Meet Your Pelvic Floor

Before we get deeper into the material, let's create a loving, curious relationship with the star of the show - Your Pelvic Floor. We're making this a proper noun here because each of us will build our own relationship with the pelvic floor in our bodies, and by thinking of it this way, as a little entity, we set the stage for more nurture, kindness, and respect.

Greet Your Pelvic Floor with kind intentions and deep curiosity by gently feeling it.
To find it, you can gently close the openings that the pelvic floor surrounds: the urethra, vagina, and anus. Holding in your pee squeezes the urethra, holding in a fart or poop squeezes your anus, and if you have a vagina you can really feel your pelvic floor at work by placing a clean finger just inside and squeezing around it.

When we squeeze, imagine the lightest, gentlest, sweetest hug. We are not gripping, we are holding with care.
If you squeeze tightly, you are likely going to over grip, or start using muscles we don’t want to engage right now (like your butt muscles or your leg muscles or your superficial abdominal muscles (6 pack muscles)).

Let's feel it!

• Gently hug your urethra like you need to pee soon.
• Then let it go.
• Now do the same thing only imagine holding in a fart. Feel free to chuckle if it makes you laugh. Stay gentle.
• Now let it go.

That’s it - That’s your pelvic floor.

Now let’s reallllly feel it with the Pelvic Floor Breathwork exercise linked below.
We’ll practice relaxing it - engaging it - relaxing it again - all with our breath.

You can download this file and use it again and again throughout this journey and beyond.
I encourage you to do so, using this as the corner stone of your foundation.

Your assignment:

1. Complete the pelvic floor breathwork exercise before moving on with the course
2. Engage with your community: leave your insights about the pelvic floor breathwork practice bellow.
   1. Have you done something like this before?
   2. What was this like for you?
   3. Could you feel your pelvic floor?