Better Sex Through Yoga (russian)
Bring the ancient technique of yoga off the mat and into the bedroom for exciting results!
Without a question, yoga is seductive. Yoga might leave you feeling a bit turned on with its tiny yoga clothing, beautiful motions, deep breathing, and stances like Downward Dog. Now, with the Better Sex Through Yoga program, you can bring that yoga-sexiness directly into the bedroom—and raise your sex drive to previously inconceivable heights.
Better Sex Through Yoga is a blend of classic yoga postures, Pilates, and dance, as well as twenty mind-blowing sex positions. It is sure to tone up your body and turn up the heat on your lovemaking. The program addresses the PC muscles, a little-known muscle group that prolongs and amplifies sexual pleasure, as well as the muscles of your sexual core to strengthen your pelvis, hips, and abdomen. Each of the exercises will improve your stamina, suppleness, and desire, allowing you to have deeper, longer, and more frequent orgasms. You might try:
The Wedding… rekindles the flame and puts you in the greatest sexual form of your life
Hot Date Preparation… Once you go out the door, you feel lively, comfortable, and shining
Bootie for bed… This quickie routine fires you up before hitting the sheets. It’s fast, loose, and scorching.
Flexy Makes Sexy… opens the door to tremendous new opportunities and increased sexual satisfaction
There are also seven additional hot yoga sequences.
Your sex life will soon be hot, and you will feel more confident in the bedroom and beyond. Working out has never been this good—or fulfilling!
While most yoga publications promising a revitalized sex life stress the Tantric method, Greaux and Langheld feel that daily usage of standard positions can also provide mind-blowing bedroom effects. The writers stress on the power of weight reduction and greater muscular tone to inspire self-confidence and increase attractability, essentially a fill-in-the-blank technique (regular exercise translates to a more supple body translates to better sexual performance). To that end, Yoga instructor Greaux and television producer Langheld pack their book with poses ranging from the familiar (Sun Salutation, Upward Dog, Bridge) to the exotic (the Tabletop), as well as common exercises repurposed with names like “Sex Kitten” (leg lifts) and “Yogacycles” (modified situps), all of which are designed to strengthen and tone all muscle groups. Clear instructions and images help beginners avoid injury, and each position or practice includes a description of its bedroom value. Though postures are clearly the focus, the writers also include a few routines and shortened positions (for office-bound yoga enthusiasts). This book won’t provide much to seasoned practitioners, but those new to yoga will find it useful and instructional, despite the dubious claims of sexual fulfillment.
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Review
“Asana & Spice: Better Sex Through Yoga walks readers through lovemaking poses that resemble asanas. Useful? Perhaps. Entertaining? Definitely.” —Yoga Journal Author Bio
GREAUX, JACQUIE NOELLE A San Francisco-based yoga instructor and massage therapist, she collaborated on the successful DVD series Better Sex Through Yoga with MTV and VH1 producer JENNIFER LANGHELD and photographer GARVEY RICH.
Reprinted with permission from the author. Every right is retained.
1ST, A SLIGHT FOREPLAY
As we all know, sex is more than simply having sex. It’s about the entire experience, which starts with an exhilarating warm-up termed foreplay. You begin to create excitement with foreplay as blood begins to surge throughout your body and tingle every nook and cranny of your sexual existence. As you begin to kiss, touch, and softly explore your partner’s sensory places, your pleasure zones begin to fire up. Finally, foreplay serves to establish the tone for the upcoming lovemaking.
Why do Yoga?
We’d like to set the tone for Better Sex Through Yoga by discussing how our program came to be. As you may have guessed, the foundation of Better Sex Through Yoga is yoga. We begin with yoga since so many of its ideas are easily and directly applicable to sex. We’ve discovered that yoga is excellent for waking up your body, mind, and spirit to help you have a healthier sex life via our years of teaching and practicing it.
