When your body feels safe, pain and tension can change
Saturday, October 3rd at 12 pm ET
A FREE 2-hour workshop on the science of pelvic pain, prolapse and tension with Dr. Howard Schubiner and Lauren Ohayon
*Free to attend. Recording access included through October 6th
Living with pelvic pain means thinking about your body all the time
You feel it when you exercise, lift your kids, when you sneeze, when you sit through a long meeting. Managing symptoms becomes its own job, one more thing you plan the day around.
Learn how to change your relationship with pain through a combination of pain neuroscience, nervous system education, body awareness, and movement. Understanding why pain can persist even after tissues have healed, and learning practical tools to help your brain and body move out of protection can help you feel safer, move with more freedom, and stop organizing your life around symptoms.
On October 3rd, Dr. Howard Schubiner, one of the physicians who helped pioneer our understanding of neuroplastic pain, joins Lauren Ohayon to bring the education and movement together.
In this workshop you will:
Learn why pain can continue after tissues have healed, or alongside a diagnosis like prolapse
Learn how to tell the difference between pain driven by structure and pain driven by a sensitized nervous system, and why many people have both
Hear the specific evidence on pelvic pain, pelvic floor dysfunction, endometriosis and pudendal neuralgia
Learn the question Howard asks every patient: could this be neuroplastic, or partly neuroplastic?
Understand why tight muscles are a symptom, and why tightness is not evidence that anything is damaged.
Experience guided movement that lowers gripping and pressure on the pelvic floor
Leave with movement tools you can use at home right away
This workshop is for you if...
You live with low back, hip or pelvic pain
You have prolapse, pelvic floor tension or a postpartum body and want to understand what is driving your symptoms
You want to know how much of your pain can change, even if a diagnosis stays
You are a movement professional who works with clients in pain and wants to bring pain science into your teaching
What happens in the two hours
Howard teaches the science of how pain actually works: why the brain produces it, how to tell the difference between pain driven by structure and pain driven by a sensitized nervous system, and what the research shows about pelvic floor dysfunction, endometriosis and pudendal neuralgia. He also teaches the question at the heart of his book, one worth asking about any persistent symptom: could this be neuroplastic, or partly neuroplastic?
Lauren guides a full hour of movement designed around safety. You will move from your breath and from your bones, out of the "does this hurt, will this hurt" mindset and into actually feeling your own body. This movement will begin to give your brain steady evidence that your body is okay.
Dr. Howard Schubiner
Dr. Howard Schubiner is a physician, researcher, author, speaker, and Clinical Professor at Michigan State University College of Human Medicine, and a leading expert in neuroplastic chronic pain and illness. He co-developed Emotion Awareness and Expression Therapy (EAET), a treatment shown in clinical trials to outperform traditional approaches, and co-developed Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT), shown in the Boulder Back Pain Study to eliminate pain in two-thirds of participants. His newest book is Unlearn Your Pain: The Science of Recovering from Chronic Pain, Anxiety, Fatigue, and Depression, published by Maria Shriver’s The Open Field imprint of Penguin Life.
Lauren Ohayon
For more than 25 years, Lauren Ohayon has been teaching people how their core and pelvic floor actually work, through pregnancy, birth, postpartum and beyond. Her method, Restore Your Core®, looks at the pelvic floor as part of a whole system: breath, ribs, pressure, gait, the nervous system, and habitual movement patterns.
She brought that same approach to teaching prenatal childbirth education in New York and to co-founding One Strong Mama (now Body Ready Method®), and today she trains doulas, midwives, physiotherapists, and movement professionals around the world. Her trainings are known for going deep into the why: practitioners feel the work in their own bodies first, and then guide their clients there. More than 600 practitioners have trained in the RYC® Method, and more than 10,000 women worldwide have been served through this approach.
Join us live on October 3rd
Two free hours:
The science of pelvic pain, prolapse and tension, followed by guided movement that puts it into practice in your own body and time to have your questions answered at the end.
*Free to attend. Recording access included through October 6th