The Yoga of Sex Muscles

The pubococcygeus muscle or PC muscle is a hammock-like muscle, found in both sexes, that stretches from the pubic bone to the tail bone forming the floor of the pelvic cavity and supporting the pelvic organs. Kegel exercises are a set of exercises designed to strengthen and give voluntary control over the PC muscles. A healthy and robust PC muscle provides many benefits. Tantra teacher Suzie Heumann explains how to do PC muscle exercises the right way.

Today's PC muscle exercises, or Kegel exercises, are not the ones your mother might have done. Oh no, they've been upgraded a whole lot so it's surprising that they aren't considered one of the "yogas". The truth is that they are a type of yoga. Mindfulness, along with these physical exercises, was taught by many ancient traditions for both men and women.

Dashing off a couple of squeezes here and there is not what I'm talking about. Learning and practicing the correct way to do Kegel exercises isn't hard but it is important to do them right for the desired physical benefits. Read more

Tantric Exercise: PC Pumping

Everyone knows that we need to exercise our bodies to keep fit, but did you know that you also need to exercise your sexual muscles? Al Link and Pala Copeland describe an exercise that strengthens the most important sexual muscle of all: the pubococcygeus muscle or PC muscle.

PC Pumping—contracting and relaxing the pubococcygeous muscles in your genital area—is your most important exercise for physical sexual fitness. To first feel this muscle group, stop and start the flow when you are urinating.

PC Pumping has many benefits for both men and women, including: Read more