HOLISTIC EXTERNAL PELVIC FLOOR THERAPY

A gentle, trauma-informed series integrating external pelvic floor therapy with the somatic power & wisdom of Soma® Neuromuscular Structural Integration.

You don’t have to live with pain, disconnection, or mystery symptoms that keep you up at night and make your days less than joyful.

This work offers you a path forward.

~ Olivia

the power of holistic understanding: PELVIC FLOOR Tension & pain

If pelvic floor pain and pelvic floor dysfunction isn’t resolving with allopathy, acupuncture, physical therapy, or even internal pelvic floor therapy, it might be because the root causes haven’t been addressed.

gentle external holistic pelvic floor therapy in my olympia, washington studio

WHY PAIR External Pelvic Floor Therapy with Soma® structural integration?

The unrivaled effectiveness of Soma® Structural Integration, paired with a focus on healing external pelvic floor dysfunction, gently supports reconnection, resolution, and healing.

With its holistic intent, gentle breath & somatic awareness practices, and integrative approach, this series is perfect for people experiencing persistent, chronic:

  • Pelvic pain or pelvic floor tension

  • Pain with intimacy or touch

  • Tailbone, hip, or low back pain

  • Stress incontinence, urinary urgency or dysfunction
    … along with associated nervous system dysregulation.

Sessions are collaborative, slow-paced, and deeply respectful of and responsive to client needs and boundaries. 

IS EXTERNAL Pelvic Floor Therapy FOR YOU?

Looking for gentle, body-based care that is non-pathologizing and empowering while also ultra-effective?

This work can support you if …

  • you’ve been diagnosed with pelvic floor dysfunction

  • you’ve been told “everything looks normal” but still feel pain

  • you’re seeking alternatives to internal pelvic floor therapy

  • you’re postpartum and want to reconnect with your core

  • you feel ungrounded, disconnected, or “not in your body”

    … and you’ve been seen by your PCP and you are cleared to receive bodywork and massage therapy.

WHY IS PELVIC FLOOR PAIN AND DYSFUNCTION SO STUBBORN?

The pelvic floor FORMs a vital center of support, identity, breath, and emotion.

Its role in structural and somatic health, posture, core mechanics, and movement is overlooked and denied by allopathic medicine, care providers, physical therapists, trainers.

 In a fractured society where it’s usually not safe to be open or vulnerable, the pelvic floor often suffers lock-down. Add to that a modern culture of sitting—sitting in cars, at desks, on couches—only compounds the problem of maintaining a dynamic relationship to the pelvic floor.

CHRONIC PELVIC FLOOR TENSION REFLECTS CULTURAL, SOCIETAL, AND INDIVIDUAL STRESSES. THE PAIN GOES DEEP.

When the pelvic floor chronically holds tension, and can’t let go, that tension causes pain, numbness, and neuralgia in the pelvic floor like • Urinary pain (dysuria), stress incontinence, incontinence • Fecal incontinence • Pudendal neuralgia • Vulvodynia (vulvar pain) • Rectal pain • Prolapse • Testicular pain • Burning, pressure, or hypersensitivity in the vulva, vagina, scrotum, or penis • Pain during or after intercourse (dyspareunia)

Over time, pelvic floor dysfunction can also travel throughout the body—creating mysterious symptoms that don’t resolve without sensitive awakening and integration of healthy pelvic floor function.

DID YOU KNOW THESE ISSUES can be RELATED TO PELVIC FLOOR DYSFUNCTION?

Pain during EXERCISE

Discomfort or pain during exercise, especially core or lower-body work. May be linked to poor coordination or overuse of pelvic muscles, which form part of the core musculature.

BACK & ABDOMINAL PAIN

Low back pain, SI joint pain, piriformis syndrome, sciatica, hip pain, tailbone pain (coccygodynia), and groin pain. Tension may radiate from tight pelvic floor muscles to the lower back, sacrum, belly and hips. May feel like a dull ache or muscular tightness in the lower abdomen, digestive upsets, groin pain (that’s not from a hernia).

CHRONIC STRESS & TENSION

Because the sacral plexus and pelvic floor nerve plexus contain so many somatic and autonomic nerve connections, pelvic floor pain can be implicated in whole-body numbness, disconnection, or instability as well as chronic stress, anxiety. or nervous system “freeze.”

About the Pelvic Floor-Centered Bodywork Series

massage therapy to heal pelvic floor pain

In Washington state, massage therapists are licensed to perform external pelvic floor therapy. There will be no internal work performed—only manual therapy at and on the pelvic bones where muscles attach, as well as on associated fascia.

External pelvic floor therapy offers a non-invasive, trauma-aware approach to healing this often-neglected area. Through touch, breath, and awareness, we help your body remember how to soften and self-regulate.

This is a deep, body-led journey in a collaborative space of inquiry, respect, and slow work.

Over seven sessions, we’ll:

  • Build safety and trust in the therapeutic relationship\

  • Learn about pelvic floor anatomy, physiology, and somatic applications

  • Release chronic tension patterns throughout the fascia and nervous system

  • Restore pelvic floor balance through external hands-on work and gentle, educational somatic awareness adapted to your needs and comfort

  • Support breath, posture, and bodymind integration

  • Work on the massage table, seated, or in movement. Your pace. Your body. Your process.

  • Make space for emotional or energetic layers to unwind naturally with reflective practice, journaling, and active imaginative practice

You will remain fully clothed and draped at all times.

(If you feel better before seven sessions, you can stop anytime! There’s no commitment required.)

The work integrates and complements other treatments you may be pursuing like chiropractic, physical therapy, allopathy, naturopathic, exercise and yoga, boosting all the benefits!

WHAT TO EXPECT

  • You can wear your own comfortable, non-binding, full coverage athletic clothing … or you can borrow some from me, because I have extras.

    You will remain fully draped at all times.

  • Sessions are fully clothed and co-created with care. Each session travels progressively through a slightly different territory of the body, mind, and bodymind, but during every session you’ll receive:

    • Hands-on bodywork on the connective tissue (fascia) layers, and sometimes on the bones, ligaments, and muscles of the core, the pelvis, sacrum, tailbone, and surrounding tissues

    • Nervous system support and reconditioning

    • Guided breath and embodiment practices as needed

    • Simple yet profound movement education

    • Deep rest and relaxation

  • It begins with a single session.

    There’s never a commitment required that you don’t choose to make.

    Each two-hour session costs $200.

    Step through the full seven sessions for pain relief, or choose to extend your experience with eleven sessions, gifting yourself even more time and space for full integration and even deeper bodymind transformation.