Pelvic floor power

It's that time again... time for a little pelvic floor pulsing:
Wherever you are, whatever you're doing, right now try this:

1. Check in with your natural breath for a few rounds.
2. On an exhale, lift the muscles of the pelvic floor (for women, lift the muscles/walls of the vagina, a squeezing and lifting sensation - like you're trying to stop peeing and farting together - nice!).
3. On the inhale continue to lift. Keep the face and jaw soft.

4. Lift a little more on the next exhale, then release at the end of this breath - release slowly, no thudding please!
5. Repeat ten times - rest between rounds for five to ten breaths if necessary.
Finish, if you're at home, by lying on the floor, corpse like, and just listen to the sound of your breath entering and leaving your body - count twenty breaths. 

Enjoy.

Am in the process of writing an article on the benefits of pelvic floor exercises but time is not on my side so I may be an old lady by the time I get round to it - hopefully an old lady with a great pelvic floor.

Class update

So we've been having a little break over the summer but from the 1st September classes are back on. Every Saturday from 9am, pregnancy yoga at the Cotswold Playhouse. Special introductory offer, bring a friend and the first class you both attend is half price.

From early Autumn I'll be starting a second Saturday morning class. This one will be Hatha yoga. The class will be a flowing sequence of postures with particular attention to alignment, all to a great soundtrack which I'll compile to help get you focussed.
This class will follow the pregnancy yoga class so probably at about 10.30am for one hour on a Saturday morning (maybe one hour and 15, details still to be confirmed). If you're interested please email me.