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If you've ever struck a pose during a yoga class and thought, "Wow, I could have sex like this," you're not alone. All those ass-in-the-air, lady-parts-on-display postures can make you feel like you’re practicing the Kama Sutra rather than yoga.
That got us thinking...could some of those classic yoga poses actually work as sex positions? It's possible! Read on to see the postures that could double as sex moves. They might put you in touch with your body in more ways than one. Namaste.
Sounds adorable, right? Well, this seemingly innocent pose could make a G-spot-stimulating stretch that we would do over and over again. You game?
Anyone else think it's weird that the sexiest poses are named after innocent and adorable things? That being said, going spread eagle on our backs and grabbing our feet while getting down definitely makes us happy, baby.
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If you've ever conquered a tough yoga pose and immediately thought, "I did it! Nos, how can I work this impressive pose into my sex life ?" you're totally normal, and we like the way you think. Also, you get bonus points if your guy’s thrusting doesn’t interfere with your balance.
Also known as the bend-over-and-take-it-at-the-wall posture. This is definitely a pose worth trying in the shower .
You might start out doing this pose to clear the clutter in your head and restore a sense of calm to achieve a mind and body balance, but when the stretch is over, your main objective to get your leg over his shoulder mid-sex . #goals
Can you really push back into down dog without immediately feeling like you’re about to take it from behind ? Yeah, didn't think so.
If you have the flexibility to bend over, put nose to knee, and lift your other leg at a 180-degree angle, we salute you. If we had that skill, we’d definitely use it to have the craziest sex ever. Until then, it's a big motivator to sign up for class.
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You read it right; try them to experience even more pleasure during sex
If you think the Kama Sutra is a book about how to have titillating sex, think again.
According to Derek Beres, a New York City yoga teacher, it’s chauvinistic (player leaves his wife at home after 100 years of meditation and has his way with nymph du jour). “It’s not meant to be written about, but to be experienced,” Beres says.
“While having sex, the male should not ejaculate immediately,” Beres says. When you feel the urge, you should draw the semen in and up as opposed to allowing it to exit: You draw your “energy”—your “life force”—back to you.
The result: whole-body orgasm rather than the toe tingling or collision of your body into hers in a mad I’m almost there get off fest. Ironically, your best climax results when “the goal is exploring the other person, not achieving the end,” Beres says.
In yoga there are poses that teach men to draw your energy inward as opposed to spending it in explosive ways such as at the end of a wind sprint or when trying to jump like Lebron James. The practical application here is gaining control so that your mind is razor-sharp. This type of self-control can result in improved job performance and a sudden meteoric rise.
If you want to do some more research on yoga and sex, be warned: Beres says some texts advise one ejaculation per every 100 sexual encounter. “But that’s a little extreme (and bad for the prostrate),” he says. It will result in an increased desire for her, but we’ll leave that up to you. Here are 5 Kama Sutra Positions You Should Try today!
1. Stand in Mountain pose: Arms at sides, sternum lifted. Bend your knees deeply. Squeeze your inner thighs together and straighten your arms, lifting them above your head and stretching your fingertips toward the sky.
2. Accentuate the lift in your arms and chest so your upper spine is in a slight backbend. Tuck your pelvis. Shoot for 10 breaths. Feel that butt-burn?
Hint: Lift your toes up off the floor, squat deeper, and press your heels into the floor to get greater benefits from the pose.
1. Kneeling, with your body erect, check your alignment, making sure your knees are directly beneath your hips and curling your toes under (deviate from photo to begin). Stack your hips on top of your knees, your shoulders atop your hips, and your ears atop your shoulders.
2. Place the palms of your hands on the small of your back, fingertips facing up. If that is uncomfortable, your fingertips can face the floor.
3. As you inhale, inflate your chest and feel your breastbone ride, floating your ribcage up and off your waist.
4. Then continue to lift your upper back up and over an imaginary ball behind you until you begin to reach one hand and then the other toward your heels. You should arrive in your deepest arch only in your upper back when both hands rest comfortably on your heels or props.
5. Take five full, complete breaths, letting your head drop back; if that strains your neck, tuck your chin and relax your face muscles. Keep your pelvis and thighs moving forward so your legs are lengthening.
6. To come back up, bring both hands to your low back, and on one inhale use your core to lift your body until it is erect. Move into child’s pose for five breaths to counteract this backbend.
Hint: If you cannot reach to your heels, put tall blocks or firm pillows next to your ankles, or curl your toes under in order to keep the weight forward so that the backbend stays in your upper chest.
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A few thousand years ago, when Indian writer Vatsyayana was putting pen to paper and writing the text that would be known as the Kama Sutra , he couldn’t have foreseen the impact that his work would have on the world. In the modern era, the words “Kama Sutra” are a synonym for sex. A number of outlets have used “Kama Sutra” to signify “crazy ways to do it,” from the (very earnest) Cosmo Kama Sutra to the (highly unauthorized) parody Star Wars Kama Sutra ; go to kamasutra.com and you’ll find a company specializing in “luxury romance and intimacy products,” like edible body paints and dusts.
