Protected: Contemplative Spiritual Formation

This content is password-protected. To view it, please enter the password below.

Password:

Subscriber Area Navigation

Subscriber Area

First Steps in Prayer

Introduction
God
Prayer
Just do it
Resistance

I offer spiritual direction, training, and supervision. I am also a writer. I am based in Upper Teesdale, Co. Durham and (occasionally) West London.

Through kindly attention to the sensations of this body you can connect into a process of ever-deepening immersion into the reality of God at the heart of life.

I write here primarily about:

God, and how to foster your relationship with God;
prayer, and how to pray; and
how attending to this body is prayer and a way to be present in the Presence.

Popular Posts

Audio Prayer for sleep 5.9k views | posted on 05/04/2020
To you 3.3k views | posted on 11/04/2016
Praying together 2.8k views | posted on 01/01/2021
What is the sensation of prayer? 10 steps to knowing God 2.3k views | posted on 08/09/2014
Audio Prayer: Simple opening to God’s presence 1.9k views | posted on 29/03/2020
The Age of Feuillton 1.7k views | posted on 17/10/2014
Audio Prayer: Presence, Gratitude, and Kindness 1.6k views | posted on 12/04/2020
Audio prayer: What do you desire? 1.4k views | posted on 17/05/2020
Ignatian Scaffolding 1.3k views | posted on 07/08/2021
Thomas and Friends 1.1k views | posted on 30/05/2008
It’s only your imagination 1.1k views | posted on 01/03/2021
The only 3 prayers you need 1.1k views | posted on 26/05/2019
There is no one but us 0.9k views | posted on 26/12/2021
8 ways to be with thoughts in prayer 0.9k views | posted on 22/10/2021
Eugene Peterson: quotes from The Contemplative Pastor 0.9k views | posted on 29/01/2010
Audio Prayer: Review of the day 0.9k views | posted on 24/04/2020
A letter to three faith leaders 873 views | posted on 25/10/2021
How to experience God 848 views | posted on 12/06/2016
Thoughts in a time of plague 829 views | posted on 07/05/2020
Lost and found 797 views | posted on 15/08/2021
Spiritual direction at the end of the world (1) 772 views | posted on 10/01/2021
Thomas Merton’s life without care 742 views | posted on 23/05/2019
Only basic goodness gives life to technique 708 views | posted on 29/10/2021
Coterminous 704 views | posted on 05/05/2021
Lass auch Dir die Brust bewegen, Liebchen, höre mich! 672 views | posted on 07/03/2021
Coming Out 671 views | posted on 20/08/2024
Retreat Day: “What do You want me to do?” 643 views | posted on 03/08/2021
Spiritual direction at the end of the world (4) 641 views | posted on 13/01/2021
Retreat days for Advent 638 views | posted on 05/11/2021
Starting at the bottom 638 views | posted on 11/09/2013
For 619 views | posted on 30/03/2018
The Discontents of Empire (III) 613 views | posted on 26/02/2017
One needful Lenten discipline 609 views | posted on 10/03/2023
I am Trump 608 views | posted on 03/02/2017
The Miracle of Being Nothing 590 views | posted on 01/07/2013
Holy the Firm 578 views | posted on 11/05/2020
What shall we do? 552 views | posted on 20/10/2019
But when he came to himself 543 views | posted on 30/09/2020
Retreat Day: Lent in lockdown 524 views | posted on 28/01/2021
Embattled, not embittered 517 views | posted on 14/02/2016
Are we there yet? 502 views | posted on 10/02/2019
Where to start? 495 views | posted on 21/02/2012
Retreat Day: Coming Home 491 views | posted on 06/05/2021
Journalling Bible 489 views | posted on 19/02/2017
Michael Maddock, RIP 489 views | posted on 05/04/2010
Prayer of St Manchan 454 views | posted on 16/08/2014
Middle-class spiritual direction 438 views | posted on 02/12/2016
Sit! 429 views | posted on 23/09/2013
Audio prayer featured on Insight Timer 413 views | posted on 14/05/2020
