Yoga helps create balance in your life on all levels.īy teaching us to embrace every moment of life, to live one breath at a time, yoga helps us better connect with ourselves and our partner spiritually, physically, and sexually. Your yoga practice can help you prepare for and become excited about your sexual practice. It can be soft and sensual, playful and exciting, or deeply spiritual and connecting. Sex is one of life’s most delightful pleasures. How, you ask? By increasing circulation to the pelvic region, activating and engaging the body’s core region, sharpening our focus, and increasing oxygen levels in the body. Maia Szalavitz is a health writer at 2009 study in The Journal of Sexual Medicine showed that yoga can improve sexual desire, arousal, orgasm, and overall sexual satisfaction. MORE: The Caligula Effect: Why Powerful Men Compulsively Cheat And when considering connections between behaviors like sexual impropriety and yoga - or associations between drugs and certain side effects or other reported outcomes - it’s important to remember that correlation isn’t necessarily cause.
While yoga might improve your libido, fortunately it’s not likely to make you uncontrollably driven to cheat. As that noted sexpot Henry Kissinger once said: “Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.”Ĭonsequently, the fact that yoga gurus from Woodstock’s Swami Satchidananda onward are frequently caught with their pants down probably says less about the practice than it does about men, women and power.
Indeed, evolutionary psychologists would argue that men seek status and leadership itself primarily because it gives them access to more women. It doesn’t take a yoga pose to arouse sexual appetites. It’s not only powerful figures in yoga who have a tendency to stray.įrom John Kennedy and Newt Gingrich to Jimmy Swaggart and Warren Jeffs, top dogs - none of them yoga gurus - have long been known to take advantage of their position. However, while it’s possible that there’s something about yoga that is inherently sexy - perhaps it’s the scantily clad people exercising in close quarters? - Broad neglects to explore a critical issue. Broad also claims that yoga can increase a woman’s ability to “think off” - or experience orgasm without any physical stimulation. Two studies examine the effects of fast breathing, rather than yoga itself, finding that this does enhance genital arousal in women. The quality of the data is questionable: the studies he references are either old, uncontrolled or published in obscure journals. MORE: Yoga and Stretching Can Help Relieve Bad Backsīroad goes on to cite research that supports the idea that yoga can improve sex life. The practice sometimes involved group sex and the worship of prostitutes. Disciples of Tantra strove to unite the cosmic male and female principles in a state of ecstasy. He explains that Hatha yoga, the style of yoga now practiced widely in the West, originated in an Indian practice called Tantra. Yoga teachers and how-to books seldom mention that the discipline began as a sex cult - an omission that leaves many practitioners open to libidinal surprise.Īccording to Broad, it’s because of yoga’s ability to enhance sex that so many respected gurus have fallen. Why does yoga produce so many philanderers? And why do the resulting uproars leave so many people shocked and distraught?
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His is hardly the first time that yoga’s enlightened facade has been cracked by sexual scandal. Yoga has been racked with a lengthy history of such problems. Writer William Broad, author of a new book on the popular practice, details the latest transgression: It involves the guru John Friend, the founder of the popular Anusara style of yoga, who recently resigned from teaching to pursue “self-reflection, therapy and personal retreat,” following revelations that he had sexually betrayed multiple girlfriends and lied to many.īut Friend isn’t the first yogi to have failed to master his desire for his female disciples, Broad notes. Follow article about sex scandals in yoga is heating up the New York Times most-emailed list.
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