How Breathwork Can Enhance Your Orgasm
If you want to supercharge your orgasms, the breath may be your new favorite path to ecstasy. Breathwork can actually enhance your orgasm.
Breathwork techniques continue to gain momentum as we collectively learn how to harness the magic within our bodies. The way air gives life to us can be a window into everything from our well-being to an even bigger orgasm.
Why Breathing Matters
Every breath pattern can affect our bodies and guide us into different emotional and physical states. Fast breathing or hyperventilating are often associated with heavy exercise, stress, and anxiety. Slower breathing can feel like they connect us to a clearer state of mind or help us minimize stress and relax.
Our breathing can influence which nervous system we engage, which is useful in your everyday life and your sex life. Deep breathing can connect us to our parasympathetic nervous system, which sends signals that tell us we’re safe and don’t have to be anxious.
This is why everyone says to take a deep breath so that you can feel at peace in your body and the moment, especially when you’re someone that experiences anxiousness or self-doubt in the bedroom.
How to Breathe During Sex
Most people are accustomed to shallow, fast-paced breathing during sex, or even holding their breath. It’s easy to feel out of breath or even tempted to emulate sexual breathing patterns that have been popularized in the media, but this tension may be blocking you from earth-shattering orgasms.
Abdominal breathing can relax your pelvic muscles and increase circulation while keeping you in a state of sexual confidence. If you’re new to abdominal breathing try placing your hands on your lower stomach, and try to take big breaths into your lower body so as to balloon your abdomen. Slowly breathe out and feel your belly slowly deflate.
Partner Breathwork
Now that you understand why breathing matters and what type to start incorporating, you can invite your partner onto the pleasure train with you.
Abdominal breathing may take some practice, so try implementing it into your foreplay with your sexual partner. Tantric sex encourages synchronizing your breath in tandem with eye-gazing for deeper connection and intimacy.
Add some of your focus and attention onto your genitalia, and try to feel and visualize each inhale moving into this area. You may feel tingling or a well of sexual energy accumulate as you and your partner breathe yourselves into higher arousal states.
And, if you decide to do this on your own, consider adding a stimulation gel alongside a genital massage while you breath to help you create that connection for building sexual energy with breathwork.
“Big O” Breathing Technique
There are a variety of breathwork techniques out there that you can play around with as you find what works best for you. You can try “Big O” breathing for a more circular, slow build as you lead up to the grand finale.
Relax your muscles and begin taking long, deep breaths in through your nose and out through your mouth. Try to maintain a circular breath like your upcoming “O” with little pausing in between the breath as you slowly visualize energy building up your body.
Do this alongside stimulation on your genitals with lube, and imagine energy slowly filling you from your feet up into your head, which may take some time. As you find yourself draw closer to the orgasm, try squeezing on the exhale in your genitalia while imagining energy expand.
Continue this entrancing flow of breath and energy in your circular motion until you can’t take it anymore. It’s normal for emotions to come up such as crying or laughter as this energy starts to freely move throughout your body.
Breathwork is “work,” and can take practice as we learn to connect with our bodies and elevate our threshold for pleasure through relaxation and deeper breathing. Breathwork can enhance your orgasm, so it's definitely worth the work.
