Christine's blog

Hi All,

Throughout the life of WW I’ve striven as much as possible to make this information “self evident” to women. There has been enough gobblety-gook from textbooks, MDs, PTs and so forth. Women have to know these techniques work because they can sense it for themselves.

That said, I’d like to describe the way I believe pelvic floor contractions should be done.

First of all we need to ask the question, what are we trying to accomplish with kegels? Here is the true anatomy of the situation:

Pelvic organ prolapse is a condition where the pelvic organs – bladder, uterus, and rectum – press against the vaginal walls and in some cases cause the vagina to bulge outside the body. Often resulting in lower back pain and pelvic pressure, prolapse can also cause significant emotional distress. Prolapse is considered by obstetrics and gynecology to be a progressive disorder and has been treated with radical pelvic reconstructive surgery for over a hundred years.

The six-week-old baby nestled peacefully in his mother’s arms was like a dream come true. His birth had gone almost according to plan and everyone who came to visit noticed how closely he resembled his handsome father. Only those who knew Emily well could sense something amiss in this joyful scene, but when asked she would smile anxiously and insist everything was fine.

All those who treat women for disorders of pelvic organ support are informed by medical science and therefore subject to the same faulty paradigms that have followed gynecology down through the ages. Flawed models engender unsound practices such as the “40 day lie-in” currently being promoted by Australian neurologist Susan Mathers, MD.

The Western medical model is built upon a mechanistic map completely outmoded by physics and the life sciences. Four hundred years of dissection and over two hundred years of pelvic floor surgery demonstrate that a machine cannot change, grow, or evolve¹. Take the Paramore Ship Model, for example:

Hi Everyone,

I found a 2005 editorial from the International Urogynecology Journal titled, “Pelvic organ prolapse: is it time to define it?” that indeed seems timely.

The article begins by the author telling us:

After having been asked this question a couple of weeks ago, I have been so-o-o-o struggling to answer. I think maybe because I have already answered it…in a book, a dvd, a thousand forum posts and another two thousand emails. Sitting here staring at my computer – again – I’ve come to the conclusion that I can’t answer it.
So…I am asking my dear WholeWomen for help. Perhaps I will have more energy to answer if we can respond as a group.

Love,

Christine

(OR HOW THE MEDICAL SYSTEM FAILS WOMEN)

Part 1. Hysterectomy and the long-term health of women.

As research subjects go, women are not very popular with medical science. Surely we are worthy, but the gigantic medical-pharmaceutical machine that is now our health care system seems to place more value on marketing our diseases than restoring us to health. There is no other way to interpret such profound abandonment. Far more dangerous than neglect are the ways in which medical science adapts the truth to fit its own needs, even at the expense of healthy women.

Yoga saved my life. It came to me by way of a lineage of Kriya masters and has served to help mend my broken heart, heal my wounded body, and transform me in ways I never thought possible. I have nothing but the deepest respect and gratitude for the people who kept ancient Vedic wisdom alive in spite of almost total cultural, political, and religious annihilation.

While we in the West associate "yoga" with fitness, a deeper purpose unites all traditional yoga practice: realization of the innermost self. Historians and philosophers of yogic tradition agree that the physical practice of yoga developed as a way to calm, strengthen, and prepare the body for meditation.¹

As 21st century women living with symptoms of pelvic organ prolapse, it is reasonable to bring our hopes for a cure to the surgical arena. After all, medical science continues to astonish us with ever more advanced solutions for amputees, heart patients, and those suffering from brain tumors. Mesh used in reconstructive surgery is ever improving and there is no doubt the elusive “perfect mesh” will be developed…perhaps a bio-compatible carbohydrate fabric that encourages perfect lines and planes of scar tissue before dissolving completely. But no such mesh has been developed and the technology of reconstructive pelvic surgery remains a very blunt instrument. It is time to leave behind the argument whether the surgical fix does or does not work. The deeper truth is that it CAN’T work.