Tuesday, March 17, 2015 - 5:17am

(CNN) Want to share more than commercialized romance with your significant other? Try Partner Yoga to put the emphasis back on connection instead of consumerism.

Partner Yoga is a style of yoga designed to connect people -- especially couples -- via the somatosensory system, otherwise known as your sense of touch.

Not only can physical contact reinforce intimate emotional connections and increase dopamine release to enhance pleasure sensations, but studies have shown it also reduces stress.

In 2006, Dr. James Coan, director of the Virginia Affective Neuroscience Laboratory at the University of Virginia, conducted an experiment with 16 married couples and found that holding your partner's hand reduces anxiety by mitigating the stress response.

According to Coan, subsequent research has shown that hand holding between loving couples also promotes enhanced health, overall well being and, even, increased life expectancy.

The Partner Yoga moves I've included below all involve hand holding and/or intertwining arms as the foundation for connection, so you and your partner can partake in your own touch-response experiment.

Coordinated Breathing

Sit across from your partner in a seated straddle position with your feet touching your partner's feet.

Reach out and clasp hands. Look at one another as you establish a long, deep breath.

Continued here:

Partner yoga doubles the pleasure and halves the stress

Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XT6FUzldRZ0

01. Yoga Pants - Beneath The Surface
Mediekanal for ulike prosjekter som medier og kommunikasjon dokumenterer.

By: medkom1

Read the original post:

01. Yoga Pants - Beneath The Surface - Video

Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NPDjU3AUZU

Yoga for Balance
This flow is built for balance and ankle strength. After I broke my ankle, I worked so hard to build back up the strength in the ankle to what it once was. Now it is actually the stronger of...

By: Rachel Priest Yoga

Read this article:

Yoga for Balance - Video

Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3R11ndtCxjY

Couples Yoga Challenge - SarahVlogsAndStuff
My Cousin Reagan and I attempt the couples yoga challenge (no, we #39;re not a couple) Twitter- https://twitter.com/sarah_kearns Insta- https://instagram.com/serrehk/ Like and subscribe!! Comment...

By: SarahVlogsAndStuff

Read more here:

Couples Yoga Challenge - SarahVlogsAndStuff - Video

Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7d-Ll2lHpI

You like Yoga? You like Math? Perfect Place For you!
This is a video that shows the relationship between yoga and quadratics.

By: Jongyup Park

Excerpt from:

You like Yoga? You like Math? Perfect Place For you! - Video

Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gzju4Fqqfgg

LOTIM motor Cross-Yoga Dwi Hermawan
Cirkuit Ijobalit.

By: Alif rj rahman jaelani

Go here to see the original:

LOTIM motor Cross-Yoga Dwi Hermawan - Video

Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULx9gVKZR5k

Lonely Hearts Sound - Heart Teaching Music For Yoga
Relaxation music is help relax of muscular system, nervous system and psyche can perform a science. when we listen a smoothing music, noise of waves after some time we feel much more relax....

By: Yog Sadhana

Go here to read the rest:

Lonely Hearts Sound - Heart Teaching Music For Yoga - Video

Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_1_pMzpXhs

Tweety Bird Pose | Cosmic Kids Yoga posture of the week
Tweety Bird Pose | Cosmic Kids Yoga posture of the week Subscribe for a weekly kids yoga posture! http://goo.gl/j6SvLJ This week Jaime shows us Tweety Bird Pose. For more fun kids yoga flows...

By: Cosmic Kids Yoga

Read the original here:

Tweety Bird Pose | Cosmic Kids Yoga posture of the week - Video

Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6fgLAfUfTI

The Yoga Co Singapore CNY greetings
Lunar New Year greetings from Sandra Riley Tang Pamela Yeo, Founders of The YoCo a yoga studio newly launched in 2015. The Yoga collective is a home style yoga studio concept.

By: intheloop SG

More here:

The Yoga Co Singapore CNY greetings - Video

Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZQcc217fwY

1 Hour Yoga Music: Study Music Brain Power, Focus Music, Studying Music, Work Music, Exam Music
Get your full album on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/concentration-study-work-best/id974137202?l=it ls=1 Join my website http://meditationrelaxclub.com/ 1 Hour Concentration...

By: meditationrelaxclub

Continue reading here:

1 Hour Yoga Music: Study Music Brain Power, Focus Music, Studying Music, Work Music, Exam Music - Video