5 Ways Yoga Can Improve Your Sex Life

It’s no secret that yoga has a wide variety of positive effects on the body and mind. Some notable health benefits include increased strength and flexibility, improved mobility, lower stress, better sleep, and so much more. Not only can yoga improve your mental and physical health, turns out it can also spice things up in the bedroom as well.

“…yoga helps you to connect more deeply with your body and feel more appreciative of what your body can do.”

Here are 5 ways yoga can improve your sex life:

1. More Confidence and Body Positivity

When you’re feeling insecure about your body, it can be hard to be carefree and present with a lover. Yoga, and especially Naked Yoga, is an excellent way to develop a healthier and more positive relationship with your body. You don’t even have to lose weight or change the shape of your body to feel more body positive, though many yogis do report feeling better about themselves when they feel stronger. Appearances aside, yoga helps you to connect more deeply with your body and feel more appreciative of what your body can do. As you get stronger in your yoga practice, you not only tone your muscles but you also feel more confident because of the progress you’ve accomplished. This increased confidence and body acceptance can help us to get out of our heads and release insecurities when we’re intimate with a partner.

2. Heightened Body Awareness

Yoga trains you to be more present in your body and less in your head. By learning to connect each intentional breath to each intentional movement, you are nurturing not only mindfulness but body awareness. By quieting the constant chatter of your thoughts, you can become more attuned to sensations being experienced in your body, which can heighten pleasure and lead to more satisfying sex overall.

3. Improved Libido and Sexual Function

More confidence and heightened pleasure can certainly increase libido on their own, but many yoga poses also help boost libido by increasing blood flow to the genital area. For people with vaginas this can improve arousal and lubrication, and people with penises can achieve stronger erections.

4. Better Performance

Not only does yoga improve your own sex life, it can improve your partner’s as well! As we know, yoga improves your physical strength, which can increase your stamina and enable you to perform more exciting and challenging positions for longer periods. For people with penises, better endurance and a stronger pelvic floor from yoga training can also help with ejaculatory control. Prolonged sessions are definitely more enjoyable for both parties.

5. Stronger Orgasms

Yoga training strengthens the pelvic floor muscles and creates openness in the hips and groin, both of which help to intensify pleasure and orgasm. Your pelvic floor muscles contract during orgasm, so strengthening them enhances the intensity of those contractions. Greater flexibility in your pelvis also increases blood flow more freely to the pelvis during sex, which can boost arousal and pleasure leading up to orgasm. 

So, why not make yourself and your partner happier by trying it out for yourself? Check out our Yoga for Libido & Better Sex featuring CC for a great place to start.