Sexual Fitness

Here we recommend books that offer a grounded, sane approach to fitness that focuses on the benefits to sexual performance. Need it be said that exercising and stretching in order to have better sex adds a bit of motivation?

Recommended Books on Sexual Fitness

The Art of Sensual Yoga: A Step-by-Step Guide for Couples by Robert Kirby, Connie Dunne Kirby, and Geraldine RossThe Art of Sensual Yoga: A Step-by-Step Guide for Couples

Combining lush, evocative photos with an easy-to-follow text appropriate even for beginners, this book shows readers how the shared physical closeness of yoga can lead the way to greater sensual harmony. 140 color photos. 1997, Plume

Better SEx Through Yoga: Easy Routines to Boost Your Sex Drive, Enhance Physical Pleasure, and Spice Up Your Bedroom Life by Jacquie Noelle Greaux, jennifer LangheldBetter Sex Through Yoga: Easy Routines to Boost Your Sex Drive, Enhance Physical Pleasure, and Spice Up Your Bedroom Life

While most yoga books promising an invigorated sex life emphasize the Tantric approach, Greaux and Langheld believe one can also get mind-blowing bedroom results from the regular use of traditional poses. Essentially a fill-in-the-blank approach (regular exercise translates to a more limber physique translates to better sexual performance), the authors focus on the power of weight loss and increased muscle tone to inspire self-confidence and increase attractability. Clear instructions and illustrations ensure those new to yoga won't injure themselves, and each pose or exercise includes an explanation of its bedroom utility. 2007, Broadway

Better Sex Through Yoga, Beginner, Intermediate & Advanced, Volumes: 1, 2 & 3 (DVD)Better Sex Through Yoga, Beginner, Intermediate & Advanced, Volumes: 1, 2 & 3 (DVD)

This series is a fun, energizing introduction to Yoga for the best reason of all: your love life. Focusing on a most often neglected region of the body -- your inner-core muscles -- by strengthening and stretching this area, Better Sex Through Yoga gives your body an entirely new sensual awareness. With Better Sex Through Yoga, you don't need to be limber or athletic to get instant sexual benefits. No complicated positions to master just simple targeted moves to start you on your way to a revitalized, amazing new love life. From Beginner to Advanced the three different routines offer a progression that is perfect for those who want to learn yoga and take their love life to the next level while trimming inches and shedding pounds at the same time! 2007, BetterSexThroughYoga.com

Contact: The Yoga of RelationshipContact: The Yoga of Relationship

Contact: The Yoga of Relationships presents an inspiring new vision of yoga created to deepen your relationships with lovers, friends, family and other intimates in your life. Contact explores that mysterious and dynamic edge where two people connect: physically, emotionally, and spiritually. Tara Lynda Guber and Anodea Judith offer valuable insight into the dynamics of all loving relationships, using poses designed for two participants that bridge the "Seven Points of Contact." Contact brings these seven points (trust, passion, commitment, love, communication, vision, and union) into focus as points on the body, allowing patterns of connecting and distancing, loving and protecting, giving and receiving to be revealed at their deepest levels. Contact will appeal to all who seek depth and fulfillment in their relationships. 2006, Insight Editions

Men's Sexual Health: Fitness for Satisfying Sex by Michael Metz and Barry McCarthyMen's Sexual Health: Fitness for Satisfying Sex

Drs. McCarthy and Metz view male sexuality as going beyond the common emphasis on mere performance and pass-fail sex. Men's Sexual Health tells men the truth about what it takes to enjoy healthy, pleasurable and satisfying sex. The essential ingredients of long-term sexual satisfaction include intimacy, pleasuring, and eroticism. The authors remind us that not every sexual encounter need be perfect. 2007, Routledge

Partner Yoga - Making Contact for Physical, Emotional, and Spiritual Growth by Cain Carroll, Lori KimataPartner Yoga - Making Contact for Physical, Emotional, and Spiritual Growth

The 60 dynamic postures and 3 yoga flows introduced in this book offer a threshold into a provocative and exciting yoga experience. Developed with reverence for the ancient tradition of yoga, these beautiful postures are designed to help improve balance, strength, and flexibility as well as increase the level of trust and communication between you and your partner. Partner Yoga is perfect for anyone-- novice or seasoned yoga practitioner-- who is interested in increasing fitness, releasing tension, strengthening relationships, and having a good time. So find a partner and explore the possibilities! 2008, Rodale

Pelvic Power: Mind/Body Exercises for Strength, Flexibility, Posture, and Balance for Men and Women by Eric FranklinPelvic Power: Mind/Body Exercises for Strength, Flexibility, Posture, and Balance for Men and Women

Combining scientific principles with movement and imagery exercises that are both effective and fun, this book demonstrates how to create a stronger body by toning the pelvic floor. Focusing on the biomechanics of the pelvic floor, which acts as a support for the inner organs and contains a passage for the urethra, the sex organs, and the rectum, this guide shows how the pelvic floor plays an important role in almost all movements, balance, and body posture. The exercises train the muscles and joints and improve the tone of the organs, thereby increasing energy flow, eliminating incontinence, and keeping sexual organs healthy. The mind-body techniques are used to increase awareness of this part of the body and to improve sexual stamina. 2003, Princeton Book Company

Sexual Fitness: A Workout for Lovers - a DVD from the Alexander InstituteSexual Fitness: A Workout for Lovers(DVD)

A workout for lovers, from the Alexander Institute's Loving Sex series, ranked "Best" by Men's Health Magazine. Sex and fitness are related. See how to exercise the right muscles to develop flexibility and endurance for enhanced intimacy and sexual pleasure. Learn which muscle groups to strengthen for specific sexual positions. Three attractive couples demonstrate how you and your partner can exercise together in this easy to follow erotic workout. 2002, Alexander Institute

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