Pregnancy and Pelvis

Learn about the pelvis in pregnancy.

In my Pregnancy Yoga classes, I often reflect on how most people think of the pelvis as a solid bony structure. However, through pregnancy relaxing hormone is creating more movement within the joints and we also need to pay attention to the soft tissues within that can affect baby's positioning.

Here are two pre-recorded workshops that you can take at your convenience.

Another option is to join us live for the Birth Preparation Workshop Training, which includes this material and much more.

The Pelvis in Pregnancy: Taking an Embodied Approach

You will:

  • Experience three visualisations you can use with your pregnant clients (and receive the scripts)

  • Try out different options for teaching pelvic floor exercises, including positioning and language

  • Explore how we can give choice when teaching about the pelvis

  • Experience a yoga nidra creating the protective space of a womb for the mother through the image of a Golden Egg or Iridescent Bubble (and have access to the audio track)

  • Consider how these embodied practices relate to how we approach aspects of labour and birth preparation such as dilation.

Pregnancy & Pelvis Training Course

How you can empower clients to use upright positions in light of the OASI care bundle?

This is a very different workshop, focused on Obstetric Anal Sphincter Injury prevention.

Would you like to be able to teach simple biomechanics to your pregnant clients to demystify why different positions support labour?  Learn how to use simple analogies to show them how little changes can protect their perineum.

We will look at how to decrease pressure on the pelvic floor through positions and breathing that we can easily incorporate into our classes and workshops.

One of the effects of the research that created the Obstetric Anal Sphincter Injury (OASI) care bundle, is that Manual Perineal Protection (MPP) has increased in some settings as best practice.  For MMP, health professionals want to visualise (be able to see) the perineum, which can impact on choices for labour positions.

Through my role in my local Maternity Voices Partnership, I hear women saying that they feel that they have less choice about using upright postures as a result of this care bundle.

In a critical review of the OASI bundle (Thornton and Dahlen 2020), it’s stated, “The evidence from randomised trials, and systematic reviews, is that perineal guarding and other manoeuvres are ineffective or even harmful, and potentially restrict maternal choice of birth position”.

As pregnancy yoga teachers we are in a great position to empower and inform women so that they can CHOOSE perineal protection or avoid the need for it through understanding the biomechanics of the birthing body.

Biomechanics in Birth Training Course

Discounted bundle.

Yoga Teachers Forum is offering three of my pre-recorded trainings together for an incredible price: those above plus the Supporting Clients with birth trauma two-part workshop.

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