YOGA THERAPY FOR PELVIC HEALTHApr 1, 2021
Pelvic health helps relieve hip and lower back pain, improve bowel and bladder function, and contributes to sexual pleasure. Pelvic floor muscles hold all our vital organs, support our spine, connecting lower and upper body. Imbalances in pelvic floor health cause 25% of lower back pain, 50% of constipation and 80% of incontiennece can be helped by pelvic health.
Our Pelvis, Place of Pleasure, Playfulness & Prosperity
Do you ever wonder where your pleasure went? Did you know being rigid, controlling and critical has to do with our pelvis? Or that feeling drained, disconnected or never … enough, is equally related to pelvic health. Because our pelvis is our place of pleasure, playfulness and prosperity, it’s integrity is essential.
Because the pelvis is linked to our emotions and our energy, pelvic integrity can amount to our life being fun, fulfilling and easy, or dreary or demanding. When our playful, go with the flow nature dries up, guilt, rigidity, disappointment, exhaustion, explosiveness, bitterness or feelings of never good enough, surface.
Pelvic integrity is key to enjoying life’s gifts, that sense of aliveness is born in our Golden Womb, Hiranyagarbha.
To feel alive, joyous and at ease with whatever comes our way, pelvic integrity is es-sensual.
• Our pelvis- initiator of movement- connects our upper and lower body, the sensual self with the thinking self, which results in creativity
• Feeling prosperous is an overflow of the movement between the two banks
• Our sense of pleasure arises through the contact of inner and outer world, and the infinite possible combinations from these interactions
• Because our original emotion is bliss, our part in the play, our movement or lack of it, determines the deviations of this original emotion
To flow fully the banks need to be firm and free.
Energetic Holding Patterns of the Pelvis
Excessive stress causes our tissues to tighten unnecessarily. Ease and our ability to flow, physically, energetically and mentally, become blocked. Chronic holding patterns might express themselves as guilt, feeling rigid, controlling, critical, self conscious, or lacking spontaneity and playfulness. The river of abundance, prosperity and possibilities dry up, along with our creative and joyful juices.
Not enough stressors can leave us with excessive emotions as our energy reserve overflows. Without containment, we may feel overly emotional, watery, let our energy gush from us without discernment and end up feeling drained, lacking, down, lost; our energy and emotions lack direction.
Our pelvic tissues might have a combination of both holding patterns simultaneously.
Translated to our energy body, we don’t feel contained and able to respond with integrity to any given situation. Resulting in further controlling or flooding. Because of unconscious guilt here, and emotions are energy in motion, both holding patterns waste immense, enjoyable energy, and we’re not even aware of it.
But we can learn to contain and live with pleasure
Our rivers just need some TLC.
Our golden womb needs to be honoured, heard and felt.
Pelvic Flow is the Key to Pleasure
Releasing tension and creating integrity of our sense of self in relation to the world, feels like flow, fun, pleasure and prosperity naturally arising like a bubbling spring.
The key to pelvic health is movement. Like water, the pelvis loves to flow and move. To play out the constant ebb and flow, give and take. This ensures and allows us to contain our sense of delight and joy. It enlivens our abundance.
As babies, this free abode of joy and delight is with what we began to crawl. We use our pelvis to propel us forward and move into the world. This exploration of feeling for ourselves creates pleasure.
When my toddler first picked up little pebbles in her chubby sensitive hands, there was sheer joy, wonder and excitement all wrapped into one. This is essence of water. It’s all emotions rushing from and back into bliss.
This endeavour to sense the world also created our lumbar curve. Our ability to relate, connect and withdraw. And our first impressions of sensual experiences, plus the arising emotions, are all contained here.
Create Pelvic Integrity to Enjoy Life More
To create pelvic integrity and enjoy life fully we need to get to know this area. We need to move past our guilt, build body awareness, self acceptance, and begin to strengthen and relax this area, until all the tissues and energy rivers flow free and firm.
Without guilt.
You need to body awareness to feel what holding patterns you have.
Are some muscles really tight and resist letting go?
Maybe you don’t contain but let it gush out, leaving you empty?
After you feel if you hold or release excessively, you can build back the integrity of this area by doing strengthening, movement that warms up this area, and slow soft, stretching to open and release the tissues.
Create firm freedom.
A sure way to ensure feeling prosperous and playful is being present with sensations, feeling this area’s ability to create another life, and all that being will co-create and experience through Her projects, ideas and senses. The potential combinations of the inner and outer world coming together in countless ways. The pure potential alive here.
It’s time we enjoyed what is instead of thinking what isn’t. It’s time to drop our uncertainty and walk into the world with a sense of certain fulfilment, pleasure and delight.
Joyous and prosperous in each moment, as water moves, content and playful. Our golden womb contains the feeling ‘I’m good enough’ and ‘there’s more than enough for all of us’ out there, and more importantly, in here, all the time.
With love,
Shira.