Yes. They do.
Maybe you haven't tried yoga yet because you don't think you'd like it. Maybe you think it's not a real workout. Maybe you think it's just stretching. Maybe you've heard people chanting during a class and that scared you.
I'll get back to why yoga is a kick ass workout, why it's not just stretching and how you don't have to chant to practice yoga another time. But now I'm going to tell you about sex.
Yoga can certainly improve your sex life.
Yoga shows us how to slow down, open up and FEEL. Yoga allows you to be more confident
in your own skin as you begin to appreciate the beauty of your body and the
amazing things it can do. You learn to stop thinking so much and start listening to your body. As you practice listening to your own body, you discover what your body needs. You become more aware of your bodies desires. Then you become more tuned in to the needs and desires of others.
Yoga teaches something called mindfulness, which is simply an awareness of the present moment. Being present helps you become more aroused and climax easier.
So, here is a list of 20 poses that will help your body and mind transform into a sex god or goddess.
My wonderful friends Briana Young Roane and DJ Townsel helped me compile this list.
Please check them out on Instagram and show them some love.
DOWNWARD FACING DOG
{adho
mukha svanasana}
Perhaps the most quintessential yoga
pose, downward facing dog is taught in
beginner yoga classes and returned to again and again by the most advanced yoga
practitioners. The benefits of downdog are endless; it lengthens the
spine, stretches the legs, and tones the shoulders-just to name a few. It’s also
very relaxing, as if your worries are just pouring off your back. Doing a down
dog before sex will help you find peace and will help you to focus
on the present moment. It will calm the mind and heat up the body, two
important ingredients in great sex. Plus, stands as quite the invitation.
COBRA
{bhujangasana}
This pose is a complete heart opener.
Our love, energy and breath all come from the heart chakra. Love, Energy,
Breath: all incredibly vital to great sex. Cobra also gets the blood pumping to
the lower back, increasing strength and stamina, and to the abdomen, increasing
libido. This pose stimulates our sexual energy centers and can help men with
erectile dysfunction. Ladies, show off those beautiful lady lumps and fellas,
well, I can't stop singing "you can do it put your back into it."
BOAT
{navasana}
Boat is a serious core-toning pose.
And a good core is key to looking and feeling hot. This pose
will help you add vigor and agility to your love making by tightening your
abdomen. Boat pose strengthens your pelvic floor muscles, which will improve
your sexual pleasure.
HEADSTAND WITH BOUND ANGLE LEGS
{salamba sirsasana with legs in baddha konasana}
Headstands improve circulation in the
body by forcing the blood to flow in a new direction. This energizes the body,
improves memory and clears the brain of clutter. Doing a headstand will
stimulate the pituitary and hypothalamus glands by providing fresh blood to them.
These glands are considered the master glands and they have a part in
regulating our sex hormones. In addition, inversions will strengthen the uterus
and help with fertility. Adding bound angle legs in an inversion will heat up
the groin and open the hips, to allow for more range of motion.
WIDE LEGGED FORWARD FOLD
{prasarita padottanasana}
This pose is great to get you in the
mood for sex. It improves blood flow to the pelvic area, which increases sex
drive. This pose also helps make the groin and spine flexible. It releases the
groin, and opens and stretches the hips and thighs. And well, it's kind of the
perfect pose for some good lovin'.
SHOULDER STAND
{salamba sarvangasana}
The lower half of our body suffers
from slower circulation, because the blood has to travel uphill to return to
the heart. This pose will increase blood flow to your sexy areas, which will
then increase sexual desire. This pose can also relieve fatigue and calm the
mind, which are so important for time with your partner. Shoulder stand gets
the thyroid working optimally. The thyroid gland is mainly responsible for
correct weight and general youthful appearance. Shoulder stand will also
regulate your sex glands and is beneficial in relieving menstrual cramps.
PLOW
{halasana}
"But she don't be tripping in
the morning, I got her legs up by her ears." Neyo got this. Not only is
plow pose an ideal sexual position, but also it is excellent for improving your
entire sexual system. Like inversions, it gets blood flowing to places that
need it. More circulation in your groin means a higher sex drive, and blood
flowing to your brain will help wake you up. In this pose, your goodies are
right in your face, allowing you to connect with that area visually, which can be a powerful aphrodisiac.
CAT/COW
{marjaryasana/bitilasana}
By getting oxygen to the reproductive
organs, this asana will help increase low libido. The rounding and arching of
the spine keeps your back flexible and as you curl from cat to cow, moving your
tailbone up and down, you strengthen your Kegel muscles (the same muscles that
contract during orgasm).
EAGLE
{garudasana}
When you wrap your legs around one
another, it creates a tourniquet effect, slowing blood flow for a moment. Once
your legs are released, blood rushes through your cervix (ladies) and
reproductive organs, warming the whole area up. In addition, this pose will
increase flexibility of your major joints, and we all know flexibility in the
bedroom comes in handy. Also, when you wrap your arms, this opens your
shoulders and releases neck tension, making it a nice stress reliever. Eagle
pose tones your quads, engages your core, and challenges your balance! This
pose is great! Do it. Now.
CHILD’S POSE
{balasana}
When this pose is practiced with wide
legs, you allow the upper body to sink and become more vulnerable. This helps
you become more aware of your needs. Women often tend to forget about their own
needs, because they are concerned with the needs of everyone else around them.
We are nurturers and this pose helps us nurture ourselves. Many times we are so
into our thoughts and in our head that we can't get into our body. If you find
the mind getting in the way of time with your partner, try this pose to help you
focus and relax. Anything that helps you be more aware will help you be more
sensual. Calm your mind and think about what really gets you
hot. Focus on that intention and enjoy the effects.
