Pelvic Bowl Medicine
In my work over the past 30 years, I have built many supportive connections with colleagues who share the same commitment — supporting women as they move through the different stages of their lives, Flurina is one of those colleagues whose work with women’s pelvic health I am delighted to share with you.
I first met Flurina Dominique Thali as a young woman attending a yoga workshop that I had organised and hosted at the Active Birth Centre, which closed in 2020. Flurina and I later reconnected through our work supporting women across different life stages — including pregnancy, postpartum and menopause. We refer women to one another’s care often, reflecting a deep trust in each other’s approaches and a shared commitment to supporting women holistically, respectfully, and with great care.
My work is rooted in listening, consent, and a gentle, trauma-aware approach to the body, honouring each woman’s unique experience and supporting the possibility of healing at a pace that feels safe, respectful and right for you. Our shared commitment to women’s wellbeing is woven through the work we offer. With this intention, I invite you to read Flurina’s story and the medicine of the pelvic bowl.
“Over the past decade as a dancer, Osteopath and bodyworker I’ve devoted thousands of hours to studying and offering somatic movement practices and healing modalities, and I find Holistic Pelvic Care™ to be one of the most empowering approaches to women’s health.”
— Flurina Dominique Thali
Reclaim the Medicine of Your Pelvic Bowl
It feels divine, poetic, profound — and somehow magical — when I look back on my path and reflect on the gradual unfolding of my “her place.” It has been a path filled with abundant pain, neglect, disconnect and shame. Simultaneously this very darkness led me to the greatest source of creativity and power within my female body.
When I was 12 years old, I had my first period. I felt overwhelmed. Overwhelmed by the many changes my adolescent body was going through. Overwhelmed by this yet unknown territory I was stepping into…
Even though I had a wonderful mother who honoured and celebrated this rite of passage with me, no one seemed able to tell me what was really happening. Today I understand that I was being initiated into womanhood — encountering what my teachers from Red School call my “wild power.” The power that would, from then on, steer my life and guide my creation.
It is big. Potent. Powerful indeed and a power which, if we learn to work with it, to listen and respond, is no longer scary but becomes one of the greatest expressions of love.
Half a year after my first period, I felt so overwhelmed by my young female body — by the dreams, visions and desires bubbling up in me — that the only way I knew to navigate this seemingly unstable new life was through control. I began starving myself. Controlling what I ate and what I didn’t.
I had a crystal-clear thought: if I were thinner, I could handle her better.
Her being my body, my power, my calling.
And so I lived with disordered eating for nearly 15 years — many of those years without a period.
Paradoxically, and beautifully, the more I pushed my body away, the more I felt the urge to study her in all her depths. I followed my dream to study dance, exploring somatic movement practices along the way, including yoga. Later, I moved to the UK to complete a master’s degree in osteopathy and went on to specialise in paediatric osteopathy.
I completed many courses and trainings. Graduated with flying colours. Worked in wonderful clinics. But somehow — I was still seeking, searching, longing to come home to my female body, my creative power, my true hunger… to my place. Her place.
A turning point — a homecoming — occurred when I met the practice of menstrual cycle awareness. Suddenly I began to understand this sacred ecosystem called the female body. I learned how to listen to my body. How to read my cyclical inner landscapes and how to navigate this way of being within a linear, patriarchal, capitalistic tough world.
It felt as though I had found a part of what I had lost when I was 12.
I began weaving this knowledge into my clinical work with women and people with menstrual cycles. And as I did,I noticed that there was one missing piece of the puzzle— a framework and a space to support women in connecting with the physicality of their menstrual cycles and cyclical nature. A way to heal and restore balance in the pelvis, and through that process descend into — and plug into — the power of their pelvic bowl.
Studying with Tami Lynn Kent in the art and practice of Holistic Pelvic Care™ became that missing piece. I feel deeply passionate and called to offer Holistic Pelvic Care™ to women and people with wombs and vaginas — to demystify pelvic anatomy, to rewrite narratives of disgust into resourcefulness and awe, to educate and empower, and to softly rebel for a world in which bodies are no longer sites of shame or control, but sources of knowledge, agency and collective liberation.
“I continue to witness a universal pelvic disconnect. Sometimes the detachment is physical: a woman has difficulty feeling her vaginal muscles. Other times it is emotional: a woman dissociates herself from her pelvic space as a way of coping with painful associations regarding femininity or her body. More subtly, this pelvic disconnect is energetic.”
— Tami Lynn Kent, founder of Holistic Pelvic Care™
Holistic Pelvic Care™ sessions (for women of all ages and stages) are offered by Flurina Dominique Thali, a trained practitioner working within a respectful, trauma-aware and professionally grounded approach to internal bodywork, inspired by the lineage of Tami Lynn Kent.
Women are always invited to share questions, discuss comfort levels, and move at a pace that feels safe and right for their body and experience.
These sessions may support you if you are experiencing:
Pelvic or vaginal pain
Menstrual health challenges or irregular cycles
Endometriosis
Fertility challenges
Urinary leakage or incontinence
Pelvic organ or uterine prolapse, cystocele
Pain during intercourse
Vaginismus
Coccyx pain
General pelvic discomfort
Recovery after birth (including episiotomy or caesarean scar support)
Preparation for pregnancy (physically and emotionally)
Improving pelvic floor tone
Enhancing overall health and wellbeing
Podcast
Here’s a link to Flurina’s The Soft Rebellion Podcast. You can listen to a conversation between us both — Episode 75 | Yoga Through a Woman’s Lens. There are many other wonderful conversations here with other amazing practitioners who support women’s bodies.
Let us know what you think when you take a listen.