What are the yoga detox poses during menstruation?

Menstruation is something that every girl has to go through. Generally speaking, women during menstruation are very weak. Especially for girls who suffer from dysmenorrhea, the menstrual period is even more uncomfortable. But relatively speaking, menstruation is also a good time to lose weight, detoxify and shape your body. Because during menstruation, all aspects of the body's operations are accelerated. Therefore, it is easier to detoxify. For example, doing yoga during menstruation is a very good way to detoxify.

1. Heroic

Kneel on the ground with your knees bent, thighs as wide as hips, calves slightly spread out, insteps touching the ground, buttocks sitting on the yoga brick, and back extended upward.

Interlace your fingers and stretch them upward, palms facing the ceiling, and keep breathing. Stay for 30 seconds to 1 minute.

Effect: Hero pose and Ox Face pose are mainly used to relieve joint pain caused by menstruation, especially hip and knee pain. By stretching the hands through breathing and relaxing the upper body muscles, they can also relieve pain in the back, shoulders and neck.

2. Forward Bend

Sit on the ground, stretch your legs forward, place two long pillows on your knees, exhale, overlap your elbows, relax your upper body forward, put your forehead close to your arms, hook your feet, and keep breathing. Stay for 3 to 5 minutes.

Efficacy: It can stabilize the anxiety and irritability caused by menstruation, and can also relieve dysmenorrhea and headaches.

3. Prayer

Bend your arms and bring your palms together behind your back, keeping them at waist height. Inhale slowly, open your elbows outwards, stretch your back upwards, move your clasped hands up to your chest, and hold your breath for about one minute.

Effect: The prayer pose can eliminate leg swelling during menstruation and prevent varicose veins, while the special hand posture can stretch the chest and shoulder muscles, increase the flexibility of the upper back, and eliminate shoulder and neck pain caused by menstruation.

4. Auspicious style

Lie flat on the pillow with your upper body, place a towel behind your head, bend your legs, use a yoga rope to fix the distance between your feet and hips, place two yoga bricks under each knee, relax your hands, place them on both sides of the body, and keep breathing. The duration of stay can be adjusted according to your preference.

Efficacy: Relieve dysmenorrhea and abdominal cramps caused by menstruation, reduce the heaviness of the uterus and pressure in the pelvic cavity, extend the chest cavity and stabilize emotions.