Prayer doesn’t always seem to fit naturally with talk of a soulful life. Perhaps prayer seems more suited to the ‘upward’ journey of transcendence – mystical union, expansiveness, light. Not to the messy, downward, inward journey of soul. But to me, these two journeys are not separate. They are one and the same. Our bodies are the portal to the divine – to above, and to below.

I pray, even if I don’t call it that.