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Prostration
Full bodily prostration — the most complete physical act of worship; also the term used for an act of repentance before another person.
A prostration (metanoia — both repentance and the physical act that expresses it; gonyklisia — kneeling) is the act of touching the forehead to the floor in worship. In Orthodox liturgical practice, prostrations are made during the Prayer of St. Ephrem the Syrian at weekday Lenten services, at points of the Great Vespers of Pentecost, during personal prayer, and as an act of reverence or penance. Monks make prostrations before their elder as an act of submission and repentance.