Pelvic Floor Posture Reset

Did you know your posture directly affects your pelvic floor function? How you sit, stand and walk changes how your pelvic floor muscles load, breathe and respond and most of us have never been shown how to align consciously.
This talk guides you through the posture-pelvic floor connection: why slumping, tucking your tailbone or gripping creates dysfunction. How simple shifts in alignment can transform your pelvic floor health.
You will learn how to sit, stand and move in a way that supports pelvic floor relaxation, strength and coordination without forcing or fixing.
Ideal for anyone managing pelvic floor dysfunction, leakage, prolapse, or pelvic pain or anyone wanting to be proactive about long-term pelvic health.

Transcript

Welcoming you here. My name is Naomi Gale and we're going to discuss why posture for your pelvic floor matters and create this pelvic posture reset together and what that could look like for you. The work of the pelvic floor is more than just Kegels. I really want to speak to the importance of first of all acknowledging your posture and why your posture makes a massive difference for your pelvic floor. This won't be a long talk but it will allow you to explore how you hold yourself and what that could look like when we make a conscious effort to adjust our posture. So why does posture matter for our pelvic floor and what does it mean for your pelvic floor function? So first and foremost it's important to understand the mechanisms of the body when it comes to the pelvic floor. When we breathe into the body, What happens is, Is that we inhale in and the diaphragm descends. This means it moves downwards in the body. When we create this breath into the body, We're expanding the lungs. So that's why the diaphragm moves down. It descends, It creates space for the inhale. What happens is that the diaphragm is moving down and room has to be made for the diaphragm to do just that, To descend with the rest of the body. As we breathe into the body, The diaphragm is creating space for the breath on this inhale. And then the body needs to make space for the diaphragm to move down. Pelvic floor comes in and the pelvic floor descends down as well. Every single time we inhale, The diaphragm descends, The pelvic floor descends. Then when we exhale out, The diaphragm moves back up, It ascends and the pelvic floor ascends with it. This inhale and exhale with this descend and ascend situation is happening all the time, Of course, Because we're breathing all the time. Happens is, Is that we adjust our positioning, Our postures, Which then means that this beautiful rhythmic experience that exists unconsciously within the body shifts and doesn't happen in the way that it needs to happen, Where the pelvic floor is naturally being used in this way, In the way that it needs to be used. So the pelvic floor isn't tended to, Isn't nourished in its usual way. So a really good way of trying this out and experiencing it for ourselves is to stand up and find ourselves hunched over. We could curl our shoulders round or just exaggerate this like curved round spine that most of us end up existing in, Walking in, Moving in and sitting in. Breathing into the body and noticing the difference between that and standing in Tadasana. Tadasana is that beautiful form that we take during yoga where we stand straight with our shoulders in line with our hips in line with our feet and we can see this as the alignment of the diaphragms the diaphragm under the lungs the diaphragm at the bottom there with the pelvic floor and the diaphragm at the curve of our feet underneath our feet aligning all those diaphragms and then breathing into the body and feeling how that feels there will be a distinct difference What often happens is that our postures then mean that our pelvic floor is not being utilised in the way that it needs to be utilised and it becomes more challenged over time. A really wonderful practice and a very simple practice to support the use of our pelvic floor before we even engage in Kegels if it's not something that you've ever engaged with before. Especially for those who have been doing their Kegels and have found no difference over the years is to start to reassess our posture. A really beautiful way of doing this is to purposely stand in Tadasana within the day and notice the breath in the body and notice how that feels when we consciously connect with the breath, The diaphragm and the pelvic floor. Another way of doing this is when we're sitting down and we feel ourselves seated, How are we seated when we're sitting down? Are we allowing for that breath into the body. We often hunch over our laptops and over our phones and often we're not in this needed alignment which puts a strain on our backs and is putting a strain on our pelvic floors. So that's just a simple way of exploring how posture can make a huge difference to how we utilize our pelvic floor and if we reset our posture it would allow for a really wonderful way of connecting in with those muscles with that fascia and noticing how we can talk about this slumping this not overly exaggerating tucking of the tailbone but this slumping that needs to move into more of a tadasana and how we end up gripping holding through this this change in posture which then creates overall a potential dysfunction. And just this simple shift, This simple spinal alignment can transform the pelvic health because we're really acknowledging that we have to allow for the breath to move into the body to create this rhythmic process. When we move into this, When we move into this conscious awareness, We're not forcing and we're not fixing anything. We're just simply coming back into the alignment that is naturally needed within the body. And this would be really useful for anyone who has a pelvic floor dysfunction in any way, Finds that there's leakage, Pain, Or anything else more serious, Maybe even there's a prolapse. I'm not here saying that doing this alignment fix a prolapse, But I'm speaking to how we can be proactive about our long-term pelvic health by acknowledging how we stand and how we align our bodies. Sending love.