Morning. The way you start your day can shift the way the rest of your day flows. If you have been struggling to find vitality, expansion and celebration in your morning, more ease, capacity and steadiness in your day, a practice based around movement and breath can quickly shift your state and have a ripple effect into the world and people around you.

In this practice, from The Embodied Men’s Leadership Training (EMLT) 2023 in Panamint, John leads you through a practice of awakening and opening the body through shaking, twisting, breathing, awareness and celebration. He guides you to places that you may not allow yourself to go, moments you may not allow yourself to have that are the keys to unlocking so much spaciousness in your life.

This 18 minute video will set the stage for you to step out into the world revitalized, with more capacity to love and receive the gifts that the world has to give you.

Who this practice is for:

This practice is led for Masculine Practitioners, but could be completed by any practitioner, simply disregard the word “Masculine” and drop into the feeling body, allowing it to wake up and open to receive.

Practice setup:

For this Practice you will need space to both sit and stand, and to have space to move around.

Practice Sequence:

1. Standing - Shake out your Whole Body
2. Stand on Left Leg - Shake out your Right Leg
3. Stand on Right Leg - Shake out your Left Leg
4. Both feet to the ground, feet and knees together, shake out your ass.
5. Feet hip width apart - Hip Circles (both directions)
6. Arms outstretched in front of you - shake your arms
7. Stand on left leg, catch your right ankle with your right hand, point your knee towards the earth, lift your heart - Stretch your Quad muscles
8. Repeat step 7 on the right side.
9. Horse Stance - Stand with feet a bit wider than hip width, bend your knees, feet pointed out slightly. Lift your arms towards the sky and slowly draw them down towards the earth at 90 degree angles (cactus arms), squeeze your shoulder blades together, drop them in your back pocket and lift your heart.
10. Stand with feet hip width apart - twist from your core and allow your arms to flail, gently connecting with your body as you twist.
11. Make soft fists with your hands and gently tap up and down your body.
12. Arms shoulder height, turn your fingers towards the sky and palms facing out - Make circles with your arms.
13. Keep your arms shoulder height, point fingers down and make circles with your arms.
14. Come to a seated position, hands on your thighs. On the inhale pull your heat through your arms (Like cow posture in yoga). On the Exhale, round your spine (Like cat pose in yoga).
15. Place your hands on your shoulder, fingers on the front of your shoulder and thumb on the back of your shoulder. Twist from your core. Inhale and you twist left and exhale as you twist right.

Reminder:

If you have a question about this practice or any of the content in the Virtual Workshop, we highly encourage you to bring it to John during one of our monthly Office Hours calls that are included with your membership. You can find the dates and times of the upcoming calls here:
https://www.addevent.com/calendar/Hc585523

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.