ABSTRACT
In January 1999, a luxury hotel located in Genval, some 20 kilometers southeast of Brussels, was the venue of a conference by the founder of Spiritual Human Yoga, Luong Minh Dang, known to his followers as ‘Master Dang’. Luong Minh Dang, a South-Vietnamese born in 1942 who had emigrated to the U.S in 1987, had developed a therapy based on the Vedic concept of chakras, a form of esoteric anatomy.1 The seven main chakras correspond to seven parts of the human body: base, sacrum, solar plexus, heart, throat, brow (or third eye) and fontanelle (top of the head). Dang claimed that a spiritual master of Sri Lanka, Desira Narada II,2 had transmitted to him the knowledge of controlling a ‘Universal Energy’ that can enter human bodies via the chakras. Through his teachings, the followers of ‘Master Dang’ learned the technique of opening the chakras to this ‘Universal Energy’. Dang began exercising his technique through a movement presently known as Spiritual Human Yoga (SHY).3