Yoga has existed for thousands of years (clearly not as long as people have been having sex but well before we started teaching Better Sex Through Yoga). Yoga has grown over time into a magnificent discipline that encourages not just physical growth but also mental, emotional, and spiritual development. Although there are many distinct kinds and variations of yoga, all of them share certain basic yoga principles. We’ve selected ten of these effective yoga concepts to include in our Better Sex Through Yoga curriculum. Here’s how it’s done:
1. Kindness
Nonviolence is another term for the yoga concept of compassion. But we interpret it to mean more than simply not injuring or killing another person. For us, compassion is about your ability to love and be loved. Loving not only yourself but also everyone around you. Most importantly, you want to build your compassion—and love—on many different levels as a result of this yoga concept. Yoga practice leads to more compassion, which leads to better sex. Is it possible to have excellent sex without love and compassion? Yes, you may have a quickie or a night or two of intense lovemaking, but for long-term better sex, you must first build compassion and love for others.
2. Knowledge Base
Yoga allows you to get deep awareness of your own body while also providing an excellent exercise. You’ll discover what feels good and what doesn’t, as well as how to alter a position for greater results or when to calm down and relax. This awareness of your own body and your energy of that day will make you a better yogi-yoga practitioner-and a better lover. One teacher’s catchphrase was “a fresh body every day.” Get to know your body and check in with it every day. It will be a wonderfully beautiful evening if you discover that you have greater sexual drive and looser hips.
3. Motion
Yoga is about moving your body elegantly and truly understanding how movement affects every part of your life. Many of the apparently little, subtle motions you learn in yoga, like as tilting your pelvis and breathing into specific body areas, can be quite beneficial—and pleasurable—for lovemaking.
4. Grace under Pressure
The breath and linking your breath to movement is one of the main principles of yoga. As you practice the different Better Sex Through Yoga poses, you’ll learn how to breathe freely and deeply while your body is under physical stress. Most of the time, sex is a great release of tension–sexual, physical, and emotional–but sometimes sex itself can be stressful. Are you trying too hard to achieve orgasm? When stresses and pressures arise in the bedroom, let your breath release those tensions to help you focus on the pleasure of sex itself.
5. Flex it Up
If you’ve ever stopped working out, the first thing you probably noticed is that your body stiffened and tightened up. The natural process of aging also does this to your body. You might have even felt pain in opening your legs or bending backward when your lover is going down on you. The physical movements of yoga help to free your body and become more flexible where it really counts: in the bedroom.
6. Strength
Practicing yoga brings strength to your entire body. When you’re weak and tired, your body feels heavy and sluggish. It’s like dragging around a heavy weight that you can’t get rid of. As you build strength through yoga, your body will start to feel as if it’s lifting off the ground. That sensation of lightness will transform all of your everyday experiences–most important, sex. Not only will you be able to last longer, but you might be able to literally sweep your partner off his feet. Being physically strong will allow you to move yourself and your lover around with ease and will take your lovemaking to a whole new level.
7. Awareness
Awareness is about being present in what you’re doing now; it means focusing on the moment and not letting your mind wander off, which can happen during both sex and exercise. With Better Sex Through Yoga, we stress that you stay present and focus on the yoga pose at hand. The same holds true for the bedroom; stay in the moment.
8. Inner True Happiness
Okay, we’re not saying that great sex can’t make you happy. But just as yoga teaches that true happiness comes from within, eventually you’ll want to move beyond the immediate gratification of a terrific orgasm. Once you’ve mastered the techniques of Better Sex Through Yoga, you’ll find that great sex is just the beginning of a more fulfilling life.
9. Fake It Till You Make It
If you’ve ever felt overwhelmed, awkward, or simply unmotivated by the thought of exercising or making love, just do it. More often than not, once you begin, your body’s natural desire and motivation will kick into high gear. Likewise, if a position–either on the mat or between the sheets–seems too daunting, just give a try. You’ll end up loving it. Remember, instant perfection isn’t the goal here; feeling good and increasing your sexual satisfaction is.
10. Burning Enthusiasm
This yoga principle is all about the disciplined use of energy, which literally translates as fire and heat. We want you to bring a renewed sense of passion and conviction to having sex, not just to go through the motions and lie there like a log as your partner gets off. Ignite your fire and bring passion to your sex life! Better Sex Through Yoga poses will add that spark–your job is just to keep the flame alive.
