yOnilates® is a simple series of pelvic floor exercises to music designed to help you awaken, isolate and tone the marvellous orchestra of muscles of your amazing pelvis. Pelvic floor fitness is considered by experts to be essential for a woman’s life long physical, sexual and emotional health. We really should be taught to exercise this crucial area of the body in high school.
It doesn’t help that many of us find it difficult to talk about our genitals and reproductive cycles, which makes it harder to ‘own’ or experience them. This cuts us off from the major source of our creative life force energy and a fundamental place of connection with ourselves. Moving from whatever degree of genital shame and discomfort we have picked up from our culture to fully-fledged delight in our glorious, sensual, feminine selves is a potent journey for every woman. In traveling my own version of this journey and supporting other women along theirs I have put together this series of practices focusing on the pelvis.
yOnilates® practices facilitate a deeper connection with the richly innervated pleasure centres of the body. As you discover and begin to work with the muscles that surround your yOni, the core of your femininity, this will increase blood flow and sensitivity.
yOnilates® offers you a map, an imagined and then a felt sense of the amazing landscape that makes up your creative centre.
As well as working specifically with your pelvic floor muscles, the practice of yOnilates® also invites you to connect with the subtle energies of your womb space. They help you to release any stuck energy and emotions and to tune into the strength & wisdom stored in your core.
The yOnilates practices support you specifically both physically and mentally. You get to understand and learn to visualise your anatomy and to feel for and exercise the individual muscles. The work also touches many women emotionally and energetically and makes them feel connected to their feminine power and a whole lot better about themselves. yOnilates enlivens and empower your creative centre.
Hear about what Diana experienced in yOnilates classes in the video below.
Learn and practice yOnilates live, online with Laura-Doe in her latest offering, The Happy Pelvis Project. In eight weeks you will have the skills you need to take back command of your pelvic floor wellness, reduce any bothersome symptoms and reclaim your connection not just with your pelvic floor but with your whole experience of your inner strength and what it is to be a woman.
The next programme starts 30th May. Click here to book your place.
Salt Spring Island, B.C, Canada: Classes with yOnilates level 1 teacher and dancer, Sarah Hyams. For more information about Sarah’s yOnilates classes connect with her on Facebook or via email
Oxford, UK: Classes and one day courses available with yOnilates level 1 teacher, Alison Lindenbaum of OxSpines Osteopathy. Alison combines many years of osteopathic training and practice with the yOnilates pelvic floor work. For more information about her yOnilates classes visit Alison’s website.
“This work has been a great opening to start to reawaken aspects of my womanly self which have been long suppressed. It feels like the start of an exciting new journey!!” – Ali Blacket
“I left the session with a surprising amount of stuff coming up around this very neglected area yet also quite an unexpected bounce in my step with my head held high, a glint in my eye and in touch with my feminine charm” – DY
“… delicious, informative, inspiring and looking forward to the ongoing sequence”
“It was great!! Thanks for creating such a scientific, safe and organised learning environment”
“Being a young female who felt both emotionally and physically disconnected, I was curious to try out yOnilates. I’ll admit I was a little sceptical at first and extremely anxious, but I attended with a positive attitude and an open mind.
During my very first class I was amazed at how quickly I began to feel a connection and at the ease with which I was able to experience a level of comfort, despite giving this often neglected area of myself some consideration.
It was obvious to me from the beginning just how little I knew about my own body – I had no knowledge of these layers of muscles contributing to my ‘pelvic floor’.
The anatomy was explained using props, which I found extremely helpful and the information was clear and easy to understand.
The exercises were simple to follow and set to a soundtrack, this helped me to focus and monitor my own progression throughout the course.
Classes ended with a guided relaxation, providing a very nurturing and spiritual closure to each session.” E
“Laura-Doe has found a beautiful balance within her teaching; educational, fun, relaxing and personal. I believe that yOnilates has helped to heal and create a connection within myself and has provided me with the tools I need to confidently continue my own practice.
I will be highly recommending these classes to all the females in my life.”
“I felt disconnected to my body and not very sexual. My busy work life had left me feeling drained so I wanted to tune in to my body more and create more connection and sexual energy with my husband. I learned that by doing easy but specific exercises to tone the pelvic floor muscles I could reconnect with my body to feel more relaxed, womanly and sexy.” – MM.
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