If it seems strange that a 2,000-year-old text continues to carry such impact on our erotic imaginations, it gets even stranger when you realize that most of the Kama Sutra isn’t actually about sex. Unlike the many hot-and-heavy sex manuals that bear its name, the original KamaSutra is philosophical text offering musings on how to have a rewarding life and fruitful relationships; to the extent that it’s a sex manual, it’s mostly because it doesn’t shy away from the notion that sex (and interesting sex positions) is a healthy and normal part of life. (Of course, given that this is a 2,000-year-old text, it’s very heteronormative — while queer sex and non-normative gender identities do make appearances in the text, the general assumption is that the reader’s primary sexual relationship will be a heterosexual one.)
But somewhere down the line (and probably due to more than a little orientalism), the non-sex parts of the Kama Sutra got forgotten, and the sex parts got expanded upon — and, in some cases, totally reinvented (shocking as it may seem, Vatsyayana did not write about sex acts involving detachable shower heads ).
So what’s actually in the original Kama Sutra ? A wide variety of stuff — including, yes, lots of sex positions. Let’s take a look at the sex positions endorsed by the ancient tome.
We'll be updating this post with more KamaSutra sex positions, so once you've mastered these, check back for more.
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Blossoming (utphallaka) “The blossoming is realized by lowering the woman’s head and raising her vagina,” writes Vatsyayana of a position that’s somewhere between a Pilates bridge and missionary. What’s the point of elevating your vulva over your head (aside from getting a sweet core workout mid-sex)?
To understand that, it helps to learn a little bit more about one of the Kama Sutra’s obsessions: relative penis and vagina size. According to the text, penises and vaginas both come in three variations. A penis might be a hare, a bull, or a stallion, while a vagina might be a doe, a mare, or a cow-elephant. If a penis and vagina aren’t well matched in size, that can spell doom — though positions like “blossoming” are intended to help a smaller vagina open up to accommodate a larger member.
Queen of Heaven (Indranika) Another entrant into the catalog of positions intended to ease a vagina open and expand its capacity, the "Queen of Heaven" (which, the text notes, requires practice) involves a man wrapping his thighs around his female partner and forcefully opening the vagina with his hands. The name is apparently an ode to the wife of Indra, the King of Heaven , who is credited with inventing this position.
Envelopment (veshititaka) But the Kama Sutra isn’t just concerned with helping wee little vaginas stretch to encompass massive penises; it also takes very seriously the task of helping more roomy vaginas and smaller penises find pleasure when paired together. There are a number of ways to do this, but one of the most interesting is "envelopment," which involves the woman crossing her legs, one over the other, while being penetrated.
Another fun tidbit? Midway through its section on cow-elephant vaginas matched with hare penises, the Kama Sutra takes a minute to inform the reader that “in sleeping, the man must lie to the right of the woman: She should always be on the man’s left.” If this seems like an odd digression, the commentary explains that this is “in order not to cause difficulties if [the man] seeks [the woman] while asleep,” though how any of that makes sense I leave to you to figure out.
Expanding (vijrimbhitaka) If you’ve ever taken a pilates class and thought to yourself mid-leg lift, Gosh, wouldn’t it be great if I were getting railed right now? , then this position is definitely for you. Another strategy in the catalogue of ways to help a vagina increase its capacity in anticipation of an extra package, expanding seems like it would get exhausting pretty quick. But maybe that’s why you’re doing all those leg lifts in the first place?
Mare (vadavaka) Turns out "mare" isn’t just a term for average-sized vaginas: It’s also a complex sex position (one, the Kama Sutra commentary notes, that’s vulgar and mostly used by sex workers) wherein the vagina seizes the penis “without moving.” Confused? The commentary expands upon this description to note that, like a mare with a stallion, this position involves sliding the penis into the vagina without any kissing or embracing, apparently in cowgirl style.
The broken flute (venudaritaka) After its lengthy exploration of how to have good sex (even if you’re struggling with a supposedly mismatched penis-and-vagina set), the Kama Sutra turns to a different realm of positions — one that might align a little bit more with the popular vision of wild and crazy Kama Sutra sex. One of my favorites would have to be the "broken flute," which involves a woman lying down, putting her foot on her male partner’s shoulder, and then taking it off and putting the other foot on his other shoulder, like some sort of mid-coital Rockette.
Impalement (shulachitaka) No wait, I lied: "Impalement" is my actual favorite: “The woman places one foot on the boy’s head and, extending the other, allows herself to be penetrated.” The text notes that this position requires practice, which may be the most obvious statement ever uttered about a sex position.
