Daily Yoga:Yoga During Menstruation Program Review

So the app Daily Yoga...

I love that app so much. I have the free version because a shorty got 3 whole kids though. So for those that don't know they have sessions and programs. The programs span over a certain amount of time with a certain focus. I knew when I saw the session for that time of the month I knew that I wanted to try it because that time of the month is sacred and sometimes painful. I knew that controlled breathing would help the pain. Yoga is pretty good with the controlled breathing so I jumped in as soon as I had my cycle in January(yes it took 3 months to get this review but I'm about to explain why). The first go around I only did 3 days. Day 2 I couldn't do it. My cramps were persistent in my lower back and with 3 little ones and bending over constantly most of the day (as a stay at home mom) so i had to rest. My periods are about 4 days long so I didn't want to do the rest of the program on a non flow day. So.....I waited until February. And finished the program off. Something just didn't seem right. I know i"m only one person and our cycles are all different so I knew I needed to do it again. Since I can usually, but not always) tell  before my cycle comes i decided to start the day my cycle started, and not wait til i had a flow. Let me say that was the smartest thing I did. It helped me get a better idea of my breathing and I could just breathe through the cramps. It felt better than the other times i started. It set the tone for the rest of the week too. It was more and more comfortable each day. 

Day 2 I was able to feel the difference it was making in my body and mind. I felt stronger. Maybe it was because I powered through a yoga session on my friggin period. I felt so sacred as a woman. As I flow from pose to pose and my flow being so heavy when it starts i realized how powerful and amazing women are. How power our bodies are. We bend, we don't break. One of the main reasons I started yoga was to be closer to my inner self and that session really had me feeling myself. The rest of the week followed suit. By day 5(stay active) my flow was at its lightest and just like any tap down to the dripping I felt old, crusty, nasty and dusty and I just wanted the day to be over so the finally flow would be done. But that  day i need to Stay Active because i felt drained. I know you know what I"m talking about. You can't explain it but you're just...blah. 

This is great because this session gave me life. This session help me get some energy back and the next day I "regained flexibility". If there is one time you should do some yoga or stretching is during or after your period. If you refuse to do yoga then just try some stretching afterward. I don't know about you but I always feels so tight after my period. It just always feels like my body is shriveling up or something. Its just not as "bright" as before. But I felt like I was physically back to normal.

They knew what they were doing with this Program. They kept you right on the fence depending on your particular cycle. Kept things as neutral as possible. Women of all body types and yoga experience can do this program and benefit from it. Its awesome.

And after the body gets itself together you have the final day. And that is the longest session. Its a half hour long and so worth it. The rest are 10-20 minutes long, but this one is like a total body, energy boosting, lady loving, meditation  journey to get the body and mind back to 100% and ready to deal with real life again, even though for most of us nothing stops when we're on our cycles but you get the idea. I absolutely love this program. Each session was designed with the flow of the cycle in mind,. I highly suggest doing it if you're ion your period. I HIGHLY recommend getting the app Daily Yoga. This app has been a life saver and a great teacher to someone as new as I am to yoga. 

If you want to do a SHORT Yoga journey post I can. I've started and stopped yoga several times over the years and with Daily Yoga I've actually started a regime ad seem to be able to keep it up. So go ahead and check it out. And remember this is my life blog...there will be more than yoga, and more crazy. I love you and til next time keep shining 

HayWire

My emotions are going fucking haywire right now. Yeah, I said it was going to by like a diary so lets jump straight in shall we. SO I moved back into my mothers house because I am having issues with my husband. I've been trying to have regular conversations again. I know that he is my best friend but having 3 kids in three years put a BIG toll on our relationship...but it put a bigger toll on  me. Point blank period. I don't want to hear any man talk about all the shit he has to go through. All the emotional and mental turmoil. yada yada blah. I went through it too and I also had to carry the damn child. Like THE FUCK!!!. So today I'm on the phone with him and my daughter gets upset that her cookie broke. So i told her to stop whining and eat it. So my husband tells me I could be nicer about it. Tell her its taste just the same and all that. I am a stay at home mother, and I've told him I need a break. I have postpartum depression and I'm tired of being around the kids. I am literally with them day in and day out. When he gets off i don't get a break. So I moved here and was hoping to get a break. Yeah well, my mother is trying but shes trying to push her ways on me. No thats not how I'm gonna raise my kids. You raised us and that was fine but I'm not all the way good and I don't want to push that on them. No one here is giving me the kind of help that I need. No one wants to change a single diaper, my mother gives my son like 3 baths a day. I don't have that many clothes with me. You not driving me to my apartment in this snow. No. You gonna wash they clothes? No, because I'm not gonna let you. Why they got holes and stains and this and that. Because they are children. please stop reminding me of my past. Why is it that whenever someone wants to get there life together everyone wants to throw every bad thing back at them. I want to go back so bad but I don't want to be back in that situation. i feel like I'll just die in the same situation. Like we'll be stuck in the same financial and romantic rut till we 80. But here....my depression AND anxiety is bugging me. My mom is doing too much. Her bf is in  his damn feelings about some dumb shit. And my brother and his house guest make me feel all out of place. Like just because i don't know who made this damn song or whatever pop culture thing that is so unimportant and irrelevant to the survival of my family, I must be some kinda stupid. You know how people say things with an imaginary "duh!" at the end....She says everything out her mouth like that. Oh you don't know who that is? really?
YES Really?!?!? Like what the fuck I have 3 children and I'm working my postpartum and my own self esteem and in the mean time working on my relationship . Like I don't have time and I don't listen to rap and what mot like that anyway. Give me an old Three Days Grace album and I'm good.


Anyways, I'm pissed but this all started with the cookie. I'm pissed as all hell about that. You know what, I know that I can talk to them better. it doesn't come out like that though because not a single person has helped me with these damn kids in a effective way. Oh i'll get one or two of them. Or i'll get all three for a few hours. that just too much on me
SO HOW DO YOU THINK I FEEL??!?!?!?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Half the time I leave out the house he asks me to take one with  me. I don't have time for that shit. SO if no one else wants to  be with all my kids at the same time then what the hell does everyone think i'm going through.....?
but thats all cool. I don't get mental help. Thats why the korean saying always sticks with me
A woman is weak, But a mother is the stongest ( i don't think women are weak but mothers do so damn much)

Welcome Welcome.....

....to another year at Hogwarts....
okay, no JK.
lmao
okay I have to stop.
But I'd like to say Hello to everyone. I'd mostly just like to use this first post to introduce myself and the blog itself. Dutchess Mimmy(one of my many alias') is about my everyday and not so everyday life. I realize that this must be what a lifestyle blog is like. Its going to be about the many different factors of my life, from makeup to mommy. My loc journey and my obsession with Harry Potter. I've been trying to start several projects and help the homeless. At the same time showing women how to be comfortable ion their skin because i know how hard of a journey that can be. Especially because its an everyday battle. Today as I'm writing this I am not comfortable in my skin. Yesterday as I worked through my emotions I was. The day before as I left my husband in our apartment not sure if we are headed for divorce or not I wasn't. But that's why i wanted to start this blog because so many people on the internet now have so much to show bur never help you get there yourself. People don't want to be raw enough but that's the only way that we as a tribe will grow. I need to be open with you so you can be open with me. And once we get these wounds open we can clean them out and heal. SO come heal and grow with me. Watch me be a mom. Watch me be a woman. Watch me grow my hair, and paint my nails, and talk about job interview and getting my online shop together. Watch me struggle because within the struggle is the answer. Hopefully you can learn from my mistakes(even though you still have to make your own) and grow with me. Come join the family.