In our 2 hours together, we will learn how to navigate our inner ecology from a trauma-informed approach by creating a Pelvic Map through body literacy, a 10 minute pelvic steam, somatic healing practices, and guided self-palpation of the vulva, vagina and pelvic floor. The techniques we will use are derived from Veronica’s training and experience in Holistic Pelvic Care, Pelvic Steam facilitation, Yoga, Pelvic Fascia Training, Somatic Experiencing, and birth work.

We all carry patterns of tension and congestion in our pelvic bowl. This can lead to imbalances, numbness, disconnect and pain among other issues. A lack of circulation in the pelvic bowl can lead us to feel ungrounded and can cause issues with our menstrual cycle.

First we will dive into a lecture on the anatomy of our pelvic bowl along with techniques for listening for your bodies consent. Then Veronica will lead you through a pelvic steam followed by trauma-informed somatic healing practice for nervous system regulation. Pelvic mapping is a class that integrates to help you bring your awareness into the pelvic bowl and your root (pelvic floor). There will be a strong emphasis on learning how to listen for our bodies consent, and how to honor it.

Next we will go over external massage and release techniques.You will then be guided through some meditation and self-massage of the mound of venus, vulva, vagina and pelvic floor that will help you create your Pelvic Map. Participants will learn how to gently massage out areas of tension, bringing more life-force and therefore healing to those areas. We will also discuss kegels in-depth and self-assess the quality of our ability to contract the muscles of the pelvic floor both before and after pelvic mapping. For those who do not wish to do this manually, there will be other options to work externally. This reclamation of our pelvic bowls can help us unearth the creative power that resides within them and give us the ability to live from a rooted place.

Veronica will also guide those with scar tissue from tears or episiotomy’s through scar tissue therapy to help restore vitality and sensation to those areas.

This workshop is for everyone who has, who had or who identifies with having a womb.

If you are pregnant, there will be specific instructions for the embodiment practice and pelvic mapping session to follow.

“The body is a multilingual being. It speaks through its colour and its temperature, the flush of recognition, the glow of love, the ash of pain, the heat of arousal, the coldness of non-conviction. It speaks through its constant tiny dance, sometimes swaying, sometimes a-jitter, sometimes trembling. It speaks through the leaping of the heart, the falling of the spirit, the pit at the centre, and rising hope. The body remembers, the bones remember, the joints remember, even the little finger remembers. Memory is lodged in pictures and feelings in the cells themselves. Like a sponge filled with water, anywhere the flesh is pressed, wrung, even touched lightly, a memory may flow out in a stream.”

-Clarissa Pinkola Estes