After the Mid-Autumn Festival, couples should be so "sweet"

As the name suggests, double yoga is the practice of yoga movements by two people. They coordinate their breathing and movements, borrow each other's energy, work together, and complete beautiful movements in tacit understanding. Breaking the "self-perception" of traditional yoga, partner yoga focuses on the practice process of sharing and communicating with each other.

Couple yoga is not only a combination of strength and beauty, but also can stimulate the body's deep bones, muscles, internal organs, and nerves. At the same time, it can correct crooked postures, strengthen the body, and correct abnormal spines. Yoga breathing can also be used to deliver oxygen to each nerve and cell, activating the entire body system and achieving the goal of balancing the body.

Benefits of Partner Yoga

Psychologists have found that exercising with friends is more likely to make people feel relaxed and happy than doing it alone. If friends or couples go to the gym together, they can both keep each other company and have a common language, and they can also encourage and support each other during the fitness process.

Partner yoga is the most suitable couples sport for friends and couples. In essence, it is the same as individual yoga, but it places more emphasis on collaboration between two people to complete some yoga moves that are impossible or difficult to achieve alone. Although each practitioner has a different body shape and flexibility, mutual trust is the most important condition for completing partner yoga. In addition to awakening ourselves, partner yoga can also help us learn to share life with others.

1. Partner yoga is different from love yoga

Many people think of partner yoga as love yoga or couple yoga when they hear about it, but that’s not entirely true. In Guangzhou, many yoga studios have opened couple yoga courses. Couples yoga can be between same-sex friends or couples, and there is also parent-child yoga. Partner yoga only emphasizes the cooperation of two people to complete some yoga movements that cannot be performed or are difficult to achieve alone.

2. Couple yoga can increase happiness

Yoga studios, which used to be almost deserted by men, have gained a lot more masculinity due to the emergence of couple yoga. The biggest feeling this kind of couple yoga brings to practitioners is pleasure. Male students in particular generally say that they do not feel bored and do not have to be as serious and disciplined as in traditional yoga.

3. The difficulty is reduced but it is easier to persist

Yoga coaches believe that partner yoga focuses on coordinated exercises between two people. At the beginning, there may be more exercises in posing and shaping, but in the long run, it has the advantage of being easy to stick to, and you can also discover the mistakes in your movements in time. After long-term practice, the requirements for movements are also constantly increasing.

4. Coordinate the relationship between the two parties

Couple sports especially require a sense of trust. Couple yoga is a sport that encourages mutual care and makes both practitioners feel close. If both parties lose trust, they cannot coordinate and cannot complete the movements.

Yoga poses for couples

1. Forward Bend with Back

This double yoga pose can effectively exercise the back and help maintain spinal health. Remember to do the movement slowly and don't pull your chin down too hard, otherwise it will easily cause damage to your cervical spine.

Step 1

The two of them sat back to back on the bed, with their legs open to shoulder width, feet hooked, hands hanging at their sides, palms open, four fingers together, fingertips lightly touching the ground. Keep your head up and chest out, back straight, feel your spine extending upward, and your hips fit tightly together. Make sure your upper body and legs form a 90-degree angle.

Step 2

Keeping your hips and spine aligned, slowly bend your upper body forward until you reach your limit, then stop and hold for 3-5 breaths. When bending down, be sure to keep your chin about the distance of a small ball from your neck to prevent excessive strain on your cervical spine.

2. Rib extension

This double yoga movement can effectively stretch the side lines of the body and promote digestion.

Rib extension step 1

The two people sat in a straight line, about two spans apart. Extend your legs outward, straighten the outer leg and stretch the instep; bend the inner leg at the knee and keep the heel against the base of the thigh. The arms between the two people are stretched out with fingertips touching the ground; the outer arms are stretched upward with elbows slightly bent and palms facing forward.

Rib extension step 2

Slowly clasp your hands above your head and pull each other's hands outward. At this time, the forces between the two hands are opposite, and you can feel the sides of your body being stretched.

Back pose

The two hands use the four fingers of the hands to interlock and pull with opposite forces at the same time, so that the two hands are at the fingertips of two people.

3. Seated Twist

By twisting the body, the muscles between the back and waist are effectively exercised, which is helpful to create a beautiful body line.

Seated Twist Step 1

Sit with your legs back to back, legs shoulder-width apart, feet lifted, back straight, head and chest out, bend your elbows, clasp your hands together, and make fists.

Seated Twist Step 2

Slowly twist your upper body to the left and right, making sure your spine stays in place and your hips do not leave the ground. While twisting, breathe in and out rhythmically, and don't hold your breath.