7 Amazing Reasons Why Partner Yoga Is Great For Your Relationship

Yoga means "union or unification", and that makes partner yoga a perfect recipe for uniting two souls. In 'partner yoga', you and your partner can do the traditional yoga postures together by helping and supporting each other. Whether you share a smooth sailing relationship or have currently hit a rough patch, Partner or couples yoga is an ultimate way to enrich your bonding with your partner.

What’s more? If you are looking for ways to heighten passion in your relationship, then again this is your answer. So, let us find out how practising partner yoga can work wonders for your relationship.

#1. Buries your differences

In partner yoga, you are working together to achieve that perfect posture. When you are working for a common goal, you surely keep your differences apart. And once you reach the desired pose, you not only feel confident about yourself, but also feel triumphant about your relationship.

Cain Carroll, co-author of Partner Yoga: Making Contact for Physical, Emotional and Spiritual Growth, talks about partner yoga and says, "Partner yoga is the medium for building stronger communication and intimacy between human beings in any relationship."

#2. Healing touch

A touch is the first and most primary aspect of partner yoga. It starts with a physical touch and ends with a healing and therapeutic touch. Some people might feel uncomfortable with physical intimacy, but in reality it is the touch that soothes, comforts and relieves pain in humans.

#3. Builds trust

Trust is like a stepping stone in any relationship and if there is no trust, there is no meaning to a relationship. When you attempt the difficult yoga poses, you have to become interdependent on each other. You need to trust your partner to help and your partner will have to trust you. This is exactly when the metaphor “made for each other” comes true!

#4. Unspoken communication

Can you understand what is “unspoken” between the two of you? Well, partner yoga helps you to bridge this divide and brings you closer to one another. Gillian Kapteyn Comstock, a certified yoga instructor, who has been teaching couples yoga for almost a decade says, “Yoga is an excellent medium of expression and growth.” She further adds, “Yoga poses increase the language of intimacy for couples by giving them nonverbal ways of expressing their feelings.”

To maintain the right balance, alignment and remaining focussed for a yoga posture with closed eyes requires emotional and mental unification with your partner. So, after practicing a few poses, you will realise that your dynamics of understanding as a couple has increased.

#5. Sheds ego

The crux of these exercises is to forget the self and amalgamate into each other. It is of prime importance to work together and not against each other. “You rely on each other for the very creation of poses. Postures are dependent on two people showing up for one another and giving equal effort," says Cain Carroll.

“It’s a great metaphor for the nut and bolt aspect of all relationships,” he adds. Thus, you have to work as a team and not as an individual when it comes to couple yoga.

#6. Relieves frustrations

You are likely to be affected by frustrations and negativities, which at times wreak havoc even in a perfect relationship. Partner yoga comes to your rescue and helps you deal with pent up annoyances and exasperations, and give way to a soothing and calming relationship.

"Postures and flow sequences are designed to bring communication into a tangible, physical form and help you witness the dynamic of relationships," says Cain Carroll.

#7. Stronger family connect

Partner yoga is something that can be done not only among couples, but as a whole family also. As yoga instructor, Laura Kasperzak, says, "The happiness and laughter that comes from doing something like this (partner yoga) is undeniable. It connects a couple, it connects friends, and it connects a parent with their child. Regardless of the outcome of the pose, it can’t help but make you smile."

During the yoga, partners laugh, joke and bond themselves with poses. We can then rightly say, “A family that exercises together stays together.”

Source: Yahoo News