You want to open your body to express devotion to everyone you touch, but you don’t know what that looks like.

In this practice, John will guide you to embody the energy of Awakened Devotional Queen to install in your nervous system a love that liberates, inspires and serves your relationships, yourself, and the world.

If you want to become the embodiment of devotion to inspire love in everyone you serve, begin with this 9-minute practice.

Begin seated as if a queen on a throne. Through the center of your body, feel a root dropping down from your cervix and sacrum thousands of miles into the earth. Feel the pulse of the earth move up through those roots and connect to the center of your body. Allow this to create an imperceptible, gentle rocking motion, as if the pulse of the earth is moving and rocking you. Feel how it opens up the bottom of your heart, enriching and enlivening it.

Let the central column of your body, from throat to cervix, receive the bounty of the energy, love, richness and nobility that you are. Feel how the energy of the earth encourages you to become a bit taller by lengthening your spine and lifting your heart a bit more.

Then open your eyes and look out with a soft gaze as if you could see the entire queendom that you are devotional to. Feel this queendom through the pose of opening your chest, feeling your heart swell, and feeling yourself rooted into the earth.

Then let your body take the shape of Awakened Devotional Queen. Let that permeate from the united pulse of the earth, your heart and your cervix in service of something beautiful and divine. Feel the children, men, and other women served by your devotion. Feel how the queen that you are liberates, loves, and inspires.

Then allow your heart to become as wide as your chest and spread the pulse of your heart throughout your body and blast out across the lands. Don’t lose your root and your connection to the pulse of the earth. Feel your body holding everyone -- the people who are sick, suffering, lonely, scared and struggling -- with your big, wide, devoted heart. Let the back of your body get as wide as the front of your body, as if you could lift off of your throne.

Allow the texture of Awakened Devotional Queen to rest in your nervous system as it widens and spreads throughout your body. Feel how the queendom and the people you serve are in your body. You are them; they are you. There is no separation. There is only love. Only devotion.

Turn your devotional queen heart towards your partner, or a future partner. Let them feel the power, beauty, nobility, strength, and gift of this heart.

Finally, close your eyes, and bring this Awakened Devotional Queen heart to the most tender part of you - the part that feels afraid, unloved, or lonely. Let this tender, young part of you feel the safety of being seen and held. Let these two places in you merge into one, knowing that this texture of Awakened Devotional Queen is always in you. All you need, in order to bring it forward and take it into the world, is to reclaim this breath, posture and awareness.

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.