Can women practice yoga during their menstrual period?

Yoga is now popular all over the world. Many women want to have a beautiful body, especially obese people, who want to lose weight through yoga. Many women practice yoga unremittingly. Many people have great doubts at the beginning of the practice. Is it physiologically appropriate for women to practice yoga? In fact, the answer to this question is yes, but you need to pay attention to some things. Let me tell you!

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 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).

During this period, you can choose to practice or rest, which depends mainly on your personal preference. When continuing to practice, there are some asanas that you should be careful about, such as those related to inversions, abdominal contractions, and energy-boosting exercises, which are best not practiced. Because of physiological problems, this may cause you discomfort. Postures that cannot be practiced: All inverted postures (such as plow pose, headstand, shoulder stand, etc.), postures that squeeze the abdomen (such as back extension pose, single-leg extension pose), intense postures that require great body tolerance (such as wheel pose), etc. Stop immediately if you feel uncomfortable.

You can do some standing or kneeling postures that are gentle on the body (such as yoga mudras, bowing pose, triangle pose, tree pose, cat pose, snake pose, etc.). It is not suitable to do inverted postures or postures that squeeze the abdomen during menstruation, as some menstrual blood that should be discharged from the body will be retained in the body, affecting menstrual health. Avoid strenuous exercise during menstruation. You can practice some gentle stretching postures to massage your body. After the menstrual period is over, practicing more yoga (including postures such as inversion) can eliminate the symptoms of discomfort during menstruation and is beneficial to the body and mind.

Women can practice yoga during their menstrual period, but they need to pay attention to not doing some movements, such as handstands. In addition, do not move too vigorously. You can practice some movements that are helpful to the body. Most coaches will tell you in advance and emphasize that you must keep warm during your menstrual period and take good care of yourself to avoid infection.