What does it mean to be a man?
There are simple questions like “Do you have testicles?” that are relatively easily answered … “Yes/No”.
And deep questions like, “Does having testicles make you a man?”
I grew up in an age where “to be a man” meant you had balls … literally and figuratively.
Now, that’s not as common a way of thinking about what it is to be a man. Yet, I’ve found in my multiple decades of working with men … if a man can’t get to his balls he often doesn’t have the experience of being a man … or, feeling very manly when he might most want and need to “be a man” as he thinks about it.
To some extent that where I begin, but never where I end when I’m working with men.
The challenge with the way many men are presented with the idea of “having balls” is through anger and macho demonstrations of power, coercion by force, and violence … and, yet this is almost the exact opposite of what it really means to have access to your power as a man.
This is where I aim with the men I work with … access to your power as a man, fully embodied, raw, primal power, on demand … from a position of utter calm and in your complete control at all times.
The men I work with change dramatically after we work together, they paradoxically become significantly more gentle and yet more ferocious simultaneously. The most common comments I get are that the men I work with are having different experiences in their relationships … with men, with women, with children … hell with their dogs (or cats … sometime big ferocious cats)!
The work I do is all about reminding men who they are … and who they were before they were told and taught to become someone else …
I’ll help you rediscover your “embodied self” … the real you before and beneath the veneer of becoming civilized and learning to fit in so well.
When you regain the sense of being in your own body, feeling alive at a cellular level something shifts … permanently.
You’ll regain a vigor that may not have been fully present since you were a child … not only when you’re rushing down a ski slope at 40 MPH, or driving a car at 160MPH … but when you’re sitting quietly with friends, or embracing a lover, or walking with the hand of a child in yours.
This work is not for everyone … in fact most aren’t really interested, but if you are one of those who is let’s speak and we’ll see where our conversation goes …
SCHEDULE A COMPLIMENTARY CALL WITH ME … SPACE FOR THIS WORK IS LIMITED
All the best,
Joseph Riggio, Ph.D.
Architect & Designer of the MythoSelf Process and SomaSemantics
P.S. – I only do limited amounts of this kind of work with men 1:1, and I run about two to three groups a year … if you’re interested in exploring either option with me, or just finding out about what it would mean to you to experience you’re life as a man in a fully embodied way reach out: