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Aug 2022
22m 54s

Let’s Talk About Yoga on Your Period…

Arundhati Baitmangalkar
About this episode

Can you do yoga during your period? Should you be inverting? How do you approach this as a yoga teacher? 

In today's episode, we get into these questions and more with Arundhati. She gives you never heard before the cultural context of menstruation in Indian culture as well as highlights the ongoing problem of period poverty. Which pushes young girls and women further away from doing yoga to date. All over the globe. 

She shares how she gets this question from her Indian and South Asian clients as it has cultural significance to millions. 

Tune in to learn what you need to do when you're on your period. Whether you should invert or not? (The answer will surprise you). What should you avoid on your period & how to deal with this as a yoga teacher? 

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