Instagram star shows off her weightlifting routine - but she doesn't use her hands

Kim Anami uses her vagina to lift various objects. Photo / Instagram, @kimanami

By Stephanie Linning for MailOnline

From arms and legs to abs and buttocks, weight-lifting can be a great way to keep yourself in shape.

But this fitness guru uses the technique to work out rather more unusual body part, reports the Daily Mail.

Intimacy coach Kim Anami, who splits her time between Bali and Los Angeles, has taught herself how to use only the muscles in her vagina to hoist a remarkable array of objects, from lutes to paintings and buckets to bottles.

She attaches each object to a jade egg, which she inserts into her vagina and holds in place using her pelvic muscles.

She claims the technique strengthens the pelvic floor and increases sexual pleasure, and can be particularly beneficial for new mothers.

Ms Anami, who describes herself as a 'holistic sex and relationship expert, vaginal weightlifter and surfer', started practicing what she calls 'Vaginal Kung Fu' 20 years ago, and has built up a devoted Instagram following with photos of her demonstrating the practice in exotic locations around the world.

One recent photograph shows her standing on a rocky mountainside in Morocco, a ceramic glazed bowl filled with couscous dangling between her legs.

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$100k says my vaginas are happier, healthier and stronger. ⠀ ⠀ Jen Gunter, I challenge you to a Vagina-Off. ⠀ ⠀ This woman has made the rounds of the internet lately, with her bullshit claims that jade yoni eggs are "toxic and dangerous." ⠀ ⠀ So put your money where your vagina is. ⠀ ⠀ I am so confident of the phenomenal results that are shown in the lives and loves of my client vaginas, I’m willing to bet $100,000- that they surpass yours in all of these areas:⠀ ⠀ - Orgasms⠀ - Natural lubrication⠀ - Ejaculation⠀ - Sexual pleasure and sensation⠀ - Overall rejuvenation of their sex lives and thus their relationships/marriages⠀ - Libido⠀ - Reversal of urinary stress incontinence⠀ - Improvement in PMS, difficult periods and menopause⠀ ⠀ My vaginas are going to kick your vaginas’ asses.⠀ ⠀ Read about the full wager here: ⠀ ⠀ http://kimanami.com/the-100000-vagina/⠀ ⠀ #vaginalkungfu #poweredbyvagina #jadeeggs #yonieggs #thingsiliftwithmyvagina ⠀ ⠀ Image: Me, and my Oscar-winning vagina on Hollywood Boulevard, symbolically standing on the star of Hedy Lamarr—because beauty, brains and vagina are where it’s at. ⠀

A post shared by Kim Anami (@kimanami) on Feb 1, 2017 at 12:06pm PST

Another marking awards season earlier this year captures Kim on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, lifting a replica Academy Award.

She previously told Daily Mail that her aim is to to encourage women to develop their pelvic muscles to improve their health.

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#thingsiliftwithmyvagina The Euro Series ⠀ ⠀ In the dreamy five villages, or Cinque Terre, of Italy. Slinging olive oil. This place has been on my to-do and then my to-lift list ever since I first saw it. Gorgeous rainbow villages carved into sea cliffs. ⠀ #vaginalkungfu⠀ #italy ⠀ #cinqueterre⠀ #poweredbyvagina

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"Much of my work is about breaking down sexual barriers: opening conversations about sex and daring to say the things that deep down (very deep, like cervix deep) people want to hear and say, but generally don't," Ms Anami wrote on her Instagram page.

"There are the emotional walls that we erect to protect ourselves. The choice to fear instead of open...

"Until all of these barriers come down, until we soften and chip away at the hardness, we can't fully feel."

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#thingsiliftwithmyvagina The Morocco Series. 50 Shades of Blue. In the blue city of Chefchaouen, Morocco. Lifting a clay tagine. This city in northern Morocco is painted entirely in blue tones. The blue is meant to be symbolic of the sky and heaven, a reminder to keep one’s attention ever upward. #thingsiliftwithmyvagina #vaginalkungfu #poweredbyvagina #morocco #chefchaouen

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