Yoga Pigeon Pose for Menstruating Women

Video Transcript

"Pigeon pose over blanket. So go ahead and bring your left knee forward, grab your blankets and move them towards the front of your left knee. Bring your right leg out behind you. See your left knee is going to be slightly outside your left hip, blanket is going to be right in front of your knee. You’re going to reach back and take the right inner thigh up towards the ceiling and we’re going to rest our right toes on the floor. We’re going to press our fingertips to the floor, inhale, come up, now if you find that if your hip is lifted too far above the ground, you can take a blanket and put it under that hip to help support your hips. Inhale and exhale reaching forward and just folding over the blankets. So you should feel a nice stretch here in front of the right hip, you should also feel a nice stretch here in the left hip and hold here for a few breaths. If you want to feel much of a stretch, you want to get a little deeper or you can use reduce the number blankets that you have or you can come all the way down to the floor. You can press your hands into the floor, walk your hands back up. Let’s switch to the other side, bring in the right knee forward, left leg back and the right knee is slightly outside the right hip and then if you like you can bring a blanket and put it under the right hip, inhale press your finger tips in the floor and now you fold on to your blankets or just fold down to the floor. Allow yourself to relieve any tension that you’re hold in your right hip, let that right hip bone, leg bone drop off to the side and drop down to the floor. And ready to come out of the pose, inhale, come up, press your hands into the floor, walk them back towards you and exhale and bring your left leg forward."