Running the Spiritual Path: A Runner's Guide to Breathing Meditating and Exploring the Prayerful Dimension of the Sport

Running the Spiritual Path is Roger D. Joslins compelling and inspiring guide to making running a spiritual sport.Imagine achieving physical fitness and spiritual growth simultaneously. Roger Joslins step by step program is an engaging exploration of his conviction that spiritual well being is as likely to happen while running along the trails of a favorite park as it is within the more traditional settings of neighborhood churches synagogues or mosques. Through awareness chants and visualization and through attention to the most evident aspects of the present moment--the weather pain or breathing--the simple run can become the basis for a profound spiritual practice.. In Running the Spiritual Path Roger D. Joslin combines the insights gathered from thirty years of running with a personal spiritual journey that is guiding him to the priesthood. While drawing from and exhibiting an abiding respect for the traditions and sacred practices of the worlds great religions the author describes a heretofore-unexplored method of sacred running of bringing meditation and a prayerful communion to the running trail.