Yoga for Pelvic Floor Health: Therapeutic Movement & Somatic Repatterning

The pelvic floor is literally the foundation for our whole body: it sits at the bottom of our torso and forms the floor for all our organs. It serves as the base for our core musculature and plays a crucial role in our overall postural and functional health.

Because of this, when the pelvic floor is not functioning correctly, your body’s foundation can’t support you in your day-to-day-movements. This lack of support can manifest as incontinence, pelvic pain, prolapse (for women), prostate problems (for men), and even low back pain.

In addition to its crucial physical role, the pelvic floor is also the basis for our root chakra: it is the foundation upon which we build our lives. Imbalance in this area can leave us with not only physical side effects, but psycho-emotional ones as well.

With age, pelvic floor issues become increasingly common. Lack of exercise, weight issues, or poor movement habits often start to catch up to us as we get older in the form of pelvic pain, prolapse, prostate problems, or incontinence.

The additional loss of muscle tone that comes with age can compound these issues: we lose 5% of our muscle tone with every decade of our life as part of the natural aging process. In addition, poor posture, excess stress, sexual abuse, disease, and trauma can lead to pelvic health deterioration for both women and men. For women, childbearing and childbirth can overstretch ligaments, prolapse organs, or create muscular imbalances.

Fortunately, yoga offers a uniquely beneficial way to work with the pelvic floor through attention to the subtle movements that occur in asana and specific breathing practices. Unfortunately, approaching yoga with ignorance of the pelvic floor and an overemphasis on strength can make pelvic floor problems worse.

In this online course, yoga therapist Donna Brooks will discuss how we can use yoga to restore the health of the pelvic floor and prevent common problems. You will learn natural gentle and sequential movements and targeted yoga asanas to develop pelvic floor health in a balanced way.

If you are prone to pelvic pain, weakness, prolapse, injury, or just want to keep your pelvis and the force of grounded root energy that comes with a healthy pelvic floor, this course will help you discover natural, gentle and sequential movements to balance and heal the pelvic floor. Learn the facts behind common pelvic-floor health myths that can ultimately weaken your pelvic floor (often under the guise of strengthening it). Learn how to build pelvic floor health and restore function to prevent or improve common issues.

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