Antoinette VoUte Roeder offers the reader inspiration to experience contemplative prayer and meditation with their entire being-body, breath, soul and spirit. It is no coincidence that these poem-prayers emerged from her practice over the course of nine months. Antoinette has reclaimed the feminine in an arena that has been patriarchal and exclusive for centuries in both western and eastern traditions. She balances eros and agape, offering an inclusive, direct, heartfelt and embodied experience through her explorations of breath, sound and silence. These exude a profound nurturing, and we...