Holistic Pelvic Care™️ is an embodied practice that supports women's health and vitality by releasing tension in the pelvic area, also known as the pelvic bowl. It's a respectful practice that can help you achieve balance and alleviate symptoms.
If you're experiencing pelvic issues such as inflammation and discomfort, painful sex, painful periods, prolapse or pelvic pain, this women's work can help identify and address the root cause of these issues.
Holistic Pelvic Care™
It differs from conventional physical therapy or bodywork in that it restores balance in the pelvis on a physical, emotional and energetic level supporting the internal fascia to restore organ alignment. In this way, Holistic Pelvic Care™ can be used as part of preventative medicine, in the treatment of physical symptoms or to simply bring a woman a greater sense of connection to her pelvic bowl, female organs, and greater access to her creative potential.
All women can benefit from receiving treatment at any stage of their lives. Women are seeking treatment for various reasons, including general wellness, preparing for pregnancy, postpartum care (even years after childbirth), and healing from pregnancy loss. You don’t need to experience pelvic symptoms to benefit from treatment. Whether you are dealing with pelvic issues or simply wish to connect more deeply with your body and enhance your health and healing, treatment can help you tap into the wisdom of your female body.
The benefits of Holistic Pelvic Care
Women’s Health
Serve to prevent problems from arising in the bowl by enhancing pelvic wellness through increased circulation, vitality and connection.
Clear pelvic congestion and support pelvic wellness.
Restore pelvic muscle balance & engagement.
Support organ health & alignment (reducing environment for disease)
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Support organ health & alignment (reducing environment for disease)
Address pelvic pain & menstrual imbalances.
Reduce pain from cysts, fibroids and scar tissue.
Support transition to menopause, menopausal complaints & long term vaginal health.
Clear urinary dysfunction (frequency, urgency, leakage)
Address pelvic floor weakness, organ prolapse.
Address vaginal pain, vaginismus, dyspareunia (pain with intercourse).
Teach you tools to help with your own health and healing.
Increase sexual health, libido & orgasm.
Fertility Support
Increase postpartum healing and recovery, including c-section births, vaginal tearing, episiotomy.
Aid healing after traumatic or difficult birth & restore birth energy flow/baby bond.
Support healing of miscarriage, birth loss or abortion.
Enhances fertility preparation for pregnancy.
Emotional Support
Release trauma and feminine wounding
Heal trauma & restore a woman’s presence in the root of her body.
Establish clear energetic boundaries.
Create an embodied feminine & authentic masculine.
Empower women to inhabit her pelvic space, to occupy her feminine ground.
Watch Tami talk about Holistic Pelvic Care:
Holistic Pelvic Care™ was developed by Tami Lynn Kent, women’s health physical therapist and author of Wild Feminine, who sought to offer women more than just treatment from physical ailments.
Holistic Pelvic Care
Aa person who proactively cares for their health and is fairly in touch with their body, I was totally floored by the impact of a ventouse birth and consequent injury.
I did what I could - following up with doctors and specialised physios, but four months later nothing had made any difference to my pain or healing, and I was receiving very little in the way of hope that things might improve. Just one session with Gemma changed that completely. Not only did my pain literally dissolve under her hands, but I felt like the treatment allowed me to return to my body. It's hard to overstate how life changing her impact has been. I would recommend that every mother, no matter what kind of birth they have had, seek out this treatment as a matter of course. For those mothers who've had a difficult time it will be transformative.".
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The first session is the longest and is 1 hour 30 minutes. This is when we’ll discuss your medical history and goals for treatment, and any questions or concerns you may have including a review of the female anatomy and muscles. The pelvic evaluation will then include external palpation, internal palpation, assessment of pelvic floor strength and engagement to review muscle imbalances and chronic
tension patterns.The assessment is followed by a gentle and respectful treatment that incorporates internal vaginal massage with myofascial and trigger point release, as well as breathwork and visualization tools to encourage balanced muscular strength, circulation, and energy flow in the pelvic bowl. Assessment of the pelvic floor muscles is carried out intravaginally whilst you are asked to ‘squeeze’ your pelvic floor muscles (like a kegel/pelvic floor exercise).
The internal work is manual therapy performed by your provider using a lubricated, gloved digit in the vaginal canal. Any pelvic pain is also assessed at this point. I can apply range from very gentle touch to deeper tissue manipulation.
Your body is always the guide to treatment and I only work as deeply as your body allows. The inter-vaginal massage increases blood flow to the pelvic organs, improves the alignment and the function of the uterus and the ovaries, supports the pelvic floor, brings awareness and balance to the pelvic organs in the pelvic bowl. Each session ends with guidance for self-care.
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At the end of the treatment we re-assess the engagement of the pelvic muscles and women are often surprised to feel in themselves that there is often a definite increase in pelvic tone. Women also feel calm, centred and grounded and very much in their feminine body, re-connected with their pelvic bowl. The treatment increases blood and energy flow in the pelvis, and many women leave a Holistic Pelvic Care session feeling a decrease in overall symptoms and a strengthening of pelvic floor muscle engagement.
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Holistic Pelvic Care™ can be performed during your period. It can be a great time to have a treatment as your body is able to shed old patterns along with the physical menstrual flow.
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Internal pelvic work is not performed during pregnancy, but visualization and breath work techniques of Holistic Pelvic Care can facilitate a greater connection to your pelvis and invite balance during pregnancy as preparation for childbirth.
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Yes! Healing after childbirth is greatly assisted by HPC and you may receive internal work at six weeks postpartum. Treatment can help resolve symptoms such as pelvic pain, discomfort, or pelvic muscle weakness and can mobilize scar tissue to help release any pain patterns it may be creating in the pelvic floor from vaginal tears, episiotomies and c-sections. For any woman who has experienced a traumatic birth this work is greatly restorative and healing, helping to balance the pelvic bowl and aiding in their recovery, calming and realigning body and spirit. HPC can help both physically, energetically and emotionally. The bodywork and breath work techniques restore healthy flow of blood, nerve, and energy to the pelvic floor. HPC alleviates low libido: sex drive, decreased sensation, and an inability to achieve orgasm, pelvic pain, bladder incontinence and more. If you had a cesarean birth, fascial work directly to the cesarean scar can support healing of the tissues and prevent build up of scar tissue, and internal work can address imbalances in the pelvic bowl caused by prolonged vaginal birth attempt or strong emotions like fear, anger or anxiety experienced during your birth.
