THE SEX BENEFITS OF YOGA

Saturday, April 4th, 2009 | Understand Yoga with

WH uncovers the real reason there’s a big ‘O’ in yoga

Sarah Bowen Shea

Sleep on this: You’d have better sex if you were a loose woman. Limbering up with yoga will help you build a strong, supple body — and that leads to a lot more action in the bedroom, says Ellen Barrett, author of Sexy Yoga. “Yoga increases flexibility, which helps you to be free and just go for it in sex,” she says. Here are five more reasons you should hit the mat before you hit the sack.
It Helps You Flow
Yoga increases your overall blood flow, and some positions, such as the eagle pose, direct it straight toward your pelvis. When all that blood rushes to your privates, it literally makes you hot. That heat, combined with a Viagra-like stimulation (as the blood swells your button), heightens your sensitivity andincreases desire.

It Makes You Stronger Down Below
Yoga tones and strengthens your entire core — which includes your pelvic floor. “The more you work these muscles, the greater range of motion you have,” says Becky Jeffers, fitness director at the Berman Center for female sexual health and menopause management in Chicago. “This gives you stronger contractions and releases, which can help you experience a more intense orgasm.”

It Breeds Confidence
Quieting your mind and focusing on your breath during a pose help you become more aware of yourself — and your own needs. “When you’re present, you know what you need to feel fulfilled by your partner,” Jeffers says. “You can then translate and communicate this deeper understanding to your partner during sex.” Knowing and expressing your desires will make you feel good — psychologically as well as sexually.

It Eases Pain
For some women, especially runners, hip and thigh tightness can make sex tough, but yoga eases pain by releasing that tension and relaxing your hips. “Tension in your hips can affect how your pelvic floor works,” Jeffers says. One tight muscle can lead to another, making your chances of orgasm remote and your love session about as sexy as a sweaty round on the rowing machine. Relax, and everything gets easier — and better.

It Gives You Mojo
Yoga moves like triangle and seated open-angle pose stimulate your chakras. According to Eastern philosophy, your sex life is governed by these chakras — your body’s energy centers surrounding your spine, in Yoga-speak. “When your chakras are in healthy working order, you’ll find your sexual relations to be vibrant and healthy, too,” Barrett says. Your three “sexiest” chakras are the root chakra (located at your perineum — the area between your pubic bone and anus), the sacral chakra (in the center of your lower abdomen), and the heart chakra (in the center of your chest). Yoga enriches these critical areas with blood and “prana,” the life force, according to Barrett. That promotes openness and decreases sexual inhibition, which make you a more game sex partner and, in turn, a much happier person.

FROM:http://www.womenshealthmag.com/yoga/the-sex-benefits-of-yoga

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kris // April 18th, 2009 at 12:39 pm

any yoga benefits for men? this is all for women, who i know are probably the most frequent yoga participants, but what about male yoga-goers? anything fun for them to look forward to?

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Angela Reply:
April 20th, 2009 at 2:27 pm
Yoga definitely works well for men! I made my boy friend do it with me for a week with the Better Sex Through Yoga videos http://www.bettersexthroughyoga.com and he was harder than ever! no bs…but that’s just half of it, his hips loosened up and he was able to do things he’d never done before. check out:

Better Sex Through Yoga

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Ken // April 18th, 2009 at 9:32 pm

All of the above is true.
As for men (me) I love it!

Had the opportunity to take a class along with swimming and weight training, and I was in the best shape of my life.
I LONG to get back to that…

Yoga is vital to good health!

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Lucifer // April 21st, 2009 at 9:54 am

Yeah, and Yoga is also Luciferian and Satanic…go look it up. You’re only forgetting about God and pleasing ME!

Think I’m playing? Go look it up.

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sigizz // May 3rd, 2009 at 6:40 am

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@gcrush // May 16th, 2009 at 3:42 am

no matter how many times I read how good yoga is for our sex lives, it never gets old and is always appreciated!

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David Scott Lynn // May 17th, 2009 at 5:10 pm

Well, being a man, and having been around awhile, and the strictly physical aspects aside, a few things:

For me, doing yoga has refined my senses quite a lot. (Sometimes too much.) I’m far more able to feel, hear and see things, both in myself and my partner. And the more I can sense what’s happening the better I can respond to whatever is going on in the moment. And being responsive to each others needs is a central feature of making love rather then just getting to home base.

Also, having done yoga almost daily for 3 to 4 hours at a time for extended periods over the years (started in 1974 when I was 19, and started doing Buddhist meditation when I was 14), and doing lots of long, slow asana holds, and working a lot with The physical/mental Edges, the ability to pay attention to minute details was greatly enhanced. As my Dad said, no one ever gets bored with another human being unless they don’t know how to pay attention. So, if BOTH people are getting better and better at paying attention, the relationship usually deepens, rather than drifting apart. … That’s the theory, anyway.

And as my yoga teacher — Joel Kramer — said, a primary definition of yoga is the quality of attention you pay to whatever it is you are doing at the moment. And yoga is a great place to refine the ability to pay attention.

Then, the ability to relax fully and deeply allows the waves of relaxation and energy flow that comes from orgasm to wash through the entire body, lasting for much longer periods of time, and not remaining confined to the genital area.

Joel Kramer and his life-partner, Diana Alstad, also taught the Yoga of Relationship, an idea that Diana initiated based on what she learned about physical and mental yoga from Joel. So they started teaching workshops on this back in the 70s and early 80s. The idea is that while physical/mental yoga is like unravelling knots in the bodymind, knots that have been formed in a relationship can be unraveled in a similar way.

So, although there is tremendous overlap, generally speaking, we can say that in physical yoga, the knots are mostly in our neuromuscular and myofascial system. In mental yoga the knots are mostly in our personal thinking and feeling states. In relationships, especially romantic, the knots are interpersonal and transpersonal, and come in the ways we treat each other in a wide range of circumstances.

Personally, though, I’ve found that most people don’t really want to get to know themselves, nor their partner, that deeply, nor let go enough of their own self identity to really be in a fully integrated relationship. … I think its the wide-spread narcissism.

Or maybe I’m just to sensitive. So I took a break from it all. … For a while.

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aromahand // May 24th, 2009 at 12:30 am

great piece! thanks for the wonderful wisdom…

namaste

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AndrewBoldman // June 4th, 2009 at 4:52 pm

The article on antibiotics are very good.

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yokofan // October 25th, 2009 at 9:18 pm

yes but Yoko’s japanese yoga is really hot!
http://japansugoi.com/wordpress/yoko-matsugane-hot-yoga-videos/

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