Holistic Pelvic Care™
What Is Holistic Pelvic Care™?
Holistic Pelvic Care™ is a form of pelvic bodywork that was developed by physical therapist and pelvic health visionary Tami Lynn Kent, author of Wild Feminine, Mothering from your Centre and Wild Creative.
Holistic Pelvic Care™ is a practice consisting of physical and energetic tools designed to evaluate, restore balance, and enhance vibrant flow in the pelvic bowl by working with a woman’s or gender expansive magician’s core patterns.
The basis of Holistic Pelvic Care™ is energy work through the fascial matrix.
“Fascia, with it’s crystalline nature, is the transition line between physical and energy.”
Your fascial matrix is in constant communion and communication with the entirety of who you are, and how you are in your very existence.
Myofascial Release
Holistic Pelvic Care™ is grounded in somatic healing techniques and the benefits of pelvic floor physiotherapy, with the addition of energetic tools and principles. Holistic Pelvic Care™ includes pelvic floor myofascial and trigger point release techniques, combined with breathwork and visualisations to help release, integrate and recalibrate any dysfunctional patterns, congestion, or trauma held within the pelvic space.
Holistic Pelvic Care™ is not only a practice of release. It is also very much a practice of receiving, embodying and empowering the wisdom, sacred remembrance and sensual intelligence of your pelvic bowl. You are so worthy of your pleasure, creativity and pelvic radiance, wild love!
As an Holistic Pelvic Care™ practitioner I prioritise proper fascial contact as a part of my practice, staying in contact with fascial energy with techniques that offer direct and receptive guidance through 3 points of contact:
1. External Touch
2. Internal Intra-vaginal Touch
3. Internal Awareness
Hypertonic or Hypotonic?
The pelvic diaphragm/floor muscles can be too weak (hypotonic) or too tight (hypertonic). It is also possible to have a combination of both at the same time.
What is the Role of Pelvic Floor Muscles?
The health of your pelvic diaphragm/floor muscles, just like any other muscle group, is based on their full range of motion.
1. Your pelvic muscles need to have the capacity to fully contract at will.
2. Your pelvic muscles need to have the capacity to fully relax at will.
Pelvic Dysfuction
Tight or slack muscles both equal weak pelvic muscles, and that results in pelvic dysfunction.
Why this matters is that there is a pervasive myth that pelvic diaphragm/floor dysfunction is entirely down to hypotonic weakness, and that the resolution is to tighten the pelvic muscles as a way of gaining strength and integrity, emphasising exercises such as kegels.
However, in my experience, the majority of those that I work with have acutely hypertonic underlying pelvic musculature and fascial dysfunction that is causing weakness.
It is the hypertonicity in the pelvic muscles that must be prioritised and addressed first. Why? Because you simply can not build strength on top of hypertension in the pelvic muscles. You will only continue to compound the underlying tension and continue to exacerbate your pelvic dysfunction!
We must work with the core patterns of pelvic tension, ameliorating hypertonicity and dis-ease, before proceeding with strengthening work. This is very often a woefully neglected and missing piece in pelvic healing work. Holistic Pelvic Care™ treatment will help to assess your pelvic tone, and offer you meaningful ways to restore balance, functional strength, and ease and repair.
Holistic Pelvic Care™ As Trauma Informed Bodywork
Our pelvis can often be experienced as our ‘centre of gravity’. We experience our sexuality, our cyclical nature, from our pelvis. We experience rights of passage and transitions from deep within the well of our pelvis. It is the space from which life-projects, dreams, authentic leadership, and sacred lineage medicine can live.
But it is also more often a space of deep wounding, a place where we have stored our sexual trauma, shame, anger, lack of self-worth, contracting and constricting over and over again, until patterns of shame and doubt have become a habitual repetition that keeps us stuck and misshapen, separated from our artful Pelvic Presence.
Holistic Pelvic Care™ is a trauma informed bodywork.
“Trauma is not in the event, it exists in the body.”
Trauma remains in the body when we are unable to discharge, or more aptly, sequence, threat energy and orient to our safety. This residual undischarged energy can affect our entire organism, often in strange and mysterious ways.
