Chunhwawon

There are really no words to express Chunhwawon. If you ever have the opportunity to travel to Korea this is a place you just cannot miss. The story goes something like this: the energy here is very strong and wild and throughout the years people have tried to build temples in this area. What has happened is they have all been killed by lightening. When Ilchi Lee decided to build Chunhwawon he asked to put up three pillars. ChunTap, JiTap, and IhnTap: one for heaven, one for earth and one for humanity. We visited JiTap today and heard the story about how 4 Masters had to carry the pieces of rock up the mountain to build it. After having some training here we went back to the main hall and after lunch we were given the opportunity to get some of the best DahnMuDo training.
DahnMuDo is different they other martial arts in that it focuses on using your energy to heal yourself and others. The first part of the training was about stretching and opening your energy (meridian) channels by applying pressure to certain points in your body. It hurt a lot but felt very good afterwards. The training we had today was about strengthening our individual brightness. We practiced gathering our energy and using / giving our energy. We did two really good exercises in partners. In one one partner would gather energy and send it to the other partner and then the other partner would receive and take that energy down to their lower energy center and into their feet. Then they would circulate it and gather it to give it back to their partner. It is definitely not an easy exercise and made me realize how much there is to learn. The second exercise was very similar. I was very grateful for this training.
In the evening we gave each other healing. Today was a day where we worked a lot in partners and sharing between us. We also started to prepare the lecture that we will be giving for about 30min to college students here in Korea. It was also a team effort and we still have a lot to work on.