Yoga has a lot of benefits for women. It can have great benefits on your reproductive health, and various health conditions.
Benefits Of Yoga
Yoga is an ancient established method of exercise and relaxation. It has been practiced for centuries.
- Yoga reenergizes and rejuvenates the body mind and soul.
- It can bring great benefits to the physical and mental health of the individual.
- It improves your own body image thereby improving your confidence and self-esteem.
- This improves your performance in your day to day life.
- One major advantage of yoga is that it can be done anywhere at very little cost. All one needs is a yoga mat.
How does yoga helps women?
Yoga has a lot of health benefits for women, be it is your sexual health, menstrual pains, PCOS or pregnancy.
Yoga and Sexual health
- It can improve all aspects of sex life, desire arousal orgasm, and overall satisfaction.
- Yoga and the breathing exercises will help reduce stress and this in turn helps desire and performance and can improve the relationship and intimacy.
- It can improve the core muscles and the pelvic floor muscles and these will improve the sexual function.
Yoga and Pregnancy
Yoga has a lot of benefits in pregnancy.
- It helps in improving cardiac function as there is an increase in cardiac output.
- It tones up the abdominal and pelvic floor muscles and the core which helps in carrying the pregnancy and in delivery.
- The breathing techniques are particularly useful in managing labor pains.
- They improve the blood and oxygen delivery to the baby during the contraction and are extremely useful while pushing at full dilatation.
Yoga and PCOS
Yoga has benefits in PCOS.
- PCOS is a metabolic disorder.
- Obesity and Insulin Resistance and infertility are important features in PCOS.
- Yoga can improve hormonal balance.
- It also helps in controlling the sugar insulin and cholesterol levels.
- Yoga improves the menstrual cycle and ovulation and therefore can improve fertility.
- It alleviates stress which is quite common in patients with PCOS.
- This improves the cortisol levels which is helpful.
- Weight management is an integral part of PCOS management and yoga helps significantly in weight loss and toning of the body.
Yoga and Menstrual pain
Menstruation is commonly associated with abdominal cramps, pelvic pain backache, and pain in the thighs and legs. Some women may have nausea, vomiting, bloating, headache, and fatigue associated with periods. All these symptoms can affect the quality of life and can prevent women especially young girls from carrying on with their routine life.
- Yoga can help improve mental health to be able to deal with the pain better.
- Yoga helps in toning up the muscles and thereby reducing and sometimes alleviating the pain and cramps altogether.
- Further, the advantage is that it is easy to do, can be done anywhere, and there are no side effects vis a vis the pain killer medications all of which will have side effects when used over a long period of time.
