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Hey, May, good to read you again.
Let's start from the basics and on to the complexities.
Recapitulation is basically a meditative state in which you review a moment of your life, while you breath in an specific way, and have the intent of Picking up the energy you left behind and abbandon all energy other people left in you. It is ussually acompanied by a sideways movement of your head.
Recapitulation might have paralel effects to zen and/or budist meditation. One cleans up the ego, until there's nothing left, but your real you.
Yes, recaptulation is a simple practice. You take one short period of time, and you work with it. The hard part is having the discipline/impecability to recaptulate your whole life. It is important because it allows the warrior to de-structurate his self/ego/personal importance on it's most essential aspects.
As far as other ways of doing recapitulation, well. It's a lot easier if done like CC says, because there's a whole lot of intent behind the moves and the breathing, but the most important part of recapitualtion is the attention to that part of your life and the intention of picking up the gold and throwing out the garbage.
I've done recapitulation without the movements, and it can be done, but it's harder. I have done recapitulation while doing martial art forms, too. Never did the suspension thing, but I know someone who did, and it does help.
Now, I haven't done a complete, orderly recap. I have just recapitulated those moments of my life with too much (negative) emotions in them. Most of them I have reviewed several times. I did do the map of my life, but didn't get into the whole recap thing.
On the sex thing. Iszabelle is interpreting things a bit off.
Cc never blames women as "male power sponges" or the like. Pretty much the other way around. The explanation can be divided in two parts:
a) The act itself does not consume energy, but the emotional and egoic aspects behind sex do, if sex is done as a product of pure, selfless love, ot would not consume power.
b) Sex is conscience creation. In CC's view, when to people have sex, their awareness fibers "shake" and even breake in order to create a new awareness. So there is a loss on awareness inherent in sex.
In Taisha Avelar's books, they expand the idea of sex being a worse loss for women than for men, I can expand that if you like. This post is getting too long. Sorry for the spelling.