Hypopressive Exercises
Next 10 week class series from
Wednesday July 16th to September 17th.
Why Do Hypopressives?
Your Pelvic Floor Is Just One Piece Of The Puzzle.
Do you suffer from a pelvic floor disorder such as incontinence, sexual dysfunction or prolapse, or do you want to prevent any of these from happening?
Do You Want To:
- tone your core, without causing unwanted and problematic pressure on your pelvic floor?
- prepare your body for pregnancy, or recover pelvic floor function after giving birth?
- decrease your waist size, improve your posture, flatten your abdominals, improve circulation or improve athletic performance?
- breathe better both day and night?
Hypopressives may be the answer you have been looking for.
Most people don’t realise their pelvic floor issues start with their breath, until symptoms appear and persist. When it comes to breathing well, your pelvic floor is a crucial piece of the puzzle.
It, along with your diaphragm and transverse abdominal muscles make up your core.
A well toned and coordinated core is essential for a pelvic floor you can rely on and to be able to breathe optimally day and night. Poor breathing mechanics can sabotage your core.
If you have a pelvic floor issue you will have an underlying breathing issue and vice versa, even if you are not yet aware of it.
Everybody can benefit from Hypopressives. They can be particularly helpful to people who suffer with urinary incontinence, poor posture, back pain, sexual dysfunction or even severe pelvic prolapse.
What Are Hypopressives?
An Integrated Breathing Practice To Regain Synergistic Control Of Your Pelvic Floor, Core And Airway.
Hypopressive exercises target your core and pelvic floor in a way you have never felt before.
The various postures, combined with both static and dynamic moves reintegrate correct breathing reflex patterns in a coordinated way. This provides not just an increase in tone but a regulation of our breathing, core and pelvic floor function and reliability.
The connections that come with the postures and moves themselves are beneficial, but when combined with the vacuum breath hold, take them to a whole new level. The vacuum breath allows us to access, stretch and tone our core from the inside out, and really reconnects us with our bodies.
Once reflexive patterns are re-established, every breath we take utilises correct inner pressure mechanics and increases tone. This is reflected in improved breathing and pelvic floor function and reliability.
Regular practice creates and maintains great tone and function.
Chiropractor, Dr Alison Holden
Your Breathing Focused Chiropractor
Alison is your licensed Hypopressive class instructor and holds the classes both online and in her practice at 52 Douglas Street, Milton.
Alison, began working with a breathing focus in the early 2000’s and has added many pieces to the puzzle since, including the physiology, habits and mechanics of breathing, not just for when we are awake but also while we sleep. She became aware of hypopressive exercises towards the end of 2024… and was so impressed by their effects on breathing that she quickly signed up to become an instructor.
Hypopressive exercises encompass and utilise all the pieces she had learned previously and packages them with reconnection to the role of the pelvic floor in breathing. They also give the ability to target reflexive pathways that are so essential for a reliable pelvic floor.
Below is a recording of the live introductory presentation Alison gives about breathing life into your pelvic floor.
This provides a closer look at pelvic floor dysfunction, what it looks like, risk factors of being affected by it, why it has been so hard to address in the past and how Hypopressives can help.
Alison presents these live, one month prior to each term’s new classes to allow you to personally ask any questions you may have.