03/19/2025
✨ 5 Yoga Poses to Ease Menstrual Cramps ✨
That time of the month? We got you? 💕. 🌸 Try these gentle poses to ease cramps & reconnect with your body 💕
🧘🏾♀️ 1. Child’s Pose (Balasana)
💫 Benefits: Relieves lower back pain, calms the mind, massages abdominal organs.
✨ How-to: Kneel with big toes touching, knees wide. Sit back on your heels, fold forward, and stretch arms ahead or alongside your body. Rest your forehead down and take slow, deep breaths for 1-3 minutes.
🧘🏾♀️ 2. Supine Twist (Supta Matsyendrasana)
💫 Benefits: Releases tension in the spine, massages the belly, aids digestion.
✨ How-to: Lie on your back, hug your knees to your chest, and drop them to one side while extending your arms out in a T-shape. Gaze opposite your knees. Hold for 1-2 minutes each side.
🧘🏾♀️ 3. Cat-Cow Flow (Marjaryasana-Bitilasana)
💫 Benefits: Boosts pelvic circulation, relieves tension in lower back and belly.
✨ How-to: Start on hands and knees, shoulders stacked over wrists, hips over knees. Inhale, arch the back (cow), lift the chest and tailbone. Exhale, round the spine (cat), tuck chin to chest. Repeat for 1-2 minutes.
🧘🏾♀️ 4. Reclined Bound Angle (Supta Baddha Konasana)
💫 Benefits: Opens hips & inner thighs, relieves pelvic tension, reduces stress.
✨ How-to: Lie on your back, bring the soles of your feet together, let your knees fall open. Place one hand on your heart, one on your belly, and stay here for 3-5 minutes, breathing deeply.
🧘🏾♀️ 5. Legs Up the Wall (Viparita Karani)
💫 Benefits: Improves blood flow, calms the nervous system, soothes fatigue.
✨ How-to: Sit sideways next to a wall, swing your legs up as you lie on your back. Adjust so your hips are close to the wall. Rest your arms out to the side and close your eyes. Stay for 5-10 minutes.
✨ Breathe deep, soften into each pose, and show yourself some love. 💖
Save this for your next cycle & tag a friend who needs it 💌
