notice your breathing...
Yoga Path
It is more difficult to teach breathing than it is to teach a yoga pose. It starts with softening the belly. EVERYTHING goes through a process of digestion; our food, our thoughts, and our emotions. The belly is digestion headquarters. It is the storehouse for everything that enters our awareness to be processed. My point is, sometimes relaxing the belly is a tall order.
How does this relate to the pelvic floor? When we relax the belly, we can breathe the way our body is designed to breathe. A breath creates movement in our pelvic floor. If we are keeping the belly in a tight ball due to stress or posture, we are doing the same thing to our pelvic floor. Some might ask, “but don’t I want a tight pelvic floor?” Being strong is very different from being tight. So, if the tummy doesn’t let go and let our body breathe, our health overall, takes a big hit.
How are you breathing right now? Relax as you breathe in…