Yoga for the Pelvic Floor is a full yoga workshop with Adriene. This workshop session is for all levels. In this session, Adriene focuses on how to build strength and stabilization to the pelvic floor while softening and bring awareness to the pelvic floor. This will work influence all yoga asana, as well as provide you valuable time to breathe and center. Take this time to connect the brain and body in a way that serves.
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Let me know how it goes down below!
Namaste!
Hello Adriene. Thank you so much for all the yoga, marvellous.
Hot here too by coast in South East England although just now it’s raining, which we really need.
I’m 74 and have practised yoga for 50 years. Unfortunately the ve just been diagnosed as having borderline osteoporosis and wondered if there are specific exercises to help and any I should leave out.
Thank you again. Sending lots of love Wendy
Hi Wendy, I too have been diagnosed with osteoporosis mainly in my lower back. I am following Adriene so will be interested to see the reply, My doctor said the more exercise the better.
Hello Wendy and Jane, I too am interested in this topic. I was wondering , as I have never seen a reply on any of the topics. Does Adrienne have time to reply????
Hi Wendy, Jane, and Liz, information about yoga and osteoporosis is a frequent request. Adriene has it on her list of requested videos. 🙂
Wondering if Adrienne will be creating a video for yoga for osteo?
Thank you!!
Hi! It is on her listed of requested videos for her to consider making in the future. Maybe someday.
Along with exercises , you may want to look into AlgaeCal andStrontium Boost supplements. They help to rebuild the bone.
Good Morning and thank you for this new practice!! I have not done it yet but will shortly. Regarding the comment about sticking to yoga...ugh. I enjoy every single moment of your practice from your written word to your opening monolog. It gets me ready for the amaxingness that is about to occur. Your always welcome opinions, humor and singing is what makes you so special and makes people like me return for more! You're helping me be a better me by being you for which I am always so grateful, see you on the mat.
I have had tail bone pain for a year, this was a great practice to relieve some of that pain. Repeating this practice will be very helpful to help alleviate that pain and strengthen to support around the pain point. thank you very relaxing. Loved when Benji enters during breath of fire! 🙂
I loved the workshop feel of this. And I really appreciate your efforts to go deeper into anatomy, allowing your students to go deeper into their practice. Many thanks! The feeling of growth on this journey is one of the things that keeps me going. Namaste!
Wow. I have been with Yoga With Adrienne for three years now. I was super challenged here. Isolating just the pelvic floor, just the abdominals and not the glutes, not the quads, not the lower back muscles was very difficult and very rewarding. Also the "cheer leader" position provided me with additional input around my hip sockets. I usually choose not to sit in that position but today I allowed the knee to just stare at the sky and did my best. I am forever grateful.
I'm so happy for this practice. It's been kind of hard to find a balance in how to activate the pelvic floor and not holding my breath. But I'm working on it.
Thank you so much. Adriene, you have helped me through some tough times. Still are.. ❤️❤️❤️
Thank you so much darling Adriene! You, your voice, your heart are delivered daily in our house, we love you, we love the practices, love the varieties and your unique approach to yoga practice.
You mean a lot, thank you so much. :)))
Loved the "we're going there"! As a yogi, nurse and teacher I enjoyed the deeper exploration of the focus of this session. As a middle aged woman, I appreciated the reminder to pay attention to this part of my body. Looking forward to whatever you intend to share with membership as mentioned. Thank you!
I adore all your yoga videos thank you so very much for being you and sharing the love. Yoga is a life changer❤️
I loved this yoga practice, and I know it is very good for me.
I think you are doing a wonderful thing teaching us.
all poses are a challenge for me but they make me feel good afterwards.
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Thank you
Thank you.
Each of your contacts is a gift.
Your tenderness, compassion and caring received.
Un tout grand merci!
Lovely soft yoga today
After a few weeks of. U.K. Heat wave
Now got my mojo back
This was. Relaxing.
Your so amazing and fill everyone's
Life. Each week xxxx
This is my third month of Yoga, and I am fully bitten by the bug. YWA is just what I needed to kick start my heart and get back into something resembling "shape". Thanks for your sense of humor and letting me feel like I belong. Cheers from Montreal.
Adriene, I know this letter (YOU BELONG...) goes to 50 bajillion people but you do not know how timely it was. I feel like you were speaking to me personally and I just needed that. Thank you so much.
I love how YWA always has a yoga session for what I am needing in my life. I recently experienced a miscarriage, it was my first pregnancy and it’s truly rocked me. My body has experienced some complications post miscarriage and last night my homeopath told me I needed floor exercise style yoga working on the pelvic floor - I woke up with the email from adriene - LIKE HELLO UNIVERSE! Made me feel like I was in flow for this first time in a little while. So thank YOU Adriene and thank you universe! Feeling grateful and can’t wait to get to my mat! X
Adriene, you recently said that we could ask for a specific yoga practice. I have a cousin who is very ill with Lyme Disease. Her doctor told her that a standing only practice could help with her lymphatic system. Do you have a practice that would benefit her; or one that you could make? My sister and I would also appreciate any suggestions you have for postures that help with this. I do yoga and Qigong everyday, and I know it is what keeps me going while living with chronic immune illness.
As always, thanks so much for all you do. I LOVE reading your emails every week and do the practices that I'm able to do.
Hi Trudy, try Yoga for the Classroom. This is a standing yoga practice. I'll add your request for more standing practices to Adriene's list too. Wishing you, your sister, and your cousin all the best.