More surprising? There’s a sort of proto-BDSM thing that gets outlined in the Kama Sutra , with a section on the basics of erotic hitting. Good places to lay hands on your lover? The shoulders, the head, the gap between the breasts, the back, the genital region, and the sides; blows can be exchanged with the side of the hand, the palm of the open hand, the fist, and with the ends of the fingers joined (in case you were curious).
(Though it’s worth noting that best practices for impact play have come a long way since the days of the Kama Sutra — according to the Center for Sexual Pleasure and Health , you should avoid the face, feet, hands, breasts, lower legs, and genitals when engaging in heavy impact play, and stick to places with high fat and muscle content, like the thighs and buttocks.)
Lotus (padmasana) Think of a yoga lotus position . Now imagine pulling off that bodily contortion and simultaneously inserting a penis into a vagina. Finally, a new flexibility goal to work towards!
While you’re debating whether you’re flexible enough to pull off that sex act, consider this interesting tidbit: The Kama Sutra does not endorse oral sex, unless you happen to be a “corrupt woman” (read: promiscuous lady) or a lesbian, servant, or sanvahika , which is a woman who does arduous work. Among the tome’s anti-oral prohibitions are lines noting that “one is defiled by the contact of the sex with the face” and “embracing the vulva as one embraces the mouth is not recommended” — though interestingly, these prohibitions don’t prevent the book from detailing a handful of blow-job techniques.
The spin (paravrittaka) Delving further into the territory of “Wait, what?” sex positions is "the spin," which involves perching backwards over your seated paramour, then getting spun around 180 degrees, penis still inside you. If you’re starting to think that maybe female pleasure wasn’t the primary goal of the Kama Sutra , you wouldn’t be wrong. Early in the text, commentary notes that “only lesbians have no problems” — and while this is technically referring to the idea that heterosexual women supposedly didn’t have time to study religion, economy, erotic science, and music (because they’re too busy catering to their husbands’ needs), it seems like an apt response to some of these sex positions, too.
Standing (sthitarata) Strange as "the spin" might seem, it’s actually considered a standard sex position in the Kama Sutra : The “unusual or special sexual practices” don’t start until we get to standing sex (why that’s considered weirder than putting your foot on your partner’s head has been lost to the ages).
In the basic version of this position, both partners stand while leaning against a wall or column. If you want to up the ante, however, there’s a variation where the woman lifts her legs, places her feet into the palms of her partner’s hands and holds on for dear life as he thrusts away. (Hey, there’s no aphrodisiac quite like the fear of someone dropping you mid-thrust.)
Hanging (avalambitaka) If that standing variation seems a little too risky, but you’re still in the market for a position that allows one partner to lean against a wall while the other’s butt waves in the breeze, the hanging position is here for you. It’s more or less the same as standing, but instead of relying on her partner’s capricious grip to support her entire weight, the woman rests her feet up against a nice, sturdy wall. Sure, it’s not easy, but it is easier.
The cow (dhenuka) These days, we call it doggy style, but back in the era of the Kama Sutra, it was known as “the cow.” But lest you think there’s only one animal worth imitating in the sack, the text goes on to note that “one can imitate other animals, mounting the woman like an ass, playing with her like a cat, attacking like a tiger, stamping like an elephant, pawing the ground like a pig, riding horse-fashion. Thus, one learns a thousand ways to copulate." Because there’s no end to sexual innovation as long as you have access to the Discovery Channel.
Peasant India’s long been a class conscious society, so it shouldn’t come as a shock that the Kama Sutra commentary divides sex into city and country styles. In the countrified version of sex, a woman sits on her lover’s lap and opens her thighs. Why is this the way peasants do it? I’ll let you decide.
The city/country divide isn’t the only geographic fixation found within the Kama Sutra. Throughout the text there’s a whole bunch of information about what kind of sex is popular with what kind of people in what area of the world. For instance, did you know butt sex is popular in the South (of India, I presume)? Well, now you do!
City Dweller What distinguishes a city libertine from a country one? Apparently, it’s all about eye contact. In city dweller style sex, the woman sits on her partner’s lap – face to face this time – and wraps her legs around him. How delightfully urban!
In other geographic insights, the Kama Sutra notes that in certain country villages, as well as the area presently known as Tajikistan, women who are shut up in apartments sometimes hide young men away with them. If these women are highly sensual, they might even hide multiple men at once. What those women do with said men, I’ll leave up to your imagination. (Just kidding: the Kama Sutra makes clear that it’s group sex, offering up some directions on how a group of men should position their bodies when hoping to simultaneously pleasure a single woman.)
Pitcher Nope, this isn’t like pitcher and catcher in the modern sex sense. It’s a way of doing it that — for reasons I’m still not clear on — gets presented as a third option alongside peasant and city dweller (are pitchers actually just ancient suburbanites?). The boo
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