In this 28 minute practice from the 2022 Embodied Women’s Relationship Immersion, John offers a step-by-step guide to masculine practice. With easy to follow cues, you’ll root into the earth, open your central channel, and then begin an energizing breath technique similar to the one popularized by Wim Hof. The practice concludes with the experience of deep freedom that comes from resting as infinite consciousness.

Other benefits of this practice include:

Feeling more aliveness in the throat, spine, heart, third eye, and entire central channel
Drawing life force into your body and pressing it into your cells
Expanding your willpower and breath capacity
Experiencing periods of no thought
Celebrating your aliveness
Finding joy in moments of challenge
Bringing your nervous system into a state of relaxation and regulation
Experience the magic of being alive and alert in a body
Touch the infinite, timeless, one consciousness

Who this practice is for:

This is a great practice for anyone, regardless of gender, who either wants to learn the essence of, or to expand their capacity for masculine practice.

Practice setup and notes:

You can be seated in a chair or on a zafu or cushion on the floor. If you are in a chair, have your feet planted firmly into the ground. If you are on the floor on a cushion, you will want to be sitting in such a way where you can feel your sit bones and sacrum pressing into the floor.

Around 5 minutes into the practice, John will invite you into Earth Pose. To do this, imagine you are wrapping your arms around a large beach ball. Your fingertips will be about 6 inches apart with your palms facing towards your heart.

Around the 10 minute mark, John will invite you to raise your hands up towards the sky in an arc, plugging your fingertips into the sky. You’ll then lower your hands in the same arc and then raise them again.

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.johnwineland.com/streaming

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.