This book is a daring and generative reimagining of spiritual care beyond colonial divisions between sacred and secular, religion and everyday life, and mind and body. Bringing decolonial theory, relational psychoanalysis, religious multiplicity, and the embodied wisdom of bachata into vibrant conversation, Byun Chanmi offers a compelling vision of care grounded in presence, attunement, consent, mutuality, and movement. This book will expand how pastoral theologians, clinicians, chaplains, and spiritual caregivers understand where care happens, how it moves between bodies, and who can offer and receive it

AHyun Lee, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary

Byun emphasizes joy, connection, and sensuality to expand theoretical resources for decolonial care, especially with spiritually fluid people. Using dance as a metaphor, she places the body at the center of care, seeking to disrupt boundaries among the holy, sensual, spiritual, and corporeal to increase spiritual care literacy and understandings of when and where such care occurs.

Duane R. Bidwell, PhD, Claremont Presbyterian Church