What are your favourite cues for helping clients connect to pelvic floor? I have a few, some that make ‘em blush, others that make ‘em smile. This is an area I love teaching, fraught with misunderstanding, lack of awareness and mystique. I have stumbled across these resources quite by accident as I have researched other topics. Wanted to share them with you as they are all thinking on this from different angles.
I chose this pic as it shows the narrow, bowl like nature of Pe Fl.
To start, the prolific Melissa from samsarapilates.com, pelvic floor and abdom work.
A more detailed anatomical video session on the pelvic floor, detailed ++ and amusing at times! Melissa from samsarapilates.com shares her knowledge in part one and part two.
BREATHING WITH THE PELVIC FLOOR: COORDINATED ACTIVITY OF THE PELVIC FLOOR. MUSCLES DURING INSPIRATORY AND EXPIRATORY EFFORTS – See a synopsis of this research from Queensland.
Diane Lee is a physiotherapist from Delta, British Columbia, who specialises in pelvic dysfunction. She has a lot of interesting information, here the pelvic floor receives her attention. Her second offering is, Are you really contracting your pelvic floor?
Get hold of the brilliant Australian book ‘Womens Waterworks’, by Pauline Chiarelli. Try booko.com.au to search for sellers and compare prices. Not only does she offer a lot for women but has a free mp3 on Incontinence for men.
Mary Bond, Rolfing practitioner has this piece on her site, ‘The pelvic lift‘ pdf document. See under ‘Articles’.
See on this site, a book review of Pelvic Power by Eric Franklin. Yet another slant on working with, and influencing pelvic floor.
