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The Promise of Love, Sex, and Intimacy: How a Simple Breathing Practice Will Enrich Your Life Forever
From a world-renowned teacher, a guide to finding deeper intimacy and more meaningful, fulfilling sex using a revolutionary breathing practice.
You can change your life in just seven minutes a day . . .
A soft message for a hard time, The Promise of Love, Sex, and Intimacy is a simple yet profound solution to the cause of all human the lack of intimacy, especially sexual intimacy. Even amidst the plethora of techniques now available for so-called enlightenment—from meditation and visualization to intensive prayer retreats or obsessive exercise regimens— the need for intimacy has been left unsatisfied.
Requiring just seven minutes a day, the practice taught in this book—called “Your Seven-Minute Wonder”—answers that need by opening the body and psyche to gratifying levels of personal and sexual intimacy. It is the practical means that allows you to tangibly realize your ideals and inherent perfection. Renowned teacher Mark Whitwell, who has spent a lifetime studying the secrets of life with the great masters, has seen through to the heart of their understanding, and created a simple way for readers to acquire it for themselves.
“Your Seven-Minute Wonder” is a physical practice— a combination of healthful breathing sustained by synchronistic body movement. Its purpose is to be uplifting and totally a dynamic interflow of “inspiration” or inhalation (receptivity), with the “expression” or exhalation (strength). This in-and-out breathing cycle, which Mark carefully delineates, activates the deep male-female polarity within each of us, regardless of gender.
The practice is effortless for everyone, and practitioners report that their well-being, vitality, sexuality, self-awareness, and true desires are awakened immediately and dramatically. It restores health and dignity, and sex becomes utterly relevant to a graceful life. Further, as you become receptive to your breath—the basis of all human function—you become responsive to money, power, and collaboration of all sorts. The Promise of Love, Sex, and Intimacy is a wise, powerful, and easy-to-follow roadmap to a practice that can be one that promises to open you up to an entirely new level of human understanding.
You can change your life in just seven minutes a day . . .
A soft message for a hard time, The Promise of Love, Sex, and Intimacy is a simple yet profound solution to the cause of all human the lack of intimacy, especially sexual intimacy. Even amidst the plethora of techniques now available for so-called enlightenment—from meditation and visualization to intensive prayer retreats or obsessive exercise regimens— the need for intimacy has been left unsatisfied.
Requiring just seven minutes a day, the practice taught in this book—called “Your Seven-Minute Wonder”—answers that need by opening the body and psyche to gratifying levels of personal and sexual intimacy. It is the practical means that allows you to tangibly realize your ideals and inherent perfection. Renowned teacher Mark Whitwell, who has spent a lifetime studying the secrets of life with the great masters, has seen through to the heart of their understanding, and created a simple way for readers to acquire it for themselves.
“Your Seven-Minute Wonder” is a physical practice— a combination of healthful breathing sustained by synchronistic body movement. Its purpose is to be uplifting and totally a dynamic interflow of “inspiration” or inhalation (receptivity), with the “expression” or exhalation (strength). This in-and-out breathing cycle, which Mark carefully delineates, activates the deep male-female polarity within each of us, regardless of gender.
The practice is effortless for everyone, and practitioners report that their well-being, vitality, sexuality, self-awareness, and true desires are awakened immediately and dramatically. It restores health and dignity, and sex becomes utterly relevant to a graceful life. Further, as you become receptive to your breath—the basis of all human function—you become responsive to money, power, and collaboration of all sorts. The Promise of Love, Sex, and Intimacy is a wise, powerful, and easy-to-follow roadmap to a practice that can be one that promises to open you up to an entirely new level of human understanding.
288 pages, Hardcover
First published June 19, 2012
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February 1, 2014
Moderately disappointing given the amazing Yoga of Heart.
It just seems to repeat the same thing again and again and is bulked out by boring stories of how so-and-so did the practice and changed their life.
Mark is an amazing teacher but this book I found really lacking in worthwhile content.
It just seems to repeat the same thing again and again and is bulked out by boring stories of how so-and-so did the practice and changed their life.
Mark is an amazing teacher but this book I found really lacking in worthwhile content.
November 27, 2021
A Beautiful Marriage of Breath & Life
This is a well-written, simple, book on marrying breath with body, movement, and life. I like how the author specifically avoids the word “yoga,” and instead frames everything very differently than what is typical “yoga” instruction. The philosophy underneath it all is, by itself, worth the purchase of this book.
This is a well-written, simple, book on marrying breath with body, movement, and life. I like how the author specifically avoids the word “yoga,” and instead frames everything very differently than what is typical “yoga” instruction. The philosophy underneath it all is, by itself, worth the purchase of this book.
May 11, 2022
This book was awful. I read several chapters in and had to quit. It kept talking about "The Promise" and how the author would get to it, but after 5 chapters in it was still talking in circles. This reminded me of a The Secret knockoff book. I stopped instead of trying to power through a pointless book.
December 9, 2016
I took a weekend yoga course with Mark Whitwell at Esalen last year. The course was great and this book, and the related exercises, were great for my practice.
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