Yoga for sexual wellness.
I have helped hundreds of private clients to overcome dysfunction, reduce stress, enhance stamina, and feel more pleasure. All through the practice of teaching yoga.
When I first started teaching yoga for intimacy, my main intention was to teach how certain yoga poses can help us to access more pleasure during intimacy. Over time, I noticed that there was a depth lacking in many of my clients’ lives. Physically like the connection with what one is feeling in their body. Metaphysically like the connection with how one is feeling in their spirit.
My yoga teaching practice has evolved to help my clients feel deeper... Feeling deeper relaxation. Feeling deeper pleasure. Feeling deeper connection with their self. Feeling deeper intimacy with their partner.
I find that yoga helps sexual wellness through these three main aspects:
Pelvic Floor Mindfulness
Pelvic floor mindfulness helps us pump fluids to and from the genitals. Yoga teaches us mindfulness—a practice of becoming aware of our thoughts and feelings. The pelvic floor is made up of the muscles and tissues that line the pelvis. Pelvic floor mindfulness is a practice of becoming aware and intentional with how we use the pelvic floor.
Pumping blood to the genital area is how we create sexual arousal. Remember that the penis and vagina are made of erectile tissue—we experience the sensation of arousal when they are filled with blood.
Pumping semen away from the genital area is how men can increase sexual stamina. Separating orgasm from ejaculation is how they can experience multiple orgasms and a power that is beyond this world.
Pelvic floor mindfulness also helps us pump sexual energy to and from the genitals. Pumping our sex energy from the root chakra at the genitals, to the heart chakra at the chest, is how we transmute physical energy into spiritual energy. It’s how we experience full body orgasm. It’s how we transform lust into love.
You can read more about this sex energy practice in my short guide here.
Stress Reduction
Stress reduction helps us restore our sexual nature. When we are chronically stressed, our body is chronically producing stress hormones like cortisol. This blocks our body from producing sex hormones that stimulate our libido.
Yoga activates the parasympathetic nervous system, which puts the brakes on our stress response. Our sex hormones flow, our mind is present, and we can feel the pleasure of our true self.
You can read more about how stress affects our sex hormones in my short article here.
Physical Mobility
Physical mobility helps us expand our pleasure terrain.
Remember that yoga is all about opening up. Making more space for the breath to circulate, and breath is life. Yoga also makes more space for sex energy to circulate, and sex energy is pleasure. When our body is open, we can feel more deeply.
The physical practices that open us up, allow us try new pleasure positions. New ways of stimulating erogenous zones. New ways of feeling orgasmic sensations. New ways of connecting with our partner. New ways of connecting with our self.
You can read more about how physical mobility can expand our pleasure in my short article here.
The paradox of yoga is that the more we practice a pose, the more we become aware of how to improve the pose. The more we become aware of how to go deeper into the pose…
And it’s the same with our sexual pleasure. The more we practice, the more we become aware of how to go deeper. We can always go deeper.