Your Pelvic Floor: How to Restore Balance - Feldenkrais Style

In this video, I'm going to teach you how to restore balance and improve your pelvic floor health. We're going to talk about how to breathe properly for pelvic floor health and how to use meditation and relaxation techniques to help you restore balance and restore your pelvic floor.

If you're experiencing pelvic floor issues, or if you just want to keep your pelvic floor in great shape, be sure to watch this video! By learning about how to breathe and relax, you'll be able to restore balance and improve your pelvic floor health.

Welcome back to the Feldenkrais with Taro Iwamoto channel.
The ability to turn off pelvic floor muscles is just as important as activating them. While activating and strengthening pelvic floor muscles are taught more commonly, inhibiting / disengaging / relaxing pelvic floor muscles are not taught very commonly. Truth is that people often maintain some level of contraction of pelvic floor muscles habitually (not being aware of contraction), which can be as problematic as having lost pelvic floor muscles strength and motor control. This simple breathing-pelvic floor coordination exercise can help you develop better sensory motor awareness of pelvic floor muscles and better functions. Stay tuned!

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[TaroIwamoto]

Was this video helpful for you? In movement training and exercise, there is a more emphasis on activating and strengthening muscles, but very little focus on letting go of unnecessary muscle effort and improving coordination and balance. This is an example of how you can improve your functions by reducing effort and improving coordination and balance.

[Nillerus]

Taro, your videos have helped me immensely with starting to regain quality of life. A couple of years ago i started having trouble walking, getting cramps and pain. This was despite being able to train with 100+ kilo on the barbell. I've been trying to brute force my body into doing what I want, because I didn't know how to listen to it. Now at 40, it's communicating back back very clearly that this isn't an optimal approach. I've been almost completely immobilised and on painkillers for a couple of weeks, and decided to do something about it. Kinesiology, traditional physiotherapy and so forth have all worked to a degree, but it wasn't until I found one of your videos that it clicked for me.
I cannot thank you enough, you've changed my life.

[kayvargas]

Brilliant I have never heard this thank you

[yellowdart]

Floor awareness is ki. Thanks for the buffs.

[Tokoa]

Thank you very much sir.. much appreciated!

[djVania]

Do you have some video about theory of feldenkrais? I just wanna know more context around your videos. thanks

[jessinthegarden]

Oh, wow! Lovely and doable in many contexts. Fabulous, thank you! 🌸

[loryowens]

Very helpful. Love i can simply add this to my diaphragm breathing exercises. Thank you!

[braedenmoses]

Wonderful!! Practicing as a physio, pelvic floor is always so difficult to convey concisely and effectively.

Gonna give this a shot!!! Cheers

[emmesaurus]

Do you know about the secret of the ring muscles? Its supposed to be a practice based in feldenkrais. Involving the sphincter etc.

[JohnSmith-iucj]

Could you explain what and where the pelvic floor is?

[shafra]

Hi Taro when describing the movement of both the diaphragm and the pelvic floor you use different terms e.g. When you INHALE the diaphragm flattens, when you Exhale it moves upwards. For the Pelvic floor you say It moves Upwards when it Contracts and moves Down when it RELAXES. In terms of making this simpler, do you mean the PF does the opp movement to the Diaphragm e.g. When I INHALE the FL moves UPWARDS and when you Exhale it flattens?

[andreiclinciudev]

Relief from the first try. Thanks. Got any advice/exercises in how to protect/traim the pelvic with awareness? I feel each time I try to progress in basic calisthenics i get met with pelvic floor pain inflamation, piles etc. I'm doing a lot of feldenkrais yet maybe i'm missing awareness or doing things wrong idk.

Thanks!

[AMK]

Hey - I'm a man...should we not also do the front holding urine kegel feeling? Just the back? Feels like they're both connected...thanks

[ashleym]

I have a question. When ever I lift heavy stuff. My pelvis muscles hurt. Or feel unconfortable. And then I pee a lot when I forget I should lift. Is this good for me ?

[TheDezzy]

I find it easier to contract the pelvic floor muscle when inhaling, and then relaxing when exhaling. However that's opposite to the video?

[JSmillaa]

A few rounds of this made my rib flare disappear 😮