Yoga Poses to Relieve PMS
(premenstrual syndrome)
Pose: Cow/Cat
Begin on all fours, your palms
directly under your shoulders, knees under your hips. Then, inhale and
let your belly sink toward the floor as you lift your chest and tailbone
up (Cow pose). Then, pause and exhale and reverse the position, arching
your back up in the air like a cat stretching (think about tucking your
tailbone and rounding through your chest and shoulders); pause. Do 20
times each way.
How It Helps:
This pairing of exercises, says Ingber,
has long been recommended as a way to ease abdominal cramping. “There’s
just something about the way you tense and then stretch these belly
muscles here that helps ultimately unknot you.”
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