Can I practice yoga during my menstrual period?
You can practice yoga during menstruation.
Choosing some simple yoga movements during menstruation is helpful to promote blood circulation, balance internal organs, reduce gland congestion in pelvic cavity and abdominal cavity, regulate menstruation, relieve menstrual abdominal pain and relieve menstrual anxiety.
Menstrual yoga can relieve premenstrual anxiety symptoms, and if you practice some specific yoga movements, you can also relieve uncomfortable dysmenorrhea during dysmenorrhea.
Skinny leg yoga movement
Handheld running sprint
Runners should be very familiar with this position. Although this posture looks familiar, it is definitely different and can effectively shape thigh lines.
Inhale, and then hold your right leg with both hands, just like a soldier. Bend over, put your right arm through the bent knee, and keep your right ankle with both hands. Keep your center of gravity and stick to this position. If the inner thigh is really overburdened, you can support it on the floor with one hand or both hands. Hold this position and take five deep breaths. Then relax your hands on the floor and take back your right leg. Then exchange your left and right legs several times.
Two-handed support cross
Because runners mainly exercise the lower body, it is very important to exercise the upper body strength, especially the hands and shoulders. Let's have a try.
Relax your hands and put them on the right side of your right leg Bend your left knee, put your legs together and lift your hips. So your body is still twisted. Bend your arms, with your right hip on your right elbow and the outside of your right knee on your left elbow. Move your center of gravity to your hands, your feet off the ground, and your left foot straight back. Keep this action, take five deep breaths and then relax.
Double-leg oblique arch type
Stride with your feet apart and your toes tilted upward; At this time, the center of gravity of the body slowly moves to the left, while the arm is raised, the body slowly sinks to the left, the body is straight forward, and the left leg is in a lunge state until the knee presents a 90-degree angle. The whole action lasts 15 second. When you feel pain in the front of your thigh, be sure to hold it down and take a deep breath. Repeat 8 times left and right.
Lateral lizard
This lizard-like variant can exercise your crotch, which makes it difficult for you to exercise normally, and can also improve the flexibility of ligaments.
Start with the sprint and put your hands back on the ground. Keep the position of the right leg and slowly move the right knee to the right until the ligament can bear it to the maximum. Arms straight, tightly clamped on both sides of the chest, like a dog. This can help you keep your hips down and improve your body's stretchability. Look ahead and take five deep breaths.
What are the benefits of practicing yoga during menstruation?
Proper practice of yoga during menstrual period is helpful to promote blood circulation in the lower body, exercise pelvis, prevent abdominal fat accumulation and adjust the phenomenon of poor physiological period; At the same time, practicing yoga can strengthen the body and enhance resistance; Yoga can also restore the glandular nervous system, including the brain, and help improve personal mood.
The best time to practice yoga during menstruation
Get up early in the morning, use 10 to 15 minutes, and get in touch with yoga breathing and meditation before going to sleep at night; Using yoga posture to move the head, neck and shoulders before lunch and during lunch break can improve some uncomfortable symptoms during menstruation and benefit the body and mind.