Bid goodbye to your menstrual health issues with this yoga pose. Image courtesy: Shutterstock
Most of us live such fast-paced lives that we begin to compromise on our health. Not only does this lackadaisical attitude cause weight gain, but it also leads to a range of menstrual health issues, such as infertility, managing PCOS, endometriosis, hormonal imbalance, and more. But as always, yoga can come to your rescue, and there’s a specific pose that can help. Yes, we are speaking about chandra namaskar or moon salutations.
This practice includes a range of poses, which offer various benefits. Yogini Juhi Kapoor has also shared this, in her recent Instagram video!
Here are the poses you must make note of:
1. Tadasana
This pose boosts blood circulation, strengthens calf muscles, and improves posture.
Here’s how to do it:Stand with your feet pressing firmly into the ground, hip-width distance apart with the toes pointing in slightly.
Drop the tailbone, stretch your spine and roll the shoulders away from the ears.
Place the palms together at the heart centre.
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2. Konasana
It strengthens your side core muscles and improves breathing capacity.
Here’s how to do it:
Stand straight with feet about hip-width distance apart, and arms on the side.
Breathe in and raise the left arm up, so that your fingers point towards the ceiling.
Breathe out and bend to the right, first from the spine, and next, move your pelvis to the left and bend a little more.
Keep your left arm pointing up.
Turn your head to look up at the left palm. Straighten the elbows.
Breathing in, straighten your body back up.
Breathing out, bring the left arm down.
3. Utkatkonasana
It improves reproductive function, helps to boost blood circulation around the reproductive system, and boosts fertility.
Here’s how to do it:
Stand straight, and keep your feet apart. Bend the elbows at shoulder height and turn the palms facing each other.
Turn the feet out 45 degrees facing the corners of the room, and as you exhale bend the knees over the toes squatting down.
Press the hips forward and the knees back.
Drop the shoulders down and back and press the chest toward the front of the room.
Look straight ahead with the chin parallel to the floor.
4. Trikonasana
This pose helps to open your hamstrings, strengthen the side core, and helps to tone the abdominal region. It also helps to fights the fat around the love handles.
Here’s how to do it:
Stand straight with your legs apart. The distance between your legs should be a little more than your shoulders.
Inhale and raise your right hand straight above your head.
As you exhale, bend your torso at the waist, to your left side.
Simultaneously, slide your left arm down along your left leg till your fingers are at your ankle.
Your right arm must be horizontal, as your head is tilted left.
Hold the pose with your knees and elbows straight.
Here are a few benefits that are offered by chandra namaskar:
Helps with better reproductive function
Helps improve emotional health
Helps balance hormones, and improves the function of thyroid
Great to improve conditions like PCOS, menopausal troubles, endometriosis
Helps to relieve stress, anxiety, cools down your system
Note:
It can be done daily (3-6 rounds)
It can be done during periods
Hold each posture for 5-10 counts
You can also do it in a flow without holding the postures, in order to boost the heart rate
Most beneficial when done in the evening, facing a rising moon(can be done otherwise too)
Do NOT do it in case of cervical trouble. Pregnant women can do this pose, only under the guidance of their prenatal yoga teacher (with certain modifications as suggested by the teacher). Avoid in case of arthritis
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