Yoga for Hotter Sex

By Nora Isaacs

Find out what the “O” in “Om” stands for...

Charge Up the Booty Batteries
A killer day at work can leave you too beat to boogie. But a few minutes of nonstrenuous yoga when you get home can mean one less night with Netflix and one more erotic evening entwined with your sweetie.

Sex Rx: Legs Up The Wall Pose. Change into some yoga-friendly clothes and take 5 minutes for this pose. Lie on your back with one hip touching a wall, then swing your legs up and turn your body so you face the wall, legs resting against it from heels to butt, arms at your sides. Bring your awareness to your breath and just follow it (without changing it), in and out, for 5 minutes. This position allows more oxygen-rich blood to flow from your lower body back up to the heart and the brain, so you’ll get up reenergized, refocused, and ready to rumble. 

Breath of Desire
While most poses simply help prepare you for a libidinous rendezvous, this breathing exercise can actually heighten your pleasure while in flagrante.

Sex Rx: Breath of Fire. While you’re getting busy, take rapid, forceful, and rhythmic breaths through the nose with the mouth closed. Don’t worry if your partner thinks you’re hyperventilating; he’ll forget all about it when you reach a spine-tingling climax.


Double Your Pleasure
If your man does yoga too, sex can improve exponentially. Practicing together is “like foreplay,’’ says Jacquie Noelle Greaux, creator of the Better Sex Through Yoga video. “You start to breathe together, sweat together, and move together. It gets your energy synced up.” Some mat work just might make him more sex-imaginative as well. “Yoga sparks creativity,” Fowler says. In bed, “Women don’t want bang-boom from a man, they want an explorer—and yoga invites you to explore.”

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