Dahn World boasted in that publication that margins far exceeded those of Korean car manufacturers.
The complaint in the Washington case accuses Dahn of sending out faxes like this one.
FORBES: Dahn Yoga Founder Ilchi Lee Resigns Amid Suits Alleging Brain Washing and Sex Abuse
Myers filed a separate suit against Dahn Yoga in Virginia alleging fraud and racketeering.
FORBES: Dahn Yoga Founder Ilchi Lee Resigns Amid Suits Alleging Brain Washing and Sex Abuse
Dahn, Lee and the other defendants have denied the charges and called the allegations frivolous.
FORBES: Dahn Yoga Founder Ilchi Lee Resigns Amid Suits Alleging Brain Washing and Sex Abuse
S. 65 in the South Bronx, which Dahn claims has incorporated brain education exercises into the curriculum.
Obtaining these funds, Shipley says, was part of her "money training, " a means of showing her commitment to Dahn.
Dahn's spokesperson says it's being used in 300 schools in such cities as Buffalo Grove, Ill. and Arlington, Mass.
Last week he announced his resignation from BR Consulting, the group which advised Dahn Yoga and other affiliated entities.
FORBES: Dahn Yoga Founder Ilchi Lee Resigns Amid Suits Alleging Brain Washing and Sex Abuse
Shipley says her Dahn mentor spent countless hours helping her research potential sources of funding and accompanying her to banks.
Dahn's spokesperson says these unfounded "rumors and innuendoes" are simply efforts to hurt a large and visible brand in yoga training.
The lawsuit's allegations echo what many cult experts like Steven Hassan, Rick A. Ross and Cathleen Mann have been saying for years about Dahn.
The plaintiffs, 27 former Dahn Yoga practitioners, claimed they were brainwashed and duped into spending thousands of dollars on Dahn yoga classes and retreats.
FORBES: Dahn Yoga Founder Ilchi Lee Resigns Amid Suits Alleging Brain Washing and Sex Abuse
After three years the two remaining Dahn-affiliated defendants settled the action.
Dahn centers sell a variety of products it deems healing-related.
Hassan, a Somerville, Mass. mental health counselor who has helped scores of former Dahn members, says the group uses deceptive recruitment and mind-control techniques to create a dissociative disorder among followers, splitting them off from their families and value systems.
Sallie Mae ( SLM - news - people ) loan paid directly to a Dahn affiliate, the Sun Institute, a New Jersey massage school, for "DahnMuDo" training, a 12-day course in noncombative martial arts she attended in Sedona.
Three years later the siblings of Julia Margaret Siverls, a ccny professor, filed a wrongful death action in New York state court, charging that their 41-year-old sister "was drugged and killed by the Dahn Hak cult" during a training retreat in Sedona.
They claim Dahn's profits are transferred to Lee and used to fund a lifestyle that includes a horse ranch in Arizona, high stakes gambling, a yacht and a private jet. forbes confirmed that BR Consulting owns the jet, the horse ranch and some residential properties.
Dahn claims that founder Ilchi Lee is no longer directly involved in the company but instead runs a consulting firm, BR Consulting, which owns the intellectual property used by Dahn Yoga. (Lee is seeking to dismiss the suit against him on this basis as well.) But according to the plaintiffs, Ilchi Lee controls them all.
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