Exploring the Depths of Living Water Exercise Theology
The Living Water Exercises are a unique set of gentle, flowing movements inspired by the teachings of Jesus Christ. Rooted in the transformative power of the Holy Spirit, these exercises offer a peaceful and healing alternative to traditional ecstatic religious experiences. Unlike early apostles at Pentecost, who spoke in tongues and exhibited unusual behaviour, or members of Pentecostal and Quaker traditions known for ecstatic trances and physical quaking, Living Water Exercises embrace Jesus's promise: “He who believes in Me, from his innermost being, will flow rivers of living water, welling up to eternal life.”
Through these simple, meditative movements, participants experience the Holy Spirit as a calm, powerful force—flowing from within, just as described in both Genesis and Revelation. These exercises encourage a sense of inner peace and spiritual connection, as practitioners gently move their bodies, arms, and legs in harmony with the Spirit's flow. Join us to experience spiritual renewal and well-being through Living Water Exercises, where healing and faith come together naturally.
Each of these exercises is an expression of a passage from the Bible, allowing the Holy Spirit to guide us in the Bible’s mysteries. Just as God created the world in seven dyas the Living Water exercises consist of seven exercises, done seven times, each, seven days of the week, There are seven exercises each day, performed six times each which make the number “777”: the threefold perfection of the Trinity. Just as God rested on the seventh so do these exercises.
Jesus’s teaching about Living Water is found in St John’s Gospel, and you will notice that these exercises focus on passages from the gospel of St John and the Book of Revelation (both of which are attributed to St John). This is so that Jesus’s Living Water teaching is placed into the wider context of St John’s theology. John was a young fisherman who was a disciple of John the Baptist before being called by Jesus. He was there right at the start of Jesus’s ministry, walking with Him along the dusty roads and watching Him preach and argue with religious leaders. John witnessed Jesus performing miracles and ate the bread and drank the wine at the last supper. Jesus invited John to pray with Him in the Garden of Gethsemane, followed Jesus into the courtyard close to the trial, and witnessed His crucifixion at the foot of the cross. In his gospel, he is called ‘the disciple whom Jesus loved’, and at the last supper laid his head on Jesus’s breast. Perhaps it is because of their closeness that while the other gospels tell us what Jesus did, St John tells us who Jesus was. Jesus sent out His apostles to preach the kingdom of God; heal the sick; relieve mental illness; raise people from the mundane world, and unite humanity in loving kindness. Similarly, these gentle exercises bring us into the presence of God, improve our physical health, lead our minds into still waters, and when practised in a group, they, too, bring us together in loving kindness.