12/12/2025
End-of-year stress making your pelvic floor hold on for dear life, like it’s on deadline too?
All the rushing, planning, wrapping, organising… your body keeps the score.
Here are five simple ways to help your pelvic floor exhale before you do:
+ Diaphragmatic breathing — place one hand on your ribs and one on your lower tummy, breathe in through your nose and let your belly soften and rise. Then breathe out through your mouth gently, without force or effort.
+ Child’s pose (knees wide) — sink your hips back towards your heels, knees apart, chest resting down. Let your pelvic floor soften with each breath out.
+ Happy Baby — lie on your back, grab your feet or ankles and gently let your knees fall outwards. Think: soft hips, relaxed pelvic floor.
+ Deep hang squat — hold onto a bench or doorframe, drop into a low squat and let your tummy and pelvic floor fully relax while you breathe.
+ Figure-4 stretch — lying on your back, cross one ankle over the opposite knee and hug your legs in to open your hip.
Finish the year softer, calmer and with a pelvic floor that isn’t gripping through the chaos.
Your bits deserve a breather too.
