Rabbi Mike Comins and Making Prayer Real contributors are available to teach in your community!
Learning to pray is less about gathering information and more about developing a practice. Just as one learns music best from an experienced and talented musician, so, too, does one benefit from study with an experienced prayer-person, a teacher who walks the spiritual path of prayer. Together with your synagogue or school clergy, Rabbi Mike Comins and the MPR team bring expertise, experience and depth to your engagement with Jewish prayer.
During a Making Prayer Real workshop, participants learn in a variety of modalities, engaging mind, body, heart and soul. Participants not only study prayer, they experience it. Through writing, study, body meditation, chanting, discussion and dialogue, the MPR workshop catalyses and deepens your individual and communal prayer practice.
Topics
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Why Prayer Is Difficult
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What is Prayer?
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The Efficacy of Prayer
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The Spiritual Dynamics of Prayer
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Cultivating a Personal Prayer Voice
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Gratitude and the Art of Blessing
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Prayer and Coping with Loss
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Teshuvah: Prayer and Personal Change
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The Spiritual Dynamics of Traditional Prayer
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Approaching Traditional Liturgy
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Dialoguing the Siddur
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Developing a Personal Prayer Practice
Modalities
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Chant
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Written and Oral Prayer Exercises
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Body Awareness Practices
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Study
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Nature Walk
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Hitbodedut Alone Time
A typical weekend workshop might include a sermon at Kabbalat Shabbat Friday night services, a Torah study session on prayer, Shabbat and Sunday workshop sessions where the skills of prayer are taught, a special service incorporating chant, Yoga or other modalities, and/or a nature walk to learn the art of blessing.
To inquire about bringing the MPR workshop to your community, contact us!
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