Check Out These 5 Yoga Poses To Relieve Your Period Cramps [Video]

Your monthly is bad enough, and many women suffer from dysmenorrhea, nausea, and terrible lower abdomen pain that can last for days during menstruation.

While staying in a fetal position and rocking yourself back and forth can seem like all you can do at times, exercise has proven to be helpful for cramps, providing even better results than pills or warm compresses. Yoga is a light workout that can help you gather up a little sweat while also not forcing you to move around like crazy.

Check out these 5 yoga poses that’ll help you get rid of your cramps.

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This pose is great to warm up your body, doing it slowly so you can feel every step of the way and you can release your tension and some of your pain.