Holistic Pelvic Care™, Pelvic Energy and Somatic Reconnection
The pelvis is a bowl of holding.
An ancient architecture of bone, muscle, fascia, sensation, memory and instinct.
It is structured for support. For stability. For movement, pleasure, birth, elimination, grounding and becoming.
At the centre of the body, the pelvic bowl carries so much of our weight. Physical weight. Emotional weight. Ancestral, relational, sexual, creative and spiritual weight.
You might feel this as pain. As numbness. As a sense of disconnection from your own body.
You might feel it as shame, grief, tightness, guarding, overwhelm, or a sense that something in this part of you is asking to be heard.
For many women, the pelvis is a place we have been taught to leave. To disconnect from. To override. To manage. To fear. To perform through. To hand over to someone else’s authority.
This work is an invitation to gently return.
I have been offering this work for over a decade now as it has naturally evolved along with my experience of being a student of the body and the bowl.
The pelvic care I now offer is informed by Holistic Pelvic Care™, Holistic Pelvic Energy™, somatic therapy, bodywork, womb-centred practice, mythopoetic enquiry and years of working with women’s bodies, stories and nervous systems.
Holistic Pelvic Care was pioneered by Tami Kent, a women’s health physical therapist, and offers a deeply respectful way of understanding the pelvic bowl as both a physical and energetic centre.
My work has also been influenced by teachers and practitioners including Andrea Lopez, Carly Rae Beaudry, Fiona Hallinan and others, alongside my wider therapeutic and somatic training.
While Holistic Pelvic Care can include internal pelvic bodywork, my current offering is primarily external, hands-on, trauma-aware and consent-led.
It is a mythopoetic and education-based approach to pelvic reconnection.
Internal pelvic bodywork may be offered only on a case-by-case basis, where it feels clinically appropriate, clearly consented to, and aligned with the needs of the client.
The heart of this work is not about fixing a problem.
It is about supporting you to build relationship with your own body.
Your own anatomy. Your own felt sense. Your own inner knowing and spiritual authority.
In a session, you may be supported through:
- guided somatic enquiry
- breath and body awareness
- pelvic anatomy education
- consent and boundary work
- external belly, womb, hip or sacral touch where appropriate
- visualisation and inner listening
- nervous system awareness
- emotional processing
- mythopoetic reflection
Together, we begin to listen for what the pelvis may be holding.
This may include exploring the pelvic bowl as a place of grounding, boundary, pleasure, grief, creativity, intuition, sexuality, birth, loss, trauma, numbness, protection or life force.
You may be drawn to this work if you are experiencing pelvic pain or disconnection, reclaiming your body after trauma, exploring sexuality or identity, healing after pregnancy loss or birth, navigating shame or numbness, reconnecting with your womb space, or feeling called into a deeper spiritual and embodied relationship with yourself.
This is not a replacement for pelvic floor physiotherapy, medical care or specialist treatment.
Where pelvic pain, prolapse, injury, complex symptoms or medical concerns are present, I may recommend working alongside, or being referred to, a pelvic floor physiotherapist, GP or other appropriate practitioner.
This work sits in the space between body, psyche and soul.
Rather than handing your body over to be interpreted, this work is about slowly handing power back to you.
It is a walking home.
A remembering of the pelvis not only as a site of pain, function or pathology, but as a threshold of instinct, creativity, emotion, sexuality, grief, pleasure and embodied sovereignty.
This work now lives within my wider framework of Mythopoetic Somatics.
A way of listening to the body as a living story.
A place where sensation, symptom, memory, image, myth and meaning can meet.
The pelvis is one of the places where that story often speaks the loudest.
This approach can be supportive for:
- Pelvic congestion, dysfunction, pain, prolapse, muscle strain
- Blocked and stressed core energy flow and creativity
- Postnatal stress and trauma
- Menstruation concerns
- Sexual, sensation, libido, orgasm trauma and blocks
- Painful sex
- Poor energetic boundaries
- Menopause
- Feeling stuck and helpless
- Fertility concerns
- Traumatic or difficult births
- Emotional instability and apathy
- Self care and intuitive wisdom blocks