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Yoga and Sexual Health

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  • Asanas, mudras and bandhas for sexual health

  • Pranayama and meditation for sexual disorders

The chapter is based on our experience with Yoga, Ayurveda and other alternative systems of Indian medicine and their positive impact on sexual health. Consciousness or the inner awareness exists within our body in two forms: static and dynamic. There is a concept of a nonanatomical-subtle energy body (SEB) and a non-physiological-subtle energy generator (SEG). SEG is a sort of dynamic consciousness and is also called Mool Prana, Anhad Naad, Kundalini, etc.

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  1. Safdarjung Hospital and Vardhman Mahavir Medical College, New Delhi, India

    Manjit Singh MD

  2. Department of Orthopaedics, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India

    Amit Kumar MA, DYED

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Correspondence to Manjit Singh MD .

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  1. Department of Reproductive Biology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India

    Anand Kumar

  2. Department of Reproductive Biology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India

    Mona Sharma

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Singh, M., Kumar, A. (2017). Yoga and Sexual Health. In: Kumar, A., Sharma, M. (eds) Basics of Human Andrology. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-3695-8_30

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