As a man, you may have a sense of a deeper consciousness to be accessed within you, but because you weren’t not taught to live from this place, you may feel disconnected from it. You may be aware that there is no better way to sharpen consciousness than in the company of other men, but you wouldn’t know how to find that depth with another man.

This is a Masculine partner practice that John originally led for men of his 2020 Embodied Men's Leadership Training to embody the infinite cosmos and feel it in another. You will cultivate a pristine awareness of the deep, infinite, ever-expanding consciousness that you and your partner both are, ground it through the root of your hearts, and expand it through the center of your bodies.

If you want to cultivate a deep resonance with the heart-centered consciousness within you and a brother along this path, this 10-minute practice will help.

You can do this practice standing or seated.

Begin looking into each other's eyes, take smooth, deep breaths, and let your body get more solid. Decide to make your spine more solid, maybe even feel metal there, but let everything else remain soft.

Look through the eyes of your partner and feel the experience of an ever expanding universe through their eyes. Feel through them into the infinite. And feel the part of you that is infinite and endless.

Let every exhale strengthen your structure, so your shoulders drop and relax, your spine gets stronger, and your sits bones connect even more to the earth.

Reflect back to your partner the infinite cosmos that they are. If a thought comes through, let it pass and focus on the infinite, expanding, flowing space inside their eyes. Even though your structures are solid, you're feeling the way in which your partner's universe is ever-expanding, dying, being born, swirling, and churning. Even if you know this partner well, it's much deeper than that.

Sharpen your awareness to stay locked on the infinite within your partner's body—an entire universe moving through them. Feel how each of you is expanding, growing, dying, and being born in every moment.

Without losing any of this, find the root of your heart and root this infinite connection into the base of your heart. Let it deepen through the root of your heart. Feel how your breath and the depth of the root of your heart opens up and relaxes your solar plexus.

Let this infinite consciousness that you both are expand through the root of your heart, through your solar plexus, down into your belly, down into your genitals, down into your extremities. Keep packing it down. Let this infinite cosmos that you both are pulse into your fingertips, your legs, and through your lungs.

For a few more minutes, live in this space where nothing is needed, where everything is perfect, and where you are absolutely free. If thoughts come, feel deeper. Feel deeper into your partner, feel deeper into the sensations of your own body, and feel deeper into the root of your heart.

Practice deepening. This is what deepening feels like. Deepening into the infinite and your body, at the same time. Your partner's inner universe. Your inner universe. Their body. Your body. You are embodying the cosmos while feeling it in another.

Imagine bringing this embodiment of the infinite to your lover, to the world, and to the way that you embrace your children.

Then, with a very deep reverence to what you just shared, give each other a bow.

Be conscious of this state - feeling the internal universe, pressing it through the bottom of your heart, feeling it radiate through your body, using breath to amplify it, and feeling it in another.

This is depth.

Music: Chattr Chakkr Vartee by Snatam Kaur

Disclaimer: Although anyone may find this practice to be useful, it is made available with the understanding that we are not engaged in presenting specific medical, psychological, emotional, sexual or spiritual advice. Nor is anything in this practice intended to be a diagnosis, prescription, recommendation or cure for any specific kind of medical, psychological, emotional, sexual or spiritual problem. Each individual has unique needs and this practice cannot take these individual differences into account. Each person should engage in a program of treatment, prevention, cure, or general health only in consultation with a licensed, qualified physician, therapist or other competent professional. Any person suffering from a sexually transmitted disease or any local illness of his or her sexual organs should consult a medical doctor and a qualified instructor of sexual yoga before practicing the sexual methods described in this practice.