BMC graduates are 'holding up the earth'! (at the Climate Rally this Spring)
Not everyone can find the time and/or money for yoga.
Did you know that graduates of the Brain Management Consultant course (BMC: the course that teaches people how to teach Dahn Yoga and Brain Wave Vibration) are reaching their arms (and legs!) all over this faced-paced city in an effort to bring Dahn Yoga to people who may need it?
Well, I wanted more people to know what these instructors are doing, and have been doing for years. It has inspired me and I hope it inspires others. On that note, I gathered this brief glimpse of where some of our Dahn Yoga angels are teaching in the VA/MD/and DC metro areas.
On-going classes are being taught at no cost at the:
- Washington Ballet (taught by Joanne Stellar)
- Kimball Elementary School (also Joanne Stellar!)
- Bethesda Wellness Community Center Cancer Support Group (taught by Caroline Grabner)
- Five Virginia Public Schools (coordinated by Jane Gorden)
And, coming this summer, at the:
- Foundation for Leadership in Youth @ American University (developed by Joanne Stellar and Rebecca Wheaton)
A few days ago Joanne shared pictures of one girl from Kimball elementary who would rarely participate and who is now one of the most flexible and curious yoga students! Caroline comments regularly that her greatest joy is teaching and sharing Dahn Yoga with others, especially at the Cancer Center.
In our Virginia Public school system Jane Gordon is helping to launch a six-week program of yoga classes that will serve five different schools! Jane is a teacher and has been enthusiastically offering Brain Education to her students and teachers throughout the year. This fall Jane will also be hosting an Earth Citizens Festival to spread the word about the Earth Citizen’s Movement and challenge her students to consider how we share this earth and how to take responsibility for it.
The most recent outreach development happened when Joanne and I had the pleasure of meeting with Iman Tyson, the son of a Dahn Yoga member and the director of FLY, Foundation for Leadership in Youth. Iman is passionate about creating more opportunities for kids to learn about fitness, and the power it will help them experience. We are passionate about it too, and will therefore teach classes to 25 young people this summer at American University. We plan to continue the partnership in the fall, building in yoga, drumming, laughing, dancing and qi-gong into the FLY after school program.
These few short words can’t convey the efforts and determination that went into creating each of these efforts, but I hope you get a feeling of the passion these determined women have in their hearts to make a difference in their communities.
We hope that long-term and consistent training will inspire other schools and groups to integrate more exercise and mind-body dialogue into their classroom and extra-curricular programs. If you have an idea, or some time to spare, please join us!
Rebecca Wheaton is a BMC graduate and instructor at the Bethesda Dahn Yoga Center.
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Tags: Virginia, Washington DC, Yoga Meditation
