Internal Pelvic Release Work

Internal pelvic release is intentional and respectful work that offers a space to reconnect with the body and listen to what it may be holding. The pelvic space can hold tension, tenderness, memory, power, and anything in between.

This session invites you to come into relationship with your pelvic space through breath, awareness, and supported touch. It’s for you if you're seeking a deeper sense of ease, connection, or understanding within your body and especially after experiences that may have felt disconnecting, overwhelming, or simply complex to integrate. Here, you are guided with care and reverence, always at your pace, in a space that honours consent, sensitivity, and your innate wisdom.

You may wish to explore Internal Pelvic Release Work if you are:

  • curious about understanding your pelvic space and anatomy

  • preparing for birth

  • in your postpartum

  • confused about sensations you felt in your first labour or stalls experienced in labour or why you ‘couldn’t birth’ your baby vaginally

  • wanting to explore the sensations and space, whether that be tension or laxity

  • experiencing painful sex

  • you feel disconnected from this space and want to connect with it more

  • have painful scars in their vagina from birth due to episiotomy, assisted birth, tears that were sutured, caesarean birth

  • you have been harmed by another

This work is two-fold.

Our bodies are so very alive, yes we have a very big wonderful brain that processes so much of what the body experiences, however the body has its own experience, it just is, it’s not able to not experience something that happens to it.

The body remembers, and often tension can hold trauma, memories and emotions for us. The body and mind have different ways of processing things, they work in unison ideally to bring us back into alignment.

This tension can be the result of trauma, injury, our postural and movement habits, trauma, surgery, lifestyle choices or just the way our bodies are made.

The intention of this work is to explore, identify areas of tension and invite release with tender direct touch, so allowing the tissues to melt away and sigh. With this, space can be created and the capacity of these fibres can be restored to their full potential and the organs and the bony structures are able to return to an easeful state of alignment. 

This is done through the back wall of the vagina to access direct touch to the soft tissues that are the stabilisers of this space. You’ll be invited to intentionally direct your breathing at the same time as gentle deliberate touch is applied, to invite any tension that is there to release.

What does a session involve?

  • 2-hours in person

  • Discussion on pelvic anatomy to support a woman’s knowledge of her pelvic space, pelvic bones and pelvic soft tissues

  • External releasing actions to relieve tension, provide opportunities for more balance and relax prior to internal work.

  • A physical internal exploration and gentle release of tension in the soft tissue connections – ligaments, muscles, fascia – felt through the back wall of the vagina

  • Guidance with ‘how to continue with self-care’ and further release work by the you or with your partner’s support

We know all other areas of the body can become tense, sticky or tight, so too can the soft tissues of the pelvis. Where there is tension there is a restriction to the movement, flow, expansion and contraction abilities of the soft tissues. This affects the space of the bones and organs which can at times result in symptoms that can cause discomfort, pain or we may not have any known awareness of this at all.

Internal pelvic release work is twofold. 

Firstly,  it intends to bring connection and understanding for us. To more deeply understand the anatomy of the pelvic space, how it works and it’s capacity from both the sharing of knowledge and the physical exploration of the space.

Second, it intends to provide a tangible opportunity to apply gentle deliberate touch through the back wall of the vagina, identifying areas of tension and enabling the opportunity for tension release. With this, space can be created and the capacity of these fibres have the opportunity to be restored to a greater or their full potential and the organs and the bony structures may be able to return to a more easeful state of alignment.

Book with Josie

A certified Birth and Postpartum Doula (Australian Doula College) and an Internal Pelvic Release Practitioner trained under Fiona Hallinan. Expect a combination of body work & empowered education.