Pelvic Floor Relaxation for Calm & PRESENCE
What’s the best way to train your pelvic floor? In interviews, I always get asked to share the one best exercise. The answer is not easy, as the best pelvic floor strengthening exercises are the ones that take the advanced body awareness that we build step by step with the Pussy Yoga books and our free community.
So I share below this very effective beginner exercise that trains and relaxes your pelvic floor at the same time – even if you don’t know what you are doing. Another benefit of this exercise is that it also builds your body-mind connection for the more advanced exercises.
Letting go of old pelvic floor ideas
The most important thing is to let go of the old ways women think about engaging their pelvic floor: you have to stop squeezing your sphincters and the muscles around your vagina. While this is a sure way to engage the pelvic floor, it engages only a fraction of the entire pelvic floor network, and this can lead to tension in the first layer of the pelvic floor and result in a weakening of the biggest and most important pelvic floor muscle: the levator ani. This is the actual powerhouse of the pelvic floor, it holds your organs in place, keeps your vagina fit, prevents incontinence and sagging and ensures a confident posture and positive outlook on life.
Exercise for Finding your pelvic floor
You’ll find this practice, plus four more gentle lessons, in the free 5-Minute Body Love course within our global community — everything in one place to help you make Body Love a daily habit: Join for free.
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How did you, as a young woman who had never been pregnant, start thinking about your pelvic floor?