Charis Meditation, based on Centering Prayer and the work of Father Thomas Keating, is designed to offer practitioners (especially the spiritual-but-not-religious) the simplest elements of a spiritual practice, without requiring a commitment to any existing religious or spiritual tradition. Charis Meditation provides interspiritually-identified practitioners and practitioners of multiple spiritual traditions with one simple interspiritual practice they might do together, without privileging one practice-tradition over another.
Charis Meditation is a ‘process’ in that it has two dimensions, vertical and horizontal, neither being complete without the other. The vertical dimension is a simple receptive (rather than concentrative) meditation practice, that allows the meditator to go ‘high and deep,’ opening to the sacred and its transformative influence. The horizontal dimension allows one to place that vertical experience within the embodied context of their own lives, guided by the world’s spiritual traditions and the wisdom we have inherited from them, through a daily practice of spiritual reading and contemplative reflection.