Yoga is fabulous for your sex life!

Yoga is the best thing for your sex life. It keeps you limber in all kinds of ways. It teaches you to love your body and your partner's body. But more than anything, it keeps your mind liquid, and nothing's sexier than that.

Woody Harrelson

I have many friends who, for reasons only known to themselves, love intense workouts circuits and weightlifting! For them yoga sounds like the exercise equivalent of afternoon tea with your grandmother. However, there are some robust scientific studies that have proven that yoga can lead to better sexual health, if you’re familiar with Kama Sutra, (don’t pretend you’re not!), then you can see why yoga can give you a big boost in the sex department. You can gain a lot of health benefits when you practice yoga. At the least, even if you’re just a beginner, you can improve your circulation. From personal experience, you can also feel your muscles getting more toned. Yoga, of course, also helps with your flexibility. Yoga heightens your senses and increases your bodily awareness. This means that you get more aware of and feel each sensation more intensely. Just imagine how that goes when you’re in the middle of an orgasm? And that’s exactly one of the selling points why yoga is good for your sex life – with your heightened senses, your orgasms become so much more pleasurable.

There are so many yoga poses that can bring you a lot of sexual health benefits. Here's four yoga positions that help you develop a stronger core and improved pelvic energy, control and stability.

High Lunge

This yoga pose will give you increased core strength, better flexibility in your hip flexors, and increased balance. This is an excellent yoga pose for better sex because it gives you greater range of motion from your knees up to your chest. Plus, you get increased hip mobility and thigh endurance, and the discipline to contract your core when you need to. Just doing this one pose alone can already give you more control and power for your thrusts. How to do it:

Set your back foot about 3 feet behind and 4-6 inches to the side of your front foot.
Position your hips, shoulders, and toes face forward, then straighten your back leg by engaging your thigh muscles. Keep your shoulders stacked over your hips.
Engage your core and straighten your back, then slowly extend your arms straight up, forming an overhead V with your palms facing each other.
Slowly bend forward while keeping your back straight and push until your knee is above your ankle.
Hold: 30-60 seconds

Bridge

This is one yoga pose that’s sure to give more power to your thrusts. You’ll often see this pose recommended for women, but the truth is, it works wonders, too, if she’s riding you. This is also a good yoga pose to practice because it simulates the motion of lifting your body while you’re on your back. Plus, it also stretches your hip flexors while strengthening your quads. How to do it:

Lie on your back with your arms just resting alongside your body.
Bend your knees to position your heels near your butt but not quite touching it. Make sure your feet are hip-width apart.
While pressing the ground with your feet and arms, slowly lift your hips while keeping your knees hip-width distant.
When your hips have gone as high as you can, raise your chest towards your chin.
Rest your body weight on your shoulders and not on your neck. Keep your feet planted on the ground.
Hold: 30-45 seconds

Downward Facing Dog – Knee to Nose

This pose targets your ability to contract your core. Because that’s one way to give your thrust an extra push. When you have strong abdominal muscles, each contraction ensures full thrusts by allowing your hips to pull more inward, so your partner doesn’t just have to suffer through shallow motions.

This is also an excellent yoga pose for increasing the range of motion of your hips. Moreover, the downward facing dog position which is your initial position for the knee-to-nose pose is considered an all-around pose because it benefits almost your entire body, including opening your hips and shoulders as well as stretching your arches, calves, and hamstrings.

How to do it:

Assume the downdog or downward facing dog position.
Raise your right leg while making sure your toes are pointing to the ground and your hips are squared.
Bend your knee toward your nose while drawing your belly toward a rounded spine.
Straighten your knee while pulling your leg back up and then return to the downdog position.
Repeat on your left leg.

Chair

Note that the chair pose is totally different from chair yoga. The former is an excellent yoga pose for developing lower body endurance as well as core strength. The latter, on the other hand, refers to poses that you can do even while you’re sitting on a chair in front of your work desk. One of the best things about the chair pose is that it gives you balance and control while your knees are bent, a stance that’s common in many sex positions. Plus, the pose gives you core strength and endurance for this stance, so you can continue thrusting while keeping your position. The chair pose is actually a bit similar to the squatting and it also targets your hip muscles, glutes, and thighs, which is why this is such a great pose to practice for increasing your thrust power. You can also use this pose to build your lower body strength and for toning your leg muscles. How to do it:

Stand straight, point your toes outward while keeping your feet shoulder-width apart.
Inhale as you raise your arms above your head.
Slowly exhale while bending your knees and lowering your butt as if you’re going to sit down.
Keep your thighs parallel to the ground.
Reach your elbows back while lowering your tailbone, making sure you do not push your ribcage forward.
As you bring your hips lower, your upper back will slightly bend.
Hold the position for 15 seconds, working up to a full minute.