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.