Some tantric yoga exercises to improve the general and sexual
health
A healthy anal and genital area is of great importance both for
the general well-being and for the sexual abilities. The same is
thrue about a healthy respiratory tract and breathing apparatus.
Here are presented three poses and three breathing exercises
that have the following effects when done together in a series:
-They stimulate the physiological functions of the genital and
anal area. -They correct muscle weakness and anatomical problems
of the anal and genital region. -They increase the sexual drive
and abilities. -They produce a stimulating response that spreads
upwords along the spine and revitalizes the whole body. -They
stimulate the physiological functions of the respiratory tract
and help against infections in the airways. -The exercises are
very good to start each day with, or to do before going to bed
in the night.
POSE 1
Stand on your hands and knees upon the floor.
Kneel backword so that your buttocks go backword and down
towords your feet and stretch your arms foreword.
Breath out and then take a deep breath in, filling your lungs
totally with air. Hold your breath with the air inside.
Squeeze your anal muscles and pull your anal opening as deeply
inword as you can. However do not strain when squeezing. This
exercise shall not be exhausting.Relax your anal muscles
compleetely again.
Repeat the sqeesing and relaxing 3-5 times, but not so long that
you go out of oxygen in your body.
Empty your lungs. Rize up on your hands and knees again. Relax a
while in this position and then you can repeat the exercise if
you wish.
POSE 2
Lie on your back upon a carpet on the floor with your arms along
your sides and relax.
Breath out.
Then breath inn deeply while relaxing all the muscles you do not
need for the breathing.
Then breath out. When breathing out, squeeze your anal muscles
and pull your anal opening as deeply inword as you can. However
do not strain when squeezing. This exercise shall not be
exhausting.
After having breathed out, relax your anal muscles again.
Repeat the breathing in and breathing out whiile squeezing 3-8
times, but not som much that you get exhausted.
Then relax again.
POSE 3
Lie on your back upon a carpet on the floor.
Breath out completely.
Swing your armes in an arch over your head and down to the floor
over your head so that your whole body is stretched from top to
toe. When swinging your arms, take a deep breath filling your
lungs totally with air.
Hold your breath with the air inside.
Squeeze your anal muscles and pull your anal opening as deeply
inword as you can. However do not strain when squeezing. This
exercise shall not be exhausting. Relax your anal muscles
compleetely again.
Repeat the sqeezing and relaxing 3-5 times.
Swing your arms back at the same time as you empty your lungs.
Relax some while and then you can repeat the exercise if you
wish.
BREATHING EXERCISE 1
Sit upon a pillow on the floor with your legs crossed and the
back streight.
Empty your lungs completely.
Breath in counting to 4. When breathing in, try to do it in
three stages that proceed smoothely into each other:
Use first your diafragm so that your stomack moves out.Then fill
further by using your chest muscles. And then complete the
filling by using the muscles around your shoulders.
Hold your breath counting to 16.
Then breath out counting to 8. When breathing out, try to do it
in three stages that proceed smoothely into each other:Use first
your diafragm so that your stomack moves in. Then empty further
by using your chest muscles.And then complete emptying by using
the muscles around your shoulders.
BREATHING EXERCISE 2
Sit upon a pillow on the floor with your legs crossed and your
back streight. Take 10 rapid deep breathes in and out after
another, but not so rapid that you get strained or breath
uncompleetely.
When breathing in, try to do it in three stages that proceed
smoothely into each other: Use first your diafragm so that your
stomack moves out. Then fill further by using your chest
muscles.And then complete the filling by using the muscles
around your shoulders.
When breathing out, try to do it in three stages that proceed
smoothely into each other: Use first your diafragm so that your
stomack moves in.Then empty further by using your chest muscles.
And then complete emptying by using the muscles around your
shoulders.
After the last in-breath , hold your breath with your lungs
filled counting to 10.
Then breath out.
BREATHING EXERCISE 3
Sit upon a pillow on the floor with your legs crossed and your
back streight.
Empty your lungs completely.
Close your left nostril with the fingers of one of your hands.
Breath in through your right nostril counting to 4.
When breathing in, try to do it in three stages that proceed
smoothely into each other:Use first your diafragm so that your
stomack moves out. Then fill further by using your chest
musclesAnd then compleete the filling by using the muscles
around your shoulders.
Hold your breath counting to 16.
Then close your right nostril with your fingers.
Then breath out through your left nostril counting to 8.
When breathing out, try to do it in three stages that proceed
smoothely into each other: Use first your diafragm so that your
stomack moves in. Then empty further by using your chest
muscles. And then complete emptying by using the muscles around
your shoulders When you have breathed out, repeat the exercise,
but this time begin by closing your right nostril first.
RELAXING AT THE END OF THE SERIES:
When the series is done, then lie down upon a carpet on the
floor andrelax for 2-5 minutes. This relaxation will increase
the effects of the exercises and make you recover if the
exercises have made you tired.
Concetrate upon relaxing your legs first, then your lover body,
then your upper body, then your arms and shoulders, and at last
your head and face. When the whole body is relaxed, try not to
think about anything, and relax your whole body even furter.
Then lie some time in this relaxed state without thinking about
anything.