Liturgical year Archives - Getting Still Yoga

What is the liturgical year, and how can Christians engage with the various sacred seasons?

The liturgical year is an annual sacred rhythm of living for Christians made up of seasons that commemorate the birth, life, death, and Resurrection of Jesus Christ. Some examples of liturgical seasons include Advent, Christmastime, Lent, Easter, and Ordinary Times.

Christians can deepen their faith by engaging with these sacred seasons, even if they don’t attend a liturgical church. Additionally, Christians who practice yoga, meditation, and other spiritual practices can combine their practices with the liturgical seasons for a deeper spiritual experience.

In the following blogs, we will explore how to use spiritual practices like yoga, meditation, and prayer during liturgical seasons to deepen your relationship with God and grow closer to Christ. For example, we will cover how to partner your yoga practice with the season of Lent to experience deeper spiritual growth.

The following blogs also offer meditations for Lent, guides on how to pray with beads, an Ash Wednesday meditation, and more. We will also practice the discipline of gratitude and explore how yoga during the Advent season can help you grow in anticipation of the light in the darkness.

If you are ready to embrace new seasons and deepen your relationship with Christ, these blogs are for you. No matter where you are in your Christian journey or your journey with yoga, you can learn from these blogs.

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How to Use Breath Prayers for Advent to Reclaim the Sacredness of the Season

Breath Prayers for Advent Can breath prayers for Advent help us to find deeper meaning this Christmas? During Advent, Christians are invited to recall the past, awaken to the present, and anticipate the future. We are reminded that there is a bigger story being told, and we are living in the “time between.” In my previous blog about Advent, [...]

By Kelly McLellan|2023-12-22T20:33:32+00:00December 21st, 2023|Christ-centered yoga, Christian Living, Liturgical year, Meditation & Prayer, Spiritual growth|

Meeting Jesus in the Wilderness with yoga for Lent

What is Lent? What is lent, and what does meeting Jesus in the wilderness through yoga mean? Lent is a liturgical season on the Christian Church calendar designed to prepare our hearts and minds to better appreciate the sacrifice of Jesus on the cross. It is a 40-day period of fasting, self-examination, and preparation leading up to the observance [...]

By Kelly McLellan|2023-08-17T20:32:37+00:00March 12th, 2023|Christ-centered yoga, Liturgical year, Spiritual growth|

Praying with Beads for Lent: a Meditation for Week 5

In my first post, I gave a brief history of prayer beads and introduced the Protestant, or Anglican, Rosary. In this series, I will give a meditation and prayer to use with your Rosary each week during the Lenten season. Use this meditation beginning the fourth Sunday in Lent. Anglican Rosary Praying with beads: A Practice for Lent- Week Print prayer here:5 Sunday of Lent- [...]

By Kelly McLellan|2023-06-09T23:11:12+00:00March 28th, 2020|Liturgical year, Meditation & Prayer, Spiritual growth|

Praying with Beads for Lent: a Meditation for Week 4

In my first post, I gave a brief history of prayer beads and introduced the Protestant, or Anglican, Rosary. In this series, I will give a meditation and prayer to use with your Rosary each week during the Lenten season. Use this meditation beginning the fourth Sunday in Lent.Praying with beads: A Practice for Lent- Week 4Print prayer here:4 Sunday of Lent- Psalm 121 [...]

By Kelly McLellan|2023-06-09T23:12:03+00:00March 21st, 2020|Liturgical year, Meditation & Prayer, Spiritual growth|

Praying with Beads for Lent: a Meditation for Week 3

In my first post, I gave a brief history of prayer beads and introduced the Protestant, or Anglican, Rosary. In this series, I will give a meditation and prayer to use with your Rosary each week during the Lenten season. Use this meditation beginning the third Sunday in Lent.Praying with beads: A Practice for Lent- Week 3Print out prayer here: 3 Sunday of Lent- [...]

By Kelly McLellan|2023-06-09T23:12:42+00:00March 14th, 2020|Liturgical year, Meditation & Prayer, Spiritual growth|

Praying with Beads for Lent: A Meditation for Week 2

In my first post, I gave a brief history of prayer beads and introduced the Protestant, or Anglican, Rosary. In this series, I will give a meditation and prayer to use with your Rosary each week during the Lenten season. Use this meditation beginning the second Sunday in Lent.Praying with beads: A Practice for Lent- week 2Print out prayer here: 2 Sunday of Lent-Joel [...]

By Kelly McLellan|2023-06-09T23:15:01+00:00March 7th, 2020|Liturgical year, Meditation & Prayer, Spiritual growth|

Praying with Beads for Lent: A Meditation for Week 1

In my last post, I gave a brief history of prayer beads and introduced the Protestant, or Anglican, Rosary. In this series, I will give a meditation and prayer to use with your Rosary each week during the Lenten season. Use this meditation beginning on the first Sunday in Lent.Praying with beads: A Practice for Lent- week 1Print out prayer here: 1 Sunday [...]

By Kelly McLellan|2023-06-09T23:15:47+00:00February 29th, 2020|Liturgical year, Meditation & Prayer, Spiritual growth|

Praying with Beads for Lent: A meditation for Ash Wednesday

Through the ages, prayer beads have been used as a universal tool for meditation and prayer in most every culture and faith tradition. Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Sikhism, Buddhism, Jainism, and the Baha’i Faith all use some form of prayer beads to recite chants, prayers, or devotions. Judaism uses knotted fringes on the corners of a prayer shawl as a reminder [...]

By Kelly McLellan|2023-06-09T23:16:33+00:00February 22nd, 2020|Liturgical year, Meditation & Prayer, Spiritual growth|

Yoga, Epiphany, & the Ajna Chakra

Want to learn more about Christianity and chakras? Get your FREE Jesus and chakras tool-kit sent straight to your inbox. Sign up here.What do the practice of yoga, ajna chakra, and the season of Epiphany have in common?The mystery of revelation.During the season of Epiphany, Christians celebrate the revelation of Jesus as Messiah to the world. The God of the Bible is a [...]

By Kelly McLellan|2023-06-09T23:32:21+00:00January 15th, 2019|Christ-centered yoga, Energy and Chakras, Liturgical year, Yoga Philosophy|

Advent: Looking Back to Remember

In last week's post, Advent, Yoga, & Maya, we considered how the practice of yoga helps to draw back the veil of Maya, allowing us to see the world more clearly, perceiving the whole picture of what God is doing in the world.During the Advent season, Christians are invited to recall the past, awaken to the present, and anticipate the [...]

By Kelly McLellan|2023-06-09T22:46:05+00:00December 9th, 2018|Christ-centered yoga, Liturgical year, Yoga Philosophy|

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