Is yoga suitable for women during menstruation?

Yoga has now become women's favorite fitness sport. Practicing yoga proves that you are at the forefront of fashion. Some urban women also choose to practice yoga in order to relax their lives. Especially in some noisy cities, only by practicing yoga can one find a kind of inner peace. So, can women practice yoga during menstruation?

Some basic movements are fine, but it is better to do less or no movements that use the strength of the waist and abdomen. Otherwise, your period may end at four or five days, and then return to two or three days, with increased bleeding and lower abdominal pain, and other actions will not have a significant impact. 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.

Exercises that should be avoided during menstruation are:

1) Avoid all inversion postures (those in which the uterus is higher than the heart), which interfere with the natural downward detoxification process 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 backbending movements such as bow pose, camel pose, wheel pose, etc.

5) All postures that involve intense abdominal contraction and movement such as abdominal rotation (jatharaparivartanasana), supine leg raise (urdhva prasaritapadasana) and boat pose (navasana).

6) Jump.

7) Use your arms to support your whole body balance.

8) Avoid difficult postures or learn new postures.

Of course, if you don’t feel comfortable during your period, then just give yourself a complete rest, don’t do any exercise, and don’t think about any yoga moves. If you feel uncomfortable without doing yoga, you must choose some gentler methods so that your body can relax and not affect your menstrual health.