Most of the women face menstrual problems at least once in a life time. Yoga is one of the illustrious ways to cure menstrual delays. Read on to know which yoga postures can help to deal with delayed menstruation.
There are lot of reasons why menstrual problems like delayed menstruation is caused in women. Some of them include practising heavy work outs, sudden loss in weight, changes in diet pattern, excessive stress etc. Such activities bring about a lot of changes in a women's body. As per the rule of nature if any changes take place in the body, it has to respond to such changes. Delayed menstruation or menstrual problem is one of the ways in which women's body responds to these changes.
Practising yoga is one of the ways of correcting menstrual delays. There are several ways of treating menstrual delays. However, most of the women prefer to correct such menstrual problems through yoga. Yoga is preferred by many as it is regarded as one of the natural ways of treating menstrual problems. Read on to know about some of the yoga postures practised to treat a menstrual problem.
Yoga postures for delayed menstruation.
Yoga can be a remedy for many health problems. Listed below are some of the yoga postures or yoga asanas which can help to cure delayed menstruation.
Dhanurasana (bow pose)
Prone
Contraindication:
Back Injury, Shoulder Injury, Knee Injury, High Blood PressureBenefits:
Start Position:
Prone
Description:
Lay on your belly and bend the knees, reaching back with your arms. Clasp the right ankle with the right hand and left ankle with left hand. Exhale and press the pubic bone down into the mat. On inhale, lift your head, chest and thighs off the floor. Shift your weight to your abdomen and feel your pulse there. Press the ankles and tops of the feet up into the hands, feel a great stretch in the arms and legs. Your arms should be straight back behind you while you gaze ahead. Hold this here for several breaths.
Benefits:
Lay on your belly and bend the knees, reaching back with your arms. Clasp the right ankle with the right hand and left ankle with left hand. Exhale and press the pubic bone down into the mat. On inhale, lift your head, chest and thighs off the floor. Shift your weight to your abdomen and feel your pulse there. Press the ankles and tops of the feet up into the hands, feel a great stretch in the arms and legs. Your arms should be straight back behind you while you gaze ahead. Hold this here for several breaths.
Benefits:
Brings elasticity to the spine, aids digestion, tones back, tones abdominal s
Back Injury, Shoulder Injury, Knee Injury, High Blood PressureBenefits:
Virasan (hero's pose)
Start Position:
Seated
Description:
From Table pose, walk your hands back towards you and come to kneeling. If your knees are uncomfortable you may want to try using a folded blanket to cushion the legs and feet. Begin by bringing your inner knees to touch and slide your feet apart. Slowly plant your bottom down between your feet. If this is uncomfortable use a prop such as a block or blanket, placed directly under your sit bones. Mindfully allow the thighbones to rotate inward. Palms on your thighs or wherever feels right for you. Lengthen your spine from the crown of your head to your the tailbone. Remain here for as long as is comfortable. To release out of this pose, press your hands evenly into the floor and pushing back up to Table Pose. Give the legs a shake.
Benefits:
Helps flat feet
Stretches tops of feet
Increases circulation in the legs
Contraindication:
Knee Injury
Janu Shirsana(head to knee pose)
Start Position:
Seated
Description:
Begin by sitting tall in Staff Pose. Using your left hand to guide your left leg into a bent position and plant your heel in toward the perineum. Keep that foot flexed so that the sole of your left foot pressing into your right thigh as high as possible. Let you left knee to drop down toward the floor. With your right foot flexed, inhale your arms up and overhead until shoulder width apart and palms facing one another. Drop your shoulder blades farther down your back. Exhale and hinge from your hips, guiding your chest directly over your right leg. Use your slow and steady ocean breath to bring your abdomen, chest and then nose to your leg. You may find that holding your shin, foot or to clasp your hands around your foot works best for you. Hold this pose for several breaths. Engage your abdominals inward toward your spine and inhale up. Repeat on the left side.
Benefits:
Aids digestion, stretches hamstrings, stretches back body
Contraindication:
Herniated Disc, Low Back Injury
Baddha konasana (cobbler's pose)
Start Position:
Seated
Description:
From dandasna, bend your knees and sit with the soles of your feet together. Clasp your hands around your feet and begin to open your feet like your reading a book. Draw your heels in toward the perineum, but only as far as is comfortable. Use inhales to lengthen your spine up to the sky, rooting down with both of your sit bones and lengthening up with crown of your head upward. Use exhales to release your knees toward the floor by externally rotating your thighs. Hold here of for several breaths.
