PHOENIX, Ariz.—Audience members often feel more energized leaving a performance of Shen Yun Performing Arts than coming in. Caroline Wagner is a sound healer and a yoga instructor. She found that Shen Yun was an experience beyond her regular senses. “I’m very sensitive to energy. It’s incredible because they are in that state of consciousness and it comes through! To someone who’s sensitive, I can feel that. It uplifts our consciousness,” Wagner said. “You don’t even have to watch it, you can feel it. But watching it is so beautiful.” Being a yoga instructor, Wagner was also familiar with the ancient practice of Falun Gong. The performance uses dance and music to vividly depict the followers of this practice in China and the persecution that they are experiencing. “The most important thing is they’re exposing what’s going on [and] they’re sharing [the] ancient art of the Falun Gong,” Wagner said. …