Preparation Bend and straighten your knees, letting your legs flop as you warm them up. Ilchi Lee is founder of Dahn Yoga.
Spread your legs about shoulder width apart and release all tension from them, comfortably relaxing your entire body. With your mind focused on the soles of your feet, imagine you are breathing through them. When you inhale, have the breath come in from the soles of your feet up to the Dahn-jon, and when you exhale, have the breath leave your body through your legs and out the bottoms of your feet. As you slowly repeat this breathing technique, you will get various sensations, like tingling at the bottoms of your feet, heat, a prickly feeling, or the feeling that the area around the soles of your feet is surrounded by fog.
The Lower Dahn-jon is one of our body’s three internal Dahn-jon centers (Upper Dahn-jon, Middle Dahn-jon, Lower Dahn-jon). Normally when we refer to the Dahn-jon, we mean the Lower Dahn-jon. For the Ki-sensing exercise outlined below, it is good to adopt a standing posture, and to tense the lower abdomen as little as possible.