Is it good to practice yoga during menstruation?

Many people now choose to practice yoga to exercise their bodies, but when you are doing yoga and suddenly your menstruation comes, isn’t it very unpleasant? Women say that they should be nicer to themselves during those days, but how unpleasant is it when you can’t practice yoga when you want to? The following editor will introduce to women who are menstruating, whether we are suitable for doing yoga during those days.

Whether it is good to practice yoga during menstruation depends on your personal constitution. As long as your physical condition allows and you don't move up and down too quickly when practicing forward bends, you can practice it with confidence.

Everyone has a different physical constitution. Some people will be very weak during their menstrual period, and are prone to back pain, dysmenorrhea, and poor physical condition. This will be particularly uncomfortable in the first two days of the menstrual period. The best way at this time is to rest, or do restorative yoga poses, such as the supine bound angle pose. After the most uncomfortable two days, you can do some soothing yoga exercises, not too intense, to help your body recover. During your non-menstrual period, pay attention to strengthening your posture and breathing exercises, which can help improve your physical condition and avoid problems such as dysmenorrhea.

Some people are in good physical condition and their bodies do not react much during their menstrual period. Generally speaking, they can adapt to normal yoga practice. Even so, they should try to avoid inversion exercises, abdominal compression and contraction exercises (various abdominal contraction core exercises), and deep backbend exercises (overstretching the skin and muscles on the front of the abdomen can easily cause abdominal pain during menstruation).

Menstrual period: Asanas should be avoided during menstruation. But if the menstrual flow exceeds the normal range. Then it would be beneficial to practice bound angle pose, bound angle pose, hero pose, head-to-knee pose, back bend stretch and enhanced forward bend pose. During menstruation, do not try headstand poses.

After reading the above content compiled by the editor for women, have you learned anything? Whether you can practice yoga depends on your own physical condition, but don’t do too much exercise when practicing, as that will be bad for you. Just try the methods compiled by the editor above, there is always a way that suits you.