Practicing yoga is beneficial for health, but also for sexual relations of both men and women, writes William J. Broad, author of The Science of Yoga: The Risks and the Rewards, which was published in the USA.
A longtime science journalist for the New York Times says that India has found yoga to increase sex drive and sexual satisfaction, as well as increase intimacy between partners.
Rutgers University (USA) researchers have shown that some yoga practitioners can mentally achieve a state of ecstasy. During this time, their blood pressure rises, their heart rate increases, and their pain sensation decreases, similar to experiencing orgasm.
The fact that yoga increases the joy of sex was already argued by BKS Iyengar in the book “Light on Yoga”, which was published in 1965. “Since then, there is more and more evidence that it increases sensitivity to touch and sexual stimuli and makes the climax is more intense, “writes Broad.
In Our Country and India, yoga has been shown to increase testosterone levels, the male sex hormone, which is also present in lesser amounts in women. Czech researchers using EEG proved that during some yoga exercises the brain shows similar activity as in people in love.
In turn, specialists from the University of British Columbia (Canada) found that during breathing exercises, blood supply to the genitals increases (increasing sensitivity to touch). They have shown that such exercises have a beneficial effect even in people with low libido.
However, William Broad points out that practicing yoga can also influence sexual behavior. When it was popularized among American “baby boomers”, more and more sexual contacts began to occur between students and their instructors. It has even gone so far that the California Yoga Teachers Association deems them immoral and called for “high ethical standards.”