Library
The largest free library in the world. Free. No Ads. No AI.
Events
The world’s top experts, live every day
Retreats
Get away with a Teacher
Browse retreatsJoin thousands
Explore a Challenge
Unfurling The Root: Why Your Pelvic Floor Is More Than Muscle
With Naomi GaleMost women have been taught one thing about their pelvic floor: strengthen it. This course gently dismantles that story. Over three days, you will develop a new understanding of the pelvic floor as living fascia which is a responsive, adaptive connective tissue that does not exist separately from your nervous system, your history, or your life. You will learn why tightness is rarely just weakness, why symptoms are often communication rather than failure, and why force so frequently makes things worse. By the end of this course, you will be able to: Understand the fascial web of the pelvis and how it responds to stress, birth, rushing, shame, and survival patterns. Recognise what your body may be communicating through tension, numbness, gripping or disconnection. Begin relating to the pelvic floor through safety, breath and awareness rather than performance or effort. The goal of this course is not a permanently relaxed pelvis. It is responsiveness, sensation, adaptability and a fundamentally different relationship with your root. This is pelvic education that meets the whole woman. Note: This course addresses sensitive topics including birth, trauma patterns and pelvic health. It is educational in nature and is not a substitute for professional medical advice or pelvic floor physiotherapy.
A journey to dismantle the kegel narrative and returning you to the intelligence of your own body.
About this course
Most women have been taught one thing about their pelvic floor: strengthen it. This course gently dismantles that story. Over three days, you will develop a new understanding of the pelvic floor as living fascia which is a responsive, adaptive connective tissue that does not exist separately from your nervous system, your history, or your life. You will learn why tightness is rarely just weakness, why symptoms are often communication rather than failure, and why force so frequently makes things worse. By the end of this course, you will be able to: Understand the fascial web of the pelvis and how it responds to stress, birth, rushing, shame, and survival patterns. Recognise what your body may be communicating through tension, numbness, gripping or disconnection. Begin relating to the pelvic floor through safety, breath and awareness rather than performance or effort. The goal of this course is not a permanently relaxed pelvis. It is responsiveness, sensation, adaptability and a fundamentally different relationship with your root. This is pelvic education that meets the whole woman. Note: This course addresses sensitive topics including birth, trauma patterns and pelvic health. It is educational in nature and is not a substitute for professional medical advice or pelvic floor physiotherapy.
Meet your Teacher
Naomi is a holistic pelvic care practitioner, womb massage therapist, and birth and postpartum doula with years of experience supporting women through the full spectrum of pelvic and reproductive health. Her work sits at the intersection of somatic body awareness, nervous system understanding, and the lived experience of the feminine body drawing on both professional training and deep clinical practice with women navigating pelvic floor dysfunction, birth recovery, tension, disconnection, and chronic holding patterns. Naomi's approach moves beyond muscle mechanics. Trained in holistic pelvic care- a bodywork modality working directly with the pelvic floor, fascia, and surrounding tissues, she has developed a nuanced understanding of how the pelvis responds not only to physical events like birth and surgery, but to stress, trauma, shame, hypervigilance, and the cumulative weight of lived experience. Her work is consistently trauma-informed, somatic, and permission-based. She does not approach the pelvic floor as something to fix or force, but as intelligent tissue deserving of curiosity, safety, and tending. This course reflects the same principles she brings to her one-to-one practice: that the body is always communicating, and that real change begins when we learn to listen rather than push.