The 7 Best Sex Positions Inspired By Yoga, According To Experts

For those who’re somebody who loves actually feeling in contact together with your physique, it’s no shock if you happen to’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 together with your accomplice.

“Intercourse is a type of yoga,” says Patricia Taylor, Ph.D., creator of Expanded Orgasm tells SheKnows. “In yoga, you need to combine the thoughts, the center, the physique and the spirit, and also you need 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 might be relaxed, you may breathe, you may have eye contact together with your accomplice, and you’ll have an emotional connection.”

In keeping with Jenna Switzer, a intercourse coach and yoga teacher, “Yoga and intercourse are a match made in heaven. The stretches really feel unbelievable and will help you create some severely attractive 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. Through the use of yoga to launch each, you’re actually coaching your physique to loosen up. This not solely makes you’re feeling extra current and related, however can even considerably amplify your capability for pleasure.”

Being aware 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 toes 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 respiration and join up with your self,” Taylor says. “You’re very relaxed, you’re respiration, there’s lots of eye contact. [They’re] capable of attain your G spot, and this could be a very long-lasting, pleasurable place that may go on for fairly some time.”

Blissful Child Pose

The way you do it: Have the accomplice being penetrated lie again, legs above their head, bending them on the knees, basically 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 fairly 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 provides the penetrating accomplice “deep entry to your G spot and clitoris, and I feel 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 velocity of their thrusting.

Why it’s superior: “You’re actually going into deep animal area,” Taylor says. “By taking part in together with your clitoris — not the entire time, however I’d say by bringing that in — you turn out to be multi-orgasmic.” And it provides each companions room to regulate 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 provides you each the chance to savor this motion of the symphony: sluggish sections and the quick, the tender and the candy and the extraordinary.”

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 internal thigh. Elevate your arms straight above your head, about shoulder width aside. (Grasp the wall or a bookshelf if you must.) Have him kneel at your toes and go down on you.

Why it’s superior: “Permitting your accomplice to please you when you stand balancing is an effective way to remain current and out of your head,” says Switzer. “If you give your physique novel stimulus (on this case, balancing on one leg) whereas including in attractive 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 achieved the deed, you should use the afterglow time to lie again, shut your eyes, and — similar to the pose’s identify says — play “useless” and actually join your thoughts together 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 publish ‘gasm goodness, y’all have earned it!

Why it’s superior: “Corpse pose after intercourse is an effective way to permit the nervous system to re-regulate in addition to provides you a chance to bask within the sensations of the expertise,” Switzer explains. “Too typically we end intercourse and instantly stand up to do one thing else; brush our enamel, hop within the bathe, verify our telephone, or one thing else. By giving your self just a few 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 arms and knees), stroll your arms 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 model, so this pose permits you to expertise deep penetration, provides a really attractive 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 toes flat on the mat (hip-width aside), arms by your sides. Press into your heels, elevate your hips up. Your accomplice units themselves up between thighs to penetrate.

Why it’s superior: In addition to providing a fantastic view to each companions, Switzer says this pose permits for sensations at new angles. “It’s additionally nice for each companions to regulate and regulate the depth, angle, and velocity of penetration,” she shares.

Pictures illustrated by Amy Berlak

A model of this story was printed February 2014. 

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