My teacher Ana Forrest talks about sexual healing and yoga

I love Ana Forrest.  She’s a great spiritual warrior.  I have done many teacher training’s with her as well as taught in her studio when she had one in Santa Monica.  Being with Ana is intense.  She doesn’t let you escape into numbness but helps you understand that feeling (whether good or bad) is better than shutting your heart and body down.  This article is a great walk through on human sexuality and how important it is for us to be connected to it (without shame or other weird feeling we have around our own sexuality).  There are some great poses in here that you can try at home to help heat up your sex life.  Try these with your partner.

“What if you made ecstasy part of your daily spiritual practice? How would that change the richness and the quality of your life? If you want to reclaim your sexuality, and learn how to live on the ecstatic spectrum, do yoga. You don’t need to learn 450 positions; that won’t do it if you’re numb. Clearing the numbness is the first step to owning and celebrating your sexuality. Practice playing with sensating individually and with your partner, and you will have sensational sex!

Viscerally explore how to wake your skin up. Tactile sensation starts with the skin and vibrates inward. Sex isn’t just about the “sexual” organs. Involve the whole skin and body. Enjoy learning different qualities of touch and sensation — it’s essential, and fun!

Here’s a good exercise to stay connected and track feeling. Inhale, running your finger from inside of wrist to elbow, deliberately inviting in all sensations. Exhale, go back down from elbow to wrist studying, through feeling, the difference between sensating with inhale and exhale. Track what part of that you can feel. Any feeling is a win.

For a long time I couldn’t do this. I challenged myself to learn how to feel a subtle touch and enjoy that. Cats are good teachers that way, because if you pet one correctly, it purrs and feels good. Learn to touch yourself and your partner in a way that makes you both purr! If you are a dog person, when you rub your dog just right, it wriggles in ecstasy. That’s a clue you’re on the right track!…”

For the rest of the article, please go here:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ana-forrest/yoga-sex_b_924784.html