ABOUT DSL

This Page is the Short Version of David's Biographical information.

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.

David Scott Lynn (DSL) . . . had his first meditation experience in 1967, at age 13, while studying martial arts. He began studying and practicing Zen and Buddhist meditation shortly thereafter.

He 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, 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 Yoga Journal 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 by Daniel Blake, a direct student of Ida Rolf, (founder of Rolfing®, or Structural Integration).

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 developed his hands-on bodywork system on what he learned about the bodymind and releasing tension during that self-healing process.

In turn, the DSL Method of Let-Go Yoga was 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 and psychological background to the work, as well.

David is now returning to training students, and focusing on yoga teachers and yoga therapists at this time

He is also available to speak to the General Public on Chronic, Excess Muscle & Nerve Tension, (C.E.M.&.N.T.) 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: Your Hi-Touch Up-Link to the Inner-Net.