Like any devotional or physical practice, home practice can take many forms. Some people like to set yoga movement to common Christian prayers or songs. Here are a few PDFs and other resources from folks who have connected yoga with songs—you can use them, or be inspired to create your own. What makes yoga a Christian spiritual practice is the intention of prayer and communion with God in your heart.

BOOKS AND DVDS

Yoga Prayer DVD by Fr. Thomas Ryan provides several sequences for traditional Christian prayers.

Praying with the Body: Bringing the Psalms to Life by Roy DeLeon includes body prayer sequences specifically designed for the Psalms. 

Beatitudes, Christ and the Practice of Yoga by Fr. Anthony Randazzo and Madelana Ferrara includes body prayer sequences for praying through the Beatitudes. 

YOGA PRAYER SEQUENCES WITH SUGGESTED MUSIC

For home practitioners, we offer the following sequences for your exploration.

• Be Not Afraid

• Breath of Heaven

• God is Everlasting Love

• God Who Saves

• I Am the Vine

• The Lord’s Prayer

• Only This I Want

• Open My Eyes, Lord (two versions)

• Prayer for Peace

• The Sacred in All (I)

• The Sacred in All (II)

• Spirit of the Living God Fall Afresh Upon Me

• St Teresa Prayer

• We Are (original and alternate introduction)