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Can yoga really help my sex life?
By Christina | September 1, 2008
Yoga is well known for its ability to increase your flexibility, enhance your muscle tone, and assist in stress release but did you know it might also help with your sex life? That’s right, yoga offers a myriad of physical and emotional benefits that add up to a more fulfilling, meaningful sexual relationship with your partner. I love yoga so whatever it takes to get people to practice, I am all for it!
Sensuality
Yoga helps you to develop an awareness of sensations inside of your body. Learning to feel the weight rolling into the inside edges of your palms in downward dog, (love downwards dog), for example, teaches you to savor every sensation in your body. Yoga also helps keep you focused in the moment, in your body and out of your head, where your non-stop thoughts can keep you from enjoying the experience at hand.
Confidence
People who practice yoga, or any exercise for that matter, gain less weight as they age than people who don’t do anything. And while feeling more fit is an undeniable turn-on, a sustained yoga practice also encourages you to develop respect for your body. You learn to love who you are and what you look like; confidence is definitely sexy.
More Energy
A recent survey done by the National Sleep Foundation found that 33% of women say their being tired was a main reason they have less frequent sex. Yoga actually helps to improve sleep quality significantly therefore one can conclude: practice yoga, sleep better, have more sex.
Intimacy
Yoga helps us to connect to who we are beyond what we look like. It helps us to be comfortable in our skin which in turn helps us become more comfortable in vulnerable (yoga) positions whether that’s a full backbend or chakrasana during your yoga class or a deep, meaningful talk in bed at night.
Better Orgasms
On a purely physical level, many yoga poses increase the blood flow to the pelvic region. For example wide-legged straddle pose (sitting with your legs apart and reaching forward) increases blood flow to the pelvis. In yoga there are energy locks which are held up throughout the practice. Mula Bandha is the pelvic lock and it’s a kegel you maintain for the duration of the class.
Whatever your reason to practice yoga, it’s all good. Enjoy everything you do.
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