Jesus prays through conversations with his father, our God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the Jewish/Christian God, and Christians must follow his example taking away only a few things, which conflict with the most modern message of God to human kind, which would be that given by us, the twins of God. One of the things that we must take away is not having carnal union with a woman: Jesus remained unmarried during the term of his life. Another is splitting the husband from his family (wife and kids): Jesus did that and took the men on their own to the desert. Back then, God sent one man to represent Him on earth, a holy man who was made holy also for not having intimacy with anyone.
This time, God sent us, a couple, a man and a woman, who are supposed to have intimacy, plenty, as He said things should go in the Old Testament: that the body of the wife belongs to the husband and the body of the husband belongs to the wife (He obviously meant the wife and the husband are supposed to satisfy each other sexually). He had changed His mind by the time of Jesus, had gone back to the idea that the man should exist on his own as His image on earth, as it was with Adam. Yet, thanks to the devil among us, God observed and learned from human kind and their dramas and also from the devil and his issues, so that God revised all and, this time, He came back to supporting couples but also allowed the woman to be the leader, and designed the couple to preach together.
In the Old Testament, even though the man had to have a wife to qualify for preacher/prophet, God had given the task of communicating God's thinking exclusively to the man. Because of the devil being among us for so long (144 years now) and God learning from us all, God changed His mind.
Coming back to the prayers, some people might be allowed to simply converse with God, like Jesus did, therefore they may not need prayers. Yet, if you are unsure, you'd better pray. The right way to pray is praise, thanks and request, in this order. In order for it to work, you need to have a clean heart and a pure soul.
Matthew says (6:7): "But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking."
So, we are not supposed to simply repeat words. We must really mean whatever we say to God. Matthew then advises us to pray the Our Father.
As for the position of the body, God doesn't seem to say anything through Jesus or the apostles in those regards and we must follow his example and the example of the apostles in what does not conflict with the messages of God that came after those. Matthew doesn't mention anything about special positions of the body when praying and he teaches us how to pray, and there is no conflict with the most modern messages of God, including ours apart from when great miracles or forgiveness are thought: in this case, our message is that the person must fast for at least three days, only drinking water, humiliate themselves before God, so dressing in sackcloth and praying following the sequence praise, thanks, confession and repentance and request, so also for forgiveness.
As for clothes, God does not put anything regarding those in the modern messages or in the apostles' or in Jesus' message. Yet there is reference to those before those books in the Bible, so that those passages should be considered. A particular message in Deuteronomy 22:5 captured my attention on this matter: "The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the Lord thy God."
In the Old Testament we see that the body is the house of the soul and therefore we should cover it appropriately: with garnments that do not hurt the body in any sense and show the nature of our soul. If we think we are good and kind, our clothes should mean care for others, so that they should be respectful of all ages and types of people that may legally be around us and allow for movement (so that we can move with no hassle to help others). They should also be cleanest and best, since, if we are kind, we would like others not to feel repulsion for us in any sense. So on.
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