Winter Qi Chats | Week 2

Dec 10

Discovering our many layers

This week we FINALLY get to discuss and understand the anatomy and function of the pelvic floor in all it’s wonders!

Can you give yourself permission to touch?

The last two weeks have been filled with a LOT of pelvic floor talk. Between teaching classes and instructing private clients, I feel this topic needs to be brought back to the surface of our self-care toolbox. First and foremost, the awareness of the pelvic floor will come from the basic rule of neurology: sensory before motor. I often will teach people the many ways to engage the pelvic floor, however there may be an aspect of ‘poor sensory mapping’ that is leading to poor muscle engagement. In today’s Qi Time Chat, let’s go over the self-care approach for kind touch to help awaken this neglected muscular structure.

Close the gap.

We have this WIDE gap in the spectrum that is associated with pelvic floor touch. On one end, we see our nether regions as very personal and private. If you will, reserved for intimate touch. And at the other end of the spectrum, we allow ourselves to be touched by a doctor or trained therapist. Allowing the only other touch to be categorized as clinical. Think of that, intimacy and clinical… what’s in between?

The ‘in between’ is the education you create through safe, gentle massage and movement. Fill the gap with functional knowledge as you begin to learn that your respiration, hip movement, spinal stability, functions of the tongue, and your balance can all be affected by the function of the pelvic floor.