Stretch Your Sex Life to New Levels: Yoga in the Bedroom

Put the O in Orgasm with Yoga!

There’s more to yoga than meets the eye. While the quest to find enlightenment is certainly a worthy pursuit, many yoga devotees have inadvertently discovered their meditative exercises have some rather steamy side effects. Not only does this ancient practice strengthen your body and help tone your tush, but it will also rev up your sex life. Here’s how:

Improve Your Orgasms

Yoga postures are wonderful for increasing blood flow to the pelvic area for both men and women, helping to increase and renew orgasmic ecstasy. There are also several positions that will engage your beloved PC muscles. Tight love-making Kegel muscles mean better orgasms for you both!

Try This: Butterfly Pose (Baddha Konasana). Put the soles of your feet together so your knees are bent outwards. Grasp your big toes and lean forward, keeping your back gently curved. Hold for 5 to 10 deep breaths.

Bedroom Benefits: This posture strengthens the uterus and PC muscles. It eases irritability, anxiety and fatigue, so you can enjoy some passionate play time.

Lift Your Libido

When you’re feeling sexy, fit, and confident, your libido enjoys a natural boost. Yoga will get you strong and svelte as well as loosen the pelvic area, stimulating blood flow and sex drive.

Try This: Upward Facing Dog (Urdhva Mukha Svanasana). Lie on your stomach and put your hands, palm down, on the floor next to your chest. Straighten your arms so your chest comes off the floor while keeping your pelvis against the ground. Hold for 8-10 breathes.

Bedroom Benefits: This posture stretches your spine, which will leave you feel long, lean and lithe. It also increases blood flow to your organs, heightening sensitivity and increasing desire.

Heighten Sexy Sensations

Yoga will cause you become attune to even the smallest sensations in your body. Increasing your physical awareness will help you derive more satisfaction and appreciation from sex. You’ll be able to concentrate to all of the delicious details of your naughty adventures!

Try This: Camel (Ustrasana). Sit on your knees and slowly reach your hands back one at a time to grasp your heels. Make sure that your hips are forward over your knees and that your chest is all the way out. Look up at the ceiling or drop your head to your shoulders. Hold for 10-20 breaths.

Bedroom Benefits: By opening up your chest, you’ll access your heart chakra which is responsible for love and emotions. This posture is also delivers blood to the reproductive organs and alleviates anxiety, irritability and fatigue.

Increase Your Flexibility & Muscle Tone

Practicing yoga will improve your flexibility and your muscle tone making it easier to try the daring, acrobatic postures you’ve always marvelled at in the movies.

Try This: Downward Dog (Adhomukha Svanasana). Spread your legs apart to shoulder width. Bend over and put your hands out in front of you, also shoulder width apart. Arch your back slightly and lift your pelvis into the air while trying to keep you heels on the ground.

Bedroom Benefits: You’ll get extra blood rushing to your head which will enhance your orgasms. Plus he’ll have easy access to your point of entry while you’re stretching your legs, torso and arms.

Relax & Enjoy Sex!

Yoga teaches you to breathe properly and to be present in the moment. These skills translate beautifully when brought into the bedroom. Being able to calm the mental chatter will also prevent stressful thoughts from killing your mojo or spoiling the sexy moment at hand.

Try This: Easy Breathing Exercise. Observe your natural breath. Take note of how the abdomen rises and then falls with exhalation. Pay attention to your regular breath for a few minutes then begin to deepen, lengthen your breath by starting to breathe from your lower abdomen up through your throat. Move your abdomen, not your chest. Take 20 breaths and then rest.

Bedroom Benefits: Learning to breathe will calm you and help you appreciate being in the moment. Your partner will notice a difference in love-making when you’re completely present.

Now you won’t be left wondering why your friends are always so eager to get to their yoga classes on time. The soothing, sensual side effects of this ancient practice make yoga totally worth the awkward moments of uncomfortable contortion. Stretch out with your partner and rekindle your mental and physical connection- sensational sex is sure to follow!

This article was first published for All4Women.co.za