<p><span style="color: #921a1d;"><strong>Yoga – Embodiment-Spirit • June 24-26</strong></span><br /><br />Yoga, embodiment, spirit: A meditation on an expression by Bede Griffiths: “There may be another way, but integration of flesh and spirit is Christ’s way for us today.” We examine yoga as means to the end understood in Christian terms: The Word, who was God, was made flesh, so that flesh (biblical term for our shared humanity) might become God by grace and participation. Breathing, breath, spirit: one word in ancient languages to indicate divine presence at different levels of reality.<br /><br /><em>Thomas Matus entered New Camaldoli in 1962, made his vows in 1964, and was ordained a priest in 1970 at Camaldoli in Italy. He has degrees in music, ecumenical theology, and a Ph.D. in history of religions. He has published books on Yoga, India, Liturgical music, and Camaldolese spirituality. He has lived in our communities in Italy, India, and Brazil, and now is at Incarnation Monastery in Berkeley, California. He has taught courses at the Dominican and Jesuit schools of the Graduate Theological Union.</em></p>