Join Leslie Howard, an Oakland-based yoga teacher, for a weekend focused on all things pelvic. This three part workshop will empower you with the tools you need to address incontinence, pelvic organ prolapse, pelvic pain and more.
You’re welcome to come for one, two or all three workshops!
Proper strengthening and stabilizing of the pelvic floor helps to create the correct foundation of each movement in the body. This is the true meaning of “core work.” Whether you experience any of these conditions, or are just plain curious about this region of the body, this workshop is for you:
This workshop we will locate, assess, soften, stretch, strengthen and exercise the muscle groups of the pelvic floor, discuss mula bandha, abdominal health and how to utilize the pelvic floor in asana. Pelvic Floor Yoga™ has been scientifically proven to help with incontinence and pelvic pain and more studies are currently underway.
Part two of this workshop, open to all genders, is designed to help people alleviate pain in the lower body – lower back, hips or pelvis. Pain and tension can result from trauma or chronic holding patterns. Trauma can include chronic poor posture, surgeries, difficult labor, sexual abuse or other strains. Pelvic trauma or tension can contribute to incontinence or pelvic organ prolapse. This workshop includes breathing techniques, mudras and yoga poses done with particular attention to gently relax the muscles of the pelvis, hip and back. Handouts will be provided to help support your practice of what you will learn.
Part three of this workshop addresses the more common types of incontinence and a lack of stability. Many of us think (or have even been told by our doctors) that having incontinence is just normal after having children or is inevitable as part of aging. Although not all issues can be cured by Pelvic Floor YogaTM, most can be improved and some completely resolved with a regular yoga practice focused on core and pelvic floor health.
Pelvic Floor YogaTM has been scientifically proven to help with incontinence. Leslie designed the yoga study that is published and peer reviewed with UCSF. This workshop will empower you with the tools you need to address incontinence, pelvic organ prolapse. Come find out why there is so much more you can do than Kegels and why they might even be making matters worse.
Leslie Howard is an Oakland-based yoga teacher, specializing in all things pelvic. She leads workshops and trainings worldwide and has written a book about the female pelvis, Pelvic Liberation. She has designed two very successful studies for UCSF on yoga to alleviate incontinence and pelvic pain and can now claim her method is scientifically proven to work. She is a regular contributor to Yoga Journal magazine and has also appeared in two lists of the top 100 yoga teachers in the U.S. Her own struggles with healing her hips and pelvis led her to intense study of the anatomy, physiology, cultural messaging, history and energetics of this rich place. Her teaching is informed by over 3500 hours of yoga study with senior Iyengar yoga teachers, notably Ramanand Patel. She has designed two very successful studies for UCSF on yoga to alleviate incontinence and pelvic pain. To learn more about Leslie, visit:www.lesliehowardyoga.com
We’re sorry, but we don’t offer refunds or account credit on workshops or trainings.
This workshop will be conducted in-studio and online via Zoom.
Password and instructions will be sent privately to registrants 30 minutes before workshop begins.