Now your baby is here, you are keen to get your body back, postpregnancy. Let’s take a closer look at your pelvis and legs: your pelvis is tilted forward, your toes and knees will most likely be turned out to compensate. This equates to dropped, inner arches in your feet, shortened inner thighs and gluteal muscles which have opted out and atrophied over time.
On first inspection, your pelvis, in its overly tilted position, does not lead to a strong pelvic floor. The pelvic diaphragm needs to work in an upward direction to support the internal organs; if it’s not structurally aligned then this will be hard to achieve.
In yoga, we start with the feet. If we strengthen the foot arch then we also strengthen the pelvic floor, however this will have less effect if we don’t realign the tilted pelvis at the same time.