Pelvic Floor Breathing: How to Do it

Once you become pregnant, or maybe even postpartum, you will probably hear "Pelvic Floor" everywhere.

The pelvic floor muscles do a host of important jobs (I will discuss in a later post) and they become particularly important during pregnancy & after.

How to do a simple Pelvic Floor breathing exercise at home:

Connect in with your Breath

• Sit on a chair: sit up on your sit bones and have our rib cage stacked over your pelvis.

• Take a few breaths to relax into it. Place one hand on your belly and the other on the side of your rib cage.

• As you breathe in, feel your belly relax and expand like a balloon. As you breathe out, feel your stomach deflate.
  

  Next add the Pelvic Floor Work
  

• On the inhale, feel your belly relax and expand like a balloon and also imagine breathing down and into your pelvic floor, filling it with air.

• On the exhale, imagine lifting up through the back and front passages.

• Starting from the back, imagine gently drawing up through the centre.