2025 has Begun!
This is the perfect time of year for reflecting and reconnecting with your mind, body, and pelvic floor.
The new year always brings similar messaging; hustle for your goals, push yourself to your limit, make all the changes! Now that we are a few weeks into January, I think we should all take a collective breath and reconnect with ourselves. Take a moment to check in with your body – are you breathing full belly breaths? Do you feel connected in your mind and heart? Can you pause from doing things and engage with stillness?
There are many benefits to staying connected to yourself, one being that you know you best! When it comes to personal or professional goals, you are really the one who knows what will make your heart and body happiest. Part of being connected to yourself includes being connected to your pelvic floor. Your pelvic floor is a connection of muscles that run from the pubic bone to the tailbone, supporting the pelvic organs and body functions, including bladder and bowel control.
Connecting with your pelvic floor involves knowing when to contract and release those muscles to allow for support of body functions. This connection helps to improve bladder and bowel control, improving incontinence, reducing risk of prolapse, improved sexual function, reducing pelvic pain and/or back pain, and more. Having a connection to your pelvic floor also improves your emotional wellbeing – giving you a feeling of self-support, control, and confidence.
Here are some ways to connect with your pelvic floor:
Diaphragmatic breathing – filling the abdomen and allowing for contraction and release of the pelvic floor with the inhales and exhales.
Yoga/pilates – these exercises are built around the connection to the core, pelvic floor, and breath. Practicing these types of movement can help strengthen your pelvic floor connection.
Kegels – are an intentional contraction and release of the pelvic floor muscles, which builds connection and trains both the slow and fast twitch muscles for use in daily life. For extra Kegel support, ask us about our Emsella chair, a.k.a the Kegel Throne, a non-invasive option to train those muscles quickly and effectively.
It is never too late to reconnect with yourself, you can start right now by taking a big inhale, followed by a releasing exhale. 2025 is the perfect year to focus on you, and your pelvic floor!
Resources:
https://www.vaginacoach.com/blog/your-core-and-pelvic-floor
https://www.advancedgynecology.com/blog/can-yoga-help-strengthen-pelvic-floor-muscles
