The Path of Love, Derekh Ahavah, A Devotional Guide for Embodied Worship. What if love were not something to strive for, but something to enter? The Path of Love is a gentle, embodied devotional rooted in 1 Corinthians 13, inviting readers to experience love not as an abstract virtue, but as a lived, felt, and practiced way of being. Through sacred movement, breath, stillness, and Scripture, this guide offers a slow and faithful path into the formation of Christ-like love, patient, kind, enduring, and true. Part of the Movement of The Way (Tenuat HaDerekh) series, Derekh Ahavah leads participants through seven embodied postures, aligned with the Hebrew letters and the unfolding wisdom of the Love Chapter. Each section includes a devotional reflection, breath guidance, activation phrases, Scripture, and supportive tools such as frequency, color, and scent, all designed to help love take root in the body and heart. This is not a practice of performance or perfection. It is an invitation to abide. To soften rather than react. To remain present when love is tested. To discover that love is not something we generate, but something we receive and live from. Whether practiced alone or in community, standing or seated, this book offers a contemplative path for anyone longing to walk more deeply in love, not as noise, but as presence. Love never fails. And love can be learned, slowly, faithfully, and embodied.
Movement of The Way
Tenuat HaDerekh, The Way is a breath-led, body-based spiritual practice rooted in the Hebrew letters as living forms. It invites readers into embodied prayer through gentle movement, sacred posture, and attentive breath. Not as performance, but as presence.
Drawing from Scripture, Hebrew thought, and the embodied ministry of Yeshua, this book reclaims the body as a sacred vessel, a place where prayer is lived, not merely spoken. Each letter becomes an invitation to listen, align, and move with intention, allowing faith to be carried not only in belief, but in the body itself.
Designed for personal devotion, group practice, and teaching settings, HaDerekh offers adaptive postures, theological reflection, and contemplative guidance accessible to all bodies and abilities.
Silence is honored. Stillness is welcomed. Movement becomes a form of remembering. This book is not meant to be rushed. It is meant to be walked. Because before prayer had words, it had breath. And the body already knows the way.
About The Author
Chaplain Shawnna Schmidt is a faith-rooted teacher, chaplain, and embodied-prayer guide whose work bridges Scripture, breath, and the living wisdom of the body. She is the founder of Movement of The Way (Tenuat HaDerekh), a sacred movement practice rooted in the Hebrew Scriptures, the Messianic path of Yeshua, and the ancient understanding that faith is something we walk, not merely believe.
Drawing from Hebraic thought, embodied worship, nervous-system awareness, and a lifetime of pastoral care, Shawnna teaches that the body is not separate from prayer; it is the vessel through which prayer becomes lived. Her work gently restores the connection between Body, Soul, and Spirit through movement, breath, Scripture, and stillness.
Shaped by motherhood, caregiving, resilience, and wonder, her calling has been refined through both joy and trial. She writes and teaches for those who love God deeply yet long to feel grounded, safe, and at home in their bodies again.
Each book in the Tenuat HaDerekh series is offered not as instruction alone, but as invitation, an unfolding walk back to the ancient path, where The Word becomes flesh once more, and the body remembers how to say yes.
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