Restore your pelvic floor
A workshop for women
Blackdown Healthy Living & Activity Centre, Hemyock, Devon.
EX15 3SH
No dates currently booked - let me know if you want this
10am-4pm
£75 including light lunch
Whether you are a postpartum mum, a keen athlete or going through your menopause, we can all experience problems “down there”. Are you fed up with wetting yourself or worse? Sick of paying for pads? Do you dread sneezing? Fear the trampoline or dance floor? Do you know the location of every public loo in your local area?
Don’t panic, there is hope, with just a few minutes commitment each day, it is totally possible to turn this sensitive situation around.
It’s a delicate subject and one that affects 14 million adults in the UK. 1 in 2 women over 50 suffer with some form of urinary incontinence!
If you suffer with incontinence or have noticed some changes to your bladder control, or pelvic organ position and want to make sure you stay healthy and strong in your pelvic floor, I have loads of information to share with you, to help you understand what is happening in your body and give you the tools to help turn this sensitive problem around and reclaim your life.
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Harriet has over 30 years’ experience as a holistic massage therapist, 12 years as a Pilates teacher and 50 something years’ experience of having her own pelvic floor.
Harriet’s workshops are always informative and packed full of practical down to earth advice. Be prepared to hear her talk about bits and bums but also be prepared to be commit to changes that will make every day a whole lot more dignified and relaxed!
Educate -Inspire - Empower
Call Harriet on 0779 1234 319 to book
No dates currently booked - let me know you want this
An investment in your dignity and pleasure
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Harriet has a passion for bringing anatomy to life. She uses simple, easy to understand language, shares diagrams, visualisations and movement to bring you a deeper understanding of your body.
This supportive workshop will give you a holistic understanding of your pelvic floor, its connections to the whole of your body and your breath. You will leave equipped with lots of effective exercises and lifestyle tips to help you on your pelvic floor recovery journey.
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Learn to sense your pelvic floor, so you know you are strengthening the correct muscles.
Learn some tips that really do help, for those emergency, ‘got to go’ moments.
Learn how traditional ‘Kegel’ exercises may be making your symptoms worse.
Learn some great exercises to strengthen, relax and co-ordinate your pelvic floor, so you feel supported from the bottom up.
Learn how to reduce incontinence and start your journey towards making it a thing of the past.
How does the way you breathe effect your pelvic floor? What have your feet, constipation and hormones got to do with urinary incontinence?
There is so much more to pelvic floor health than squeeze and lift!
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What people are saying about Restore Your Pelvic Floor Workshop?
“I just wanted to say a huge THANK YOU to you for organising such an enlightening, factual, humorous and empowering workshop in Hemyock last Saturday. I felt privileged to be amongst you all and to learn so many helpful tips and strategies with which to strengthening my pelvic floor muscles. You had created such a calm and intimate environment for us all. I have already taken on board many of your tips; the handouts are so detailed too and act as a good reminder of all we covered during the workshop- the time just whizzed by! I know that it won’t be a quick fix, but a longer journey; but taking that first vital step with you all, has in itself, been both liberating and reassuring.
Thank you Harriet for delivering it all with such a delicate and humorous touch and for being your lovely self- it was a pleasure to meet you.” S.S
I would like to share a success story with you. I had both a rectocele and a vaginal prolapse for a long time. Since I joined your Pilates classes and Pelvic Floor Workshop you have guided, inspired and motivated me to strengthen my pelvic floor. The result is so much better than I ever dreamed to hope for - both the prolapse and the rectocele have healed! Thank you so much for making this possible! K.B
Call Harriet on 0779 1234 319 to book
No dates currently booked - let me know you want this
including light lunch
ON THE WHOLE
Having been running workshops about women's pelvic health for several years now, I am certain of the value of this work. Comments like “Life changing” and “Everyone should know this. “ are enough to convince me. Unfortunately, many women are silently suffering, embarrassed and alone, feeling powerless as their body changes. Adrift amidst uncertainty and conflicting advice.
