Emotional pelvic release is a medicine of beautiful power, for it is here in our pelvis that we harbour and store that which has caused us to feel unsafe and hindered how we relate and connect with self and other.
I believe our pelvis to be the anchor in which we are able to breathe, expand, rest and secure ourselves into.
When our pelvis is stagnant with the emotions of the past, our life feels dull and un-moving too, for our pelvis desires movement, creation, rhythm and flow.
If our pelvis has become a source of childhood trauma, generational trauma and trauma during the pregnancy and birth of our children, we are left without the fluidity of this moving life energy to ground us into bones and flesh.
We may resist and pull ourselves away from our pelvic bones because there is physical pain, (often our bodies way of saying there is something out of balance residing there) Or we may feel uneasy or detached from our pelvis with no logical understanding of why.
When we carry our past pain and trauma in our pelvis, these experiences feel inaccessible to us and we can feel in lack of nurturing qualities of the feminine in our life and unable to obtain or sustain that which supports us to thrive and feel nourished.
If we see the pelvic bowl as our foundation, we can gain an understanding of the source of experiences and information we are living life and growing from. Whether that information is healthy to our well-being or destructive.
A pelvis full of past tension, establishes just that, a rocky and tense ground with a nervous system that finds it challenging to to ground and maintain calm.
The pelvis is an internal abundant landscape, within it sits our womb, the waters in which we were miraculously born from, developed within and birth from. Living energetically at ease and attuned to our pelvis opens up so much more life source and creative potential.
In my personal experience of my own pelvis and those who have trusted me to work with them, the release from the pelvis is a powerful catalyst for change and the birthing of that change. It is the receptive and grounding vessel for how we feel about ourselves, the safety of the world in which we are in and our ability to create and access what we need and desire.
Our pelvis is the most dominant emotional source, therefore, it it makes sense. The emotional release from the pelvic bones, organs and muscles can impact us so greatly.
A healthy pelvis is essential to a felt sense of well-being. We may presume this only to be of the female body, which yes, many women suffer from pelvic pain and conditions within the pelvis, yet men also store past trauma, unhealthy childhood programming and undigested emotions within the pelvis too.
I have found that the pelvis contains beliefs that we absorbed as children from the world around us, our parenting, and our early relationships that we unconsciously re-create as looping life patterns and situations. When we have absorbed this information without question as truth, we have grown up from the pelvis, misinformed of our place and worth in this world.
Trauma that effects the pelvis may create:
Physical pain.
A fear based anxiety riddled life.
Lack of felt vibrancy, creativity and aliveness.
Life of lack, scarcity and worry.
Difficulty in maintaining relationships with others.
Lack of trust in the world being a safe, supportive, abundant place.
Lack of self worth and difficulty in maintaining self care and self nourishment.
Poor boundaries.
Easily emotionally overwhelmed or emotionally avoidant.
During Pelvic Trauma Release sessions there have been a felt emotional release of:
Grief of past miscarriages.
Grief of not having children.
Lack of belonging to body and this world.
Loneliness.
A fear of not being safe or accepted.
Distrust and fear of men.
Lack of mothering.
Emotionally absent mother wounds.
Numbness to sexual vibrancy.
Abandonment.
Anger stored from past abuse.
Unworthiness to receive.
Cause of anxiety and inability to ground.
Cause of disassociation.
Physical and emotional distress on body that occured during giving birth.
Sexual abuse.
Domestic abuse.
Unhealthy attachments and over dependent relationships.
Ways to soften emotional trauma from your pelvis:
I feel when we are holding emotional trauma in our pelvis, it is important to approach the pelvis with tenderness and a willingness to listen to our body.
We can build a relationship of trust with our pelvis by simply:
❤️ Wearing a wrap ,scarf or blanket around our pelvis. This creates a felt sense of being safe and held. It also adds warmth and nourishment to this area.
❤️ Place hands softly on the belly and notice if you can breathe down and into the belly so the belly softly rises. Notice without judgement or going into story what emotions rise with the breath.
❤️ Enjoy playfully moving your hips into small figures of 8 or gentle swaying to release tightness and tension that keep the emotions stored. Allow yourself to express what arises from your pelvis.
❤️ Notice when you are stuck in thought, pause and ask yourself what you are feeling. This offers self permission to feel and be of body, rather than thought and head.
❤️ Explore a supportive therapist that may hold you and your bones as you gently release.
