18/12/2025
This busy time of year is when we can experience heightened anxiety and stress, causing us to clench our jaw and in turn our pelvic floor muscles. So in relaxing our jaw, we relax our pelvic floor. But how do we do that?
🎄Simply being aware is always the best start. A 🟢, 💙, 🌟 or even a candy cane on your hand, is a great reminder to check in with your body.
🎄Scan your body from head to toes. Do you feel tension or tightness anywhere?
🎄Drop your shoulders
🎄Next, we need to breathe...in through your nose and into your tummy, relax your jaw muscles and focus on the relaxed movement of your pelvic floor muscles. Allow your jaw and pelvic floor to relax or “drop,” and while inhaling, focus on the feeling of these muscles lengthening and loosening
🎄 Now for some exercises
Place your fingers on the top of your front bottom teeth.
Slowly pull down until you feel slight tightness of your jaw. Hold for 30 seconds, and then slowly release your jaw back to the starting position.
Repeating this stretch three times.
- The relaxed jaw position
Put your lips together, tongue at the roof of the mouth, and let your teeth fall apart.
- Jaw joint stretch
This exercise helps stretch the muscles of the jaw and neck.
Press the tip of your tongue onto the roof of your mouth, directly behind your top front teeth, without touching them. Next, use your tongue to apply gentle pressure. Slowly open your mouth as wide as you can, then slowly close it shut.
Stop at the point where you feel discomfort. Repeat 3 times.
- Smile stretch
This stretch helps eliminate stress in the facial muscles, upper and lower jaw, and neck.
Smile, the widest smile you can without feeling tightness or pain. While smiling, slowly open your jaw. Inhale deeply through your mouth, then exhale while letting go of the smile. Repeat 3 times.
🎄And Sing! Belt out Mariah’s “All I Want For Christmas”.
While strengthening your pelvic floor muscles is important, it's just as important to relax them.
Remember to drop your jaw to the floor to relax your pelvic floor!