What is up with "ladies holidays"?

Everyone seems to have a theory on "ladies holidays". Many of them even dictate what should or should not be done. Most of the people I have heard avise from happen to be men, which is curious, since as far as I know they do not menstruate.

So this time around I decided to let my lovely female body be the judge, and I would ask it.

On the first day of my period (what is up with this "ladies holiday" thing after all, what are we trying to cover?), anyway, on the first day I am usually in a situation where I cannot think straight, the dilatation of my organs, I suppose to make way for the flow, is so intense that I am left feeling like I want to say "haaaa" "hhaaaa" (add painful face expression) the whole day. Advil has done wonders for me by the way.

That is the day in which I skip practice. I like to honor my body, and also if I happen to "ask" my body if it would want to go to yoga, the answer is NO.

On the second day however, I feel like the worst is behind me, and now is just a question of "cleaning". This is exactly how it feels in my body, furthermore, if I "ask" again, my body seems to crave some poses: "Give me some!" it screams at me. On the second day then I do go to pracctice, only I don't get too carried away and in the closing sequence I put my legs up against a wall. Haaa, this feels delicious, and practice is done early... more time for breakfast.

On the third day I am back to normal and I do the whole thing, although my body seems to long for the quick closing and the legs up the wall, and the lazy prior day, that is when the mind actually has to tell the body off... kind of funny really.

This does not constitute advise, it is what happens to me in the privacy of my own body and does not constitute advise.

Can you tell I've worked for lawyers too long?