Working With The Imprint of Trauma
Holistic Pelvic Care™ can work with the imprint of stored trauma that is left in the body, and support meaningful ways that you can work with nervous system regulation techniques to somatically release, integrate and restore the temple of your sacred pelvis, and the remembrance of your original essence as always whole, sacred and wildly alive.
Holistic Pelvic Care™ guides you to cultivate a sense of loving compassionate pelvic presence. You discover how to deeply honour your bowl medicine as a sacred wisdom keeper. Working with touch, focused breathing and visualisations, the song of your soma is supported to bring the body into adaptive nervous system regulation. When the nervous system is regulated in this way, new neural pathways and muscle memories can be created, tissue health can be restored and old memories and trauma can be integrated.
Holistic Pelvic Care™ As Root Medicine
So many of us do not enter the beauty, empowerment and artful devotion of Holistic Pelvic Care™ until we develop problems, and we have to!
No shame, you are not alone! We have all systemically, culturally, socially, and politically been disinherited from our pelvic root as a source of our primal power.
A primary goal of Holistic Pelvic Care™ is to empower you to fully inhabit your pelvic space with love, safety and belonging.
Holistic Pelvic Care™ emphasises your right to occupy the sacred ground of your pelvic temple physically, energetically, emotionally, and spiritually.
My sacred work in Holistic Pelvic Care™ is to guide you to re-belong to your body, sexuality, and pelvic well-being, so that you can awaken your sacred remembrance, embodied worthiness, and the natural blueprint of your pelvic health.
Who Can Benefit From Holistic Pelvic Care™?
All women and gender expansive pussy bodied folk can benefit from Holistic Pelvic Care™ treatments to support their pelvic health and root connection.
Holistic Pelvic Care™ benefits include:
Clearing pelvic congestion & supporting pelvic wellness
Innovating optimal lymphatic flow
Facilitating core energy flow & creative wellness
Restoring pelvic muscle balance & engagement
Supporting organ health & alignment, and organ prolapse health/recovery
Alleviating pelvic symptoms
Supporting your embodied cyclical widsom and transitions such as menopause & long-term vaginal health
Increasing sexual health, libido & orgasmic nature
Addressing the effects of cancer treatment
Decreasing core stress & enhancing inner/outer harmony
Establishing clear energetic boundaries
Celebrating the power of your body & activating the medicine bowl
Moving beyond binary/fracture and into wholeness, creative potential
Resolving trauma imprints & restoring your sovereign rightful presence in your creative centre
Healing embodied patterns of lineage & ancestral pain, upgrading to new patterns, and restoring lineage medicine
Facilitating pelvic connection & proprioception/embodiment
Encouraging self-care & root wisdom
Addressing pelvic pain & menstrual imbalances
Enhancing fertility & supporting the fertility journey
Preparing for pregnancy
Increasing postpartum healing
Healing traumatic or difficult pregnancy and birth journeys & restoring birth energy flow/baby bond
Supporting healing of miscarriage & birth loss
What To Expect?
It is essential in Holistic Pelvic Care™ that we work with your specific needs and desires, so each session is lovingly and compassionately tailored to your individual needs. So please note that the following 5 steps are to be taken as a guide as to what to expect when you book your Holistic Pelvic Care™ package, and what you may expect during treatments.
Step 1:
Intake Form
Once you book your Holistic Pelvic Care™ package, you will receive a Holistic Pelvic Care™ Intake Form straight to your inbox. The Intake Form is a space for you to share with me your primary concerns, needs and desires. It is helpful for me to understand some of your pelvic history and experience, as well as where you are currently at in your pelvic health, and your desires for working together. I understand that the nature of the Intake Form can address some sensitive areas. Please know that I witness anything that you share with loving compassion and confidentiality. As standard practice, I comply with privacy requirements to protect your personal data and information.
Please only share what you are comfortable with, and we can navigate with care from there. Once I receive your completed Intake Form, you will be notified to schedule your Online Intake Form Review appointment.
