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Change your life in just seven minutes a day with the revolutionary practice that will open your body and psyche to gratifying levels of personal and sexual intimacy. “Read this book,” says Deepak Chopra.
“Your Seven-Minute Wonder” is the profoundly uplifting, empowering, yet simple solution to the cause of all human discontent: the lack of intimacy. As myriad techniques from meditation to yoga to obsessive exercise regimens become more and more popular—this special breathing technique is all you need to satisfy your intimate relationships. Requiring just seven minutes a day, this physical practice combines healthful breathing and synchronistic body movement. The in-and-out breath cycle, which Mark Whitwell carefully delineates, activates the deep male-female polarity within each of us, regardless of sex. The practice is effortless, and practitioners report that their well-being, vitality, sexuality, self-awareness, and true desires are awakened immediately and dramatically.
The Promise of Love, Sex, and Intimacy is a wise, powerful, and easy-to-follow roadmap for a profoundly life-changing practice of intimacy and human connection.
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M. Jamie Brown –
The Promise Delivers
The Promise is a deceptively simple, yet extremely powerful, spiritual practice. This technique has been called “advanced yoga for perfect beginners” because it is equally beneficial for experienced yogis and for complete beginners. Don’t let the simplicity fool you. Yoga adepts can incorporate this technique into whatever system they are already doing and take it to the next level. After 35 years of a serious yoga practice, a few minutes into doing the Promise my entire reality changed. This is how yoga was supposed to be all along!Mark purposely avoids using the word “yoga” or any other Sanskrit terminology in this book, except in the “Afterward” where he explains why. His intent was to distill down the essence of the ancient hatha/tantra tradition and present it in religiously neutral modern language, so as to make the practice accessible to EVERYONE and indeed, it is. Unlike the modern notion of “yoga” as acrobatic contortions attainable only by athletic skinny people and/or celibate monks in a Himalayan cave, if you can breathe, you can do the Promise! I have taught it to beginners, “special needs” kids and wheelchair-bound persons and it works great for them.In addition to providing step-by-step instructions on the basic technique, this book also does a wonderful job of explaining very simply and directly the nondual philosophy of tantrism, a much-needed antidote to the insidious influence of gnostic dualism, “spirit is good, flesh is evil” which has unfortunately pervaded the religious traditions of both East and West. This divorce of body and soul has resulted in estrangement from ourselves, from God and each other. The Promise offers healing, and can be used by people of any religion and all walks of life to re-connect with their faith and realize their spiritual ideals in a tangible manner.
Crescence Krueger –
The Promise is a gift. Take it!
What a beautifully simple, and simply profound, book on life! Mark Whitwell has distilled the practical wisdom at the heart of the great spiritual traditions and made it completely relevant to our lives now; without this down to earth understanding, philosophy, or any well-intentioned inspiration, is useless! With it, everything becomes clear.Mark’s clarity is real. He writes as he speaks, with an ease and intimacy that feels so comfortable, it can be deceptive. Mark has gotten rid of everything that might stand in the way of direct experience and understanding, offering insight born out of the simple truth. I found his chapter on pain particularly helpful. He says pain is inherent to being alive; it protects us from harm. Knowing this, we can stop running from it, become friends with it and let it guide us to a better place. In part two, Mark shows us how.This book addresses the heart of what is vital in all our lives: our relationship to ourselves, the people we love and the wider world. Sex is at the core of our existence. It brought us into the world and its life giving energy sustains us. Mark offers a way to live our sexuality in wise innocence, not as a manipulation of self or other but as a celebration of the one life that we are. A tangible experience of our unity is at the root of all human understanding.If you are interested in yoga, practice it, or teach it, please read The Promise! There is so much confusion about what yoga is and this book will end it. A lifetime of practice grounded in the intelligence of yoga masters Krishnamacharya and U.G. Krishnamurti has given Mark a gift and he’s offering it to you. Take it!
CM –
An extremely powerful practice
Mark Whitwell has been one of the most important people to have come into my life. I met him through another teacher of mine who brought me to his lecture/workshop at the Yoga Journal Conference in 2009, while I was working as a volunteer the entire year at the Kripalu Center. Mark is a internationally well respected yoga teacher who teaches the REAL, ACTUAL practice of yoga, not just gymnastics, as handed down from the lineage of the ancient masters.Let’s get to what you want to hear. Yes, this worked for me. I had done all the real, good work of psychoanalyzing myself with yoga for a good few years before really actually starting my daily practice. After hitting a very low point and much despair after not manifesting a relationship as I had intended to, I decided to start the one thing I had not yet tried: a simple daily practice of moving with the breath. Yes, I had made the promise in 2009 back at the YJ conference, but did not keep it. My bad, and my loss, for real. When I actually started it, that was in the beginning of May this year, 2012. By about the third week of that same May, I met my now-partner. I am happy to say we just moved in together officially and as of this posting (It is the beginning of December now), we are very seriously happy, and having great sex too! We are both yoga instructors and revere Mark Whitwell as a true master of the practice. Both of us do our daily seven minutes. It works. Dramatically fast. Ladies and gentleman, it had been SEVEN YEARS since I had actually been in a serious relationship, and I’m only 27. 5 years since any real relationship whatsoever. This book is desperately needed in the ever expanding suffering of humans due to the growing isolationism we have created. Also check out his other book, yoga of heart, for an excellent take on yoga, with a bit more depth and philosophy, which I read in the mean-time before actually starting my practice daily (before this book was out.)Please READ THIS BOOK, for all of our sakes!Update: We are still going Strong as of August 2014. When I slack off on my practice, I feel the results all over my life. When I do it, I feel so much better in all ways. Sometimes, it feels like the transformation is too much. Which is why I avoid practice when I do. But when I just make myself do it, the transformation is easier than I imagined. This is the secret. Do. This.
Hannah –
I found myself flowing through the pages with ease and enjoyment.
Amazon Kunde –
A wonderfull and helpfull book. Great to learn and practice mindfulness, breathing, intimacy. Through it I learned a few important things about yoga that I had gotten completely wrong.I highly recommed this book for anyone interested in yoga, breathing and intimacy!
Pinchamayurasana –
Mark Whitwell is a fantastic teacher and makes the most sense to me of any philosopher I’ve heard. The practice of the breath is wonderful. The book is not written to the level of Mark’s scholarship, the way the book is put together leaves me wondering if the publishers tried to make it more “accessible”. I know from Mark’s writing that his prose is stunning, so I was a bit confused. Nevertheless the practice he outlines is transformative.
Wendy McGregor –
An excellant book written by a yoga master.
Tanja –
Ich habe Mark 2010 zum ersten Mal bei einem Workshop hier in Deutschland getroffen und ihm “Mein Versprechen” gegeben. Und es funktioniert! Diese sieben Minuten reichen aus, um mich mit dem Leben auf ganz wundervolle Weise zu verbinden… 🙂