About us

Event Timing: May 22 2026 18:00 - 20:00

Event Address: Lapinlahti, 3rd Floor, Room 30 Lapinlahdenpolku 8, 00180 Helsinki

Price : Donation based

Hi, I'm Junsik Yoon — I'm from Seoul, and I just arrived in Helsinki after cycling here from Warsaw.

For years I trained Korean and US Navy personnel in meditation and mental resilience. Willpower, focus, emotional regulation — these were my tools, and quietly, my identity.

Then I burned out.

The harder I pushed, the further I felt from something essential. My practice had become another performance, another goal to optimise. I was so busy refining the instrument that I'd forgotten what it was for.

A chance encounter brought me to Jirisan — a mountain in southern Korea where a small community lives by an ancient philosophy called Pungnyudo, the Way of Wind and Flow. Pungnyudo weaves together Taoism, Buddhism, Confucianism, and Korea's indigenous shamanic traditions. But it doesn't ask you to study these things. It asks you to live them.

Living alongside that community, I felt something return — the part of me that used to find everything curious, the child who hadn't yet learned to rush past experience. For the first time, the boundary between meditation and ordinary life began to dissolve. I didn't need to fix my life. I needed to flow with it.

We live in a world engineered to capture our attention and maximise our output. The quiet art of effortless living — wu-wei, the heart of Pungnyudo — has never felt more necessary.

I create spaces where people discover what that feels like: in their bodies, their breath, their daily lives. Not as a teacher who has arrived, but as someone who found this path a little earlier and thinks it's worth walking together.

(I also co-run permaculture projects in Germany and Portugal — because for me, permaculture is meditation practised at the scale of an ecosystem.)

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WHAT WE DO

What if the most alive version of you isn't something to achieve — but something to remember?

The Art of Playing is a workshop built around Pungryudo, Korea's ancient philosophy of Wind and Flow. We explore what it means to live the way a river moves: without striving, without losing momentum, completely present.

The workshop moves through three practices:

— Philosophy: the roots of Pungnyudo and its two core movements, Mosim (the art of deep reception) and Sallim (the natural arising of action)

— Anapana Living: a daily-life meditation where thoughts, emotions, impulses, fear, memories, dialogues, and intertactions with others & nature, all become the practice

— Donghak Sword Dance CBC: a somatic partner practice rooted in Korean shamanic tradition, for experiencing non-separation between ourselves and the rest of the world

All three point toward the same thing: Capacity for Play — the ability to meet life as play. Not as a technique. As a way of being.

The word Pungryu also means “to play”.

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IS THIS FOR YOU?

This workshop tends to resonate if you recognise yourself in any of these:

Autopilot — Habit and automatic reaction carry you through the day. You move without noticing you're moving.
Overdoing — You're good at achieving things, but fulfilment keeps slipping just out of reach. The present moment is always somewhere in the future.
Withdrawing — You've been on retreats. You've touched real peace. But it dissolves the moment you return to ordinary life, and you can't figure out how to bring it with you.

If any of these sound familiar, you're in the right place. This workshop exists precisely in the gap between where those three modes leave you — and where you actually want to be.