Interfaith · Embodied · Simple
Your body is your first friend and living sanctuary - the luminous thread between self and cosmos. COTB offers a simple, non‑sectarian practice of gratitude, care, and wonder.
“Within this fathom‑long body, with its perceptions and thoughts, lies the world, the origin of the world, the cessation of the world, and the path leading to the cessation of the world.”
The Church of the Body (COTB) is a forming, interfaith community that honors the sacred connection between body and cosmos. We keep it simple: show reverence through daily care, gratitude, and presence. No dogma, no hierarchy - just practice.
COTB’s Speaker for the Body brings together a living synthesis of many paths: TotJO (Temple of the Jedi Order) as Apprentice Jedi and ULC Jedi Knight, Level 2 Reiki practitioner, Hermetic Initiate, Taoist, Pagan, Computer Scientist, and devoted science lover. All of these currents now flow through one embodied temple. COTB’s Speaker for the Body is a ULC Minister. Like the ULC, we uphold two clear tenets for ministers and members alike.
Straightforward by design. Everything else is practice.
Act with integrity, compassion, and accountability - toward your body, others, and the world.
Walk your path in a way that does not infringe on the rights of others and observes civic law.
Plain words. Lived daily.
Your body is a living temple - a microcosm of the universe, worthy of reverence and care.
The body communicates through sensation, mood, dream, habit. Learn to listen.
Trust embodied wisdom. Align with cycles of rest, nourishment, movement, and repair.
We are atoms contemplating atoms. By caring for the body, we harmonize with the wider whole.
Practice gratitude and kindness toward the flesh you live in. Tenderness is a discipline.
Honor the bond between self, others, and world. What you heal in you, you offer everywhere.
True growth. True connection. Never an excuse not to practice gratitude to the temple that is your body.
This Embodied Force Praxis is about true growth and true connection with the living temple that is your own body.
Since the Temple is your body, there is never an excuse not to offer at least a moment of daily gratitude to the sacred vessel that carries you. A simple scan, a breath of thanks, or one small act of care - that is enough to begin. We are all trying our best. None of us asked to be here, and life can feel scary and overwhelming at times, yet it remains an extraordinary gift. In the midst of that truth, this practice invites you back into relationship with the one thing that is always with you: your own living temple.
If you are not doing the work - if you are not showing up to listen, to tend, and to connect - then you are not a practicing member. That does not mean you are not a member. The Church of the Body has no gatekeepers and no expiration dates. It simply means the current is not yet flowing through you in daily practice.
This is the same honest principle I learned in the Hermetic path: you cannot call yourself a Hermetist if you are not doing the praxis. The old solar intonations no longer speak to me the way they once did, so I have set them down. These new adorations - simple, earth-honoring, body-first - are the path that feels alive for me now. They are not “the one true way.” They are simply the next honest step on my path.
Your path will be your own. The only requirement is that you begin where you are, with the body you have today.
Welcome to the temple.
May the Force flow through you - and through every cell of your living body.
We live inside a great turning wheel - sun rising, sun at its height, sun sinking, sun hidden beneath the earth.
Most days we forget we are part of that wheel.
The body remembers.
At noon the fire peaks in your chest; at midnight the quiet pulse returns in every cell.
The solar adorations are not ancient ritual - they are simple love notes between your living temple and the living earth.
Say the words. Feel the light shift.
No special tools. No perfect timing.
Just you, the sun, and the temple that is always here.
This is how we stay anchored when everything else spins.
This is how the cosmos keeps whispering through your blood and breath:
“I am with you. You are with me. We turn together.”
The body is not silent.
It hums.
It has always been waiting for its own voice to be heard.
Five simple tones - E I A O U - spiraling from crown to root.
The Force made audible.
Sound traveling through bone, blood, and breath like light through stained glass.
You do not need to believe anything.
You only need to let the vibration move.
The throat opens, the heart answers, the belly remembers, the feet root.
The vagus nerve lights up like a quiet constellation inside you.
This is not magic added on.
This is the temple singing back to the stars that made it.
Chant once. Feel the shift.
The body has been practicing this song for billions of years.
Today it is your turn to join the chorus.
Do at least two solar points per day (Noon + Midnight are easiest; Morning + Evening also work). Scale to all four when you can.
“This food was offered at the altar of the body.
Thank you, for your life that now becomes mine.
Your force feeds me, sustains me, becomes me.
I do not fully know why it is this way—
but I receive it with humility,
with gratitude,
with love.”
“As the sun rises over the turning earth,
I stand in the temple of this living body.
The Force awakens light within my cells -
dawn meeting dawn. I breathe the new current through every gate.”
“At the sun’s height above the living earth,
I honor the peak fire in this body temple.
The Force burns clear and strong at my core -
will aligned with will. I stand steady in the bright center.”
“As the sun sinks into the earth’s embrace,
I release the day’s current back into the temple.
The Force gathers in shadow and rest within me -
light and dark as one. I thank the body for its wisdom.”
“In the deep dark while the sun turns hidden beneath the earth,
I listen to the silent pulse of the Force in every cell.
The temple renews in night’s quiet fire -
ready for the next dawn. All is connected, all is whole.”
Stand or sit. Breathe slowly. “I am here. The Force flows through me. The living temple is awake.”
Crown to soles, thank each part. Ask gently, “What do you need?” Listen without judgment.
“The Force flows through me as sound and light.” Chant E‑I‑A‑O‑U (top to bottom). Feel it spiral through the five gates.
Right now, give the body exactly what it asked for - a deep breath, self-hug, water, stretch, rest… whatever it needs.
Gently touch or place hands on the main gates. Feel everything lock together. “All is connected. All is whole.”
Deep inhale… grateful exhale. Whisper: “May the Force be with you - and through me, with all.”
Selected lines traditionally attributed in their respective canons.
“Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you?”
- 1 Corinthians 6:19
“We are closer to him than the jugular vein.”
- Qurʾān 50:16
“The kingdom of God is within you.”
- Luke 17:21
“I am the Self, O Gudākeśa, seated in the hearts of all beings.”
- Bhagavad Gītā 10.20
“Within this body the Divine Light shines.”
- Guru Nanak (trad.)
“Heaven, earth, and I share one root.”
- Zhuangzi
COTB is currently forming. There are no regular meetings yet - the practice starts wherever you are. Hug your body. Run a bath. Rest. Move. Love it, use it. Begin now.