Can women do yoga during menstruation?

Women should pay more attention to their physical health during menstruation, because the female body is relatively fragile during menstruation. Sometimes doing something blindly may cause more adverse effects and harm to our health invisibly. So what I want to introduce to you below is whether women can practice yoga during menstruation.

From a physiological point of view, due to the impact of changes in hormone secretion on physical strength and emotions, it is recommended to minimize intense and busy external activities and stimulation, and instead enter a state of introspection and meditation. Working women may not have much choice to "retreat" when they have to go to work, but they can still practice moving, working and interacting with people in a low-key and retreating mentality during these days and change the way they practice yoga. In principle, practicing yoga during menstruation should help us eliminate discomfort and fatigue, restore physical strength, stabilize emotions, and maintain inner peace (although the opposite is often the case). The degree to which each woman is affected physically and mentally during menstruation varies. Therefore, ladies who practice yoga regularly should develop an inner "hearing" to listen to the signals sent by the body and mind, and use your intuition to judge whether you should practice asanas today, what to practice and how to practice, etc. No one can make decisions for you except yourself. You can choose to take a complete break and stop any asana practice, or you can choose very gentle practices to better relax, such as supine and forward-bending poses, either sitting on the ground or supported by a cushion.

The key words here are: rest, relaxation, peace and introspection.

Based on this principle, exercises that should be avoided during menstruation are:

1) Avoid all inversion postures (those in which the uterus is above the heart), which interfere with the natural downward movement of the body's energy (apana) during menstruation.

2) Postures that are too intense and can easily cause tension and fatigue.

3) Maintaining a standing or balancing posture for too long.

4) Intense backbends such as bow pose, camel pose, wheel pose, etc.

The above is some common sense about whether women can practice yoga during their menstrual period. Paying attention to the knowledge and understanding of these common sense can achieve better results in their menstrual health care. I also hope that every female friend can abide by these menstrual health care principles so that they can spend their menstrual period easily and happily.