What are the yoga poses for relieving menstrual cramps?

Women will have a visit from their "aunt" every month, and during this period they are prone to various physical discomforts. Some people will experience headaches and physical fatigue, but the most common complaint is dysmenorrhea. Women who suffer from dysmenorrhea feel awkward and uncomfortable, especially when they have to deal with a lot of work and are often unable to cope with it. So how to relieve dysmenorrhea? In fact, some yoga movements can help women relieve emotions and regulate dysmenorrhea.

Six yoga poses for women to relieve dysmenorrhea during menstruation:

1. Lying Butterfly Pose

1. Lie flat on the ground, bend your feet with the soles of your feet facing each other, and slowly open your knees to the sides of the floor.

2. If your knees cannot touch the floor, you can place a rolled-up yoga mat under your knees. You can keep this position for about 5 minutes. You can feel your body relaxing and your mind empty. You can put your hands on your abdomen and feel the rise and fall of your breathing. This is a super soothing movement. It looks simple, but it can stretch and strengthen the inner thigh muscles at the same time.

2. Child pose

1. Sit with your buttocks on your heels, straighten your upper body, and place your arms on your

2. When exhaling, slowly bend your upper body forward, lightly touch your forehead to the ground, and place your hands casually at your sides. Relax your whole body and hold for a few breaths before slowly rolling up your upper body section by section.

The action of lowering the head below the heart helps to stabilize floating thoughts. Remember to stand up slowly! This allows the blood flowing back to the head to return to the lower body along the way. Standing up suddenly may cause dizziness!

3. Lying with your hands on your knees

1. Lie flat on the ground, bend your knees close to your hips and place them on the ground, and place your hands flat on the ground at your sides to prepare.

2. Put your hands around your knees, bring them towards your body, "gently" press your abdomen, and shake your body left and right as if you are massaging your back. This movement can help us relieve abdominal discomfort during menstruation and eliminate back tension.

4. Corpse Pose

1. Lie flat on the ground with your arms and legs open in the most comfortable position.

2. Roll up the yoga mat or prepare a large rolled towel and place it under your knees. You can stay there for as long as you want.

3. This posture can also be practiced before going to bed. It is often one of the favorite movements for beginners. In fact, it is also the most popular for any long-term practitioner. After a series of exercises, relax!

5. Cobra Pose

1. Promote blood circulation, nourish spinal nerves and blood vessels, make the glands in the body "regularly active", improve menstruation, and benefit the recovery of reproductive organs and female sexual dysfunction.

2. Lie prone, stretch your legs naturally backwards, and place your hands in front of your chest, perpendicular to the floor. Slowly straighten your arms to support your body, lean your spine back, and relax your neck.

6. Wheeled

1. Promote blood circulation, enhance the elasticity and health of the spine, stretch and nourish the internal organs, improve physical and mental fatigue and discomfort during menstruation, keep the mind clear and the senses sharp.

2. Lie on your back, bend your legs, and keep your heels as close to your thighs as possible. Place your hands by your ears. Inhale, push your arms and legs downward together, lift your back off the ground, and arch your body. Keep breathing naturally.