Updated: Oct 11
If your period knocks you out every month, I want you to hear something nobody told me for years.
Your body is not failing you. It is asking for a different kind of support.
Pain is not only what the body does. It is how your nervous system receives it. When you have been braced for weeks, tension builds through the hips and pelvic floor. The breath goes shallow. Everything grips.
So when your bleed arrives, your body meets it on top of everything you have been carrying. Your period is not the problem. It is the moment your body slows you down enough to feel what you have been holding.
What Actually Helps: Rest, Not Resistance
Your body does not want intensity right now. It wants slowness, support, safety. This is where yin becomes medicine.
The rules change. More props. More softness. Shorter holds. Two to four minutes, or less. Let your breath lead.
A simple sequence for days 1 to 3.
Supported child's pose, three to five minutes.
Reclined butterfly, fully supported, five minutes.
Legs up the wall, five to ten minutes.
Layer slow breathing through all of it. The physiological sigh, two short inhales through the nose, one long exhale through the mouth, settles the system when discomfort spikes.
Guided deep rest, like yoga nidra, gives you somewhere soft to land. Pain is how the brain receives the signal. Resting, supported, breathing slowly, changes that reception.
Every Wednesday evening in Kensington, we practice exactly this. Supported yin, breathwork, and a guided sound bath. Ninety minutes where your only job is to lie down and be held by sound.
You do not need to fight your body every month. You can learn to meet it. And when you do, everything softens.
I am deeply grateful you are here. Come rest with us.
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Note: I am a yoga teacher, not a medical provider. If your period pain is severe, please talk to a healthcare professional you trust.
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