It shouldn’t take a worldwide pandemic to get us to slow down and contemplate the way we breathe, but for better or worse, we are now faced with the realization that respiratory health will determine whether we may live or die. Read more...
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Embodied Recovery works with 12 proprietary teachings that set them apart from their peers. One of these teachings is the consistent practice of SunDo across the organization — for clients, staff, and its chief officers as well. Read more...
An audio recording guides the SunDo practice. The recording is a SunDo Master’s voice continually repeating the 16 words. The mantra’s purpose is to focus attention and evenly synchronize the heartbeat with one’s inhale and exhale. Read more...
The idea of “life force” has fascinated human beings from the earliest days of prehistory to the modern age — but what is it, exactly? Read more...
BECOMING ONE IN TAOISM WITH SUNDO’S THIRD PRACTICE LEVEL ![]() SunDo, an ancient Taoist art native to Korea, contains the necessary tools in its third level of practice to unite dualisms and cultivate wholeness on the physical, mental, and spiritual levels. It provides a path towards human wholeness. Read more... Perhaps it isn’t a surprise that a discipline called ‘SunDo’ would have a history so closely tied to the powerful star that makes everything around us possible! Korean Taoists believed it possible to achieve a great oneness with the divine. Thus, deep breathing combined with the power of sun energy made for a legendary practice. Read more...
Taoist Master Kim believes it is very important that people truly understand his humble personal history and exactly how SunDo made such a difference in his own life. These are precisely the topics we explore in this next blog. Read More ...
Retreating to the far-off mountains of the land, these sages engaged in solitary practice using focused breath meditation. This discipline became known as SunDo, or Mountain Taoism, and was passed down from teacher to student. Its lineage-holders became powerful Taoist masters able to cultivate Qi for healing and longevity. Read more...
Postures prepare us to explore the balance that comes from the third phase of SunDo to connect to the realms of heaven and earth, or what we commonly know as yin and yang. Read more...
Following the patterns of nature, SunDo postures are sequenced to represent birth, growth, maturity, decay, and eventually death from which new life may arise. We can see this sequence in the five phases of growth in a tree. Read more... |
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