Can I do yoga during menstruation?

We know that yoga is a sport that can help you lose weight. It is also a kind of exercise that can maintain health and enhance and promote body flexibility. Many women have now heard that losing weight during menstruation can double the effect of weight loss, so they choose to practice yoga during menstruation. So, can women practice yoga during menstruation? Let’s find out together.

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).

Since the position of our lower limbs has not changed and the pressure in the body has not changed, it is not easy to cause menstrual blood reflux. As long as your physical condition allows and you do not move up and down too quickly when practicing forward bending, you can practice it with confidence.

We know that yoga is now a popular method of losing weight and exercising. But it doesn’t just exercise your body, it also exercises your mood. It just so happens that many women feel irritable and easily angered during their menstruation. Therefore, doing yoga during menstruation can also improve your body and mind.