It can be - it depends. If you are unsure, please contact me to discuss your specific situation. Then, if we decide I am a good fit, you can check with your doctor before we proceed.

Yes! I teach experiential anatomy and exercises that support your abdominals and pelvic floor structures. I teach expectant mothers about the muscles for proper posture, hip flexion, and how to avoid bearing down on the pelvic floor.

Physical therapy comprises a variety of techniques but mainly focuses on building strength in the area affected. Somatic Movement and Yoga therapy take a holistic approach, teaching you how to move, breathe and incorporate whole body/mind integration as a pathway to recovery.

My approach helps my clients move and breathe to engage the senses, teaching the body to move in a supportive way, and reducing the pressure on your problem areas. In doing so, weaker muscles may be engaged, but chronic areas of tension will also experience release… it’s like a whole system reset.

With pelvic floor dysfunction, it is natural to think that the pelvic floor is the problem. But often the cause of the problem is another part of the body altogether! For example; the effects of long term poor posture.

Somatic movement and therapeutic yoga can also help relieve chronic stress or the flight-or-fight response which commonly contributes to pelvic floor dysfunction.

“Somatic Movement Therapy” also known as “Embodiment Therapy” allows you to access wisdom stored in the body by freeing the body from stress, trauma, constraints and habitual tensions. These tensions are often created by adverse experiences, physical injuries, trauma, illness, grief, cultural and personal habits and even developmental stages that you may have skipped as a baby.

Embodiment therapy involves making intentional, gentle movements while focusing on the internal experience of the movement. This process unifies your body and mind and attunes you to your physical, emotional and mental needs.

Embodiment therapy relieves habitual and long-held blockages and constrictions, creating clarity and helping you make better choices about your well-being.

You will experience being alive, aware and present in your body. A way to think of it is… Embodiment is to the body what meditation is to the mind.

Many things can cause pelvic floor issues, including heavy lifting, straining during childbirth, bowel movements or chronic cough, weight gain, lifelong poor posture or pelvic sagging that comes with age. 

Also, from trauma such as episiotomies and tears from birthing that do not heal well.

I work with women who suffer from a range of symptoms including, but not limited to: incontinence, faecal constipation, rectal pain, pelvic spasms, diastasis, heaviness, and/or painful intercourse.

The pelvic floor should support your ability to move between strength and flexibility, boundaries and openness, effort, and relaxation.

For example: if you spend a lot of time clenching due to stress, you inhibit your breath and nervous system, which literally puts pressure on your pelvic floor. The pelvic floor is very emotional.

If we have concerns about aging, prolapse, episiotomies, many times we have a sense of feeling damaged as a woman. My approach to pelvic floor healing is with kindness, allowing the inherent feminine resilience.

With pelvic floor therapy, how you approach the exercises can be as important as the exercises themselves. It is not about pushing through; it is an opportunity to let go and be present.

Yes! Embodiment pelvic floor therapy is very effective on Zoom!

I began working with individuals and groups over Zoom during the pandemic. I was quickly surprised by how powerful the result was. It turns out that I can observe and convey very clearly through the medium. Embodiment therapy online is ideal for those who prefer the comfort of their own home when doing personal work, feel a sense of support by having the screen mediate contact or are simply located too far to travel.

Many of my local clients have even used a hybrid system where they come in person at times and we meet over Zoom at other times.