FREE Workshop: Somatic Movement Therapy for Your Pelvic Floor

 
FREE Virtual Workshop
Somatic Movement Therapy for Your Pelvic Floor

with Donna Brooks
Master of Somatic Movement Therapy & Education •
Certified Yoga Therapist at Original Body Wisdom

Thursday, April 25, 2024 • 7 - 8pm

FREE

Click Here to Register

It is estimated that 30-40% of all women will struggle with some form of pelvic floor dysfunction in their lifetime. This is a HUGE number!

And yet we suffer in silence. We are embarrassed by the symptoms, and we often feel broken or ashamed. It is often very difficult to get the help and support you need which can be devastatingly isolating.

Unlocking the natural and healthy movements of our pelvic floor helps us heal from pelvic floor dysfunction and build our emotional and mental resilience at the same time. Using somatic movement is a gentle and powerful process. This mini-workshop introduces the anatomy of your pelvic floor and offers simple practices of embodiment that can soothe, strengthen, and support your pelvic floor. Many of these practices can be integrated into simple normal day-to-day activities and are important precursors to pelvic floor exercises.

Please dress comfortably and have a chair to sit on as well as some floor space to lay down on.

Helpful blog post and video links for pain relief assistance through somatic movement:

- Somatic Practices for Healthy Posture -
- 8 Somatic Breathing Practices to Do Today -
- Using Somatics for Better Posture -

 
MEET YOUR HOST: DONNA BROOKS, BS, RSMT, C-IAYT

Donna is a certified Yoga Therapist and a Registered Somatic Movement Therapist and Educator with a bachelor's degree from SUNY Stony Brook. She has been teaching yoga since 1981 and somatics since 1993. She is trained in Iyengar yoga and has studied with Somatics pioneers like Thomas Hanna, Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, and Emilie Conrad. She's also learned about the geometry and physics of movement and momentum with tennis pro Art Carrington as well as through Contact Improvisation, and she is even trained in the healing groundwork of Judith Blackstone.

In the 1980s, Donna worked with Karin Stephen to teach yoga to AIDS patients. She has also presented her approach to using tensegrity and fascia for Parkinson's patients at Dartmouth—Hitchcock Parkinson's conferences, and offered movement labs at Northfield Mount Hermon School, the University of Massachusetts, Norwich University and Greenfield Community College. She has instructed courses for the Pioneer Valley TBI support group, as well as Cancer Connection, and ran an ongoing pain clinic at Valley Medical Group in Greenfield for 6 years.

Ready to meet Donna? Watch her introduction video here.

To get in touch, you can visit her website at www.originalbodywisdom.com or e-mail donnabrooks@gmail.com