WAKE DOWN
Bringing the Light All the Way Into the Body
Everyone talks about waking up. This is the other direction.
Pre-order Wake Down
Coming Fall 2026
Signed first editions available
THE PREMISE
You may have spent years becoming conscious… meditating, praying, serving, studying… and yet, the most intimate rooms of the self remain in the dark. Whatever stays in the dark runs the show.
WHAT'S INSIDE
The Promise
The birthright of full energy connectivity — and the story of what happened to it, told in the real, anonymized voices of the circles.
The Principles
The maps behind the felt experience: the subtle body, the biology of the basin, the intelligence of your armor, the full-spectrum goddess, the container as the teaching. Sources and lineage noted throughout.
The Practices
The Nine-Step Descent, from the receiving breath, the pelvic work and the locks, the voice, the energy body, to the witnessed word. The capacities for staying embodied in ordinary life.
The Prayer
The body as altar. Breath, lovemaking, and listening as prayer. Everything is invited home.
WHO THIS IS FOR?
This book is for anyone who was handed the great separations and suspects they were never true. Anyone taught that the mind and the body are separate. That the spirit and the body are separate. That sex and spirituality live in different buildings, and only one of them is holy.
It grew in women's circles and keeps that root, but the descent is the same descent in any body, and the material applies to all gendered bodies
PRE-ORDER GIFTS
Preorder now and receive:
The Wake Down Practice Audio — a 35-minute guided descent recorded live in circle: arrival, the receiving breath, movement, the pelvic work, and the light coming all the way down. Yours the moment you order.
The Litany — a beautifully set of altar cards drawn from the practices. (For Print orders only)
An invitation to the launch circle — a live online gathering where we walk the Nine-Step Descent together, with Q&A. (Recording included if you can't attend live.)
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ABOUT CHRISTINE
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ABOUT CHRISTINE 🏵
Christine Marie Mason has taught yoga and embodied practice since 2002. Her training braids the streams this book draws from: twenty five years as yogi and philosopher, nineteen years with Mark Whitwell in the Krishnamacharya lineage, nondual Śaiva Tantra with Christopher Hareesh Wallis, five years of witnessing practice with Thomas Hübl, five years in the devotional stream at Sharmada, a lifetime of dance, contemporary trauma scholarship. She is the founder of Rosebud Woman, an intimate wellness platform, and the Living Tantra Institute, the author of ten books including the Kirkus-starred The Nine Lives of Woman, and the host of The Rose Woman podcast.
FROM THE CIRCLES
There is no private shame — and there is nothing you are sitting in alone.
The lights are waiting to come on in every room of the house.
At the next light, turn right.
Got any questions? Reach out to Christine
