Yoga Benefits for Couples | Partner Yoga Poses Included!

I’m a big believer in Yoga.  It has so many benefits for your skin, and your entire physical body; not to mention mental health and spiritual benefits too.  Really it’s pretty much impossible to deny the immense value cultivating a regular yoga practice has for your life.

Given we’re in the month of February, the month of Love, I thought it would be fun to explore the benefits of partner yoga.  While partner yoga can be done with any type of partner (friend, relative, romantic partner), it has added benefits when done between two life partners.

Practicing partner yoga with your significant other helps to bring your relationship into balance and helps build companionship, trust, compassion, intimacy, and so much more.  Sharing your yoga practice together, while extra challenging (as well as extra rewarding!) at times, shows a mutual respect for the holistic health and wellness of both yourself and your partner too, and as a result, helps to bring you together in a very special way.

Ready to get into some couples yoga?  With Valentine’s Day right around the corner it’s the perfect time to introduce partner yoga into your relationship.  It isn’t difficult, but, it can be challenging of course as any yoga practice can.  That said, as with all yoga practices (individual, partner, class, etc.) you can also go at your own pace, and there are always opportunities to create an individualized practice that will work for you and your partner.

Now let’s take a look at a few partner yoga asanas to get you started and give you a brief glance at what couples yoga really can be.

One of the most basic and most beneficial partner yoga poses is simple back to back sitting meditation.  The partners make strong contact through the sacrum while concentrating on their breathing and letting go…together.