Oprah, God love the woman. She had a show last week about sex, sex therapy and a woman’s sexual anatomy. I thought this was pretty cutting edge, even for Oprah. I have always been in touch with my sexuality, and never realized that there are many many women out there that may not even be having orgasms. This, to me, is a crime, and I am here to help. All women should be able to enjoy orgasms and not feel weird about it, guilty or selfish.
Check out the footage from the show with Dr. Laura Berman and see for yourself. Oprah is very amusing.
On the show, Dr. Berman talks about the importance of kegels. We all know we should do kegels to help with incontinence, but I don’t think many people know that it actually helps you with your orgasms! Now we have a good reason to do them!
Start doing your kegels. Your ablility to do kegels will strengthen your pelvic floor muscles, and strong pelvic floor muscles enable you to have good orgasms. Check out this article on About.com for specific instructions on kegels.
So, when to do them?
Well, start by figuring out how it truly feels to do a kegel by stopping your flow of urine. Notice how deeply you have to contract. Do this only a couple times as it has been said that you could get an infection if you do it too often.
Do kegels during sex. Why not?
Do them during abdominal work. You may notice that you are contracting your transverse abdominal muscles when kegeling. This is because your transverse muscles are designed to work together with your pelvic floor muscles to give your torso internal strength. Begin all your abdominal exercise with a transverse contraction: exhale and squeeze your abdominal muscles down toward your spine and keep them engaged throughout the exercise.
Take yoga. You’ve heard “mula bandha” mentioned many times. This is basically Sanskrit for kegels. In yoga, mula bandha is the solid foundation that should underlie any movement. Check out the article in Yoga Journal
Ok, now go do your homework.
1 Comment
November 11, 2008 at 12:24 am
just saw that you have a blog. great stuff! i’m excited for the studio classes this winter!