CRESCENT LUNGE
{anjaneyasana}
Crescent Pose requires the work of
the entire body. This pose will strengthen your quads, inner thighs,
hamstrings, glutes and the OH so important pelvic floor. This pose will help
improve your stamina and is especially helpful to men who would like to build a
wider range of motion in the hip area. Crescent warms the groin and abdomen,
allowing the lower body to become more flexible. At the same time, it opens up
the front of the body and the heart, letting the love shine out. This pose will
also increase your heart rate, stimulating you and getting you ready for
excitement. If this variation is too much for you at first, try it with your
back knee dropped to the floor. Concentrate on squeezing your inner thighs
toward one another to really turn on your lower body.
LIZARD
{utthan pristhasana}
Lizard pose is a great way to ease
the hips open and calm the mind. Hip opening poses will encourage blood flow
below the waist, while loosening and opening up the hips, thighs and pelvis.
They also strengthen pelvic-floor muscles (which promote deeper and better orgasms)
and inner thighs and hips, making it easier to get into a variety of playful
sexual positions. Calming the mind during sex is equally as important as
physically getting our bodies ready. When you can focus on your breath and the
present moment, you can be more aware of your body and of your partner.
PUPPY
{uttana shishosana}
A cross between down dog and child's
pose, this pose lengthens the spine and calms the mind. In puppy we deeply
stretch the shoulders and the spine, strengthen the arms, upper back and hips,
and relieve stress by releasing the tension held in our neck and shoulders.
This pose, while it calms your mind, will also invigorate the body, which is a
perfect combination for lovemaking. If this is new to you, please be careful.
Put blankets between your chest and the floor, or prop your forehead up on a
block. You do not need to touch the ground. Just melt your chest toward the
ground, and play with your hip position, pressing it back toward your heels and
then pulling your butt higher in the air.
CAMEL
{ustrasana}
Camel pose works your entire body and
the benefits of camel pose make a long list! By strengthening the thighs and
arms, it reduces fat in those areas. Camel opens up the hips, stretching deep
hip flexors and improves strength and flexibility in the spine, relieving back
pain. It opens the shoulders and chest, improving respiration. This pose is
great for asthma suffers. Camel pose opens and heals your heart chakra,
stimulates endocrine glands, releases tension in the ovaries, stretches the
ankles, thighs, groin, abdomen, chest, and throat and compliments overall
health and well being. Wow. That's a lot! Now, on to the sexy stuff. When you put your body in this position, you provide a direct pathway for the blood to flow
right where it counts. Also, you put your sexy parts right out
there in the open, for your love to admire.
RECLINED HERO
{supta virasana}
This pose heats up the groin area and
opens the hips, stretching the deep hip flexors. It's a great pose to
strengthen your abdomen, stretch your thighs and relieve menstrual cramps.
Reclined Hero pose promotes healthy function of the reproductive organs and
improves digestion.
KING PIGEON
{eka pada rajakapotasana}
Women tend to hold tension in the
hips and thighs (men in their shoulders), so this pose is great at releasing
stress that has been built up. It relaxes your lower body, so that you can
welcome visitors with ease. Pigeon pose stretches our thighs, hips, and groin.
Here, you also open your
neck, and shoulders and work on your spine flexibility. Flexibility makes play
time so much more fun. Plus, it looks sexy as hell. It's a pose full of confidence!
BRIDGE
{setu bandha sarvangasana}
Bridge pose is a super pose for
toning and tightening the pelvic floor muscles, improving orgasms. This asana
will strengthen your butt and thighs, tighten your core and open your heart and
hips. It's also great for non-sexy stuff like relieving symptoms of asthma and
high blood pressure, stimulating lungs and thyroid glands and improving
digestion by waking up the abdominal organs.
WHEEL
{urdhva dhanurasana}
This pose stretches your chest,
opening up your heart. Heart openers are intended to cure broken hearts,
allowing us a new opportunity for love. By increasing energy and decreasing
depression, it's a wonderful pose to get your mind and body right for intimacy.
This pose strengthens your arms and wrists, legs, butt and stomach. It
stretches your spine and stimulates the pituitary gland, termed our
"Master Gland", which is responsible for secreting nine hormones that
regulate our whole body system, including sex organ function. This pose is even
therapeutic for infertility. But the #1 reason to love this pose is, it looks
gooooood. It's one of my favorite bedroom asanas.
BOW
{dhanurasana}
Bow pose
stretches the entire front of the body, as well as the thighs and deep hip
flexors. It warms the groin and the rotation of your shoulders allows you to
open up and relax as you settle into the pose. If you rock gently back and
forth while in bow pose, you will aid digestion by massaging the abdominal
area. And any backbend will strengthen your spine and light a fire, giving you
a burst of energy. This asana makes you feel so open, helping you openly
explore sexually with your partner.
LOTUS
{padmasana}
The point
here is to get you seated and relaxed. If lotus is not available to you, please
do half lotus or easy pose (criss-cross seat). We want you to reconnect with your essence. When
you're tuned in with what your body needs, you can freely express those needs
to others. Take time in this seated asana to work your Kegel muscles. (Not sure
how? It's the muscles used when you stop your pee.) Engage your pelvic floor
and count to ten, increasing the squeeze as you count up. Then hold it for a
few seconds, before SLOWLY releasing as you count down to one. This is also a
great time to clear your mind. Focus on your breath by practicing your Ujjayi
(Ocean) breathing. Allow your self and your mind to be still.
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