Your Altar: Creating a Sacred Space for Prayer & Meditation

By Sandra Kynes

Book Overview

In this fast-paced world of over-stimulation and distraction, keeping a private space for meditative retreat and spirituality is essential. Creating an altar using the power of numbers allows you to achieve spiritual stillness in a personal and meaningful way.

The numbers one through nine each carry a profound symbolic history and significance. Harness this energy and apply it to your life by selecting the number that best resonates with your intention and using it as a guide to your altar design.

Deepen Your Spiritual Practice

With meditation techniques and many examples of prayers, practices, and rituals from all major faiths, popular author and Celtic scholar Sandra Kynes offers a new approach to altar-building. Using representations of elements from myth and nature as focal points, you can create an altar that best suits your spiritual needs.

Straightforward and practical, with easy-to-follow instructions and clear illustrations, this unique book allows you to experience the restorative benefits of altars--and ultimately reconnect with that sacred space within yourself.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0738711055
• ISBN13: 9780738711058
• Release Date: December 2007
• Publisher: Llewellyn Publications
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

A Very Helpful Introduction

In Your Altar, Kynes gives examples and suggestions for altar setups that might lend themselves to meditation for someone exploring their use in meditation and prayer. She draws upon many traditions, including feng shui, buddhism, christianity, celtic religion, egyptian mythology, and neopaganism. The chapters are themed around the number of parts to the altar setup and depend largely on numerology. Not only was the book practical, but the appendix about the history of altars was interesting as well.