# Couple Yoga Poses **URL:** \ **Category:** Yoga\ **Created:** [October 19, 2020, 11:54am UTC](https://howtodiscuss.com/t/couple-yoga-poses/27828 "2020-10-19T11:54:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 3
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Couple’s yoga poses and postures include sets of yoga activities that benefit the couple not only to achieve physical and mental health but also strengthen the bond between them. If we talk in Traditional prospective, yoga is considered an individual practice. It provides the person with the ability to stretch, regulates his breath and enhance his power of focus by just sitting on his mat in the present moment. However, coordinated practice of yoga with another person whether your friend, life partner or family member can have health and relationship strengthening benefits. have its own unique benefits. ## **Purpose of couple’s yoga:** Couple’s yoga or Partner yoga is a practice that allows people enhanced coordination and bonding through assisted poses. It not only strengthens your cores and health, but also stretches your level of trust and communication which hence has a strong positive impact on your relationship. the benefits of yoga extend far beyond just chiseled jawline and strong glutes. Recent Studies have shown that the practice can also help with ameliorating health issues from treating [insomnia](http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15707256) to preventing diseases like [diabetes](http://bmccomplementalternmed.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1472-6882-14-212) ## **Benefits of couple yoga:** yoga not only helps a couple maintain their health but also strengthens the bond between them. The couples who have indulged themselves into disagreements and are seeking for help, they are advised to practice yoga poses to improve the mutual understanding between them. Following are the benefits on both health and relationship. ## **Benefits in relationship:** ### **1. Increase in relationship satisfaction:** Just a little act of practicing out a couple’s yoga class with your partner can help you to feel more satisfied with your relationship. Recent studies have shown that the couple who go through tough times and challenges together have greater compatibility and understanding. According to a source, the level of intimacy also revives and renews when couples try yoga. Trying out and learning new skills together helps couples to have fun while slowing down, spending quality time, and sharing a meaningful and memorable experience. The key to happier relationship is mindfulness. ### **2. Improved intimacy and romance:** A study has found that couple’s yoga can help in enhanced intimacy and romance between the couple. It is to be noted that couple’s yoga is not sexual in nature. It simply helps in breathing, posture, and movements. It helps to increase intimacy by way of increasing the level of trust, connection, and communication. Its action is because it includes communication through touch and movement. ### **3. Increased communication and trust:** Couple yoga is all about communication and trust on each other. It requires one partner to lean and rely on the other partner (both literally and metaphorically) with constant verbal and non-verbal communication. The above task requires support, trust and last but the most important thing which is vulnerability. A sense of physical touch can be a way to convey sensation of care and expression of deep emotions without saying a word. A coordinated nonverbal movement that is present in the rhythmic breathing and posing of couple’s yoga helps couples feel more affectively attuned to each other. Mimicry, which means matching your partner’s moves, helps to increase empathy and bond. The steady flow of postures, the push and pull, and the dependency on someone else creates connection because participants must be fully engaged in the moment and in the movements. ### **4. Reduced anxiety and stress:** Yoga is recommended to all the people whether they are mentally healthy or to depressed people to reduce the pressure that has inhabited their head. It helps in certain hormone regulation that aid the body muscles and mind to relax. A study has revealed that if married couple hold each other’s hands in time of stress, their anxiety converts into a relief because they feel getting supported. This act is call spousal hand-holding and it provides strong neural response as compared to holding hand of a stranger. Hence just touching your partner can aid you to relieve the stress ## **Yoga poses for couples:** Following are some easy poses that can be performed by the beginners: ### **1. Seated centering/grounding:** Grounding and centering are a great to get started for the beginners. It aids the couple to connect with their inner environment which means their spirit and with the external physical environment and helps your mind to prepare for the practice. This pose helps to meditate and focus on your breathing. ### **2. Seated cat cow:** This pose is a perfect for strengthening hip, core, and muscle of the back. Seated cat cows also helps in deep inhalation and exhalation since it makes the lungs and chest to fully expand. Hence it is important to focus on breathing while performing this pose. ### **3. Back-to-back chair pose:** This is a pose for beginner couples they can use each other’s back as a support. This pose helps to impose stress in your thighs hence strengthening the muscles in thighs and feet with increased ankle mobility. ### **4. Seated forward backbend:** This pose requires a level of flexibility since it includes intense stretching of legs and back. It becomes more difficult when one partner is less flexible than the other. So, it is important to start slowly and steadily to catch up with each other till you get into this pose. Otherwise either of you can get hurt. #### ### **5. Partner Yoga Twist:** This is easy pose for the beginners. To complete this pose, both partners need to extend their spine, sit up straight, focus on breathing, and enjoy it. #### ### **6. Partner Yoga Tree Pose:** Couple’s tree pose is an outstanding couple balancing pose. It becomes challenging when you are attached side by side to your partner. A proper way to perform this pose is to keep your foot either above or below your knee to avoid putting pressure on the knees. The placement of foot depends upon your level of flexibility #### ### **7. Partner Shoulder Stand:** This pose requires a great level of shoulder strength since your lower body weight is going to be supported by your shoulders. A proper way to do this exercise is support your lower back with your hand on the back and engage your core. Use your core strength to lift and hold your body. Once you have achieved the pose, do not move your head freely from side to side. #### ### **8. Partner Side Angle Pose:** Side angle pose is one of the couple’s yoga position that can be practiced by beginner. Make sure you alternate sides. It is important that you keep your feet perpendicular and gaze up at your hand. If you are facing difficulty in reaching your partner’s hand, then use a towel or yoga strap. ## **Conclusion:** The bottom line is, those couples who exercise yoga poses are not only benefited with optimum health but also, they acquire a great level of positivity in their relationship. But the important fact is to start slowly and steadily till both partners become adapted to yoga and develop optimum level of communication. --- _[View the full topic](https://howtodiscuss.com/t/couple-yoga-poses/27828)._