Dawn Porter

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Sound Healing – SHUT UP!

In Just Stuff..., Self Help on April 26, 2011 at 3:15 pm

Hello, my name is Dawn and I…

…realise I may be sounding unkind, but in a two-hour class that was meant to cleanse my aura I was surprised to be sat in front of someone who had such an unpleasant one’.

As I walked up the stairs into the Hare Krishna temple I was promptly ushered into a long thin room by a shoeless, blond, male nymph with a soft voice and  a clipboard. ‘The Sound Healing class is in here’ he said. I grabbed myself a cushion and sat down on the floor.

I sat opposite, if slightly to the right of a woman who I assumed to be the teacher. She had her back to the wall and was sitting with her crossed legged. Every now and then she would try to pull them into Lotus position but she couldn’t hold it, they kept slipping back. She tried to make this look deliberate, it clearly wasn’t.

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Laughter Yoga? Are you being funny?

In Funny, My life, Self Help on April 8, 2011 at 10:31 am

Hello, my name is Dawn Porter and I…

‘…started to wonder what this was all about. Why not just watch an episode of The Office and laugh for real? Why meet strangers in a room full of denim and no windows and pretend to laugh at them?’

As I entered the building in Uptown Manhattan a little old lady walked about three feet ahead of me. I crept in front of her and opened the door, she didn’t look up, she didn’t say thank you, but just walked on with a face completely void of expression. Once in the elevator she pressed the button for floor 11. ‘No’ I thought ‘She can’t be’…

She was.

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