the practice of chanting the Lord's Prayer in the Aramaic language originally spoken by Jesus can be transformative but this practice was mostly unknown in the Western world until thirty years ago when Neil Douglas Klotz was inspired to put each line of the aramaic prayer to music and movement what follows is an example of this practice and the voices of those who have experienced Jesus in his own words okay so we're gonna be chanting a wound do ba shamaya wound do ba and left sham I so what we're doing is we're bowing gently from the heart very gently feeling our own connection with source whatever by whatever name we call that God Holy Spirit you know any name in Aramaic it's called Aloha or unity the ground of reality in this case we're using the word of wound Oh birther or breathing life or parenting one of the cosmos the whole process of creation is contained in the word of wound when you say the prayer of great being of the content of the messenger you are connecting through sound through vibration to their real atmosphere and we pray that prayer it's not just saying words or saying words that mean something but we're directly connecting to Jesus or Yeshua breath the sound is atmosphere his real being first time I heard the prayer something in me I think it was my heart just burst open and I was lifted to a place I'd never been before and I thought is this really what Jesus meant is are these his words and if these are the words he spoke then I understand why people dropped everything and followed him and it changed the way that I started to think about prayer and it definitely changed the way I thought about Jesus and listening to it the first time it was a incredibly as weeping at the end of it and I had no idea why but it was something that touched me so deeply for me being able to learn the fuller meanings the additional possible meanings that are available over the ones that we were given about what Jesus might have said what Jesus I might have man told us life might have been all out I feel it's really given me faith belief relationship with Jesus back in a very personal way when I danced the Lord's Prayer for the first time I knew my soul was home I couldn't pronounce the word yet but I was experiencing them in every cell of my body in the words in Aramaic dancing them embodied the spirit of Jesus in a way that nothing had done for me in a long time total embodiment in prayer in action prayer in song prayer and movement and that just really brought a flood of emotional as well as intellectual impact just breathing the sound in the heart I think my work as a minister didn't really begin until I encountered at a heart level the message of yeshua through through this aramaic translation and spiritual practice world so again the most profound gift of this has been that it gave me a spiritual practice to center life and and a direct experience I discovered mysticism and discovered that there is a way to integrate one's head one's heart one's passion for justice issues and inclusivity and one's desire to really get at the source of all to understand and experience God as the source of all we're going to continue to the right now the same way to the right again yeah I can see that this prayer has changed me and changed my life because it's given me the tools that describe exactly what's happened with me internally and kind of turned it around just from the very beginning the first line when it says father and mother it's and finally I started to understand that the words actually go into yourself and that it actually does physical healing for you because everything is rhythm everything is song and it was that part of this prayer that these are the songs that everything I don't I'm I'm a literal embodiment of that prayer so that's why I'm grateful for it the aramaic prayer just immediately open my heart in the way nothing else in Christianity had ever done just because the first line finally mentioned not just the father but the mother and that this is this is what he's so important to me is that it's not just masculine it's getting out of the patriarchal and also meeting the prayer was a fulfillment of my childhood dreamed of bringing the prayer into language that I could understand and that would inspire me to pray and use it because the Orthodox English language didn't it was just like oh this is what I've been working for the feeling for that of keeping a prayer in the heart going is something that the Aramaic language allows us to enter in a much deeper way because again these are the sounds equals these are the words that either Jesus said them or they're so close to what he said that it still gives us the same breath the same feeling the same answer and that has to be a big thing I mean that has to be a deepening aspect for a person's spiritual life because you feel inside that the prayer is as though saying you you have a companion of the heart accompany me through jesus's atmosphere through Yeshua Sabbath for those of us that know it let's say together the words whole words of that prayer Jesus and Aramaic the Lord's Prayer and if not simply breathed with the word of one Mundi bachmeier Nicodemus Taytay mallacoota neck we see beyond ikana de bas my ha ha blah nama soon Kanani amana wash clan have a mock Dehaene i Kannada phenomenal high beam will Tufnell in Asuna Ella Watson Manisha matru delaffei mallacoota Mahalo what ash bhakta the lamb I'll mean me you