Benefits:
Start Position:
Seated
Description:
From Table pose, walk your hands back towards you and come to kneeling. If your knees are uncomfortable you may want to try using a folded blanket to cushion the legs and feet. Begin by bringing your inner knees to touch and slide your feet apart. Slowly plant your bottom down between your feet. If this is uncomfortable use a prop such as a block or blanket, placed directly under your sit bones. Mindfully allow the thighbones to rotate inward. Palms on your thighs or wherever feels right for you. Lengthen your spine from the crown of your head to your the tailbone. Remain here for as long as is comfortable. To release out of this pose, press your hands evenly into the floor and pushing back up to Table Pose. Give the legs a shake.
Benefits:
Helps flat feet
Stretches tops of feet
Increases circulation in the legs
Contraindication:
Knee Injury
Janu Shirsana(head to knee pose)
Start Position:
Seated
Description:
Begin by sitting tall in Staff Pose. Using your left hand to guide your left leg into a bent position and plant your heel in toward the perineum. Keep that foot flexed so that the sole of your left foot pressing into your right thigh as high as possible. Let you left knee to drop down toward the floor. With your right foot flexed, inhale your arms up and overhead until shoulder width apart and palms facing one another. Drop your shoulder blades farther down your back. Exhale and hinge from your hips, guiding your chest directly over your right leg. Use your slow and steady ocean breath to bring your abdomen, chest and then nose to your leg. You may find that holding your shin, foot or to clasp your hands around your foot works best for you. Hold this pose for several breaths. Engage your abdominals inward toward your spine and inhale up. Repeat on the left side.
Benefits:
Aids digestion, stretches hamstrings, stretches back body
Contraindication:
Herniated Disc, Low Back Injury
Baddha konasana (cobbler's pose)
Start Position:
Seated
Description:
From dandasna, bend your knees and sit with the soles of your feet together. Clasp your hands around your feet and begin to open your feet like your reading a book. Draw your heels in toward the perineum, but only as far as is comfortable. Use inhales to lengthen your spine up to the sky, rooting down with both of your sit bones and lengthening up with crown of your head upward. Use exhales to release your knees toward the floor by externally rotating your thighs. Hold here of for several breaths.
Benefits:
Aids urinary disorders, healthy for kidneys, healthy for prostate gland, relieves sciatic pain, prevents hernias, promotes painless menstruation, helps ovary function
Contraindication:
Knee Injury, Groin Injury
Pachimottansana (back to spine stretching pose)
Start Position:
Seated
Description:
Contraindication:
Knee Injury, Groin Injury
Pachimottansana (back to spine stretching pose)
Start Position:
Seated
Description:
Begin sitting tall in Staff Pose, inhale your arms up and overhead. Exhale as you release your shoulders wide and sink the arms into the sockets, palms facing one another shoulder width apart. Inhale to lengthen your spine both into the mat and up to the sky. Exhale as you lead with your chest and bend forward hinging primarily at your hips. Hinging forward until you cannot maintain a flat back, hold here and then you hands can grasp your legs wherever feels best for you. Inhales help you to lengthen and reach the spine long, as exhales help your muscles release and bring you a little deeper into the bend. If your hamstrings are really tight, you may want to micro-bend your knees. Hold here for many breaths, getting deeper and deeper with each breath. Engage mula bandha and abdomen as you inhale halfway up moving your arms by your ears, take a small pause. Come up fully on the next inhalation. Exhale as you return to staff pose.
Benefits:
Stretches legs, stretches hamstrings
Contraindication:
Herniated Disc, Low Back Injury
Matysyasana (fish pose)
Start Position:
Reclined
Benefits:
Stretches legs, stretches hamstrings
Contraindication:
Herniated Disc, Low Back Injury
Matysyasana (fish pose)
Start Position:
Reclined
Description:
Lie on your back on the floor with your knees bent, feet on the floor. Inhale, lift your pelvis slightly off the floor, and slide your hands, palms down, below your buttocks. Then rest your buttocks on the backs of your hands (and don’t lift them off your hands as you perform this pose). Be sure to tuck your forearms and elbows up close to the sides of your torso.
Inhale and press your forearms and elbows firmly against the floor. Next press your scapulas into your back and, with an inhale, lift your upper torso and head away from the floor. Then release your head back onto the floor. Depending on how high you arch your back and lift your chest, either the back of your head or its crown will rest on the floor. There should be a minimal amount of weight on your head to avoid crunching your neck. (For more about this, see the Beginners Tip below.)
