Can I do yoga during my period?

With the promotion of yoga in our country, more and more people are beginning to understand and practice yoga, most of them are female friends. However, women always feel unwell for a few days every month. But can women do yoga during this period? Are there any taboos and precautions? Today let us take a look at whether women can do yoga during menstruation?

Every female student will encounter this problem, but the answer varies from person to person.

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.

Supine Bound Angle Pose

Supine Bound Angle Pose

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).

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.

We hope that the above content can be of some use to you, but many questions in life do not have definite answers. Therefore, we hope that you can test the truth through practice and find a method that suits you through practice. Of course, for friends who don’t know much about yoga, it is best to consult a professional yoga teacher rather than acting on your own.