Elevate your orgasm by breathing
The way you breathe affects your entire body and breathing is also a crucial part of your orgasm. From experiences, we know that releasing sexual energy by taking deep breaths before and during orgasming elevates our orgasms. Sexologists and sex educators are confirming this theory. However, the explanations of the relationship between breath and orgasm, are not as gayforward as we thought, so we decided to conduct some research around this topic. To begin with, we could not find a scientific explanation (which is not really a surprise seeing that female pleasure and orgasm is an extremely poorly researched topic that has only recently started gaining attention). Nevertheless, we found a couple of interesting links that, in varying degrees, explain the causal relationship between breathing and orgasm.
Breathing to calm down
Deep breathing also goes by the names of diaphragmatic breathing, abdominal breathing, belly breathing, and paced respiration. Unless specified differently, this is the type of breathing we are referring to. It is one of the key techniques to overcome stress and anxiety. On a basic level, deep breathing encourages full oxygen exchange — that is, the beneficial trade of incoming oxygen for outgoing carbon dioxide. It increases the supply of oxygen to your brain and stimulates the parasympathetic nervous system, which promotes a state of calmness. In other words, the act of breathing deeply sends a message to your brain to calm down and relax. Your brain then transmits this information to your entire body which should ideally help you to overcome some of the symptoms of being stressed, such as increased heart rate and high blood pressure.
Breathing to connect with body energy
Yoga
Deep breathing is also an integral part of yoga. Actually, some yogis claim that breathing correctly is even more important than perfecting the physical poses. In yoga, breath is used to control prana (the vital force, or the energy that animates the lungs). This practice is also called pranayama, the term for controlling the breath (prana = breath or life force energy and yama = control) and one of yoga’s eight practices. When combining yogic breath and poses you are supposed to feel an uplifting effect on the energetic body (seven energy centers or ‘chakras’).
Tantric sex
Tantric sex originates in ancient India, dating back more than 5,000 years. It means ‘woven together’, or ‘the weaving and expansion of energy’. It is about weaving together the physical and the spiritual. Tantra teaches you to connect with your body (and with your partner). Breathing is used to circulate sexual energy through your body (and your partner’s). This practice of circulating the sexual energyis also used for edging, or delaying orgasm, which can additionally intensify the orgasm experience. Although Tantra is, in principle, not orgasm focused, there are several types of orgasms in tantra, of which the most interesting is probably the energy orgasm, while the most famous one is probably the full-body orgasm. Crucial for reaching either of these two is maintaining a holistic awareness of your body instead of localizing attention on your genitals.
Breathing to reduce pain during labor
Breathing exercises are a part of every childbirth class. Breathing is supposed to work for reducing pain during labor in several ways. Focused breathing or Lamaze breathing, is supposed to help interrupt the transmission of pain signals to your brain by giving you something positive to focus on. It may also work by stimulating the release of endorphins, which are natural pain-relieving hormones. Finally, controlling breathing is supposed to help you reframe your thinking about labor so that you view it as positive, productive and manageable.
Breathing to elevate your orgasm
According to our research, sex education tends to rely on knowledge about the benefits of breathing in all of the above-mentioned practices. This knowledge is tied together in a way that allows the following explanations. The most common one relates to maximizing your breathing in order to help boost your circulation, which is crucial to the sexual response cycle. The sexual response cycle is the sequence of physical and emotional changes that occur as a person becomes sexually aroused and enjoys sexually stimulating activities.
Second, many people tend to hold their breath, or endeavor in shallow breathing, as well as tighten their body and muscles as they approach orgasm. Our muscles tense up around our sexual climax and then release. Some tension might be necessary to experience an orgasm. However, releasing these muscles can help you to experience more pleasure and bring your orgasm to the next level. Breathing through your pelvic floor helps to loosen your muscles. We normally tense our muscles and hold our breath during the peak of our orgasm and only relax them after the release of the orgasm. This habit tends to shorten the duration of our orgasm. Taking a deep breath and engaging our pelvic floor, can help us to extend the orgasm peak and release cycle.
Summary
From mental health we have learned that breathing correctly is crucial for calming down your brain and body, as well as for overcoming anxious thoughts and being present in the moment. Needless to say that being calm and focused is a crucial first step on your path to orgasm. Yoga has taught us that breathing combined with movement stimulates a connection with your energetic body. We have learned that breath carries energy. Building on this, Tantra has taught us that breathing combined with circulating your energy helps to build up your orgasm and to experience multiple and full-body orgasms. Next, although sex, ideally, does not relate to the pain experienced during giving birth, orgasming oftentimes also feels overwhelmingly intense, like labor does. Following this, knowing how to use your breath helps you to refocus your attention while still orgasming. From sex education we have learned that breathing correctly is beneficial for boosting your circulation as well as for relaxing your muscles, which have a beneficial effect on your sexual response cycle.
We would suggest doing the following:
Start by observing your common orgasm breathing practice. Many people tend to hold their breath when they are nearing an orgasm, this can happen when you are distracted (may it be by a lack of time, noise, hot weather, etc.), or you may hold your breath to initiate the orgasm.
Try to draw your breaths out a little longer to see how it changes your experience. The trick is to focus on your breath already before you orgasm, not merely during. There is no targeted amount of time to aim for. Rather, it is about breathing deeply through your diaphragm instead of taking shallow inhales and exhales through your chest. It may help to visualize sending the oxygen, and sexual energy out through their pelvic regions. Continue experimenting with this. If you need more information, you can look up orgasmic breathing, as well as tantrix sex.
The best part of this is that you can try these exercises and achieve mind-blowing orgasms all on your own, just as much as you can with a partner! Happy orgasming!
Let us know how this has worked for you!
