Yoga in Women's Health

With the current scenario of declining birth rates, women's health importance has assumed paramount significance. In improving women's physical and mental health, yoga has been found to be the most effective.

Yoga for women's health

A woman's body is unique as it undergoes periodic transformations in the stages of puberty, fertility, pregnancy, menopause and post-menopause. Yoga helps a woman to adapt to these transformations with minimum discomfort and maximum energy.

Women's physical and mental health is maintained as Yoga helps in
    1. A complete exercise of the body
    2. Total mobility removing stiffness and improving muscle and bone strength
    3. Improving metabolism
    4. Reducing weight
    5. Stress Reduction
    6. Pain Management
    7. Maintaining hormonal balance by regulating endocrine glands
    8. Female infertility treatment by regulating the reproductive organs
    9. Pregnancy and Natural childbirth
    10. Restoring Post-partum health
    11. Addressing menopausal and post-menopausal disorders

How Yoga promotes Women's health?

Yoga supports women at every step of their life.

    1. Puberty and menstruation

• When a child attains puberty, she undergoes some hormonal changes which may cause her some initial discomfort. Practicing yoga helps to regulate irregular periods, dysmenorrhea etc.
• Menstrual cycles for women are often accompanied by stomach cramps, backache, bloating, fatigue etc. Yogic asanas improve oxygenated blood flow to reproductive organs, thereby removing discomfort due to cramps. Bloating is relieved by the circulation of the water accumulated in the abdomen and removal of gas.
• Mood swings and irritability are the indicators of a woman's PMS (pre-menstrual syndrome).  With yoga, the central nervous system is calmed and relaxed using breathing control, thereby reducing stress and tension.
• Exercise like  Dhanurasana and Vajrasana are the best for regulating menstruation.

    2. Adolescence

• This is a stage of life where a woman undergoes tumultuous changes in body and mind.
• Restlessness, confusion and fear in the teenage mind can be eliminated by Pranayama or breathing control and meditation.
• Some girls tend to put on weight as result of hormonal imbalance. Yogic asanas help in correcting the hormonal imbalance and reducing weight by constant exercise.
• Even teen problems like acne and pimples are reduced by Yogic exercises as the body gets rid of toxins through sweat while performing asanas.

    3. Fertility
 Female infertility treatment is incomplete without Yoga. Yoga helps women to conceive by

• reducing stress by breathing control
• reducing weight and the possibility of PCOS
• improving blood circulation to the ovaries
• correcting hormonal imbalance by inducing blood flow to endocrine glands

    4. Pregnancy and childbirth
This is the most valuable stage of a woman's life where she needs yoga the most.

• About 13% of the women experience depression and anxiety during pregnancy and childbirth. Yoga helps to reduce stress, alleviate anxiety and induce good sleep through its breathing control exercises.
• Pre-natal yoga is priceless for women as it reduces the risks of pregnancy-induced hypertension or preeclampsia.
• Spontaneous abortions are also avoided by the use of yoga in pregnancy.
• Natural childbirth is achieved by the use of yoga in pregnancy.

    5. Post-partum health

Most women suffer "post-partum" depression due to weight gain, hormonal changes and fatigue after childbirth. Yoga helps to combat "post-partum" depression by promoting activity and exercise which reduce both weight and stress. It also helps women to gain control of themselves through breathing control and meditation.

    6. Menopause and post-menopausal  disorders

• Restorative yoga postures help to calm the nervous system which tends to reduce all menopausal disorders like palpitations, mood swings, hot flashes and night sweats.
• Yogic asanas help to improve bone and muscle strength, helping to combat arthritis and osteoporosis after menopause.

Women are the cornerstones of life as they bear the seed of life and save man from extinction. Create a world of wellness by promoting women's health through yoga.