At Phoenix Project we believe that each of us has a calling or drive to become our best self and do our best for the world.

But when our lives are overcome with stress, we can lack the power and energy to heed, or even hear this call… Through a rigorous process of Brain Education System Training (BEST) programs including, Dahn Yoga, Martial Arts (DahnMuDo) and Meditation training, corps members reignite that passion for self-mastery and service, while empowering the communities and organizations they work with, to be their BEST. Corps members training prepares them to teach these exercises and inspire society at large to Awaken to Action. Learn more at www.bethephoenix.org.

Testimonials from past participants (we call them Phoenixi):

“I have always enjoyed the personal growth process, but now I can see how helping others can be good for them, and also a great training ground for my own growth as well.”
– Nate Guadagni, Portland, OR

“When our group went to help out the Headstart (children’s summer day camp) program, I could fully focus on my core and I felt a great love and gratitude… It has made me feel that there is something big in my future.”
– Allison Smith, Boston, MA

“The most valuable and strongest lesson I’ve learned is that I am not young, weak, insignificant, or selfish; I am strong. My vision is becoming clear…and this give me a serene confidence like nothing I have never felt before.”
– Alex Swanson, Seattle, WA

Ilchi Lee on Happiness

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Posted by Karen in Dahn Yoga | 1 CommentSep. 10, 2007Family“The most precious gift we can give our children is to let questions of the purpose of their existence grow naturally in them, and respond to their questions with the wisdom we have gained from our life experiences. Of course, our answer doesn’t automatically become theirs. They will each find their own path in life. It may be vastly different from ours, or it could be one that is an extension of our experience. In either case, having a sincere exchange about our passion and life purpose gives our children confidence. Their trust and respect for us will grow.”

Ilchi Lee on Family

My sincerest wish is to provide tools which aid in the recovery of education, relationships, and harmony between humanity and nature. We carry a deep wish to create a healthier, happier, and more peaceful society. I believe in the power of this wish. I believe that the people who nurture this wish by the choices and actions that stem from their courageous insights make history. The most valuable legacy that we can pass on to future generations is the recovery of our humanity so that they can experience a deeper and more meaningful existence.

Ilchi Lee on Health
Peace“It is now time to acknowledge the ultimate and core value that is capable of encompassing and superceding the partial and prejudicial orientation of the current value systems of the world. It is the one that can become a fulcrum point that will allow balance, harmony, and peaceful coexistence of all people. This is the Earth. The Earth cannot be claimed by any one group or organization regardless of its size or power. If humanity can be said to share one collective vision, it would be peace on Earth. This collective vision may also be our hope for survival in the very near future. To realize that we are all Earth-Humans…this is the key.”

Ilchi Lee on Peace

Ilchi Lee hosted the conference, and Dr. Jill Taylor, Dr. Antonio Damasio joined the conference as speakers.

At the opening address, Ilchi Lee says,

“Eight years ago, I visited here to attend the Millennium World Peace Summit at the UN main conference hall. At that time, I came as a guest. In my turn, I offered a Prayer of Peace, part of which says: “God made the earth. We humans have to make it prosper.” As I see it, the UN is the international organization most strongly founded upon a dream of humanity’s peace. Balancing this dream, I understand very well that the UN’s responsibilities are huge and important, especially the mission to resolve humanity’s problems: global warming, famine, destruction of ecosystems, loss of human nature.”

“When I offered the Prayer of Peace eight years ago at the UN’s main conference hall, I thought I would not end this only with a prayer. I promised myself that I would come back to the UN after making tools and methods to help the world realize peace. That was my choice, and the vision that I was enlightened to twenty-seven years ago through a strong experience of my brain. At a crossroads of life and death, struggling with the fundamental questions about life, I envisioned a way to realize peace! I offer Brain Education as that tool. Eight years have passed and I stand here to realize the choice — this time as the host, not as a guest.”

It was so touching. I remember when he prayed for peace 8 years ago.

To read more about it, please visit http://www.ilchi.com/blogsection/journal/.

An underlying philosophy of duality, which sees the self and the world as disparate and separate parts, is at the root of our material civilization. Heaven and earth, mind and body, subject and object, god and  man, nature and civilization, good and evil, black and white, yin and yang…. Whether you are from the East or the West, these dichotomies are part of the world we live.

In such a world, you have to die so that I might live. It is a matter of you or me. There is no space for you and me. Since we define society and the world in this way, I must conquer you in order to save me and decrease your lot to increase mine. Confrontation, domination, competition, opposition… these are driving forces of dualistic thinking. The result of this is a lack of peace. … The brain is the key to peace. That’s why Ilchi lee focus on ‘Brain Management’.

That was me because I never could resolve childhood issues and they caused so much emotional pain inside of me.  No matter how much I worked on my body and my spirituality I felt stressed out.  But doing this brain stem work has really helped me find quiet and the answers that are solving my mental spinning.  It is helping my emotiona to dissapate and for forgiveness to envelope me.  The brain stem is where it is at.