- Cat Pose (Marjaryasana) and Cow Pose (Bitilasana)
Often performed together, these poses help you loosen up the spine and relax. This helps lower your overall stress levels and makes it easier to get into the mood.
- Start this pose on all fours. Make sure your wrists are underneath your shoulders and your knees are in line with your hips. Keep your spine neutral and your weight balanced evenly across your body.
- Inhale as you look up and let your stomach curve toward the floor. Lift your eyes, chin, and chest up as you stretch.
- Exhale, tucking your chin into your chest, and draw your navel toward your spine. Round your spine toward the ceiling.
- Move slowly between the two for 1 minute.
2. Bound Angle Pose
Benefits: Bound Angle is great for low libido, stretching the inner thighs and opening the hips for a wider range of motion. In this pose, people often shed layers of anxiety and tend to feel a natural openness and sense of intimacy.
It improves blood flow to the pelvic area immediately, and where the blood goes, so does the energy and vitality. Circulation and increased blood flow are directly linked to level of arousal.
3. Plow Pose
How: Lie on back with knees bent and pulled in near chest. Straighten legs so they’re perpendicular to the bed. Brace lower back with hands and bend at the hips to lower legs overhead, feet together. Partner can kneel behind or stand if you’re near the edge of the bed.
Why: “It allows for deep penetration,” Herbenick says. (So it might not be your best choice if you find cervical contact uncomfortable or have an unusually well-endowed partner—but it’s a great choice if you want to have a cervical orgasm.)
4. Bridge Pose (Setu Bandha Sarvangasana)
This pose helps strengthen your pelvic floor. Strengthening these muscles helps reduce pain during sex and can even make the good stuff, well, better.
- Lie on your back.
- Bend both knees and position your feet hip-width apart with your knees in line with your ankles.
- Put your arms flat on the floor with your palms against the ground and spread your fingers.
- Lift your pelvic region off the ground, allowing your torso to follow, but keep your shoulders and head on the floor.
- Hold the pose for 5 seconds.
- Release.
5. Pigeon Pose
Benefits: Pigeon is excellent for releasing deep tension in the hips, putting the mind in total chill mode. By bringing your attention to your breath, you move away from your thoughts and into the present moment. This enhances your ability to create a sense of sexual intimacy with your partner.
6. Standing Straddle Forward Bend
How: Stand with feet 3 to 4 feet apart, depending on flexibility. Lower upper body forward to bring chest near legs as partner stands behind.
Why: “This pose is a variation on rear entry that allows your partner to reach your front vaginal wall,” Herbenick says. (You know what’s near your front vaginal wall? Your g-spot. Enjoy.)
7. Happy Baby (Ananda Balasana)
A popular relaxation pose, this pose stretches your glutes and lower back. Plus, it doubles as a variation of missionary position. To try it in bed, start in missionary position with your partner on top, and then extend your legs and wrap them around your partner’s torso.
8. Eagle Pose
Benefits: Eagle is so sexy, it;s even in the Kama Sutra. When you release the legs, all of the blood comes flooding through the cervix, preparing the whole area for some sweet, sweet, loving!
Holding the pose itself requires poise and steadiness, which is beneficial if you’re stressed. Your mind has to focus, helping you to slow life down a little, allowing you to stay present and enjoy the breathtaking moments to follow!
9. Downward Dog
How: Start on all fours with hands a few inches in front of shoulders and knees under hips. Press palms into bed, curl under toes, and press hips toward ceiling (body should form an upside-down “V”) as your partner stands behind.
Why: Similar to the forward bend, downward dog allows for stimulation of the sensitive front vaginal wall. The variation on the popular doggy-style position also engages your core.
10. Wide-Legged Straddle
- Sit upright, spreading legs wide apart.
- Press back of legs into floor, pointing knees and toes toward sky.
- Inhale, lengthen torso. Exhale, lean forward from hips, reaching to take hold of big toes.
- Hold for 10 breaths. With every inhale, lengthen torso; with every exhale, extend chest farther forward as you lower down.
Benefits: Like Bound Angle, this move is good for low libido, improving blood flow to the pelvic area and increasing energy and vitality.
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