This book is about integrating the ego and the true self on the spiritual path. It deals with the journey of meditation and what helps and what hinders us in practising the discipline. Kim Nataraja offers practical ways to deal with our chaotic thoughts so that we learn to dance with them rather than flee from them.  

Dancing with Your Shadow is written by an experienced teacher of meditation, who not only describes the practice of the ‘art of arts’, giving due weight to stilling the mind and dealing with such problems as distractions and restlessness, but looks at it from the point of view of the whole person – body, mind and spirit. This wide-ranging and comprehensive book will be of great interest to all meditators, but especially to those following Christian meditation rediscovered by John Main. And the stories and quotations from various traditions with which the author illustrates her points are a joy in themselves! (Shirley du Boulay)

In these pages... anyone will find a guide, a friend, a teacher to walk – and dance – with.(Laurence Freeman OSB)