A magazine for men who train — essays and stories on discipline, brotherhood, and the long game, written by Shaun “Beastman” Anderson.
Virilitas comes out of the same practice as everything else in the Beast Life ecosystem — 30+ years on the mat, distilled into writing on discipline, brotherhood, and building a life you don’t need to escape from.
Each issue is a downloadable PDF — built to be read once and returned to often.
“Virilitas is a Latin word that encompasses strength, virtue, courage, integrity: the wholeness of a man. We created Virilitas because we believe it’s time to rewrite the narrative … This magazine is for the boys still learning what it means to be men. It is also for the men re-learning who they are underneath the armor.”
— Shaun & Taylor, Letter from the Editors, Virilitas Vol. 1
On building — the body, the discipline, and the life — one deliberate rep at a time.
The audio companion to the magazine — conversations on discipline, brotherhood, and the long game.
35+ years in Chen-style Tai Chi, Bagua Zhang, and Qigong — a conversation on internal martial arts and the physics of movement.
Watch on YouTube → Listen on Spotify →On structure, lineage, and the brotherhood of the mat — how a dojo becomes a tribe.
Listen on Spotify →Subscribe to the full show on Spotify — new episodes also drop on Instagram and YouTube first.
Downloadable PDF — $19+
Get Virilitas™ on GumroadPrefer print? Order Vol. 01 in print on Blurb Books · Order Vol. 02 — The Builder Code, in print.
Not ready to commit? Download The Master Ritual Codex — The Index free, a preview of the same Virilitas practice.
Virilitas sits alongside KCJK™ training and The Lotus Vault community — different doors into the same discipline.
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