A masculine partner who can truly respond to feminine emotionality with playful skill, clarity, feeling, and grounded presence is remarkably valuable. And it goes without saying that men wanting to cultivate this capacity must start with themselves. She’s right: if you can’t handle your own storms, moods, fears, and grief, how in the world can you

intuitively know the next move.

The way I learned and conceive of the Masculine has more to do with spaciousness, liberation, and the transmission of consciousness.

Align with the Feminine in your life by truly understanding what the Feminine—in all forms—wants and needs from you.

came to see I lean slightly more toward the feminine side. I’m not alone. There are many men who have energetic, responsive, and emotional bodies. Coming to this realization about myself required a bit of ego relaxation and compassionate reflection. I am passionate and often fiery. I am also intuitive, loving, and sensitive to my environment. I

This is the moment of truth. Do you love her enough to hold the pose and not accept anything other than the full embodied revealing of her heart? Or will you cave to her resistance and build your own resentment against her?

This lack of awareness makes it possible for us to complain about not being met, seen, or respected by our partners—an epidemic in a world overrun with me first mentality.

No true change in behavior or thinking can come without an awakened body, an activated heart, and a spacious mind. In some men, this is easy to spot; in others, it’s quite subtle. I actually see it play out in people of all sorts, from world-class athletes to successful CEOs. They’re often unaware of their more hidden and difficult feelings, and

Masculinity, as I define it, is the result of resting in a state of depth while tethered to an embodied consciousness that is infinite and immutable. It’s also transmitting that sacred and timeless connection in our movements, decisions, and ways of being in the world. In this way, our activities become offerings to create freedom and clarify