Experience deeper connection and affection with partner through partner yoga poses. Embrace closeness and harmony with poses like Partner Boat Pose, Partner Seated Forward Bend, enhancing love and intimacy.
Interdependent respiration Yoga Pose
Ways to Achieve Success:
- First, sit down with your backs touching and your legs crossed at the ankles or shins.
- Secondly, put your hands on your partner’s thighs or knees and relax.
- Feel the rear of your partner’s rib cage against your own as you inhale and exhale three times.
- Fourth, spend three to five minutes rehearsing.
It’s a wonderful first posture since it fosters intimacy and prepares you for more advanced poses with your partner. Partner breathing is a great method to relax and refocus as a pair, even if you don’t plan on doing the complete technique.
Temple Yoga Pose
Ways to Achieve Success:
- To begin, please stand face to face.
- Stand with your hip-width apart feet, inhale, raise your arms high, and tilt forward at the hips to touch your partner’s hands as you come together.
- Third, bend forward at the knees, bringing the upper arms to rest on the floor with the elbows, forearms, and hands pressed together.
- Put your full weight against each other, number four.
- 5 – 7 breaths, then gently move toward each other, raising your body erect and letting your arms down.
This pose prepares your upper body for more challenging ones by opening your shoulders and chest. Besides that, it simply feels great.
Partner forward fold Yoga Pose
Ways to Achieve Success:
- While sitting facing each other, spread your legs wide to make a ‘V’ shape, making sure that your feet are touching and your kneecaps are pointing straight up.
- To do this, hold your arms outstretched with your palms facing each other and your forearms together.
- Third, take a deep breath in and stretch your spine.
- 4 Let out an exhalation while one of you leans forward from the hips and the other of you sits back, maintaining a neutral spine and relaxed arms.
- Take five to seven deep breaths in the stance.
- Sixth, when you’re ready to break out of the stance, unhook your arms and straighten your torsos. To pull your partner into the forward fold, repeat the process the other way.
- The forward fold in this pose is a fantastic hamstring opener, and if you take five to seven deep breaths to enjoy the posture, you may switch places with your partner and experience a state of deep relaxation.
Twist While Seated Yoga Pose
Ways to Achieve Success:
- To get into mountain posture, sit cross-legged behind each other.
- Take your partner’s left thigh in your right hand, and your right knee in your left. Equal positioning between you and your companion is essential.
- Stretch your spine while inhaling, then twist as you exhale.
- After four or six deep breaths, release the twist and repeat on the other side.
This posture, like other twisting movements, is useful for purifying and detoxifying the body by increasing spinal flexibility and facilitating the digestive process. (It’s natural for your back to crack a little when you twist, especially if you aren’t completely warmed up, so don’t worry about it.)
Five-Pointed Star Yoga Pose
Ways to Achieve Success:
- First, while sitting in a circle with your legs crossed, decide in advance who will fold forward and who will come into a backbend.
- The second step is for the practitioner to stretch forward with their hands and lay their forehead on the mat or a block. When one partner does a backbend, the other leans back on their back, opening up their own heart and chest.
- Take a few deep breaths and see if you can sense each other’s breathing here.
- Hold this position for five deep breaths, then switch partners.
This combines two traditional yoga postures—the backbend and the forward fold—that are great for stretching your body and preparing you to tackle more challenging poses with a partner.
Forward Fold in Standing Position Yoga Pose
Ways to Achieve Success:
- One should start by standing about six inches apart from one other with their backs to each other and their heels together.
- Reduce your height by folding forward. Put your hands behind your back and grab your partner’s shins at the front.
- Three, count to five before releasing.
- With your partner’s help, you can go further into a forward fold without worrying about losing your balance.
Savasana Yoga Pose with a Partner
Ways to Achieve Success:
- One, get on your backs while holding hands.
- You should take some time to unwind and relax.
- Take five to ten minutes to unwind here.
Savasana is one of our favorite moments of a yoga session; perhaps you feel otherwise. When you’re done practicing, take a moment to rest so that your body and mind can soak up all the benefits. Savasana with a partner is a great way to feel your partner’s energy and physical support. Yoga Moves for Partners at the Intermediate Level
Twin Tree Yoga Pose
Ways to Achieve Success:
- Standing next to each other with your feet hip-width apart and your arms at your sides, strike this stance.
- Second, with feet shoulder-width apart, clasp inner palms and raise them upward.
- Second, with both feet together, move your outer legs in toward your inner standing leg by bending your knees.
- Hold for five to eight breaths, and then slowly come out of the posture.
- Fourth, switch your body’s orientation and strike the same stance again.
Vrikshasana (tree pose) is a challenging yoga posture that requires a lot of concentration and balance if practiced on your own. But if you do a twin tree pose with a partner, you should have more support and balance to truly get it down.
Chairs Yoga Pose That Face Each Other
Ways to Achieve Success:
- With your feet hip-width apart, stand back-to-back with your partner; then, slowly step out your feet while leaning onto your partner’s back for balance. If you feel secure doing so, interlace your arms for further support.
- Second, assume a chair stance by squatting down slowly (your knees should be directly over your ankles). To get into chair posture, you might have to spread your feet farther apart.
- Maintain constant, mutual pressure for maximum support.
- Four, maintain this position for a few breaths, then gently release it as you bring your feet back into the starting position.
- You must be feeling the heat now, right? Since you must rely on your partner to prevent you from falling, this position works your quads and builds trust between you.
Boat Yoga Pose
Ways to Achieve Success:
- First, have each person sit on a separate end of the mat with their legs together. In this step, your partner’s hands should be held outside your hips.
- Raise your legs and contact your partner’s soles while maintaining a neutral spine. Stretch your legs as far as you can, keeping your body in a straight line.
- To discover your footing in this position, you may choose to straighten one leg at a time as you practice.
- Hold for the count of five, then switch sides.
If you and your partner can’t balance with your feet touching, that’s okay; you can still get a nice stretch by contacting just one foot (and with practice, you’ll be able to touch both feet). Pose Variations for Advanced Yogis
Double Down dog Yoga Pose
Ways to Achieve Success:
- One person is in front of the other and both are on the ground with their shoulders over their wrists. To do this, slowly and deliberately walk your knees and feet back five or six inches, until you are balanced on the balls of your feet.
- While exhaling, pull the sit bones up and into a down dog position.
- You should both be in a secure and comfortable posture, therefore step three is to carefully slide your feet and hands back till you can walk your feet softly to the outside of their lower back, discovering the back of their hips.
- Talk to one another as you go through the changes to make sure everyone is okay with how far they’re going.
- After five to seven deep breaths, have your partner bend your knees, bringing your hips down toward the tabletop, and into child’s pose, as you slowly release your feet to the floor. The “base” down dog position can be switched, and the other person becomes the “top.”
This little inversion helps increase spinal elongation. It’s a great way to get people talking and bonding with one another. The person on the ground benefits from the stretch and release of their hamstrings and lower back, while the one on top may build upper-body strength in preparation for handstands.
Inverted V-Sit Yoga Pose
Ways to Achieve Success:
- Assume a plank stance with the stronger and/or taller partner first. Wrists should be directly beneath the shoulders, and you should maintain a strong core and straight legs. Step over your partner’s hips while they are in a plank position and have them face your feet.
- From a standing position, squat down to your partner and grip their ankles. Keep your core tight and your arms straight as you experiment with raising one foot and resting it on your partner’s shoulder. If it seems safe, add the second foot while keeping your grasp firm and your arms straight.
- Keep this position for three to five breaths, and then slowly lower yourself to the floor.
This AcroYoga position is great for beginners since it helps build strength and trust in your partner.