Friday 24 August 2012

Pelvic floor power

It's that time again... time for a little pelvic floor pulsing:
Wherever you are, whatever you're doing, right now try this:

1. Check in with your natural breath for a few rounds.
2. On an exhale, lift the muscles of the pelvic floor (for women, lift the muscles/walls of the vagina, a squeezing and lifting sensation - like you're trying to stop peeing and farting together - nice!).
3. On the inha
le continue to lift. Keep the face and jaw soft.

4. Lift a little more on the next exhale, then release at the end of this breath - release slowly, no thudding please!
5. Repeat ten times - rest between rounds for five to ten breaths if necessary.
Finish, if you're at home, by lying on the floor, corpse like, and just listen to the sound of your breath entering and leaving your body - count twenty breaths. 


Enjoy.

Am in the process of writing an article on the benefits of pelvic floor exercises but time is not on my side so I may be an old lady by the time I get round to it - hopefully an old lady with a great pelvic floor.

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