7 Couple Yoga Poses to Strengthen Your Relationship

Love is not just about sharing moments together, but about flowing in the same frequency and sharing an equal give and take. As partners, you must involve in activities that raise your vibrations, build your boundaries and foster mutual respect and affection. There are many traditional ways that can bring back the lost love and fill your hearts with passion. The power of couple yoga is undeniably forceful and it makes its presence felt in almost all spheres of life.

The art of yoga and meditation has opened the gateway to a new world, helps you work on the shadow sides of your personality, and drains all the negative energies from your body. When the pious cleanse happens, your mind and soul comes into a beautiful union and you start to feel a sense of newness in your life. What else would you ask for in your life? You attain a heart that learns to love the other half with renewed passion and a mind that knows how to set boundaries and ward off negative energies that dampens the quality of life.

Here are 7 Couple Yoga Poses that brings both the hearts together, to beat as one soul:

1. Seated Grounding

Grounding your existence, connecting with the soil, and centering scattered emotions are some of the surefire ways to bring back balance into your lives.

You connect with the spiritual environment and meet your better half on a soul level.

How to Perform:

• Sit in a cross-legged position; face your partner with eyes open.
• Place hands on each other’s knees and look each other into the eyes for few moments.
• Inhale deeply and exhale slowly while you both gaze at each other as this strengthens an emotional bond.
• Repeat the breathing for at least 10 times and maintain a constant loving eye contact.

2. Seated Cat Cow or Bidalasana

A pose that encourages an amalgamation of benefits of two poses – Cat & Cow – Seated Cat Crow pose in couple yoga lets you create a space in your hearts.

Missing trust often disturbs the peace you both share and this pose helps you to bring back balance and develop a new sense of trust in your relationship.

How to Perform:

• Stay in a seated position and slowly reach for each other’s forearms.
• As you do so, try maintaining a good grip as you slowly release shoulders down and back.
• Now inhale deeply and gradually lift your chest up towards the ceiling, while making a slight arch in your upper middle back.
• At the count of 10, exhale and draw your chin into your chest, and round through your upper middle back. As you perform the pose, spread your shoulder blades wide apart.
• Continue the above steps and gradually warm up your spine. You can look up towards the ceiling as you inhale and slowly bring your gaze down towards the tummy as you exhale.

3. Butterfly Pose or Badha Konasana

The Butterfly Pose strengthens the groin area, activating the glutes, and thereby relaxes your lower body.

If you are fatigued and stressed owing to prolonged walking or remaining in a standing position, flex this pose with your partner to get the stress off your back.

How to Perform:

• Make your partner sit with knees bent open to the sides in the butterfly pose with head facing forward toward the floor or the mat.
• Slowly reach out for your partner’s ankle in front of you and grab hold of it.
• The person who is standing shall take their hand to the other person’s inner thighs.
• Now, the partner in the standing position starts walking backwards slowly in order to slowly expand the partner’s inner thighs and hips.
• Switch the roles alternatively.

4. Gate Pose or Parighasana

A couple that looks and feels younger, stays together happily ever after.

The Gate Pose is a special couple yoga pose that improves spine health and thereby encourages youthfulness. 

How to Perform:

• Both of you get into a kneeling position, keeping your heads straight, facing forward.
• Now, one of the partners stretches his/her left leg out towards the left direction, while the other does the same with their leg pointing towards the right.
• Now that your legs are crossed in front of each other, both of you move your arms towards the center, creating a shape of a gate overhead.
• As you do the pose, your side bodies shall stretch and arms gain strength.
• Then switch.

5. Lizard on a Rock Pose

One of the many contemporary poses, Lizard on a Rock Pose works on painful glutes, and balances the functionality of the inner as well as the outer hip area.

If you lack balance in your relationships, this pose will give you a sense of it through your physical body and transmitting the good energies to your mind and soul.

How to Perform:

• Ask your partner to get down into a Child Pose or Balasana.
• Now, gently sit on your partner’s back while resting your hip areas against each other.
• As you are already on top of your partner, slowly extend your legs out in front of you and slowly raise your arms behind in order to achieve a back bend.
• Stay in that position for 10-12 breaths and switch the pose with your partner for the next repetition.

6. Revolved chair or Parivrtta Utkatasana

Why bear with the stretch alone when a partner can make it feel alright? Revolved Chair Pose pushes you to go beyond your limits, stretch and boost the flexibility of your body.

As you breathe in and out together, you push away negativity and welcome high vibrations in your life.

How to Perform:

• Stand with feet firm on ground, facing each other at a one arm distance.
• Cross your arms right over towards the left and hold onto each other’s hands. Keep your feet hip-width apart and parallel.
• Now while maintaining a good grip, slowly bend your knees and go down as if you are sitting on a chair.
• Make sure you keep your shoulders stacked above your hips, and rely on the support of your other half in order to stay balanced.
• Grabbing each other’s right hands, and each person reaching his/her left arm back in line with the shoulder, now slowly twist towards the left.
• Remain in this intense position for three to five smooth breaths then slowly come back to center, clasping each other’s left hands. Now repeat and twist to the right.

7. Partner’s Tree Pose or Vrikshasana

Tree Pose is one of the most challenging poses. We often miss balance in our lives, both physically and emotionally and this is why we tend to suffer deeply. Vrikshasana teaches you balance and improves focus.

Lack of balance in mind and heart is the main reason why relationships fall prey to anger, sadness, and anxiety. 

How to Perform:

• Stand side by side with your partner.
• Now both of you must get into the obvious Tree Pose and place the right foot on the inside of your other leg (left).
• Slowly raise your arm and place it around your partner’s waist.
• Now move your heads and make them touch each other in way that it forms an arch.
• Stay in the pose for at least 10 breathes.

Couple yoga is a great way to disconnect from the discord, bring back spark in your committed relationships and grow together as one awakened soul.