Male Siddhasana

Siddhasana means “Seat of the perfected ones” and when you sit this way, you will feel what the term means. Its estatic!!!!!



This excerpt comes from Advanced Yoga Practices by Yogani:



For men, the advanced siddhasana is similar. The inside heel is

brought forward to rest comfortably in the soft place just behind the

pubic bone where the urethra comes out. Anatomically, it is analogous

to where the opening of the woman's yoni is. As the heel presses

comfortably up into the soft area a direct stimulation of the inner

energies is experienced. This is also where the heel can easily be

used to block ejaculation by leaning forward on it. Once preorgasmic

stimulation in siddhasana becomes stable, the blocking is not

necessary. In some schools of yoga, siddhasana is taught as a tool to

prevent erection. This requires a lot of pressure sustained in

siddhasana, squeezing the root of the lingam against the back of the

pubic bone, sometimes for extended periods. This is not recommended

in these lessons. We always strive for comfortable, pleasurable

practice. It is not necessary to try and strangle external

expressions of sex that come up during practices. In these lessons,

siddhasana is always used in a natural and healthy way to gently coax

the ecstatic energies upward.



Erection will come and go during sitting practices, with or without

siddhasana. As the nervous system becomes accustomed to cultivating

sexual energy upward during yoga practices, external arousal and

erections become less and less. This settling down of genital arousal

and erection in yoga is not at the expense of our sexual relations at

other times. It is just a different mode of sexual functioning that

happens in sitting practices, where the energy is going up instead of

down, so the genital energy turns in and up in that case. Then when it

is time for sexual relations, the genitals will naturally turn outward.

So we find our sexuality can go in one direction or the other. Of

course, in full-blown tantric sexual relations, the sexual function

is going both outward and inward at the same time, with the key

process being the preorgasmic cultivation during sexual relations.

That is what keeps sex in the realm of yoga. As soon as sex is

primarily for the goal of genital orgasm, it is not tantric anymore.

It is the conscious goal of preorgasmic cultivation (brahmacharya) ( seminal Retention) ( Continence)

that makes sex yogic.