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Teaching-Returning to the Heart of Embodiment Why We Practice Love and Polarity
In Part 1 of this teaching, John explored the natural tension between how we practice and why we practice—how easy it is to get lost in theory, or to feel disconnected from the deeper heart of embodiment when life’s demands pull us away.
In Part 2, we continue this exploration, deepening into ho...
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Teaching-Returning to the Heart of Embodiment: Why We Practice Love and Polarity
Have you ever found yourself questioning why you practice? Maybe you’re steeped in theory but struggling to return to the mat, or perhaps the demands of life have pulled you away from the depth you once felt in your practice. It’s natural to lose sight of the balance between the way—how we practi...
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Practice - Returning to The Beauty of Pleasure
The simple act of seeking pleasure from within, for yourself and by yourself, can feel unfamiliar. It asks you to acknowledge the ways in which society has conditioned us to seek fulfillment from others, from external sources, and material things. True pleasure—the kind that nourishes your soul—e...
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Practice - The Pulse of Love
For many women, feeling the pulse of love moving through their bodies can feel distant, buried beneath the weight of life’s demands—work, home, partnership, parenting, and the collective uncertainties of the world. You sense what is possible, you feel the yearning for love’s fullness, but the sto...
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Practice - The Power of Your Magic - Breath Practice for Depth and Vitality
Are you ready to break free from the comfort of how you’ve been living—how you collapse into numbness or disperse your energy? If so, your breath is the most powerful place to begin. With each breath, you reconnect to what it means to be fully alive. You honor what wants to emerge and let it mov...
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Practice - The Healing Power of Forgiveness
Within every heart lies a yearning to be fully seen, deeply felt, and unconditionally loved. The truths you’ve hidden, the textures of your being you’ve tucked away for fear of rejection, are the very gifts the world is aching to receive. Can you reveal these truths to invite your partner to meet...
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Practice - Responding to the Call of the Moment
Every moment calls us to meet it in a unique way, inviting us to respond from the depth of our presence. We have an infinite capacity to sense, attune, and shape the energy of each moment. Perhaps your partner feels ungrounded or unsettled—can you feel into their heart and bring the grounding pow...
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Practice - His Deepest Heart’s Desire
As a man, asking for what you want can be overwhelming. But, standing in front of the temple priestess, tell her, what is your deepest heart's desire? How do you yearn to be gifted this desire? She knows pleasure, she knows the ways of the heart and the body. Can you trust and surrender to her kn...
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Practice - Her Desire is a Gift
The desire of the feminine is a gift unto itself, yet for many women, fully owning and expressing that desire can be one of the most challenging acts. The gift of the masculine is to lovingly witness and hold her in her desire, while calling her forward into deeper expression and truth. Together,...
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Practice - Five Count Breath for Nervous System Regulation
Your breath is one of the most potent tools you have to transform your energetic state. There are countless breathwork techniques, each carrying its own unique intention and power. However, many of these methods encourage us to breathe too fast or too deeply, disrupting the natural balance of oxy...
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Practice - See Each Other Through The Eyes of The Heart
Intimacy begins within. The depth of your connection with another reflects the depth of intimacy you cultivate with yourself. In the dance of love, there is a moment where two hearts meet—not through words, but through the shared truth of the present moment.
In this practice from The Art of Sacr...
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Teaching - The Capacity to Open Those Around Us from Our Own Openness
Are you curious about how your state of being can have an impact on the people and the world around you? Have you noticed that when you are feeling melancholy, the world around you seems melancholy as well? Perhaps you have had the experience of being in the presence of a joyful human who amplifi...
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Practice - The Joy of Loving
You were born to be joyful in love. To feel wildly alive and to share this joy from your wide open heart. Let this practice be a celebration, an embodied expression of the joy that is found in love.
In this short 6 minute practice, from the 1000 hour Teacher Training Program, Sedona 2023, John... -
Teaching - The Capacity to Open Those Around Us from Our Own Openness
Are you curious about how your state of being can have an impact on the people and the world around you? Have you noticed that when you are feeling melancholy, the world around you seems melancholy as well? Perhaps you have had the experience of being in the presence of a joyful human who amplifi...
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Practice - Being an Embodied Yes to Whatever She Brings
The Feminine is bursting with life, love, energy and expression. It’s ever flowing. Her mood, like the weather, changes moment to moment. The truth of her heart may be soft and supple, like the fresh grass after the rain, and the next moment, fast and sharp like a bolt of lightning. You yearn to ...
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Teaching - The Art of Shifting Relational Patterns
Do you feel that you are locked in the same relational dynamics over and over again? Are you hitting the same roadblocks, and unsure what to do, or how to shift the energy? Are you craving a different way to approach change? Acknowledgement of the challenges you are experiencing, and asking the...
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Teaching-Yogic practice for soothing you and your partner when you are triggered
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Sacred Healing Ritual: The Masculine Healing the Feminine
In this 45-minute practice from the May 2022 Teacher Training Intensive, masculine practitioner, you will create a sacred ritual of healing for your feminine partner. Your role is that of the ally, the warrior of healing.
You will…
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Banging on the Door of Life
You are beginning to become aware of your habits. You want to experience true freedom, but this feels impossible when even innocent addictions, like caffeine, become an unconscious crutch. You want to find a healthy alternative to caffeine for combating exhaustion.
In this practice, John will g...
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Practice - Dharti Hai Akash Hai Guru Ram Das Hai
You may be feeling lost and in need of support. You have desires and visions for your life, but you may be uncertain how to bring them to fruition. You want guidance from the deepest source of consciousness and are unsure where to find it.
This is a prayer mantra John taught live at the 2019 Emb...
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Loving Through The Primal Nature of Goddess and God Form
In this practice, from The Advanced Practice Group 2021, John leads couples in a polarity practice beginning with breath work and then an embodied practice focused on offering expressions of their primal nature through the ancient archetypes of Goddess and God forms. Please note that this content...
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Sacred Healing Ritual: The Feminine Healing the Masculine
In this 58-minute practice from the May 2022 Teacher Training Intensive, feminine practitioner, you will create a sacred ritual of healing for your masculine partner. After connecting human to human and amplifying your senses, you will use your light, your love, your magic, to heal every inch of ...
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Receiving the Love of The Divine Feminine
Love and nourishment from the Feminine is always available–if we could only slow down, come into presence, and let it in. But due to childhood wounding or our stories about our deservingness, many of us have difficulty receiving. So we feel the opposite–unnecessarily depleted and ever-hungry for ...
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Meeting The Oracle
In this feminine partner practice from the 2022 Embodied Women’s Relationship Immersion, John invites each partner to take turns stepping into the role of an ancient oracle, offering their deep heart’s responsiveness and wisdom on where the other partner may be holding back and how love wants to ...