Love love love your work Madeline! It was difficult for me to slow down, but I knew this class would be good for me. Now I'm ready for the day and also have wonderful things to try with my senior classes tmw.
please can you explain a little bit more about the squats and the pelvic floor. While I understand the connection into the hips and pelvic floor, a deep squat can cause a lot of intra abdominal downward pressure on the pelvic floor, hence it is the optimum position for childbirth and for going to the toilet. I have known GP's advise against deep squats for incontinence and could also increase weakness of the pelvic floor. Should the squats be co-ordinated with the breath? Please could you share more as I really need to understand this. Many thanks
Love this class, really useful breathing Imagery, Nice active Dynamic pelvic floor work! Thanks Madeline, I will try my best to attend your Bali workshops this year!
Hi Heather and Heidi! Heather your understanding of the intra-abdominal pressure is accurate. Yes, if someone is incontinent, there is weakness of the pelvis/hips/core that needs to be strengthened in a different way then deep squats. Work towards developing the functional movement of squatting, pay attention to how the pelvis/hip joints/ sacral movement are coordinated with the subtle movements (micro movements such as sitz bones widening in the hip flexion phase) and definitely coordinate the breath. Hope this helps.