Addressing Your Concerns Around Yoga & Meditation- with Amber Mattingly, DMin

After hearing concerns on social media of Matt and I practicing
yoga and prayerful meditation, I knew it was time to invite my
dear friend Amber Mattingly, DMin to the podcast to share her
story. This is a faith-based episode that addresses the biggest
fears and questions around these practices.


Amber began yoga when her son was newly diagnosed with autism.
She was overwhelmed, frightened for his future, worried about her
marriage, and frustrated at life. At the height of this
experience, she stopped sleeping for a whole year. She was not
the youthful mom coming to yoga to learn handstands and
complicated poses. Instead, she was the young mom barely able to
make it through the day who ended up spending most of the time
crying on her mat.


For her, yoga is a tool that reconnected her with her true self,
strengthened connection with something greater than myself, and
built relationships based on humility, compassion & radical
amazement!


Amber met Pema while pursuing her Doctor of Ministry degree in
Compassion based Leadership and they wondered what might happen
if people from different faith traditions shared a
prayer/meditation practice. Would they grow spiritually together
while deepening their connection to their own faith tradition?
This curiosity lead them to develop a study that included
Buddhist and Christian practitioners. What we found were some
hidden treasures!


Find out more about Amber: https://ambermattinglylivefree.com/


Read Amber and Pema's book: A Leap of (inter)Faith