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The third vital topic we’ll cover during Brigitte’s teleclass is “Sexercises: Strengthening The Love Muscles.”
Making love itself is a good exercise; it burns about 100 calories per session. There are also many exercises designed specifically for boosting sexual vitality, which we’ll talk about.
Here’s one example: The Kegel Exercises
“The kegel pelvic exercises have been known for thousands of years by practioners of tantra as mool Bandha, or ‘root locks.’ They are named after Dr. Arnold Kegel, who popularized them in North America in the 1950s as a treatment for stress-related incontinence.
Kegels release tension, improve circulation, and strengthen muscles in the pelvic area. For women, they can be used to strengthen muscles weakened by childbirth and to increase the occurrence and intensity of orgasms. For men, they give greater staying power and also massage the prostate. Kegels can also help men differentiate between orgasm and ejaculation.
To practice Kegels, you must tighten and then release the pubococcygeus muscles, which control the flow of urine and the anal sphincter. To find them, stop midstream the next time you are urinating. Can you feel the muscles in the pelvic area that allow you to halt the flow of urine? Then release. That tightening and then release amounts to one Kegel contraction.
When you practice Kegels, inhale while tightening and exhale while releasing. Hold each contraction for one to five seconds, and be sure to relax fully between contractions. Do the exercises three times daily, starting with twenty-one contractions at each session and working your way up to one hundred!
This is such a great exercise; you can practice them in a room full of people, no one would ever notice.”
Exercise and the Brain