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Summary: Learn the Yoga gate pose to relieve symptoms of premenstrual syndrome (PMS) in this free how-to video about yoga for menstruating women.

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Leta Koontz Leta Koontz has been studying yoga since 1998. Her first instructor was Lori Brungard. In 1999, a trip to India focused her interest in Ashtanga yoga. She has... read more

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Yoga Gate Pose for Menstruating Women

Gate Pose. So we’re going to do two variations of gate pose. Go ahead and grab a couple of blankets and bring them to your side. The first variation in this pose, we’re going to bring right leg out and have the left knee folded in. We’re going to bring our left side of our body on to the blankets and reach the right arm up and so we’re going to get a nice gentle stretch on the right side of the body. Take your elbow and press it back behind you, and just stay here for a few breaths. So this is a nice pose especially if you feel a lot of congestion or a lot of constriction during our periods. Then we’re going to come up, we’re going to fold the opposite leg and we allow our right hand to come down on to our knee, our shin or our ankle. Bring your left arm up and press our left lower back and drop our left finger tips towards our right toes and if you want you can look up towards your left elbow, you can press that elbow back behind you, and inhale, come to center and we’ll switch to the other side. So go ahead and bring in the blankets over next to the right hip, bring the left leg out and bring in the right knee in and then fold the right side of the blanket into the left arm up and over, pressing the left elbow back. Then come back up, left hand down bringing the right arm up so the arm is between the cheek bone and the ear pressing the elbow back and reaching the right finger tips towards the left toes. And you can keep your gaze towards the floor if it is comfortable for you can bring your gaze past your right elbow, then you can inhale come up and exhale and you can bring your hand down.

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