Although this is an intercourse position, in this instance the focus is not on orgasmic release or simple physical pleasure. By combining mental focus, conscious breath, genital connection, and loving eye contact, the Lovers’ Scissors brings your masculine and feminine energies into harmony. It opens your hearts, connecting you deeply to your partner.

Time Required: five to 30 minutes, depending on how much time you have

Properties Required: none

Steps:

 

1.Lie perpendicular to each other—heads apart, groins close together.  The woman is on her back, the man on his side. To make the scissors, the woman puts the leg that is closest to her partner over top his hip. Her other leg she puts between his legs.

2.In this position the man gently slides his penis into her vagina. Use saliva or lubricant to ease entry.

3.Look into each other’s eyes (see Eye Gazing) and breathe slowly and deeply together (see Harmony Breath).


4.Place your hands on each other’s heart.

5.Be quiet and still.

6.Feel your connection through your genitals, through your hands to heart, through your eyes, and through your breath.

7.Focus your mind on your loving connection. If thoughts intrude, let them pass through and draw your attention back to your genitals, your heart, your eyes, and your breath.

8.To complete your practice, slowly disengage and then give each other a full-body hug.

Comments:

 

This is a great position for ending lovemaking or during lovemaking when you want to catch your breath before going on to more active thrusting again. Try it as a meditation for starting or ending your day together. Its energetic effects are cumulative—a deeper bond and more patience with each other.

 

Excerpted from our new book Sensual Love Secrets for Couples: The Four Freedoms of Body, Mind, Heart and Soul, by Al Link and Pala Copeland, Llewellyn, 2007

Available at Amazon.com

Also available as an eBook in pdf for Adobe Reader, prc for MobiPocket, or on CD.




 Check also at Amazon.com, Still Here: Embracing Aging, Changing, and Dying (Paperback) by Ram Dass


 
 

Al Link and Pala Copeland

4 Freedoms Relationship Tantra