Who Is DSL?

Biography & History of David Scott Lynn, DSL EdgeWork & Let-Go Yoga

Here is a Link to an In-depth Biography & History of David and the development of DSL EdgeWork and DSL Let-Go Yoga.

Here's the Short Version:

David Scott Lynn (DSL) . . .had his first Zen-style meditation experience in 1967, at age 13, while studying martial arts.

He has been practicing yoga since 1974. There have been several periods of many months of doing 3 to 4 hours of yoga per day, 4 to 6 days per week.

He 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 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 system of integrated Yoga & Bodywork 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 physical 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 system of yoga ( www.dslyoga.com ) was modified and enhanced by what David learned in private sessions with people who had significant neuro-muscular and myofascial 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. (Soon to come: www.dslyogatherapy.com ).

He is also available to speak to the General Public on Chronic, Excess Muscle Tension, 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.