The Yoga for the pelvic floor health course will empower you to explore your pelvic floor and learn how to activate and engage these muscles effectively. By combining specific yoga postures with insights into movement and alignment, we will look to address the root causes of pelvic floor issues.
What You Will Gain:
- Understand the importance of maintaining pelvic and abdominal health as we age.
- Explore your pelvic floor – is it weak, is it tight or, more confusingly, is it both!
- Learn how your posture can affect your pelvic floor.
- Understand the way you breathe and how this supports the health of your pelvic floor or contributes to any issues you might have.
- Develop a supportive and balanced pelvic floor.
- Discover why Kegel exercises alone might not be the solution, and even be harmful.
- Learn how chronic tightening is counterproductive and understand how to assess your own pelvic tone for proper recovery.
- Learn effective ways to address both tightness and weakness in the pelvic floor muscles.
Do you want to join the next Yoga for pelvic health course?
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What’s in the course:
Week 1: In this introductory class, we’ll explore the anatomy of the pelvic floor. We’ll discuss how the pelvic floor can be simultaneously weak and tight. We will learn to develop a nuanced awareness of this area. You will gain insight into how posture and the position of our legs and pelvis as well as our breathing affect the pelvic floor.
Week 2: In our second session, we will pay more attention to stretching and releasing the pelvic floor muscles. Strengthening tight, chronically shortened muscles is counterproductive and only increases tension. We’ll focus on releasing tension first, allowing the muscles to lengthen and become more receptive to strengthening exercises in the following sessions.
Week 3: Building on our previous sessions, we’ll introduce strengthening poses. They will deepen your awareness of the connection between your feet and the pelvic floor. We’ll explore how standing poses engage and stabilise the pelvic floor.
Week 4: In this session, we’ll delve deeper into standing poses, specifically exploring how optimal pelvic positioning empowers pelvic floor health.
Week 5: In this session, we’ll focus on stability poses. We will also highlight the crucial role of your gluteus muscles in pelvic health. We’ll explore how your gluteal muscles work together and identify any potential imbalances that might be impacting your pelvic floor.
Week 6: This class will offer a a balanced practice for pelvic health, incorporating stretches, release and toning of the muscles, culminating in restorative poses to promote relaxation.