"Anatomy tells you what it is. Physiology tells you what it does."

We created this CET because we see the need for yoga teachers, movement professionals and birthworkers who work with prenatal and postnatal persons, to understand the physiological process of labour and birth and how the pelvic floor responds to those changes.

Most prenatal and postnatal trainings in movement fields like yoga and pilates might touch on joints, muscles and ligaments of the pelvis, from the viewpoint of needing to stabilise and strengthen (during pregnancy), as well as recover (post-birth).

What is often not included from such trainings, and what this course helps to address, are the biomechanical processes that need to occur during labour and birth, including how the cervix changes with the movement of the fetus during labour, and what movement principles and positions can encourage or inhibit those processes to occur.

This requires a different lens of looking at the pelvis - from its structure to the soft tissue components which include the uterus and the uterine ligaments. In this course, you will learn:

• how the pelvis modifies structurally
• what allows for those modifications
• what are the movement principles that will help create space, suppleness and strength 
• relationship of the breath to pelvic floor mobility

We will also look at the biomechanics of breathing and how the the breath helps with labouring and pushing. 

Knowledge of basic anatomy of the pelvis, its anatomical movements and how it connects to the upper and lower limbs.