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    Question about Yoga

    I've taken only a handful of Yoga classes but regularly practice with videos at home (no good studios where I live right now). The videos have a warning about avoiding certain poses when menstruating. Does anyone know why? Should I avoid it during this time or is it really okay but they have to put the warning on there?

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    Hi....I do yoga videos at home, too. I'm sure others with plenty more knowledge will weigh in, but I think the warning about menstruation and yoga has to do mainly with inversions or inverted poses. As I understand it, the idea is to avoid poses that tend to nudge menstrual fluids back into the body, rather than continue on their natural path out of the body. So you don't want to be doing poses like headstands, for example..........If you don't get other (better!) answers here, you might check out a good women's health website or maybe yogajournal.com to see if you can get a more detailed explanation.

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    I am curious..who here in TE, can still do a headstand now?
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    I don't think the inversion is hard to do with proper instruction and lots of practice.

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    Not me! I don't think I've *ever* done a bonafide headstand, even as a kid. What I'd really love to be able to do again is a good cartwheel!
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    Quote Originally Posted by KathiCville View Post
    Not me! I don't think I've *ever* done a bonafide headstand, even as a kid. What I'd really love to be able to do again is a good cartwheel!
    Same here, I could only do a cartwheel as a kid. One of my sisters was doing yoga headstands when she was in her early 40's. Not sure if she can still do it.

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    My class is just beginners, we aren't doing full out headstands, sort of half inversions

    But I did find an answer to the original question about menstruation.
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    Quote Originally Posted by shootingstar View Post
    I am curious..who here in TE, can still do a headstand now?
    I can!
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    I never could do any of that as a child, so doing a headstand or a one-legged handstand against the wall is progress for me!

    I don't have inversions in any of my DVDs - and not sure where to sequence them if I just throw them in - so I haven't done any in over a month now. I was starting to be able to get away from the wall, a little...

    I'm beyond the whole menstruation thing though.

    Shootingstar, we all know Yellow can do handstand push-ups.
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    I haven't tried a headstand in years, but I used to be able to do them. I'll give one a shot tonight when I get home. Before I got married (6 years ago), I used to randomly do handstands all the time. It always felt like a good stretch to me. I had decent balance, too.

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    My old (as in former, not age) yoga instructor told me the same thing. It's not just headstands--it's shoulder stands and anything with your hips in the air. Like KathiCville said, it has to do with gravity. I figure it makes sense, so I just don't do those poses during that time.

 

 

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