 10 months, I’ve come off of my allergy and asthma medications, I can handle my stress well now, and I just simply feel amazing. Dahn yoga has truly changed my life.
I have been going back and forth between a few Dahn Yoga centers in the D.C. metro area for about the past 10 months. I could not say more good things about it. I was really stressed when I started, just having left nursing school. But as I continued to go to class, I started to feel amazing. I felt so much more in control of my emotions. Laura, the main instructor, is so kind and generous. She always listened carefully and attentively when I wanted to say what was on my mind. I thought the uniforms were funny at first, but then I realized that just like Karate classes, the roomy, comfortable uniforms are meant to help you change your mindset when you walk into the room, leaving behind the stress of the outside world. The point is to focus on yourself, your own body, so you can relieve stress, and the environment is tailored just for that. Please check it out and enjoy!

sorry to say i’ve had one of the worst experiences with a business with this dahn yoga.
i should have known something was off when a saleslady came OUT OF THE STORE to talk to me, when i was taking a look at one of their signs.
but i was low, and i let her talk me into trying it out.
then the high-​pressure sales pitches, masquerading as concerns for my health, began. they hadn’t even hoodwinked me before they were asking about my friends/​co-​workers. there are all kinds of scams like the ‘yoga’ classes that are not yoga classes or the ‘treatments’ that are not treatments. your’e own workout clothes aren’t even good enough – dahn wants you to buy their own, ugly, cult-​like karate (?) robes!
RUN, do not walk, away from dahn if you come anywhere near it! i wouldn’t be surprised if it is exposed as a cult someday!
these people are con artists!!! i expect to see them shut down at some point, after a government investigation…

I went to this place innocently thinking that I was going to a regular yoga class because a friend gave me a Groupon for it. It turned out to not be yoga at all! When I first arrived, a woman that appeared to be a regular by her Karate uniform announced that she was searching in her purse for the wad of cash she took out. Now from googling the center, I understand that they coerce the clients into signing up for more and more courses, including retreats. Don’t be fooled, this is a «healing» center that has been charged as a cult. The place is creepy, as Sarah C. explained. In fact, I wouldn’t doubt that someone from the center deleted the other reviews that Sarah C. refers to because they are nowhere to be found.
Here is my description of the class. The obnoxiously peppy teacher with a vicious looking smile (like she would bite someone with it) announced that we would begin class standing in a circle. We did so and she instructed us to start hitting our stomachs until we counted to 300. Then we had to rub our stomachs and go around the circle saying we what we felt. We then proceeded to do other non-​yoga things like pounding on our chests as we shout and violently moving our shoulders up and down. Don’t believe me? Youtube this and you will find that they believe you can send «life particles» through Skype and cure people’s brain cancer, or a little shaking of the head will make someone’s deformed face go back to normal. CNN also has a great investigation about how this is a cult:

Lesson learned, never will I go back!

Dahn Yoga DC is a great studio to work on strengthening your core and circulation. Really like the concentration on flexibility and energy accumulation. Every class is different and good for all ability levels. The emphasis is on the training not razzle-​dazzle.

This place is CREEPY.
I had a free pass for a «yoga» class and so decided to try it out. It was unlike any yoga class I’ve ever been to. Instead of poses we counted to 10 and slapped our stomachs. I tried to keep an open mind (all yoga is a little odd after all), so I decided to join.
A couple hours after registering, I reconsidered – just google «Dahn yoga cult’. So I returned to the center for a refund– they argued with me for 15 minutes. They said they could not give me a refund because they were there to «help me» and that Dahn yoga will lead to my happiness. WTF. In the end I got my money back… and learned to do my research ahead of time.
Avoid this place. It’s not yoga.