Bodyprayer: The Posture of Intimacy with God

I have been learning about body prayer and this book was helpful. It gives different incite than what I already knew.

This is a wonderful little book and filled to overflowing with beautiful ways to offer our body to God in praise, thanksgiving, and wonder. As the Lord abides in us, how much more are we called to respect our bodies and offer ourselves as living sacrifices. Thank you to the author and the illustrator, who shared these prayers with us. It is simple in content, but can lead you to deeper connection with God and creation.

This book doesn't stand alone well, but for those interested in the spiritual discipline of praying, this definitely can shed some new light on experimental prayers and prayer postures. I recommend this for anyone who is wanting to be more physical with their Christian life.

For each body prayer, there is a description, a posture and a prayer starter or meditation. It's been a great resource to get our people out of the pews and involving them more in their prayer. Our youth love the postures and have taken the idea to create more of their own.

This book required all of me. My mind, my body, my soul and I am forever grateful to the authors for leading me into an active engagement with prayer. Not a quiet gathering in a circle but a fully engaged wholly applied prayer life. This is perfect for corporate and individual worship - for early morning matins or before bed devotions. Thank you Doug and Kathryn for this gift to the Church! I am most prayerfully yours, Don

This book is a fantastic resource not only for one's private devotional life, but for an entire community, helping to lead through various types of prayer. Each chapter is a different type of prayer, with a short explanation, a written prayer and a "prayer posture"- a way to stand or gesture to use as you pray this particular prayer that will help you experience it and say it and pray it in a more tactile way. There's also a space to journal at the end of each chapter. Types of prayers covered include: prayers of kindness, for strength, of praise, for courage, for guidance, of thankfulness, for change, for forgiveness, for the poor... I could see both myself and my church community as well as communities like us making great use of this book, praying in many different ways, with many different stances. Pastors should consider this book as a good resource to get for those in your communities who help craft the experiential elements.