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# St. Monica Parish to host yoga as prayer retreat May 20
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/050906-story-20060509-2/
- Published: 2006-05-09T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T17:44:34.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Community, Santa Monica, #archive-import

*By Daily Press staff*

Those parishioners seeking to get in touch with the divine in non-traditional ways will have a chance when St. Monica Parish offers a retreat on yoga as embodied prayer.

The retreat, to be taught by Carol Rossi, will be held from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, May 20, at St. Monica Parish, 725 California Ave.

The cost to attend is $65, which includes a catered lunch. Yoga has become popular as a system of complex postures, but it is also a contemplative practice designed to bring people closer to the divine. Yoga comes from the Sanskrit word “yuj” which means yoke or join. Traditionally, all yoga practice was done in a contemplative way to help remove the obstructions that prevent us from operating in this connected state.

Over the past 30 years, ecumenically-based Catholics have re-incorporated body practices into worship. Several well-known priests are either yoga instructors or hire

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on May 9, 2006.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/050906.pdf?ref=smdp.com)