You can keep your knees bent or straighten your legs out onto the floor. If you do the latter, keep your thighs active, and press out through the heels.
Stay for 15 to 30 seconds, breathing smoothly. With an exhalation lower your torso and head to the floor. Draw your thighs up into your belly and squeeze.
Benefits
A traditional text that Matsyasana is the “destroyer of all diseases.”
Stretches the deep hip flexors (psoas) and the muscles (intercostals) between the ribs
Stretches and stimulates the muscles of the belly and front of the neck
Stretches and stimulates the organs of the belly and throat
Strengthens the muscles of the upper back and back of the neck
Improves posture
Contraindications:
High or low blood pressure
Migraine
Insomnia
Serious lower-back or neck injury
Regular practise of the above mentioned yoga postures will help you to treat delayed menstruation problems. However, it is necessary to consult your doctor if such menstrual disorders are prolonged. You can also opt for Ayurvedic medicine or home remedies, but only under proper guidance. Make sure that you consult doctor before taking any medicine for treating menstrual problems like delayed mentruation. Yoga can also help you to cope with other menstrual problems like heavy flow during periods, painful menstrual periods etc.
It is very crucial to find out the actual cause of menstrual delay before you practise yoga. Also it is necessary to find out from your physician and yoga expert whether such yoga postures will suit your body or not. Avoid practising any posture if you are facing a serious health disorder or bodily injury. Try to gain more and more knowledge about yoga and how you can heal your self through yoga. Such knowledge will help you to make optimum utilisation of yoga in enhancing your life.
Yoga is precious gift which can enrich human life. Yoga helps to get a balanced body and mind. Practising yoga not only helps you to get rid of health problems but also helps to reduce stress. Thus it is very important to practice yoga regularly to obtain maximum benefit out of it and live a healthy life.
Lie on your back on the floor with your knees bent, feet on the floor. Inhale, lift your pelvis slightly off the floor, and slide your hands, palms down, below your buttocks. Then rest your buttocks on the backs of your hands (and don’t lift them off your hands as you perform this pose). Be sure to tuck your forearms and elbows up close to the sides of your torso.
Inhale and press your forearms and elbows firmly against the floor. Next press your scapulas into your back and, with an inhale, lift your upper torso and head away from the floor. Then release your head back onto the floor. Depending on how high you arch your back and lift your chest, either the back of your head or its crown will rest on the floor. There should be a minimal amount of weight on your head to avoid crunching your neck. (For more about this, see the Beginners Tip below.)
You can keep your knees bent or straighten your legs out onto the floor. If you do the latter, keep your thighs active, and press out through the heels.
Stay for 15 to 30 seconds, breathing smoothly. With an exhalation lower your torso and head to the floor. Draw your thighs up into your belly and squeeze.
Benefits
A traditional text that Matsyasana is the “destroyer of all diseases.”
Stretches the deep hip flexors (psoas) and the muscles (intercostals) between the ribs
Stretches and stimulates the muscles of the belly and front of the neck
Stretches and stimulates the organs of the belly and throat
Strengthens the muscles of the upper back and back of the neck
Improves posture
Contraindications:
High or low blood pressure
Migraine
Insomnia
Serious lower-back or neck injury
Regular practise of the above mentioned yoga postures will help you to treat delayed menstruation problems. However, it is necessary to consult your doctor if such menstrual disorders are prolonged. You can also opt for Ayurvedic medicine or home remedies, but only under proper guidance. Make sure that you consult doctor before taking any medicine for treating menstrual problems like delayed mentruation. Yoga can also help you to cope with other menstrual problems like heavy flow during periods, painful menstrual periods etc.
It is very crucial to find out the actual cause of menstrual delay before you practise yoga. Also it is necessary to find out from your physician and yoga expert whether such yoga postures will suit your body or not. Avoid practising any posture if you are facing a serious health disorder or bodily injury. Try to gain more and more knowledge about yoga and how you can heal your self through yoga. Such knowledge will help you to make optimum utilisation of yoga in enhancing your life.
Yoga is precious gift which can enrich human life. Yoga helps to get a balanced body and mind. Practising yoga not only helps you to get rid of health problems but also helps to reduce stress. Thus it is very important to practice yoga regularly to obtain maximum benefit out of it and live a healthy life.
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