Oasis Day: Journey into Lent 410 views | posted on 01/02/2022
Relax! 410 views | posted on 09/12/2013
God’s fragile ego 407 views | posted on 09/12/2019
Starting at the bottom (part 2) 403 views | posted on 15/09/2013
Appledore 402 views | posted on 07/05/2018
Feeling into this body 399 views | posted on 22/10/2010
Audio Prayer: Revisiting a God moment 390 views | posted on 19/04/2020
Finding depth 383 views | posted on 16/06/2019
The Kingdom of Heaven 377 views | posted on 28/05/2018
The shift 372 views | posted on 01/07/2018
Disclosure II 366 views | posted on 11/09/2024
An affirming source (6): Empowered 366 views | posted on 05/05/2019
Spiritual direction at the end of the world (2) 364 views | posted on 11/01/2021
Annunciation 363 views | posted on 15/12/2019
Spiritual direction at the end of the world (3) 361 views | posted on 12/01/2021
Retreat day: Coming home (last call) 358 views | posted on 07/06/2021
11 Ways of Dealing with Anxiety: 1. Breathe 350 views | posted on 13/05/2013
A training day for Guildford spiritual directors 344 views | posted on 24/11/2020
Repetition 339 views | posted on 17/01/2016
An affirming source (3): Yielding 335 views | posted on 14/03/2019
Salvation 329 views | posted on 17/06/2018
An affirming source (5): Relationship 326 views | posted on 28/04/2019
Vastness, presence and meaning 324 views | posted on 09/03/2015
Training day for spiritual directors 322 views | posted on 10/05/2019
When prayer stops working 320 views | posted on 01/12/2019
Audio Prayer: Review of the day++ 318 views | posted on 29/04/2020
An affirming source (1): an alien will 316 views | posted on 07/03/2019
Negative Capability 315 views | posted on 15/02/2025
The gifts and the giver 314 views | posted on 30/11/2024
Desert 312 views | posted on 03/02/2019
To care and not to care 311 views | posted on 20/01/2019
How sophisticated are you? 307 views | posted on 09/10/2016
What’s eating away at you? 300 views | posted on 30/12/2016
Preemptive strikes upon the Divine 297 views | posted on 03/11/2019
You 276 views | posted on 13/10/2014
An affirming source (2): Emancipation 272 views | posted on 08/03/2019
The naked night 271 views | posted on 18/09/2016
… and joy 270 views | posted on 22/04/2020
Camas Lilies 268 views | posted on 19/05/2018
Mercy 267 views | posted on 08/06/2017
11 Ways of Dealing with Anxiety: 9. Identifying fallacious reasoning 266 views | posted on 10/09/2013
A training day in Gloucester for spiritual directors 263 views | posted on 17/10/2019
Distraction 257 views | posted on 10/11/2019
To live or to recount 252 views | posted on 17/08/2016
Clinging to the Invisible God 251 views | posted on 13/04/2017
Retreat Day: last call 243 views | posted on 15/02/2021
Disclosure I 237 views | posted on 28/08/2024
The Discontents of Empire (IV) 233 views | posted on 19/03/2017
An affirming source: Inter-mission 232 views | posted on 14/04/2019
A few thoughts on how to release regret and learn to live (IV) 229 views | posted on 26/09/2014
The Discontents of Empire (I) 220 views | posted on 05/02/2017

Now on Insight Timer!

Insight Timer is the #1 free app for meditation, sleep, anxiety and stress.

Find me on Insight Timer

A beginner’s guide

These links will give you a flavour of, and a way in to, what this body is all about:

Where to start?
Sitting
Starting at the bottom
Feeling into this body
Starting at the bottom (part 2)
Relax!
What is the senation of prayer? 10 steps to knowing God
The miracle of being nothing

Copyright

Feel free to share any of this material with others, but please say where you got it from and point people at this website. Thank you.

Proudly powered by WordPress | Theme: Independent Publisher 2 by Raam Dev.