Flexibility and Flow

A balanced, healthy masculinity is less about force or brute strength, the hypermasculinity that our society currently regards as “manly.” Instead, it’s more about flexibility and flow. The Sacred Masculine is akin to a dancer’s lithe strength as opposed to the inflexible mass of a bodybuilder. It’s a different sort of muscle, a different way of being in the world.

– L. R. Heartsong
Excerpted from The Bones and Breath:
A Man’s Guide to Eros, the Sacred Masculine, and the Wild Soul
White Cloud Press, 2014
p. 32

See also the previous posts:
• Vulnerability Is Power
• A Fresh Take on Masculinity
• Manly Love
• Rockin’ With Maxwell
• What a Man! – Connor Beaton
• Reclaiming the Power of Male Touch
• A Warrior’s Heart
• Beloved and Antlered
• The Soul of a Dancer
• We All Dance
• And as We Dance . . .
• The Art of Dancing as the Supreme Symbol of the Spiritual Life
• To Dance . . .
• “I Came Alive With Hope”

Related Off-site Link:
The Divine Masculine Principle – The Leveret (September 15, 2018).

Image: Calvin Royal III, photographed by Ken Browar and Deborah Ory.