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Hi Joyure and welcome,
The best start is really the Saving the Whole Woman book and the First Aid for Prolapse DVD. Here you will find all the basic information you need to get a really good start into this work. You can add in the yoga DVDs or any of the online courses afterwards. The workouts are not strenuous; they are meant to help strengthen and lengthen our bodies into posture. The posture is the key here, and getting to the point of holding it all day is really the best thing we can do for ourselves.
Are you postpartum? If so, there are lots of great materials here for our postpartum moms too.
I wouldn't buy into gimmicks that have you sticking things in your vagina, because the vagina is meant to be a closed airless space or flattened tube. Putting things in there just keeps it open, and the potential for the pelvic organs to fall back into the vaginal space.
Christine has us jumping, but on the floor, up on toes. Jumping should really be done once posture is really mastered, so the organs can be forced into the lower belly.

What you have is the most common form of prolapse - the combination of cystocele and rectocele. Christine calls this "nature's pessary" because of its ability to keep the cervix from coming too close to the opening. It is very manageable with this posture work. But yes, I'd hold off on the running and jumping until you have mastered posture; then once you know how to do them correctly, they are quite beneficial. But I'd avoid the trampoline as I think it's hard to control your body position and angles when jumping. Also ditch the kegels, they are actually pulling the organs in the wrong direction. On the home page there is a search box on the right side where you can enter "kegel" and read Christine's articles on the subject. I am living proof they don't work, as I did them for decades! - Surviving

Joyure - hello and welcome,
A while back Christine and some of we forum members had a discussion on jumping. She was doing it on a wooden floor which had some "give" and with her whole foot, springing off with the toes and coming down gradually onto the whole sole of the foot. Christine is also probably fitter than all of us, however an inspiration to follow...
At that time I did an experiment on my trampoline having done WWPosture for some time. Before WW I could feel all my internals flopping up and down, dangerously so I never used the trampoline.

This time the way I could control my WWPosture the best on the trampoline was to gently bounce keeping my feet on the trampoline. If I jumped into the air the posture was lost.

I don't have the trampoline any more, however with Christine's Posture and exercises, walking, a little running, and now being able to learn Scottish Country Dancing which uses WWposture and exercise principles of dancing on toes with the hips turned out, I have plenty to keep me fit.

Take your time to study Christine's work, master the posture before trying anything, learn to listen to your body, and this will take you through your life the healthiest way....

Best Wishes,
Aussie Soul Sister

I, too, was hesitant about starting with running and jumping, and this was after mastering posture over several years' time. I started out with an exercise that I still do today. I stand on a carpeted surface (sometimes wearing my toe-separator sox) in excellent Whole Woman posture. Hold baton high over head, keeping shoulders down. Run in place gently on toes. Feet can be pointing straight ahead, or, turned out slightly from the hips (that's something you can't easily do when running forwards). Alternate with a few plies in first or second position. Add wrist weights for even more benefit. Keep that posture really strong with organs held out in front. I always feel great after a bit of this! - Surviving