Step 2:
Online Intake Form Review Call
Welcome to the Zoom-womb! I find that it is really important to begin to co-create the healing field together, by collaboratively connecting. The Online Intake Form Review Call is a way that we can begin to connect and get practical, discussing your Intake Form, which allows space for us to clarify anything necessary. There is time for your questions, and everything that you forgot when you filled in your Intake Form (don't worry, it happens!) It is also a way that we get to co-regulate and begin to enter into creating a compassionate healing field together. It is a way that we can begin to cultivate presence, and establish safe enough space for compassionate bodywork.
Guided by your body always, we will also discuss scheduling and spacing your HPC sessions in a way that meets your needs and desires. This may look different for each individual. However, for most people, the sessions will be spaced bi-weekly. We will always discuss and keep in conversation with your body, and what best supports you.
Step 3:
Initial In-Person Treatment
CONNECTION & EVALUATION
So this is where we really do co-create your experience. Some people are ready for internal bodywork and the initial intra-vaginal pelvic evaluation during their first treatment.
Others may need more energetic and external bodywork support before the initial internal evaluation. Please know that I expect this, and I honour it, and I will always encourage and support you to cultivate your body literacy in consent and boundaries. Holistic Pelvic Care™ necessitates a level of self-responsibility that works with your yes, your no, your maybe and your embodied nervous system regulation. To me as a practitioner, this is an essential part of the Holistic Pelvic Care™ practice.
Guided by your body consent, we move into either a physical or energetic pelvic evaluation in 3 stages. Again, please note that we may work through all 3 stages if you are comfortable and resourced, and time permits. We are always guided by your body and experience, so this is a guide rather than a rule.
1: If you are a yes to the intra-vaginal evaluation, we work with external connection and internal palpation. The assessment addresses the muscular baseline tone of your pelvic diaphragm/floor (adaptive, hypertonic, hypotonic). We assess your muscular strength through relax and contraction techniques.
2: The next stage is an organ assessment, which is of particular importance for assessing the grade of any cystocele, rectocele, or uterine prolapse. Please note that the intra-vaginal evaluation is not recommended during pregnancy. It is possible and actually can be exceptionally supportive to have the evaluation whilst menstruating.
3: Pelvic Mapping. We work all around the pelvic rim, bringing conscious awareness to any trigger points, tension, hypoxia, numbness, and any signs of muscle/fascial dysfunction. The sacred ground and topography of every vagina is unique, and has beautiful variations in layers, folds, tension, tissue, and engagement.
Step 4:
Second In-Person Treatment
PELVIC MAPPING AND THE FLEUR TECHNIQUE
Building on your initial assessment and pelvic evaluation, and working always with your body literacy, consent and boundaries, we begin to deepen into ways to release, integrate and restore your pelvic bowl medicine. We work in 3 stages:
1: Grounding, resourcing and orienting to your pelvic presence and wisdom.
2: Pelvic Mapping. We explore points of connection and disconnection, presence and absence. We bring conscious communication with direct and receptive fascial connection to any trigger points and pelvic tension patterns. Following the fascia, we navigate any adhesions, mobilising scar tissue to restore physical and energetic alignment and vitality.
3: The Fleur Technique is unique to Holistic Pelvic Care™. It is an integrative pelvic practice that seeks to empower your pelvic sovereignty. This method supports your pelvic dynamics, working with the energetics of your bowl medicine, your ovaries, womb and pelvic organs, guiding you to attune to your sense of presence, observing any absence and any shifts in sensation. We conclude with a bowl blessing, bringing repair, integrating upgraded imprints and honouring the sacred song of your pelvic bowl.
Step 5:
Third In-Person Treatment
THE PELVIC BOWL SINGS
This session engages with the 3-part process of treatment two, whilst also offering a re-evaluation, assessing how the work has supported you to sift-soft, and perhaps where there may still be any imbalances that may need additional support. You are also gifted a personalised post-session guide to support your journey.
Should any follow-up sessions be recommended and desired, you can now book individual follow-up sessions at a reduced rate within 12 months of your initial treatment.
