Enhancing Sexual Performance Through Yoga: Insights and Advantages
Yo, here's the lowdown on the jaw-dropping claim that yoga can boost your sexual prowess. Shocker, huh?
This ancient practice is blowing up the wellness scene, with blogs and personal tales raving about its effects on bedroom antics, often to a jaw-dropping degree. But, is there any science to back up these claims? Let's dive in.
Recent studies have shown that yoga's benefits aren't just limited to alleviating issues like stress, depression, and anxiety. It also helps manage metabolic syndrome, diabetes, and thyroid problems. But how does it improve our carnal knowledge? Let's delve in.
Yoga sending the bedroom into overdrive for ladies
One study in The Journal of Sexual Medicine looked at the impact of 12 weeks of yoga on 40 women over the age of 45. They found that after the sessions, the women's sexual function had significantly improved in all categories, from desire to satisfaction. Around 75% of the women reported enhancing their sex life after yoga training. The women practiced a mix of 22 poses believed to improve core strength, digestion, pelvic floor strength, and mood.
Yoga doesn't just work for the ladies
But guys can benefit, too. Research led by Dr. Vikas Dhikav, a neurologist at the Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital in New Delhi, India, examined the effects of a 12-week yoga program on male sexual satisfaction. At the end of the study, the men reported a significant improvement in their sexual function. The researchers found improvements in all aspects of male sexual satisfaction, including desire, satisfaction, performance, confidence, and orgasm.
Why does yoga get you in the mood?
Researchers from the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University of British Columbia (UBC) dug into how yoga increases sexual health. The study found that yoga regulates attention and breathing, lowers anxiety and stress, and activates the part of the nervous system that triggers relaxation. This is believed to be linked to improved sexual function.
Yoga also impacts our psychology. Female practitioners of yoga are less likely to objectify their bodies, which may increase sexual responsibility, assertiveness, and desire. Some studies even suggest that practicing moola bandha, a perineal contraction, can relieve period pain, childbirth pain, and sexual difficulties in women, as well as treating premature ejaculation and controlling testosterone secretion in men.
Now, before you go booking that weekend retreat, it's worth noting that the evidence is a mix of experimental and anecdotal, and more research is needed to confirm these findings. But hey, it can't hurt to give it a shot, right? Your pelvic muscles and partner might just thank you for it.
- It was found in a study published in The Journal of Sexual Medicine that 12 weeks of yoga improved sexual function in all categories for 40 women over the age of 45, with 75% of them reporting an enhanced sex life.
- Research led by Dr. Vikas Dhikav showed that a 12-week yoga program significantly improved male sexual satisfaction, with improvements seen in desire, satisfaction, performance, confidence, and orgasm.
- Researchers from the University of British Columbia discovered that yoga regulates attention and breathing, lowers anxiety and stress, and activates the part of the nervous system that triggers relaxation, which is believed to be linked to improved sexual function.
- Practicing yoga can also impact our psychology, as female practitioners are less likely to objectify their bodies, which may increase sexual responsibility, assertiveness, and desire, while some studies suggest it can relieve period pain, childbirth pain, and sexual difficulties in women, as well as treating premature ejaculation and controlling testosterone secretion in men.
