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

Joslin, Roger

ISBN 10: 0312308868 / ISBN 13: 9780312308865

Published by St. Martins Press-3PL 2004-06, 2004

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Running the Spiritual Path: A Runner's Guide to Breathing, Meditating, and Exploring the Prayerful Dimension of the Sport
• Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL 2004-06
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0312308868
• ISBN 13: 9780312308865
• Binding: PF
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Running the Spiritual Path is Roger D. Joslin's compelling and inspiring guide to making running a spiritual sport.

Imagine achieving physical fitness and spiritual growth simultaneously. Roger Joslin's 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 world's great religions, the author describes a heretofore-unexplored method of sacred running, of bringing meditation and a prayerful communion to the running trail.

About the Author

Roger D. Joslin is a native Texan. He graduated from the University of Texas in 1973 and obtained an MA in Government from the University of Texas in 1976 and later studied international relations at the University of Sussex in Brighton, England. Joslin also studied at the Episcopal Theological Seminary of the Southwest, and is now an Episcopal priest. An avid runner most of his adult life, Joslin has devoted much of the last decade exploring and writing about the link between the spiritual quest and the world of running. He is the author of Running the Spiritual Path.