My Restore Your Pelvic Floor workshops bring a refreshingly candid, full body look, at pelvic floor health from a musculoskeletal perspective, taking in to account the whole person. How posture, breath and stress impact our alignment and ability to maintain continence. How learning to discern if we are tense or relaxed in 3 dimensions is a game changer!
​I love bringing anatomy to life, helping people experience their body more fully, by showing them what is under their skin. I use loads of images, models and props (often to great hilarity) to help people discover what’s underneath.
But despite the giggles, the truth is, when we discover, we recover.
Teaching this work is so valuable, empowering women at a time when they feel most disheartened is a gift
. If you decide to join, you will learn some foundational principles to good pelvic heath as well as information about incontinence, prolapse and related anatomy. Once you understand the principles, we move to your connection with you…..
A strong mind body connection is fostered through relaxation and breathwork. Then learning to discern the muscles of the pelvic floor by experiencing connection, contraction and relaxation. (this takes time!!)
We also cover, full body exercises for strength, stretch, activation, relaxation and alignment, with guidance for how and when to use the exercises for ongoing recovery and maintenance.
These workshops have evolved over time and often vary slightly in content, to reflect the experiences of participants.
I aim to create a supportive and safe space for women to explore ideas and share experiences for the benefit of themselves and others .
We have so much wisdom to share, especially around how we have learned to support ourselves from within.
If your body is beginning to let you know things are changing and you are starting to worry about any aspect of bladder control or continence then its time to invest in yourself, future proof your foof and put your body first, to make lasting changes to improve your quality of life
with love and kindness Harriet x​
R.Y.P.F has no dates currently booked, please be in touch if you would like to attend or host this workshop
My pelvic floor journey
As I entered my peri-menopause years, I started experiencing symptoms from my own pelvic floor, I was mortified, embarrassed and ashamed. My shame was compounded by a sense of imposter syndrome... as a Pilates teacher, surely this shouldn't be happening to me , I'm teaching my students about pelvic floor all the time, this can't be right, why is this happening to me?
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This was not the quality of life I was looking for and I was sure that aging didn't have to be this way, so me and my inner anatomy geek , went on a deep dive into all things pelvic floor. I searched the internet, I read lots of books, I had appointments with a women's health physio, my GP and a gynaecologist. They didn't tell me much, other than to squeeze and lift ("Do your Kegels") . They were all kind hearted, hard working, well meaning highly educated professionals, but nothing they told me got to the nub of the matter.
So I went deeper, and attended several workshops and webinars and studied with Burrell Education, Adore your Pelvic floor and Rachael Hall @Align. I embarked on a journey of discovery, and made a commitment to my self, my dignity and my pelvic floor.
After years of study and investment in my own pelvic health, I am mostly symptom free (99%of the time) and I now know that pelvic floors are supposed to be dynamic and resilient, bouncy and juicy, they should be able to lengthen as well as shorten, tighten as well as relax. Most importantly I know that simply squeezing and lifting is not enough.
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Whether its incontinence that worries you, pelvic organ prolapse, constipation, back ache, caesar scars, or the fear of being reliant on expensive pads, you should come to my restore your pelvic floor workshop.
It's relaxed day packed full of information and exercises.
I enter my vulnerability and talk candidly about my experiences with pelvic organ prolapse (and other mortifying symptoms) and how I have become mainly symptom free. Its a funny, frank and factual workshop designed to be a safe space to give you the information and tools you need for your own pelvic recovery journey.
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Your Dynamic pelvic floor
A two hour practical class, designed as follow up and refresher
for previous Restore Your Pelvic Floor students
Deeply connect within, feeling and awakening, discover full body pelvic floor muscle connections to body, brain and breath.
What you discover, you recover.
Blackdown Healthy Living Centre Hemyock
No dates currently booked - let me know you want this
Harriet from Thrive Pilates
07791 234319
It is important to note, I am not a medical professional. I am a massage therapist and Pilates instructor. The information I share in this workshop is based on my own experience as a bodyworker and movement teacher and a woman with a prolapse who happens to be an anatomy/body nerd. I have taken some courses and attended some workshops and read a lot but I am not a medical expert, so please make sure you are supported by your GP and a POGP physio therapist throughout your Pelvic floor discovery journey .
