“There is no containment without nervous system regulation. You can’t hold your partner if you can’t hold yourself first.” - John Wineland

"Only when we can learn to see what is actually going on in the moment, we can truly begin to address and repair what keeps us from connecting deeply with our partners." Bryan Reeves

"The hardest moments in your relationship—the storms, the wounds, the messiness—are the exact moments that can create the deepest healing and growth." - Nina Lombardo

"Intimacy blockages are not just yogic but also therapeutic and karmic, often causing unresolved conflicts and deep emotional pain." Sheleana Aiyana

“Collective healing is not just about one person feeling relieved while the other suffers; it involves mutual healing where both parties find resolution and peace.” Jamie Elizabeth Thompson

“A conscious man is attuned to his past, conscious of his biases, and insightful about his perceptual distortions.” -Michael Holt

"Every moment of patience, every moment of genuine understanding is an act of devotion to love." - Preston Smiles

“In dominant-sub roles, one person holds power and the other gives it up. Unlike simple dominance, erotic leadership is about guiding, influencing, and inspiring”.- Kimi Inch

"What I crave emotionally is to be seen and loved for who I am, as I am, in non-judgmental and compassionate ways. That's healing." -Stefanos Sifandos

"I'm having an experience of being human here. I've got a heart. I've got feelings. I've got sensations. I'm living life. I'm dealing with joys and disappointments and fears and my own brand of neurosis and you're probably doing the same. And so when we start to reveal our shared humanity to another and we start to really tune in to each other's fears, each other's desires, each other's experience of being human, we begin to recognize our own experience of being human through another, that is another beautiful form of intimacy."-John Wineland

“Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual's conscious life, the blacker and denser it is.” - John Wineland

"You can train a man to rest in consciousness and sharpen other men, but that's not enough. Good men's work needs both masculine and feminine aspects." - John Wineland .

"Our capacity to go from incredibly tender and deep and heart open, almost weeping, to being, you know, sort of brutally primal and hungry, right, and our capacity to have a full range of expression during lovemaking leads to a much more artful lovemaking." - John Wineland.

“If you want somebody of value, you have to become valuable, and, in doing so you're not only becoming more magnetic but you're basically transmitting to the world and to the universe your own value, your own fullness, and your own depth.” — John Wineland

“One of the reasons why I think repair is such a powerful practice is because it involves the masculine capacities of awareness and reflection, combined with the feminine capacities of empathy and expression.” — John Wineland