Can women practice yoga during menstruation?

As more and more people practice yoga now, everyone must have more and more questions about yoga. For example, can you practice yoga during menstruation? What should you pay attention to? Which poses can be practiced and which cannot be practiced? Every woman who studies yoga will encounter this problem, but what is the answer? The editor here can tell you that the answer is not definite and it varies from person to person. Now, let me tell you in detail.

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).

People may also ask if Downward Dog and Double Angle Pose can be done during menstruation? The answer is yes. Some teachers think that these poses are also semi-inverted poses of the body, and practicing them during the menstrual period will easily cause menstrual blood reflux. However, in fact, menstrual blood reflux is mainly a problem of pressure in the body. In the Downward Dog pose and standing forward bend pose, although the upper body and even the pelvis are in an inverted state, the position of our lower limbs has not changed, and the pressure in the body has not changed. Therefore, it is not easy to cause menstrual blood reflux. As long as your physical condition allows, and do not move up and down too quickly when practicing forward bends, you can practice it with confidence.

The above is the editor’s understanding of practicing yoga during menstruation. Precisely because female friends are vulnerable during menstruation, we need to be more careful. Be sure to avoid inverted postures, postures that easily cause tension and fatigue, violent movements, movements that require balance with the arms, difficult postures, and learning new postures, and pay attention to the maintenance of your body.