Hello Adriene. You said in your letter this week that some people ask or tell you to stick to yoga on social media. I say thank you for EVERYTHING....just they way you are and who you are is perfect. I love my daily yoga with you not just for the poses but to hear your inspiring words and for your sense of humor. Oh...and for Benji . xoxo. So as YOU LIVE YOUR YOGA....so do we who love you. Have a great day. Namaste.
Hi Adriene! Not sure if this is the best way to contact you but I'm needing some advice. I'm 64 - healthy - active. I've worked out at the gym for most of my life, but began following you for personal Yoga and LOVE IT! I started in February with your 30 day challenge and did that for two months. Then I began exploring different videos and in June I was doing your Revolution videos. I was feeling healthy, good, and strong! Then the first week of July I experienced several heart attacks (absolutely NO heart risk factors so a complete surprise) - 12 days of hospitalization - finally diagnosed with Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection (SCAD). I am home now, recovering, and waiting to visit the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, the SCAD Research Center. My question to you - if you can help - my heart is recovering - I am exhausted but getting a bit stronger every day. Do you have a Yoga routine that would be gentle and good for gentle recovery? Sorry for the lengthy email but would appreciate any thought you have.
Hi Anna, I replied to your comment on the Yoga for Beginners - Back to the Basics page. Take good care.
Hi Adriene
Just want to thank you for your yoga session on YouTube. My sister introduced me to you and I can say you have changed my life completely for the better!. I really enjoy yoga and really look forward to coming to the Mat everday to see you no matter what the challenge is!, because it is so enjoyable.
It has also made me a better person spiritually and in learning to let things go and de-stress. I have also enjoyed building strength in my body that I didn't know I could achieve.....Just by doing yoga.
So thank you for making me smile, laugh and for you being you, and giving me back confidence.... Namaste
is this available to purchase for download? I found this truly very helpful. I am 64, and wow I could really feel the difference it makes when I engage my pelvic floor. Thank you deeply for this routine.
Request: Would you consider doing a little series (3-5 practices) for postpartum moms. An incredibly gentle practice for 3-4 weeks postpartum and going up intensity from there for the first 12 weeks postpartum. There are so few quality yoga practices for postpartum out there. Most are way too vigorous. Thank you!
I'll add your request to the list of requested videos for Adriene, Ashley. Thanks for the suggestion! 🙂
Dear Adriene,
Thank you so much for this video! As a mom of two with little effective pelvic floor exercise after birth I may have cried some happy tears inbetween...
I am so grateful to have found you <3 keep up the fantastic work!
Hello, I really love the pelvic floor practice. Are there other videos that are specifically helpful for pelvic floor issues? Thanks so much.
I'm going to again put out a request for a postpartum class. Something like 30 minutes long, a few min on neck and shoulders, a few min on pelvic floor and gentle core, and then a little flow focusing on gentle stretches and core and pelvic floor awareness. So many mamas out there! Needing some serious love to these bodies that are giving, giving, giving!!! Recovering from birth and holding and feeding babies (position similar to text neck) ALL THE TIME. There are surprisingly few high quality postpartum classes available online. The vast majority are very inappropriate. Way too strenuous on the body. Give it some thought <3 So grateful every day for the work of team YWA.
I'm confused. Should inhaling go with softening or engaging pelvic floor.?
I’m a disabled veteran I have been diagnosed with pelvic floor dysfunction and dysnergia with complete atrophy and after. Multiple vaginal reconstruction and attempts to fix it over the course of17 years I now have a colostomy bag and I suffer from vaginal spasms , would you recommend any other specific yoga videos to aid me as I restart my yoga journey. I was referred by you from pelvic rehabilitation medicine and my psychologist
Working on strengthening the pelvic floor is so much more important than any of us realized when we were told to do kegals after childbirth. I love the way Adriene was encouraging us to incorporate use of our pelvic floor muscles in familiar poses. I didn’t ever engage at that deep level before. Perhaps she can incorporate that into new sessions to get us all focused on that internal hammock while doing every session.
Hi Adriene,
I love your videos, however I am not great at keeping up practice.
I was wondering if this is safe if pregnant? I have just found out I am pregnant (after suffering a misscarriage earlier in 2021) so don't want to push anything - I am very much a beginner yogi!
Warmest wishes from the UK,
Ruth
Hi Adrienne,
I love your videos. However (!), I please urge you to do some work with a women’s health physio and revise this video as well as your other yoga videos where you talk about lifting the pelvic floor (but never releasing). Contraction should come and naturally comes with exhale, not inhale. The pelvic floor naturally relaxes with inhale. We need to work with the body. I got to the first contraction which you advised to do with an inhale and knew I had to stop and write to you. Secondly, we can’t just lift the pelvic floor and not also consciously relax it. Very unhelpful for the many people with hypertonic pelvic floor. 1 in 3 women have pelvic floor dysfunction and there is so much misinformation about it. I think we owe it to ourselves and all women (and men, some of whom also have pelvic floor issues) to make sure we are informed and working in the best way for our bodies. There are fabulous women’s health physios out there and some do training for PTs/ yoga teachers/ coaches. Much love
Just been diagnosed with Prostrate cancer. Been recommended to some basic exercises to strengthen the Pelvic Floor as the cure can affect bladder control. I'd like to extend the exercises over the basic 2 that the nurse has shown me. So is the Pelvic Floor a good way to go (for a red blooded male)?