In Sacred Balance Melinda Emily Thomas helps you align body and spirit through two timeless traditions–Benedictine spirituality and yoga.
Spirituality in the Benedictine Way offers the commitments of listening, stability, conversion, humility, and hospitality. These root our values and help us choose how to spend our time, devote our energy, and craft relationships. Yoga offers a parallel spiritual framework along with physical postures to bring those principles into body and spirit.These practices combine to create a powerful blend of body and spirit–one that invites wholeness and connection with the Divine.
Studded with illustrations of basic yoga poses and ideas for wellness, prayers, and meditations, Sacred Balance offers principles and practices that guide us toward peace and wholeness.
Published by Broadleaf Books
Named a Best Spiritual Book of 2020 from Spirituality & Practice
This is a unique book that we found both inspiring and practical. By identifying the bridges between Benedictine spirituality and yoga, Thomas reveals the richness of multifaith spirituality.
What people are saying
“Sacred Balance offers a profound gift-contemplatives will find kinship with the yogic path, yogis will discover the ways monasticism can nourish them, and those unfamiliar with either will discover a new pathway full of embodied presence.”
— Christine Valters Paintner, PhD, online abbess of Abbey of the Arts and author of The Artist’s Rule
“Those who wish to integrate the practices of yoga with contemplative Christian sensibilities will want to keep this thoughtful, informed, and deeply sympathetic book nearby.”
— William K. Mahony, professor and author of The Artful Universe and Exquisite Love
“As beautiful as it is practical, Sacred Balance is an invaluable addition to my library.”
— Katharine Willis Pershey, pastor and author of Very Married
“What a gift this book is! Interweaving the practice of yoga and the principles of the Benedictine Way, it offers you readings, meditations and practices to help you to reach toward and to “sit in” balance. I will be coming back to this book again and again.”
— Laura H.
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