Hypopressive Training

Hypopressive Training is a holistic way to engage the pelvic floor through a mix of postural awareness and breathwork. It can work to help with both an overactive and underactive pelvic floor area and can be a great way to reduce stress and anxiety in the body as a whole.

It aims to work with the fascial connections through the body to help engage the pelvic floor area in an active and functional way through breath-focused exercises.

Hypopressive Training works seamlessly with other movement modalities so can be blended into a general movement session by applying it to an existing exercise repertoire or it can be taught as a specific Hypopressive training session.

Hypopressive Training helps to create a greater sense of elasticity and adaptability of the tissue and muscles around the pelvic floor as well as around the ribcage and lungs rather than just focusing on strengthening pelvic floor muscles, which a lot of pelvic floor training focuses on. In this way Hypopressives can have a more successful outcome for our pelvic health.

Approaching the body through the lens of Biotensegrity, we see that everything in the body is connected to everything else, this gives us a broader view of the tissues and muscles around the pelvic floor area, such as the adductor muscles, the gluts, the abdominal area and even looking at the role the nervous system has to play. With this wider lens we can hopefully bring benefit to the pelvic floor area more successfully as well as the body as a whole.

Pelvic health issues can arise in both men and women and for women can become more of a problem post-birth and also around the menopause. Adding regular Hypopressive Training into any movement practice where possible can bring an extra sense of depth and benefit to the body.