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Brain Wave Vibration is the key method in Ilchi Lee's Brain Education System Training (BEST). People of all ages and levels of health have benefited from it. Deni Howley, LICSW, Ph.D is one person who has benefited from Brain Education and Brain Wave Vibration and wants to share it.

Deni is a Dahn Healer and the Deputy Executive Director of the Germaine Lawrence School in Arlington, MA. Germaine Lawrence School is a residential school for adolescent girls with emotional and behavioral problems. At Germaine Lawrence, Deni oversees the operations of the school and supervises the program directors of the long-term programs and the community-based group home. Her job puts her in a position for bringing what she has learned through Brain Education to the students and teachers at Germaine Lawrence.

Since the fall of 2007, a series of Brain Education classes, which include Brain Wave Vibration, have been held twice a week at Germaine Lawrence. The program began with a one-hour workshop given to teachers, teaching assistants, and school counselors by the national coordinator of Brain Education for schools. It has received a lot of support from the Principal.

One year later, a special trainer from the Boston Dahn Yoga centers (official training facilities for Brain Education and Brain Wave Vibration) taught Brain Wave Vibration at the first teacher training of the school year. Deni and the teachers who had participated in the Brain Education classes, as well as the teachers who had participated in the Brain Education workshop the year before, shared the benefits they’ve observed in the students and in themselves.

The teachers and students observed many changes from the six-week Brain Education courses. By the end of the course, students who could not sit quietly were able to meditate for fifteen minutes. Those who were easily distracted in the beginning were later able to hold a yoga posture for extended periods of time without moving. Students who used to be easily overwhelmed when they faced difficult circumstances were able to set a goal and find happiness within themselves.

The most important thing they learned, according to their teacher, was that it was not only ok to make mistakes, it was essential if they wanted to learn new things and grow. The teacher even observed one student who was usually easily frustrated, begin a project, make a mistake, stop, shake her head, breathe, and continue with the project. In the past, the teacher said, that student would have crumpled up her paper and refused to continue.

While until now the Brain Education program has been a pilot program, Deni and the Principal of Germaine Lawrence are actively seeking funding to help integrate the program into the school. They were aiming to have a teachers’ workshop this fall, and Deni and the Principal would like to attend the Brain Education Leadership training course to be able to teach Brain Education, and to make sure it is incorporated into the school well. Meanwhile, they are continuing to hold Brain Education classes twice a week through the fall semester.

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