What Is The Fire Between Us?

The Fire Between Us: The 7 Scales of Sexual Desire is the second book by Justin Patrick Pierce and Londin Angel Winters, the founders of the Yoga of Intimacy. It is coming in September 2026.

Justin Patrick Pierce & Londin Angel Winters

Sacred intimacy teachers and authors of Playing With Fire: The Spiritual Path of Intimate Relationship and The Awakened Woman’s Guide to Everlasting Love. Together since 2010, they guide couples worldwide through the Yoga of Intimacy, a body-based practice system for keeping desire alive across decades. Learn more about their approach.

Their first book, Playing With Fire: The Spiritual Path of Intimate Relationship, mapped the complete path from awareness to devotion. seven practices couples do together to deepen intimacy and sustain connection. It holds a 4.9-star rating on Amazon and has become a trusted resource for couples and practitioners around the world.

The Fire Between Us goes deeper into the dimension that most relationship books do not touch: sexual desire. Not desire as a problem to manage or a topic to tiptoe around. desire as the force that bonds two people together and, when misunderstood, tears them apart.

What the Book Introduces

The book’s central framework is the Seven Scales of Sexual Desire. seven dimensions where Alpha and Omega poles interact between partners: Body, Sex, Breath, Heart, Voice, Mind, and Spirit. Each scale is taught through real stories from couples Justin and Londin have worked with, followed by practices for both poles.

The book also teaches energetic agility. the capacity to move between Alpha and Omega fluidly rather than being locked into one role. As Justin writes: the goal is not to play one note. The goal is to play the full piano.

How It Connects to Playing With Fire

Playing With Fire teaches the Path. the foundational practice map for intimate relationship. The Fire Between Us focuses specifically on the polarity dimension of that path, expanding the Middle Circle (Alpha and Omega, Polarity) into a detailed, practice-based framework that covers every layer of attraction from the physical to the spiritual.

Reading Playing With Fire first will give you the fullest understanding, but The Fire Between Us is designed to stand on its own.

Who It Is For

This book is for couples who know something is missing. The love is there. The commitment is there. But the fire. the pull, the electricity, the desire that once defined them. has gone quiet. It is for couples who sense that their intimate life could be more than routine, more than obligation, more than a memory of what it used to be.