Holistic Pelvic Care™

Realign Your Most Vital Muscles While Restoring Your Emotional WellBeing

What is Holistic Pelvic Care™?

Holistic Pelvic Care™ is a therapy that helps a woman gain greater access to her creative intuition, find clarity of mind, realign with her spiritual calling – all while minimizing the symptoms associated with pelvic floor dysfunction. It is a dynamic yet subtle balancing therapy for women that provides myofascial release and structural integration of the tissues within the pelvic bowl while helping her reconnect to the innate wisdom that lies within this sacred space. These techniques help reestablish strength and synergy in the pelvic musculature, improve circulation and blood flow to the muscles and organs in the pelvic bowl, restore organ alignment, and decrease problematic symptoms such as pelvic pain, urinary leakage, or pain with intercourse. Just as other muscles in the body become tightened, stressed and imbalanced whenever they are strained, overworked, or traumatized, so too can the internal muscles of the pelvic bowl become imbalanced from illness, stress, or trauma.

Holistic Pelvic Care™ is recommended for:

• Enhancing fertility

• Preparing for pregnancy

• Preparing for childbirth

• Improving postpartum healing

• Traumatic or difficult birth experiences

• Abuse (sexual, physical, emotional)

• Helping establishing clear energetic boundaries

• Interstitial Cystitis

• Painful Bladder Syndrome

• Irritable bowel syndrome, colitis, constipation  

• Women in Peri/Menopause

• Pelvic pain (Vaginismus)

• Pain with intercourse, sexual dysfunction/decreased libido

• Endometriosis, painful menstrual periods

• Urinary leakage (incontinence)

• Organ prolapse (Rectocele/cystocele)

• Sexual health concerns (libido/orgasm)

• Pelvic muscle balance and engagement

Who Can Benefit from Holistic Pelvic Care™ Sessions?

Every Woman Care

Within the current medical model, the field of women’s health is mostly limited to well woman exams including pap smears and issues relating to hormonal imbalance. A woman’s pelvic bowl contains a complex network of muscles and organs yet the pelvis receives little direct care. In a culture that tends to encourage the tendency for women to care for everybody and everything except for themselves, the tension that results often gets stored within the pelvic musculature and internal fascia leaving women disconnected from the wisdom that lies within their “creative feminine energy center” (the pelvic bowl). As a Holistic Pelvic Care™ practitioner, Dr. Kimberly Karuna is honored to help women reconnect with their center so that they can find the strength, clarity, balance, and rejuvenation they need to create a richer and more meaningful life.

Dr. Kimberly Karuna believes that every woman can benefit from Holistic Pelvic Care™. As a unique therapy that helps women revitalize and reclaim their vital energy, improves circulation and restores energetic and physical balance within the pelvis, Holistic Pelvic Care™ decreases pelvic congestion and can therefore be helpful in addressing conditions like PMS, dysmenorrhea (menstrual cramps), ovarian cysts and infertility.

Postpartum Birth Integration

New mothers are often depleted and out-of-balance following pregnancy and birth. As a mother herself, Dr. Kimberly Karuna recognizes how important it is for mothers to nurture themselves and bring their bodies back into balances after the birthing process. Postpartum Holistic Pelvic Care™ can help women who have recently given birth reconnect with their sacred womb space, revitalize and rebalance their core, and transform any physical or emotional discomforts/traumas that may have been experienced during or after the birthing process. Holistic Pelvic Care™ can also help speed recovery from childbirth, resolve symptoms such as pelvic musculature weakness and urinary leakage that often arise after birthing a child.

Miscarriage

For women who have experienced a miscarriage, Holistic Pelvic Care™ can help reconnect them to their sacred womb and facilitate deeper level of healing so that they are better able to honor the spirit who had been connected to their womb and process their loss in a way that feels more complete.

Birth Trauma

Holistic Pelvic Care™ restores the balance within the pelvic bowl to release patterns of trauma that persist after difficult birth experiences. It is a gentle yet powerful therapy that can help women transition into motherhood with a greater sense of peace, joy and ease that she can focus her energy on the one thing she does best: nurture and love her new baby.

What Can I Expect in a Holistic Pelvic Care™ Session? 

Your initial treatment session will generally be the longest (approximately 45 minutes) where Dr. Kimberly will take a brief history and discuss your goals for treatment. This is also the time where she will discuss any questions or concerns you may have regarding the therapy itself as well as any questions you may have about pelvic anatomy. Next, Dr. Kimberly will begin with some external palpation techniques and then, if you are comfortable, she will continue with internal palpation techniques to evaluate any existing trigger points as well as tension patterns within your pelvic bowl. Her assessment is used to guide your individualized Holistic Pelvic Care™ treatments, which may incorporate the use of gentle intravaginal myofascial and trigger point release as well as energetic balancing techniques.

Follow-up sessions are generally shorter (approximately 30 minutes) once the initial goals have been established. Each follow-up session will begin with a brief re-assessment but will focus primarily on treatment. The frequency and duration of treatment sessions can vary based on the severity and chronicity of your symptoms. Generally, you can expect anywhere from 1-6 sessions depending on your treatment goals.

Each session ends with a review of simple and effective self-care techniques so that you can nurture yourself through your personal healing process and create a deeper connection to your female center. Depending on your sensitivity and needs, external energetic healing may be indicated before internal work is incorporated into a treatment session. 

What Effects Will I Notice After a Holistic Pelvic Care™ Session?

Women describe a greater sense of well-being in their core (i.e. feeling more relaxed, centered and supported), improved sensation, increased libido, and increased strength in their pelvic muscles after receiving Holistic Pelvic Care™.  Due to this therapy’s unique ability to revitalize a woman’s energetic center and increase blood flow within the pelvis, women often report significant improvements within a short number of sessions.

Is Holistic Pelvic Care™ Painful? 

No. Holistic Pelvic Care™ is gentle and respectful form of pelvic therapy that follows the lead of the body. It should never hurt and the response of a woman’s body guides the depth and
direction of the hands-on work. Although Holistic Pelvic Care™ is gentle, the effects are profound.

* Holistic Pelvic Care™ was pioneered by Tami Kent, MSPT.