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Two groups trained by the Dahn Yoga network – Korean Power Drummers and DahnMuDo Healing Martial Arts – dazzled the participants in the Pavilion tent at the Sedona (Arizona) International Film Festival and Workshop, March 1, 2008.
Trained by Arang Park, Manager of Music Programs, BR Consulting, Inc., three well-synchronized Sedona Dahn Yoga Center members – Gaye Anthony, Rebecca Cheema and Erik Sandstrom – amazed the audience with their four performances in the morning and early afternoon. Using the Modumbuk drumming style, which is a modernized form of Korean traditional music, they shared their young and vivid energy with the audience.
 Korean drummers Arang Park and Ji Eun Park perform The drums are based on authentic historical designs, and the drumming arrangements express the rich culture of the Korean people.
The Korean Power Drummers were followed by the stirring duet of Arang Park and Ji Eun Park, playing the two-sided traditional Korean drum. They demonstrated 5,000 year-old Korean traditional music with a variety of rhythms and tempos.
In the late afternoon, the audience enjoyed energetic performances by the 12-person DahnMuDo Healing Martial Arts touring group of young Dahn Yoga Center students from across the United States. They had been practicing at the Sedona Mago Retreat Center for their six-month demonstration tour of South Korean, set to depart this week. Michael Munson, who also did a solo performance of DahnMuDo forms, led the group.
 Michael Munson performs DahnMuDo DahnMuDo is called the art of being limitless. It is a discipline that helps people to claim their internal power and uncover vast creative physical and mental-emotional energy. From practicing DahnMuDo, people learn that the road map to positive change already lies within them. This is how DahnMuDo is defined: Dahn means pure energy. Mu tranlates to limitless. Do is Tao for the way to discover reality.
 DahnMuDo touring performance group Most people think of martial arts as a fierce competition of force and dominance. DahnMuDo, however, is totally non-combative. It embraces a comprehensive system of healing and martial arts that is rooted in 5,000-year-old Korean traditional principles and practices. As a powerful yet gentle practice, it taps into the wellspring of energy deep inside the body, using an equal balance of powerful movement, exquisite grace, and calm stillness.
According to the banners behind the performers, the Drummers were supported by the Sedona Dahn Yoga Center, Sedona Story and Mago Café. The DahnMuDo group was sponsored by Sedona Dahn Yoga Center, Sedona Mago Retreat Center, and Sedona Ki Meditation Tours.
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