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If your sex life is not as exciting as it used to be, yoga may just be the tonic you need to bring alive your bedroom once again. Yoga helps you on two planes - mental and physical. Yoga boosts your self esteem and annuls stress and fatigue, factors that can reduce your libido. It will also help your performance by improving muscle tone, improving flexibility and building strength. Try these poses to experience a great sex life:
Wide Straddle Forward Bend
Sit down with legs wide open. Let your feet and knee caps point straight up. Stretch your leg muscles by pulling toes towards you. Hold your toes with your hands and lean forward as far as you can. Hold the position for about 10 breaths.
Benefits: Improves blood flow in the pelvis.
Bound Angle pose or Cobbler's pose
Sit down and bring the soles of your feet to touch each other. Let your knees be on the floor. Hold the ankles with your hands and bend forward as far as you can. Hold the position for about 10 breaths.
Benefits: Improves flexibility in the pelvis and allows for better stimulation in the right areas. Strengthens uterus in women and alleviates anxiety and stress.
Root Lock (Mula Bandha)
You can do this either seated or standing. Tighten and relax the pubococcygeus muscle. Or to put it simply, contract your muscles like you do when you want to stop urine flow, and relax. Repeat 10 times. Do this several times a day anywhere.
Benefits: Better control of the pelvic floor and more sensation during sex moves.
Legs-up-the-wall
Lie on your back with hips touching a wall. Hold legs straight up touching the wall. Focus on your breath for a few minutes.
Benefits: Better blood flow that rejuvenates the body.
Pushup pose / Downward dog
Take the pushup pose with arms extended. Lower your body slowly and stop when you are just about to touch the floor. Pull your elbows in and hold the position for 5 breaths. Then lower yourself to the floor. Repeat several times.
Benefits: Better muscle tone and physical shape.
Breath of Fire
Do this when you are in the bed with your partner. Close your mouth and breathe in and out forcefully through the nose. Be rhythmic.
Benefits: Enhanced pleasure.
Doubles poses:
Duo downward dog
When you are in a downward V position during downward dog, have your partner pull your hips backwards for better stretch.
Duo butterfly
Sit with knees bent and soles of your feet together. Hold your toes with your hands. Let your partner push your thighs toward the ground from behind.
Dunking for Apples
Sit with legs wide apart. Let your partner do the same in front of you. Touch each other's feet and hold each other's hands at the elbow. Now lean back as your partner leans forth, hold for 5 breaths and then lean forward as your partner leans back. Keep going back and forth several times.
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