PAY IN FULL
£420
- 1X 1-hour Online Intake Form Review
- 3X 2-hour HPC Sessions
- 1X Personalised HPC Guide
3-MONTH PLAN
£420
- 1X 1-hour Online Intake Form Review
- 3X 2-hour HPC Sessions
- 1X Personalised HPC Guide
FOLLOW-UP
£120
- 1X 2-hour HPC Session
- Only available following purchase of initial
- HPC package within previous 12 months
About Aurora
Hey Wild Love! My name is Aurora, and I am your Pelvic Priestess. I offer Coaching and Therapies in Somatic Sexology, Holistic Pelvic Care, and Fertility and Reproductive Health.
I work with a wide range of sexual and pelvic health issues, however, I specialise in working with those that have experienced sexual trauma and subsequent pelvic pain and dysfunction. I believe that healing sexual trauma, shame and pelvic pain is blood, breath and bone work. To come home to your body, sexuality, and pelvic temple is a mythic, poetic and somatic journey. It is the slow, compassionate and full sensory remembrance of your original essence as always whole, sacred, and wildly alive.
Connect with me and discover which somatic sexuality, holistic pelvic care or bodywork therapy is best suited to your needs.
Your sacred remembrance awaits you…
With Love and Artful Devotion,
Aurora
F.A.Q.
Yes! All of my trainings have a deep grounding in trauma informed care, practice and methodology. I also continue to deepen my understanding and widen my trauma education and am constantly expanding my capacity to hold safe enough space in a wide variety of ways. I am also in the process of transitioning from trauma informed to trauma qualified as I continue some extensive trauma trainings to hold my work and offerings, which I will be sharing more about soon!
Absolutely! At the heart of my work is the premise that your sexuality is sacred, and that with loving compassionate presence, you can come into connection, belonging and aliveness with your body, sexuality and pelvis. I believe that is truly every being’s birthright. Ultimately, as your Pelvic Priestess, I am devoted to your embodied-mystery!
Internal work is not recommended in pregnancy, however it is absolutely possible and can be incredibly supportive and nourishing for your journey during pregnancy and mama-hood to receive Holistic Pelvic Care™ energetically. We work with visualisation and gentle holistic tools to support the energy of your bowl medicine. I am also deepening in Mizan massage therapy during pregnancy, so there are many beautiful and grounded options to tend to your pelvic care with love, safety and belonging during pregnancy and mama life.
When we have experienced loss in our pelvic bowl, the imprints of grief, rage, shame and so much more unique to your own personal experience can be present. I personally experienced many losses, and my own journey with Holistic Pelvic Care™ has been one of honouring, grieving and restoring life to my pelvic bowl. I highly recommend Holistic Pelvic Care™ body and energy work if you are healing and integrating your experience of loss. We have truly lost the art of grief-tending in our communities, of being fully witnessed in our stages and experiences of loss. Physical and energetic touch can play a vital role in allowing us to process, co-regulate, and access our thriving.
Great question! Holistic Pelvic Care™ postpartum is recommended 6-8 weeks after your birth. Postpartum care in the UK is in my opinion woeful and largely non-existent. Holistic Pelvic Care™ can be a part of the very real difference between postpartum recovery or postpartum pelvic problems.
It is essential that you have spaces in which to honour and integrate your birth story, sifting soft the significant shifts in your body, soothing and mobilising any remedial scar tissue, supporting your pelvic muscles to rest and repair, to ensure your long-term functional strength and integrity in your pelvic muscles and fascial networks.
Holistic Pelvic Care™ provides a space for somatic postpartum recovery, whatever your pregnancy and birth journey. Holistic Pelvic Care™ can be a necessary bridge in rebalancing the physical and energetic alignment of the pelvic bowl, supporting postpartum recovery in mind, body and spirit. Holistic Pelvic Care™ for postpartum recovery can also support you to clear any stagnation and pelvic congestion post birth, ensuring that you have optimal blood flow, supporting lymphatic drainage, supplying your nerves, tissues and bones with the nourishment they deserve to live a tuned in and turned on life!
Unfortunately, and quite unbelievably, trauma is woefully neglected in sexual and pelvic health. It is unlikely that any specialist has actually asked you about your trauma history sensitively. Our medical professionals are expertly trained and have valuable skills, however more often than not, trauma is a very minimal part of medical training. There is also a lack of whole-body, whole-person perspective in Western medicine, and we are paying the price for the overly medicalised interventions of medication and surgery for pelvic health issues, and the outdated reliance on talk therapies as a sole method of trauma healing. This is why trauma informed, somatic and holistic bodywork is truly revolutionary in terms of sexual healing and pelvic health.
