This Page is the Short Version of David’s Biographical information.
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Who and What Is DSL? . . .
DSL in Omaha at OM Center, Photo by Sandy
David Scott Lynn has been practicing yoga since 1974. There have been several periods of many months at at time of doing 3 to 4 hours of yoga per day, 4 to 6 days per week.
David has been teaching yoga since 1976, when he studied intensively at a one month, residential intensive with Joel Kramer & Diana Alstad. (Joel is credited by many to be the “First American Yoga Master” and “Father of American Yoga.” Joel was yogi-in-residence at Esalen Institute during the late sixties. Diana, a full academic professor in her twenties, has been Joel’s partner since the late 1960’s.)
Since 1982, David has practiced his own system of hands-on, BIO-Structural Bodywork, which is based in part on the principles of physical, mental & relational yoga he learned from Joel & Diana. He was also strongly influenced in his bodywork knowledge & skills by Daniel Blake, a direct student of Ida Rolf, (founder of Rolfing®, or Structural Integration). David’s basic hands-on release technique was learned from his friend Eugene Donaldson, who became a co-founder of Educating Hands Massage Therapy School in Miami, Florida.
The DSL Method of Yoga/Bodywork/Whole Health Therapeutics got its start, in part, because of severe pain and dysfunction David sustained in his teens and early twenties from racing (and crashing!) motorcycles and as a heavy construction worker (structural ironwork). He used a combination of Kramer’s physical/mental yoga and Blake’s structural evaluation system to substantially resolve most of those musculoskeletal issues, and then developed his hands-on bodywork system on what he learned about the bodymind and releasing tension during that self-healing process.
In turn, as he was teaching his work to massage & bodywork therapists, the DSL Method of Let-Go Yoga was also modified and enhanced by what David learned in private sessions with people who had significant neuro-muscular and myo-fascial problems, many of whom had been given up on by both orthodox and alternative practitioners.
Along the way, David has done extensive study of the physical sciences — structural anatomy, postural kinesiology, physiology, neurophysiology, pathology, etc. — to understand and enhance the healing potentials of yoga and bodywork as an integrated system. There is a strong philosophical & psychological background to the work, as well.
David is now returning to training students, primary via on-line e-Courses. His focus is on yoga teachers & yoga therapists, as well as massage & bodywork therapists.
He is also available to speak to the General Public on Chronic, Excess Muscle & Nerve Tension & Stress, (C.E.M.&.N.T.S.) as well as yoga, bodywork, and related bodymind topics.
Click Here for a More Complete Biographical History of David and the Development of his work: DSL Let-Go Yoga and DSL EdgeWork: Yoga/Bodywork Therapeutics.
Thanks for Reading,
David Scott Lynn (DSL)
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