Can I do yoga during menstruation?

As an effective aerobic exercise, yoga is loved by more and more people. It can not only help us strengthen our body, but also has the effect of losing weight and beautifying. It is undoubtedly a very good exercise for women. So, can we do yoga during those special days of each month? Or will doing yoga during this period be harmful to our body? Today, let's discuss the issue of doing yoga during menstruation.

Each of us has a different physical constitution. Some students will be very weak during their menstrual period, and are prone to back pain, dysmenorrhea, and poor physical condition. Such students will feel particularly uncomfortable in the first two days of their 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 two most uncomfortable days, you can do some soothing yoga exercises without too high intensity 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.

There are also some students who are in good physical condition and their bodies do not react too much during their menstrual period. Generally speaking, they can adapt to normal yoga practice. Even so, they should try to avoid inversion exercises, abdominal squeezing 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).

People may also ask if Downward Dog and Double Angle Pose can be done during menstruation? The answer is yes. Some teachers think that these poses are also semi-inverted poses of the body, and practicing them during the menstrual period will easily cause menstrual blood reflux. However, in fact, menstrual blood reflux is mainly a problem of pressure in the body. In the Downward Dog pose and standing forward bend pose, although the upper body and even the pelvis are in an inverted state, the position of our lower limbs has not changed, and the pressure in the body has not changed, so it is not easy to cause menstrual blood reflux.

It can be seen that during the menstrual period, due to the weaker strength of our waist and abdomen, we are relatively sore. Therefore, if there are yoga movements involving these two parts, the editor suggests that it is best to avoid them. Doing some gentler yoga movements can more effectively help us lose weight while maintaining good health.