Still dealing with pelvic floor symptoms after trying everything you were told should work?
If you’ve done the Kegels, strengthened your core, changed your diet, stretched, exercised or even seen specialists and you’re still dealing with urgency, constipation, painful sex, pelvic or tailbone pain, leaking or that constant feeling that something just isn’t right, there may be more to the picture.
I help women understand what their pelvic floor actually needs, because SOMETIMES STRONGER ISN'T THE ANSWER.
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Your pelvic floor doesn’t exist in isolation.
You can be strong, active and doing all the “right” things and still have pelvic floor dysfunction.
I know because that was me.
For years, I thought a strong pelvic floor was a healthy pelvic floor. I was a Pilates instructor. I understood the core, I exercised, and I knew how to strengthen.
What took me much longer to understand was that your pelvic floor also needs to be able to fully release.
Once I started looking beyond strength alone, so many things that hadn't made sense began to connect. My breathing. My hips. My ribcage. My posture and movement patterns. My nervous system. The way my core and pelvic floor worked together.
That understanding changed the way I approached my own body, and eventually, the way I started helping other women understand theirs.
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What if your pelvic floor doesn’t need more squeezing..?
Many women are taught to think about pelvic floor problems in one direction:
Weak pelvic floor = strengthen it.
But pelvic floor muscles can also hold too much tension. And when they aren’t moving through a healthy range, endlessly adding more strengthening may not address what’s actually happening.
That’s why my approach looks beyond one muscle and one exercise.
We work with release and retraining, breathing and ribcage mobility, hips, posture, core coordination and the nervous system, so you can start understanding how these pieces may be interacting in your body.
Sometimes the question isn’t, “How do I make this stronger?”
It’s “What is my body actually asking for?”
Hey, I’m Emma
I’ve been teaching Pilates since 2011, but my own experience with pelvic floor dysfunction changed the way I understand women’s bodies.
I stopped looking for one magic exercise and started asking better questions:
Why is this woman still in pain when she’s incredibly strong?
Why is she constipated when she’s doing everything “right” with her diet?
Why does she still have urgency after months or years of trying to fix it?
Why does her body seem to be gripping when what she’s been told to do is strengthen even more?
Those questions are at the heart of the work I do now.
I want women to understand their bodies well enough that their pelvic floor stops dictating what they can do, where they can go, how they exercise, how they feel during sex, or how much of their day they spend thinking about the nearest bathroom.
And I’m interested in the part everyone else might be missing.
“I feel my life
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Your Symptoms Are Real
But they don’t have to be the end of the conversation.
If you’ve been strengthening, stretching, Googling, changing your diet, seeing practitioners or simply trying to live around your symptoms, I want you to know there may still be things worth looking at.
If you don't know where to begin, start by learning what your pelvic floor is actually asking for.
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