Why Sex Through Yoga Is Better
Now you know how the basic yoga principles are a good starting point for you to improve your sex life. But we wanted to take yoga poses a step further to really help you focus on having better sex. To that end, we’ve combined the poses in this book with some other types of exercise and movement programs. We’ve carefully considered the benefits that many different types of mind/body techniques, practices, and postures have on your body–and your sex life–and have come up with this new equation for better sex:
Yoga + Pilates + Chakra Balancing + Dance = Your Ticket to a New Sex Life!
Yoga
Yoga is the foundation of the Better Sex Through Yoga practice, offering strength, stamina, flow, proper breathing, and sexual core control.
Pilates
With an emphasis on your core abdominal muscles (abs), Better Sex Through Yoga expands on Pilates techniques with a deeper waking up, strengthening, and relaxing of your sexual core. Pilates is a system of original exercises developed by Joseph Pilates for strengthening your core in a safe way. Some of the exercises are done on the floor (mat work) while others are done on special Pilates exercise equipment. An intelligent style of movement, Pilates is now used preventively by dancers, athletes, and others to help stave off injuries. Dancers are perhaps more aware than most people that a strong core is critical for grace, strength, and stamina–all important for great sex too.
Chakra Balancing
Like acupressure points, chakras are energy centers located throughout your body that transmit and receive energy called chi (more about this in Chapter 3). When you are sick or perhaps just don’t feel like having sex, your chakras might be out of balance–meaning that energy–including sexual energy–can’t flow properly. Yoga helps to realign the chakras and stimulate energy flow throughout your entire body for optimum pleasure.
Dance
Better Sex Through Yoga routines are influenced by the style and fluidity that dance pioneers are known for. We’ve mixed a bit of ballet and hip-hop into our routines to keep them playful, sexy, and graceful. Extension and precision of movement, done while looking perfectly at ease, are essential for the dancer . . . and the yogi alike.
Better Sex Through Yoga is unique in that we embrace the sexual benefits of yoga. Most yoga practices offer mind and body balance; Better Sex Through Yoga, however, focuses on mind and body pleasure. We combine the concept of better sex and yoga through simple and nontraditional instruction with actual how-to sex positions that you can practice while in bed, in the tub, or in the car.
And we use actual yoga positions! Better Sex Through Yoga offers you actual sex positions that mimic yoga positions found in our routine. Our Bump Bump Bump move (page 86), for example, sends gentle shock waves through your pelvis while giving you killer inner thighs. How does that sound? Once you’ve mastered this move on the mat, we encourage you to try it in the bedroom. So why try Better Sex Through Yoga? Yes, you want a better sex life, but we can give you twelve other reasons to keep coming back. Here are some of the other great benefits you can expect after practicing Better Sex Through Yoga:
1. A “yoga hottie body” with a sexy yoga butt, firm abs, yummy tummy, toned thighs, posture like a dancer, and a traffic-stopping, totally erotic glow
2. More energy, less stress, and an overall “natural high”
3. The ability to discover the power of your sexual core
4. Enhanced range of motion in your hips and waist
5. Improved coordination and balance for any yoga or sex position
6. Better circulation, especially in the genital area
7. Deeper, longer, better breathing patterns that offer fresh oxygen to the sexual region and heighten sensitivity
8. A rush of endorphins (the feel-good chemicals released throughout the body) after any yoga–or lovemaking–session
9. Greater flexibility and stamina, which leads to more staying power in the bedroom
10. Greater control of your sexual organs in relation to the rest of your body
11. Deeper, more powerful and intense orgasms
12. A sexier, more confident you in the bedroom–and beyond.
Enough foreplay. You see why we’re so excited for you to get started. Next we’ll test your sexual fitness and see how you measure up.
Paperback: 288 pages
Publisher: Harmony (August 14, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9780767920582
ISBN-13: 978-0767920582
ASIN: 0767920589
Product Dimensions: 7.4 x 0.6 x 9.1 inches
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