Healing Wombs: Maya Abdominal Massage

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I was reading online about Pelvic Organ Prolapse and came across this information about abdominal massage for POP. It sounds very interesting and there is a massage therapist here where I live that women have gone to saying this works for lifting and realigning the uterus and bladder that have dropped.
Does anybody know or have heard about this? It makes sense to me that massage would help.

I have heard about this too and will be curious to hear back from you and others. I believe Christine once said that it won't hurt it, but also won't heal it. Best wishes

I had one of these massages early on in my learning about my prolapse. The massage therapist did the massage and she also taught me how to self massage. Although this technique doesn't cure the prolapse, it does help with familiarizing you with where your "girl parts" are located. The therapist was able to feel through my abdomen that my uterus needed to shift. I continue to self massage & find it soothing. I think with the prolapse we get so aggravated at our bodies at times, and this treatment helps with healing emotionally as well as soothing, physically. It is a nice energetic treatment - like Reiki. Give it a try! Best of luck Silverlady.

Hi Silverlady

I think Ananda has hit the nail on the head. For so many of us our bodies are a complete history, even if we have studied the human body at school and know the relevant theory. Somehow, getting to know your own body gets shoved into the background when we have doctors to do all the interpretation of our bodies for us.

We know our way around our own neighbourhood, and around our own house. Why don't we know our way around our own body? Mayan Massage is one of the ways we can do it. If we know our way around, even only our pelvis and abdomen we can start to understand how it all moves, and how we can change the way it behaves.

Thank you ladies for your comments.

This sounds VERY interesting, will have to research this!

The Maya massage is very helpful. I've gone several times. Of course it hasn't healed me but it is also an ancient technique from South America that women there do regularly. I'm now just new here and starting to work on the posture adjustments. So I'm going to keep doing the massage also.

Hello and help!
I had a gorgeous baby boy 4 months ago with tramatic vacumn delivery and now have bladder prolapse i can feel it all the time never goes away . I have a complicated history i have a double uterus (born that way) and baby was in the right one in pregnancy i am seeing a physio who massages pelvic floor etc and tells m the right side is weaker. i have ordered the dvds and am waiting delivery i live in ireland but am wondering will they help can i get the bladder to go back up and how long will it take ? am desperate was very sporty and active prior to this still walk every day and swim sorry for all the questions very fed up!!!

Welcome to WW - Congrats on wonderful new babe! Please know that 4 months PP is still extremely early on in the healing process. You can still see a lot of improvement but you do need to adopt this natural posture that will help support your organs and protect your hips for life. It is not a cure but it will enable you to manage things and do pretty much anything that you want to do, without fear. Swimming is fine, should be no problem because gravity is in your favor. Walking every day in excellent WW posture is great - that is really how I learned and perfected my posture. I have both rectocele and cystocele. I wish that I had acquired this knowledge in the PP days....your body will still be changing and healing for months and months to come, and it will respond to this work if you commit the effort. Bring your questions here as you go along! Hang in there. - Surviving