We always centre your body permissions, consent and boundaries, and as always we can work with your needs and desires, physically and energetically. However, if you are open to intra-vaginal Holistic Pelvic Care™ during menstruation, this can actually be an exquisite time to enter bodywork. The increased circulation in your vaginal tissues, fascia and your often deeper inner awareness during your bleed, can support you during release and receptive work, facilitating deep release, integration and restoration.
I believe that your bleed is a sacred wisdom keeper. Deep in its red velvet richness are the codes of your creation. Your cyclical intelligence can be an exceptional source of your embodied wisdom and power. Your bleed can be one of your greatest allies in this work, calling you into relationship and reciprocity with your cyclical rhythms, and holding you accountable in the most profound ways. Your bleed is a body truth-sayer!
Cyclical awareness is something that I am deeply passionate about in all of my work. So please know that yes, it is safe and welcomed to come to a session if you are menstruating, and we always check in with the level of bodywork that you feel is appropriate for you. If you are working with Holistic Pelvic Care™ practices at home during your bleed, I would highly recommend purchasing a splash blanket as a supportive, comfortable and hygienic way for you to offer pelvic mapping in your moon-time should you desire.
All sessions take place at my therapy home, Suffolk Yoga, in Ipswich, unless otherwise agreed. I have a beautiful, quiet and peaceful private room with access to bathroom facilities. Suffolk Yoga’s ethos is one that my heart and womb can align with. The entire space and the offerings available are truly centred in a whole person, whole body, holistic somatic approach.
1 Sorrel Horse Mews
Grimwade Street
Ipswich IP4 1LN
Please note that parking is limited. Usually I can organise a space for you directly outside the building. However when this is not possible, parking is available during the day at Fore St Swimming Pool. Cut through St. Clements Church Lane to Grimwade Street and cross the road. We are located in the white building at the front of Sorrel Horse Mews. I will refund your parking payment for the 2 hour session.
Initially you will need to purchase the Holistic Pelvic Care™ Package, which consists of a 1-hour Intake Form Review Call (online), and three 2-hour in-person therapy sessions. Follow-up single sessions can then be purchased at any time within the next 12 months, and I offer a 25% discount on all Follow-up sessions.
Bodywork is, in my experience, very rarely a one-and-done. The Holistic Pelvic Care™ Package affords us time to establish connection with the bodywork that you are in need of, to be guided by your body and truly centre your own pelvic bowl experiences. The more that I deepen in my journey as a bodyworker, the more I begin to orient to the pace of the nervous system, in slow, artful and intentional ways. The treatments are woven with incremental intelligence and body literacy. For me, this way of listening and attuning in direct and receptive relationship makes it simply impossible and unkind to rush you through intimate bodywork in one stand-alone session.
Your pelvic bowl really is about how you are and who you are in your life. That means that so much can happen in 12 months, in the rhythms, imprints and sensory intelligence of your pelvic bowl, and this will affect how you are in your pelvic wellbeing, alignment, and vibrancy. For this reason, post the 12 month duration, I kindly ask you to purchase a further Holistic Pelvic Care™ Package to hold the work with care, self-responsibility, and self-love! Your pelvic bowl will thank you!
Absolutely! I understand that payment plans are essential for many people. I am committed to making this work available, accessible and equitable. My prices remain the same whether you can pay in full up-front or not. I will not charge you interest for having a payment plan. I offer a 'pay-in-three' monthly installments plan for all therapy packages, which is available to everyone.
Great question! This really depends on what your needs and desires are. Holistic Pelvic Care™ benefits a wide variety of pelvic health issues. Some people will benefit from receiving the three treatment sessions over the course of 3 months (one per month). Others may be better suited to taking the sessions bi-weekly. Don't worry beautyheart! I've got you! We will co-create a preliminary plan during your Intake Form Review, and will check in with each other at the end of each session and make any adjustments to the schedule as necessary.
