Yoga Sutra With a Romantic Touch

Bored of working out alone? Try Partner Yoga

On this Valentine’s Day, stretch your love and bend your body. Yes, it’s time to extend your intimate love to even yoga and burn the extra fat together. So stretch, curl, bend, plow and bust the calories.

This Valentine's Day, forget the boring chocolate and withering flowers. Spend some time together connecting with your spouse or lover by doing ‘partner yoga’. Lunch and dinner can wait as its time to innovate your romance not just by physical relationship but also through yoga.

Try something special with yoga that will deepen the connection with your loved one.

Try a few intimate partner poses that require more trust and closeness which aids to bring together the best of your relationship!

These six mutually supportive partner yoga poses will definitely stretch your bodies but on the other side burn your fat with love.

Kamarchakrasana: Warm up with your partner

© Sit facing each other with legs wide apart.

© Join feet with your partner. © Hold partner’s hands, tighten thighs and clasp each other’s hands. Pull each other backward and forward as much as you can. Do this 8-10 times

© When done, bring legs together and shake them well.

Supported Uttanasana/Standing forward bend:

© Stand with backs facing each other at a distance of about 10-12 inches.

© Inhale and raise your arms up, stretch your arms and your fingers.

© Exhale and slowly both the partners

bend from your waist, keeping your neck long and with no effort on your back, grab your partner’s hands. ©Depending upon your flexibility, walk your hands so that you either hold one another’s, wrist/forearm/shoulders

© When you inhale, stretch your spine and when you exhale push your body towards the knees.

© Stay in the pose for 10 breaths. When both are ready to come out, let go of your partner’s hands and slowly come out of the pose in the same way as you went into it.

This pose calms the brain and helps relievestress, headache, insomnia, mild depression and reduces fatigue and anxiety.

Partnered Baddha Konasana/Supported butterfly forward bend

© Sit facing each other; partner1in the butterfly pose and the partner2 in long sitting pose with legs a little wider than hips distance.

© Then partner1 slowly lowers down from his waist, extends the arms and reaches partner 2’s thighs or if possible

wraps arms around her lower back.

© Then partner2 slowly lowers down and rests her torso on 1’s upper back and arms on her lower back.

© Both can pull against each other to get a deep stretch.

© Hold the pose for 20 breaths or more,when ready to come out both slowly raise up and switch roles.

You get a deep stretch in the hips, lower back, and shoulders from the Baddha Konasana/Butterfly, as well the hamstrings stretch from seated forward bend.

Bhujangasana-Supta Vajrasana/Cobra-Hero

© A wonderful back bend and very challenging, but a little help from your partner can make a lot of difference.

© Partner 1 lies in the prone pose on her stomach with arms beside, feet together and head on the chin. Partner 2 places her shins on partner 1’s buttocks. Hold partner 1’s hands and lean back towards partner 1’s legs. This lifts partner 1’s chest off the mat.

© Partner 1 should make sure he or she is not sitting on heels and also far away so that her knees are not pressing

into partner 1’s back.

© Hold the pose for 20-30 breaths and slowly leave partner 1’s hands and lower her back to the mat.

© Now both partners switch roles.

Bhujangasana opens up the spine, chest, heart, lungs and shoulders, and Vajrasana helps getting a nice quad and shin stretch.

Partner Halasana/Double plow

© An intense pose, which when done with a partner, helps support each other’s legs. A restorative pose with less pressure on the neck.

© Both lie on the floor, with each other’s heads touching.

© Extend your arms behind and hold the partner’s shoulders

© Then both raise legs up 90 degrees using your ab strength, lifting up your hips off the ground and bringing your feet towards the partner’s hips.

© Hold the pose for a minimum of one minute and when ready to come out, use your core strength and gently lower your hips down.

Therapeutic for thyroid, hormonal imbalance, diabetes and hernia. Activates the uterus and strengthens the hips and waist.

Partner Ushtrasana/Doubles Camelpose

© Partner 1 sits up on the knees and partner 2 also sits up on her knees, the back facing the other partner’s

front.

© Partner 1 places hands on his or her back and then arch back and slowly places palms one by one on the soles

of feet.

© Partner 2 exhales and bend the neck fully.

© Pushes the pelvic region forward. Stays in the pose for 30 counts

© Inhales and slowly returns to the start position.

Studiopose strengthens knees, thighs, waist, back, shoulders and neck and improves the digestive power.

Anjaneyasana/Doubles Crescent Moon

© Partner 1 sits up on the knees and, partner also sits up on her knees, both their backs facing each other.

© Their feet are placed alternately, and then both extend their right leg forward, folding it with knee facing up, thigh parallel to the mat and calf’s 90 degree to the thighs Gently bend knees forward so that they extend over the foot.

© Extend hands up above the head and deepen them backwards to hold each other’s wrist/palms.

© Be in the pose for 30 counts and then switch legs.

This pose opens up the hip muscles, stretchesthe hamstrings, quad and the groin Strengthens the knees and helps build mental focus.

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