Should you’re somebody who loves actually feeling in contact along with your physique, it’s no shock in case you’re into yoga, meditation, and something that prioritizes that candy thoughts and physique connection. However what about methods you may deliver these athletic, soothing and related yoga vibes into your intercourse life? Properly, there’s a protracted historical past of intercourse and yoga crossing paths in deeply satisfying methods — and you will get the advantages of each by setting some mindful, sexy intentions along with your accomplice.
“Intercourse is a type of yoga,” says Patricia Taylor, Ph.D., writer of Expanded Orgasm tells SheKnows. “In yoga, you wish to combine the thoughts, the guts, the physique and the spirit, and also you wish to join all of them… It’s virtually extra of a query of the way you strategy it versus what the place is. With that focus, you will be relaxed, you may breathe, you may have eye contact along with your accomplice, and you’ll have an emotional connection.”
In line with Jenna Switzer, a intercourse coach and yoga teacher, “Yoga and intercourse are a match made in heaven. The stretches really feel unimaginable and may also help you create some critically horny shapes in mattress. It’s the proper option to deliver extra enjoyable, flexibility, and mindfulness into your intimate life.”
Plus, she provides, “stress and rigidity are the enemies of good sex. By utilizing yoga to launch each, you’re actually coaching your physique to calm down. This not solely makes you’re feeling extra current and related, however may considerably amplify your capability for pleasure.”
Being conscious of that, take what you’ve discovered on the mat and apply it to the mattress.
Reclining Sure Angle Pose

The way you do it: Lie in your again, and encompass your self with pillows, then open your legs in a butterfly place, knees resting on the pillows. Widen your ft so he can assume missionary place.
Why it’s superior: “Earlier than [your partner] even touches you, you may simply lie there and do your respiratory and join up with your self,” Taylor says. “You’re very relaxed, you’re respiratory, there’s plenty of eye contact. [They’re] capable of attain your G spot, and this is usually a very long-lasting, pleasurable place that may go on for fairly some time.”
Joyful Child Pose

The way you do it: Have the accomplice being penetrated lie again, legs above their head, bending them on the knees, primarily throwing your legs over your head (or near it), knees near your ears. Have him enter you missionary-style. Encourage him to rock forwards and backwards slightly than jackhammer you.
Why it’s superior: It is a deeper, extra vigorous expertise if that’s the intercourse you’re craving, and it places your penetrating accomplice in management. Taylor says this place offers the penetrating accomplice “deep entry to your G spot and clitoris, and I believe the rocking movement is very nice.”
Cow Pose

The way you do it: Get on all fours and arch your again. Have your accomplice enter you from behind and range the pace of their thrusting.
Why it’s superior: “You’re actually going into deep animal area,” Taylor says. “By enjoying along with your clitoris — not the entire time, however I’d say by bringing that in — you turn into multi-orgasmic.” And it offers each companions room to manage the sensations they’re experiencing and make be aware of what feels good to every of you: “It gained’t simply be like pounding, but it surely offers you each the chance to savor this motion of the symphony: sluggish sections and the quick, the gentle and the candy and the extreme.”
Tree Pose

The way you do it: Stand in opposition to a wall or in the shower (don’t slip!). Then elevate one foot, bending your knee and rotating your hip outward, then inserting your foot on the other interior thigh. Elevate your fingers straight above your head, about shoulder width aside. (Grasp the wall or a bookshelf if it is advisable.) Have him kneel at your ft and go down on you.
Why it’s superior: “Permitting your accomplice to please you whilst you stand balancing is a good way to remain current and out of your head,” says Switzer. “Whenever you give your physique novel stimulus (on this case, balancing on one leg) whereas including in horny sensations (the view of your accomplice on their knees in addition to the feeling of oral), you create a win-win for pleasure and epic orgasms.”
A Publish-Coital Corpse Pose

The way you do it: We’re joking round a bit, however after you’ve executed the deed, you need to use the afterglow time to lie again, shut your eyes, and — identical to the pose’s title says — play “useless” and actually join your thoughts along with your physique. Take the post-coital glow time to let your accomplice know you admire them and obtain a few of that appreciative goodness again. Bask it the put up ‘gasm goodness, y’all have earned it!
Why it’s superior: “Corpse pose after intercourse is a good way to permit the nervous system to re-regulate in addition to offers you a chance to bask within the sensations of the expertise,” Switzer explains. “Too usually we end intercourse and instantly stand up to do one thing else; brush our tooth, hop within the bathe, verify our cellphone, or one thing else. By giving your self a number of moments of stillness, you anchor the reminiscence and savor the lingering sensations of your expertise.”
Pet (or coronary heart melting) pose
The way you do it: From desk pose (or in your fingers and knees), stroll your fingers ahead and soften your chest down. Your hips keep stacked over your knees as your accomplice enters from behind.
Why it’s superior: “Primarily it’s doggy fashion, so this pose lets you expertise deep penetration, offers a really horny view to the accomplice behind, and permits for a deep shoulder stretch for the accomplice within the pose,” Switzer says.
Bridge Pose
The way you do it: Lie in your again, bend your knees with ft flat on the mat (hip-width aside), arms by your sides. Press into your heels, carry your hips up. Your accomplice units themselves up between thighs to penetrate.
Why it’s superior: Moreover providing an incredible view to each companions, Switzer says this pose permits for sensations at new angles. “It’s additionally nice for each companions to manage and modify the depth, angle, and pace of penetration,” she shares.
Pictures illustrated by Amy Berlak
A model of this story was revealed February 2014.
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