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A Practitioner's Prayer

September 19, 2008 Creative Writing

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     The domain name you are using to get here isn't the one I wanted. Or at least I didn't think so. We all have experiences of how the impersonal logic of computers can actually be great feedback for the moment.

   Speaking on Skype, an internet phone service, to my students of Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy, when their conversation goes through a narrow passage of words alighting deeper feelings, a wavy static emerges. It appears as a sign of inner heat- their tapas of truthtelling burning in the cybercaves.

   I went to Microsoft to set up the domain. It is free for a year and I found out why. Well, on the surface it seemed the static I ran into was purely incompetence on their side but after consideration I accepted my role in the matter.

    I was trying to get the domain BarryPortney.com. No issue here. No doppelganger using my name. Getting it linked to this site was a problem and so I quit their service and went elsewhere. My named domain though, while canceled, couldn't be accessed on the new hosting.

    I went into computer burn staring at the screen wanting to put my hand into its workings and do the simple task myself.

    In conversation with a friend I realized the nature of what I do with people on the mat isn't so much about my name. Isn't about me showing up to sell myself. I returned to the name I awoke to one morning this summer and paid for -the one you are using. I feel much better with this shift and acknowledge how my chaos with Microsoft was wonderful resistance allowing me to burn truer and brighter.

   In 2002 I wrote a simple poem for my students. In a few stanzas it encapsulates what I strive to be. It is the intention of my work.

A Practitioner’s Prayer

I pray for the transparency

that allows me to see the Light

through all the places I live.

I pray to be as the sun’s rays

coasting over fertile soil and roughened rocks,

not trying to hold or reject…

bringing light.

I see that this is so different

than being invisible!

I pray for all things invisible in others

and from the Light

offer them the gift of

my transparency

which is not anything at all

but a silence and a space

that holds more than any

word

or song

or prayer.

Please carry me to this place

we all share-

carry me to the sun’s

soothing revelation.

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I will explore ListeningTouch, a new modality fusing my many years of cultivation with massage, yoga asana/ meditation and Internal Alchemy chi kung.

I fuse this with current mind body therapies especially the client centered model from Phoenix Rising Yoga of which I both practice and mentor.

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