This toolkit consists of more than 260 classic and informal spiritual practices. The first thing that you will notice when scanning these lists is that there are many things here that you already do. That's because you are more spiritual than you probably think you are.

Spiritual practices are not activities to add to your busy schedule or crowded "to do" list. They are not confined to a special place or time. They are what you do every day. They are how you wake up and come alive to the spiritual reality all around you. Practice is the path we travel on our spiritual journey, so everything we do can be a practice.

Spirituality & Practice, with more than 65,000 web pages, has a lot of content on spiritual practices. For this toolkit, we have chosen one explanation for each of the tools. Some are articles, book reviews, or book excerpts; others are from our database of spiritual practice instructions.

We encourage you to scan through the list of tools in light of what is happening in your life today. Look for those that match your interests, challenges, hopes, values, and visions. Use the links to reach our curated content. Then, if you'd like more resources on that practice, click on "Search" at the top of the page and type in the word(s); you will see resources on that practice from all the sections of the website.

  1. Activism
  2. Adab
  3. Affirmations
  4. Aikido
  5. Altars/Shrines
  6. Amulets
  7. Ancestors
  8. Angels
  9. Animals
  10. Aroma Therapy
  11. Art
  12. Astrology
  13. Awareness of Death
  14. Balance
  15. Bathing
  16. Bearing Witness
  17. Bible Study
  18. Blessings
  19. Body Work
  20. Book of Common Prayer

  1. Bowing
  2. Breath Work
  3. Brush Meditation
  4. Candles
  5. Caregiving
  6. Celebrations
  7. Centering Prayer
  8. Chakras
  9. Chanting
  10. Chanting the Psalms
  11. Children's Spirituality
  12. Chores
  13. Circles
  14. Civility
  15. Clothing
  16. Coaching
  17. Community
  18. Commuting
  19. Confession
  20. Contemplation

  1. Conversation
  2. Courage
  3. Creating Sacred Space
  4. Creativity
  5. Crochet
  6. Daily Office
  7. Dancing
  8. Dark Night of the Soul
  9. Darshan
  10. Davening
  11. Dialogue
  12. Difficult Relationships
  13. Digital World
  14. Discernment
  15. Discussion/Study Groups
  16. Divination
  17. Divinization
  18. Divorce
  19. Drawing
  20. Dreams

  1. Drumming
  2. Eating
  3. Embodied Prayer
  4. Emotions
  5. Empathy
  6. Enneagram
  7. Equanimity
  8. Ethics
  9. Ethical Wills
  10. Everyday Spirituality
  11. Examen of Consciousness
  12. Failure
  13. Family
  14. Fasting
  15. Feng Shui
  16. Food
  17. Friendship
  18. Games
  19. Gardening
  20. Gathas

  1. Generosity
  2. Gift of Tears
  3. Giveaway
  4. Grandparenting
  5. Grief
  6. Guru Yoga
  7. Haiku
  8. Heart
  9. Healing
  10. Helping
  11. Herbs
  12. Hobbies
  13. Home
  14. Humility
  15. Humor
  16. Hymns
  17. Icons
  18. Ignatian Exercises
  19. Ikebana
  20. Illness

  1. Improvisation
  2. Imagery
  3. Integral Life
  4. Intentions
  5. Incense
  6. Intercessory Prayer
  7. Interspirituality
  8. Interpreting Signs
  9. Intuition
  10. Japanese Arts
  11. Jesus Prayer
  12. Journaling
  13. Karma
  14. Kirtan Chanting
  15. Kneeling
  16. Knitting
  17. Koans
  18. Labyrinth
  19. Laughter
  20. Learning

  1. Lectio Divina
  2. Legacy Work
  3. Letting Go
  4. Liturgical Year
  5. Loss
  6. Loving Enemies
  7. Lovingkindness
  8. Mandalas
  9. Mantras
  10. Marriage and Partnerships
  11. Martial Arts
  12. Massage
  13. Meditation
  14. Mealtime Graces
  15. Memories
  16. Mentoring
  17. Milagros
  18. Mind Training
  19. Mindfulness
  20. Monastic Life

  1. Money Stewardship
  2. Mudras
  3. Music
  4. Mussar
  5. Naikan
  6. Names of God
  7. Nature
  8. Nonviolence
  9. Not Knowing
  10. Obstacles
  11. Offerings
  12. Oracles
  13. Pain
  14. Painting
  15. Parenting
  16. Passing the Peace
  17. Passion
  18. Patience
  19. Pausing
  20. Perseverance

  1. Pets
  2. Photography
  3. Pilates
  4. Pilgrimage
  5. Place
  6. Plants
  7. Poetry
  8. Politics
  9. Positive Thinking
  10. Pottery
  11. Practicing the Presence of God
  12. Praise
  13. Prayer
  14. Prayer Beads
  15. Prayer Rugs
  16. Prayer Wheels
  17. Protests/Marches/Petitions
  18. Purification
  19. Reading
  20. Recovery

  1. Recycling
  2. Reframing
  3. Reflexology
  4. Rejoicing in the Happiness of Others
  5. Relationships
  6. Religious Holidays
  7. Religious Seasons
  8. Religious Symbols
  9. Remembrance of God/Zhikr
  10. Renunciation
  11. Repentance
  12. Repetition
  13. Resilience
  14. Respect
  15. Retreats
  16. Restorative Justice
  17. Resurrection
  18. Right Livelihood
  19. Rituals
  20. Rosary

  1. Rule of Life
  2. Running
  3. Sabbath
  4. Sacraments
  5. Sacred Texts
  6. Sacrifice
  7. Saints
  8. Sculpture
  9. Self-Care
  10. Self-Growth
  11. Self-Inquiry
  12. Serenity
  13. Service
  14. Sewing/Quilting
  15. Shambhala Training
  16. Senses
  17. Sexuality
  18. Shadow Work
  19. Shopping
  20. Sign of the Cross

  1. Singing
  2. Simplicity
  3. Sleeping
  4. Smiling
  5. Social Justice
  6. Solitude
  7. Soul Care
  8. Speech
  9. Spiritual Direction
  10. Sports
  11. Stress
  12. Storytelling
  13. Studying with a Teacher
  14. Suffering
  15. Surrender
  16. Synchronicity
  17. Tantra
  18. Tai Chi/Qi Gong
  19. Tea Ceremony
  20. Teaching

  1. Therapy
  2. Things
  3. Thrift
  4. Tikkun
  5. Time
  6. Tolerance
  7. Tonglen
  8. Totems
  9. Transitions
  10. Travel
  11. Vigils/Attending the Dying
  12. Virtues
  13. Vision Quest
  14. Visiting the Sick
  15. Vocation
  16. Volunteering
  17. Vows
  18. Wabi Sabi
  19. Walking
  20. Welcoming Strangers

  1. Wholeness
  2. Work
  3. Worship
  4. Writing
  5. Yoga