Once you have purchased your initial Holistic Pelvic Care™ Package, if you need and desire more bodywork, you can purchase Follow-up sessions at a reduced rate of 25% off for 12 months post your initial treatment.
Holistic Pelvic Care™ alone may be sufficient for you to release, integrate and offer your pelvic bowl the restoration that you need, with love, safety and belonging.
However, for long-term pelvic imbalances, where you may be holding long held trauma and stress patterns, emotional blockages and sexual shame and pain, you may require deepening work to fully unwind, awaken and liberate your pelvic well-being.
My own sexual and pelvic healing journey has absolutely necessitated a multi-layered approach to create the embodied safety that I needed to claim my pelvic bowl as a space of resource, creativity and power.
I have spent the last decade integrating a wide range of sexuality, pelvic and bodywork practices to support your needs and desires. Should you choose, but completely without expectation, you are invited to deepen into a Pelvic Priestess pathway that meets you where you are. This may include coaching, bodywork, sacred sexuality practices, trauma release work. I am continually amazed by the human capacity to heal, and I consider it a privilege to share a thread of that journey with you.
Beautiful! I am so glad to hear that you are ready to answer the call and say yes to your journey. Let’s connect!
You are invited to book your FREE complimentary Pelvic Temple Call with me today, where we can learn a little more about each other, and begin to understand what you truly desire to work on in our sessions with regard to your pelvic and sexual health, addressing your most pressing needs and deepest desires. I will also gently hold space for your questions, and any concerns that you may have. This is a call for you to discover more about working with me. There is no obligation to sign up - I understand that commiting to working with any practitioner is a big decision, and it is imperative that we both feel resonant to work with each other and co-create the transformation, beauty and empowered change that you are desiring.
If we are aligned to working with each other, I will offer you a pathway that feels right for you. Your complimentary Pelvic Temple Call is 60 minutes long, and held over Zoom. You do not need to have your own Zoom account. When you book your Pelvic Temple Call, you will receive a link that invites you into my personal Zoom-womb!
Okay, let's wade through the bullshit that so often happens in these spaces! Quite simply, I believe the way that you identify. I also appreciate that can change and shift in the most beautiful and organic and creative ways possible. I believe in respecting that, which is why I believe you get to language and express yourself as you choose, and I will make every endeavour to support that. I have experienced containers that have injured my experiences and various identities, and I understand that this is a significant issue in sexual and pelvic healing that I intend to challenge on the deepest level.
I am also aware that your various identities, experiences and intersectionalities will not always be a part of my lived experience and vocabulary. I am in the work to dismantle the vestiges of patriarchy, colonialism, sexism, racism, homophobia and ableism. I accept that there will be times that I get things wrong, need to make repair, and ask better questions of myself. I am committed to continue to learn and discover ways to integrate healing the disconnection that systems of oppression have created.
Click the link to view my Diversity and Inclusion Statement.
Personally and professionally, I am continuing to uplevel my education and unpack the embodied politics of race, gender and sexuality in order to become a ‘safer space holder’ for BIPOC, queer, trans, and GE Folk. As a bodyworker, it is never my place to assert that I can hold safe space. Instead, I work on the premise that as a trauma-informed bodyworker, my commitment is to co-creating ‘safer space’ with the openness to learn, repair and grow.
I am also committed to ensuring that pelvic health care begins to language diversity. I am taking action to bring this into my own work and scope of practice. Please know that as a Pelvic-Priestess I am devoted to your embodied-mystery, and I will do my best to meet you in all of your intersectional whole person identities, deeply listening to how you wish to express and be compassionately met.
Tami Lynn Kent
Tami is a women’s health physical therapist, founder of Holistic Pelvic Care™, and author of Wild Feminine: Finding Power, Spirit & Joy in the Female Body, Wild Creative, and Mothering from Your Center. Tami has advanced training in multiple bodywork techniques, including certification in Maya Abdominal Massage and Infant Body Psychotherapy/Birth Trauma Resolution. She received her Masters from Pacific University and her Bachelor of Arts in Biology from the University of California at Berkeley. She lives in Portland, Oregon, with her husband and sons.
Website: www.wildfeminine.com
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