Can women practice yoga during menstruation?

Many women who like to exercise will practice yoga when they have free time, but many women also practice yoga during their menstrual period. Everyone should know that yoga is used to maintain health. Many people practice yoga for health reasons, even during their menstrual period. Proper exercise can also help eliminate harmful substances, but if you exercise too intensely, it may cause menstrual disorders and other problems. Let's take a look at the precautions.

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. You can choose to take a complete break and stop any asana practice, or you can choose very gentle practices to better relax, such as supine and forward-bending poses, either sitting on the ground or supported by a cushion.

The key words here are: rest, relaxation, peace and introspection.

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 or learning postures

Because you cannot do too strenuous exercise during your menstrual period, as it will cause menstrual disorders and prevent the excretion of toxic substances from the body. In order to prevent menstrual disorders caused by intense exercise during menstruation, please read this requirement before doing yoga. So it is not that you cannot do yoga during menstruation, but you need to do it appropriately and avoid strenuous exercise.