Stretching Your Faith: Practicing Postures of Prayer to Create Peace, Balance and Freedom

by Michelle Thielen

God is not trying to hide His plans from you. He wants you to invite Him into every area of your life so He can communicate the plans He has predestined for you. As a Christian, you will discover that the most important thing that you can do is hear from God. By practicing the postures in this book, you will soon create a joyous daily habit of spending time with your Maker. You will discover that He created you to worship. Perhaps spending time with God has become a burden to you. During our time together, you will invite the Holy Spirit into the innermost parts of your life, to breathe new oxygen into your heart and soul. You will experience whole worshipand complete surrender like never before! Put into practice on a regular basis, you will also find healing for your mind, body, spirit, and soul.Dear friend, it is time to be whole because you were created to worship your Creator.

Genres: Nonfiction

208 pages, Paperback

First published June 23, 2016

Reviews

[Shannon Davis · Rating 5 out of 5]

Healing

I recommend this book for anyone who struggles with anxiety and a broken heart! Be healed and restored by God!

[Michaela · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is such a great book, very comprehensive and helpful and encouraging. It looks at the 8 limbs of yoga as they relate to the Bible and also the energy ideas and chakras as they relate to scriptures, which I found really interesting and useful. There are great photos of postures/ asanas,as well as many suggestions for modifications and extensions, so really something for all people whether beginner or expert. However, what I really loved were the suggestions for meditations for each pose and what we might inhale and exhale in a particular posture/ asana as well as scriptures to meditate on. I loved how the book's narrative was woven into the different asana families, which made it easier to read through the posture information without it being the whole of the rest of the book, hopefully that makes sense! Most yoga books have the narrative at the beginning and then a section at the end with all the postures. However this book has the chapters interwoven through the book, which I think works really well, as well as narrative around the postures, not just a long list of postures and how to do them.

There's so much more I could say, but I do feel if you buy this book as a Christian interested in yoga, you will love it. I have made so many notes and I have lots of ideas to implement coming away from the book. I super loved this book. I felt it worked well on the kindle. I did use my iPad to look at some of the photos, but you can enlarge them on the kindle itself and see them perfectly well. It is well formatted. Thank you Michelle for a great book.

[Leiloni Schulz · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book beautifully describes how to worship our Lord and Jesus as you move through yoga postures. The descriptions are great, and the modifications make these postures available to everyone and anyone.

[Joy]

P+

[Sandy L Jones · Rating 5 out of 5]

A good read

I am a Christian who teaches what i call a Christian Yoga class. She had the same idea and took it much further than i do. An excellent read.

[Renae Ross · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great illustrations to help learn correct forms. Love that my yoga practice is now Jesus focused!

[Rebecca · Rating 4 out of 5]

The perfect all-around book for a Christian who practices yoga! Goes through postures, prayer, meditation, and chakra theory from a Christ-centered perspective... I love all the connections of truth between yoga, the Bible, and our faith!