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Internal Pelvic Release Work
Internal Pelvic Release Work is an exploration of anatomical potential.
Like all forms of conscious bodywork, it is somatic storytelling. It is a paying attention to the place where cells and stories combine.
It is allowing the body to speak what it wants you to hear.
Internal pelvis release work is a form of bodywork that connects us to the soft tissues of the pelvis. It also involves contact with the bony pelvis.
Gentle, deliberate touch supports a softening in the tissues - ligaments, muscle, fascia. This therefore allows blood, fluid, hormones, and energy/ attention to flow.
When the soft tissues of the pelvis are without tension, the bones of the pelvis are more mobile and adaptable, particularly to any change in function.
All organs in the body are supported by soft tissue connections. The pelvis being the bony guardian of a woman’s reproductive organs also has a multitude of ligaments, fascia and muscles supporting the bladder, bowel and womb (with her cervix and vagina). The intention of these fibres is to hold the organs in a balanced, suspensory fashion. The capacity of these fibres to accommodate change within the pelvis, most notably pregnancy, is extraordinary.
Birth Debriefing
Feel heard with a kind, compassionate unpacking of your birth story with an experienced midwife. Begin processing this major life event, or discuss any birth-related trauma.
Birth is always huge. The benefit of having your birth story heard, translated and integrated is multifaceted. Relationship-based midwives understand that our integration or dis-integration of birth forms the foundation and fabric of family life. The birth trauma we carry… the thought-spirals of “what-ifs” or “should have’s”… can have ripple effects into our experiences of parenting. Birth is a big deal, always.
Abby works with women’s hearts and minds as well as physical body. Abby shares information about pelvic bones and connective tissues and space and how the baby moves through this space with the hope of helping you understand what happened for you and baby.
The known statistic of 1 in 3 women and birthing people describing their birth experiences as traumatic, is devastating. That is why the way people birth matters and the way we care about how women feel during these life altering moments, matters.
Whether you describe your birth experience as traumatic or empowering, it can still be beneficial to explore your experiences with a professional who is educated and committed to providing a safe space for you to do so.
Birth debriefing can be a starting point towards being able to understand, process and integrate your birth experience. This can help support healing over time or simply provide a sense of clarity on parts of birth that you may not have fully digested.
How can birth debriefing be paired with touch therapy?
When the body experiences trauma it tends to brace. In other words, the body tightens. Tissues contract. Fibres become 'guardians'.
Women can lose connection with their pelvic tissues and the tension in the tissues can persist unconsciously. Tension becomes the new norm. Softness escapes us.
An internal pelvic release session can identify tension in the tissues, hold the tissues without bullying them while allowing space for a new soft norm to unfold.
The body is a very kind vessel and will sometimes store memories inside the tissues when that is all an individual can cope with.
The mind can unravel traumas with talk therapy. Internal Pelvic Release is touch therapy for the connective tissues.
Scar Release Work
Anything cut or burned, including during a surgery, causes a scar. When your body creates a scar, it lays down soft tissue in a way that is haphazard and weak, creating tension and a push-pull effect through multiple layers and types of tissues.
In turn, this impacts the position and function of pelvic tissues and organs, can creating a tugging sensation or hypersensitivity and reduces flow and drainage in the tissues.
Scar Release Work uses gentle external touch techniques to move through the many layers of soft tissue impacted by scars. This supports flow of blood and lymph fluid to return in and around the scar, softens and improves the elasticity of all the scar layers, releases tension from supporting structures, and brings comfort and balance back into the tissues.
There are layers to all scars. Scars into the vagina from episiotomies, tears, or cesarean section scars have been sutured in layers. Often, we only consider the surface layer we can see or feel. But with gentle touch and patience, these layers can reveal themselves and soften.
Release work is incredibly powerful. By supporting the flow of blood and lymphatics in and around the scar, we can improve elasticity and soften surrounding tissues.
Scar release work increases tissue potential.