Christine, I hear you now.

Love this post Arizona! Thanks!

Love these posts too! I feel more motivated now too!

Thank you so much for posting this, Arizona. It has always been my hope that everyone who comes here will persist with the work until they reach that moment of realization. I am so glad that you heard that voice calling you back when you were having doubts. Christine's teachings always resonated with me since the very first moment.....but it did not "click" until much later, after some ups and downs and a realization that I needed to put more into this in order to get more out. I too had a moment such as yours after several months. And I still get moments like that which serve as reminders when I slip into a bad body position. I correct and I feel things inside moving back into a better place. So keep up the good work and please continue to share. We are all on a mission to make this world a better and safer place! - Surviving

Arizona, it was definitely your own voice that you heard, because like me, you felt in your gut that there was a hard truth in these teachings! When members like you come on here to describe your moment of realization, it can be so much more powerful for others to read than the perpetual naggings of someone like me. So thank you thank you thank you.

Remember that you will still have your days that are not so good. But what you won’t have, are the fear of the future, and sense of having no control. You have conquered these.

Ladies, it is truly up to each of you. We cannot make this work for you, only you can do that. Get help if you need it, but don’t throw away what this knowledge could do for you. - Surviving

Thank you so very much for persisting, Arizona. Restoring our natural posture is really the only reasonable response to prolapse and adult-onset hip pain. It is all the same process, defined by full restoration of female lumbar curvature. I understand the whys and wherefores so much more thoroughly now and am chomping at the bit to start screaming it from the rooftops, which I don't want to do until the hips book has shipped. It will be another learning curve for everyone, which I will accomplish step by step through my blogs.

I had a long chat with one of the curators of our natural history museum yesterday (we were photographing dinosaur and mammalian acetabulae), since he was curious about what we were doing. I gave him the whole anatomic story, which rather blew his mind. Our best scientists *have no idea* that we have a quadrupedal pelvis and a spine that is responsible for both organ placement and hip health. No one understands how very misguided the "core strength" craze is, and that the prototype of natural human posture is the young child and pregnant woman. All will be revealed soon! :)

There is a new chair workout in the hips dvd that you might prefer over the Whole Woman Workout in the book. I love that program, but it really needs to be on dvd instead of in a book. This has been a work in progress!

Thanks so much for being here. I feel I have lost touch with everyone, but expect to be around more in the near future. Tomorrow Nikelle and I set off on another one of our adventures to try to find the last footage for the hips dvd. We like to make little movies out of our exercise dvds and this one is no exception. Someday we should write a book about our adventures...we seem to have "Thelma and Louise" moments trying to get great shots while avoiding park rangers, Indian police, and land owners. Wish us luck!

Christine

Hi All

Arizona has described something very important. She accidentally discovered that what she had read in the book had not been translated into posture changes.

'Intention' is everything. Think, "I intend to reposition my pelvic organs. It will happen." When you think you 'get it', and have made postural changes, but there is no improvement POP symptoms, just rearrange your posture again, and keep checking it a few times every day. Go back to the beginning every time. You may get a sudden improvement, or something more subtle at first. Keep adjusting it. It will keep getting better. It will probably be several years until you really plateau at 'as good as it is going to get'.

Sometimes, as Arizona experienced, it is a sudden revelation that your body has not done its postural adjustments very well, yet.

Arizona, you are now listening to your body and its signals. This is a major step towards trusting it again.

Louise :-)

Diagnosed 3 weeks ago and devastated! Have a backgound in dance, yoga, qigong and Reiki. Always healthy and then I turned 70! Assumed a hysterectomy would solve this problem. Fortunately found the WW website and was so inspired. The yoga DVDs are wonderful-- I do one or more everyday. Do lots in my yoga classes (I teach 2 a week) with my favorite psoas muscle and of course, diaphramatic breathing. Had just joined a fitness center and signed up for ballet barre, Zumba Gold & Qigong but figured I'd have to cancel these classes if my uterus was falling down!! My subconscious went into pelvic and Kegil tightening--trying to keep everything in. The WW breathing is opposite of yoga breathing (belly out on inhale, relaxed on exhale) and I'm working on that. Any advice? Will there be a time when I won't have to push uterus back? Any advice on best way to do that?
I know how lucky I am to not be dealing with this as a young mother. I've the time and incentive to continue with this program for as long as it takes and maybe share with others. I've changed the way I teach Mountain pose and insert Christine's yoga even in classes with men students. Grateful for testimonials.

Hi yoga nan, welcome and thanks for a great inspiring post. I'm happy for every woman who finds her way here at the right time. How is the posture going, are you starting to feel a shift around the hips and lower spine? It took me into my second year for this to "click". I don't have a serious uterine prolapse, mine are of the "nature's pessary" variety, but I can tell you that diligent posture work, lots of WW firebreathing and jiggling those organs forward will set you on the right path. There are others here better able to address the challenges of keeping the cervix inside; that is certainly the first goal if you are not there yet. Thanks for writing! - Surviving

Thank you, surviving60 for the encouragement. I need to navigate this site to find others with the prolapse that won't stay put. This Saturday was a challenge as I tried to assist with granddaughters birthday party while trying to keep internal organ internal. I feel I should be getting this posture with all the body work I've done but soft belly doesn't feel right and I really have to think about it. What are good standing & sitting postures? Currently I sit on a chair (like now using the library computer) with legs apart and leaning forward. I really love the 3 yoga DVDs and also do the ballet. With the firebreathing is it like A&P breathing, pull belly to spine or nauli, lift ab wall up & in? I always feel like I'm not doing it correctly. Mentally I'm about at the place where I realize this is the new normal and a lifetime journey. But so grateful that there's a way to work through this.

Yoga nan, you do need to nail the posture. I was into my second year before I stopped having to think about it all the time. So be nice to yourself, but don't let up! Are you anywhere near a practitioner? Did you read Free2be's new post about her session? - Surviving

Yoganan, that's a good question about firebreathing. I think of it as a very strong yoga cat arch. Not the same as nauli, not quite the same as uddiyana bandha, but still that feeling of pulling both up and in. I think Christine developed it as a combination of cat arch and uddiyana bandha, except there's no"locking" and the outbreath is through the mouth.

It took me a long time to get the idea/hang of it. I had to stop thinking about it and just do it!

Me too - I didn't even try it for the first year, during which time I only had the book and no DVDs. I understood the breathing pattern I was suppoed to use, but kept doing it backwards! Inhaling when I should have been exhaling, and vice versa. Just had to keep working until it became natural, and seeing it on the DVD helped. Best demos are in WWY3 and in the Dictionary of Movements in FAFP. - Surviving

Still not real familiar with navigating a forum. How do I read Free2be's new post? I did get on pelvic health forum and read about sea sponges for an hour! I don't own a computer--simplified my life after retiring--and use library computers 2-3 times a week (have iphone to read e-mails). After an hour at computer my neck muscles are done!

I just now typed her name in the search box upper left corner. A post came up with her name in it. I clicked on the post and then her name. I then clicked on track, and came up with all the posts she commented on.