Namita Nayyar:
5 yoga poses for women to practice with a prolapsed uterus?
Carrie Owerko:
We want our pelvic floor musculature, like our “core” musculature, to work reflexively. Learn to be able to relax as well as contract, and to do with the appropriate amount of force without conscious effort on our part. We need our attention to be focused on what is happening in the environment when we are out and moving about, not thinking about engaging certain muscles as we quickly cross the street in traffic. The way we breathe, process stress, and move are all factors that a good physio would hopefully address. And everyone is different, so they might approach each case a little differently. What starts as a deliberate conscious effort might become less effortful and more integrated over time. But as with everything, it is a process!
The important thing is to get someone moving and back to doing the things that they love and find meaningful. And do so without fear. I think there is way too much fear-mongering rhetoric in yoga, fitness, and even among many health care professionals. Fear can cause people to avoid the movements, activities, and interactions they love. Rather than fear and avoidance, how might we help ourselves gradually expose and adapt so that we increase our capacity to handle the stresses that are an essential and normal part of being human? We need to remove the barriers that prevent people, especially women, from moving, strength training, and continuing to do what they love throughout their lifetime.
There is nothing better for the body and brain than regular physical activity, like exercise. Resistance training and cardiovascular exercise are especially important as both benefit the brain as much as the body, and resistance training very much so. Doing meaningful activities with other people is profound. Play is profound.
Our brain is built through and by play. It is something we can do for our entire lives, and movement can be playful, enjoyable, and still beneficial, perhaps even more so.
Namita Nayyar:
Motivation quote you live by?
Carrie Owerko:
One quote I really love and remind myself of every time I get nervous before teaching an in-person workshop. It is from the late, great Maya Angelou. She said, “people will forget what you said, they will forget what you did, but they will never forget how you made them feel.”
This is one of the reasons I am a movement optimist. Movement is good for us. It is our first language. It is its own language! It is our breath and our very life process. Movement practice can take many different forms. It need not look a certain way to be beneficial. The one that gives you joy is the best. If you can do it with other people sometimes, that is even better. Let it feel good; let it feed not only your body and brain but your soul (or whatever you want to call it). Move for joy and help others do the same. We are all the better for it.
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