Welcome to the Lucas Rockwood show. I'm your host, I'm a yoga teacher, a teacher trainer. I'm the

father of three kids, but first and foremost, I'm a student. I like to learn things. So I go

into the world and usually on this podcast, I bring on experts in meditation, wellness diet,

nutrition, medical doctors, therapists, and everyone in between. On this week's show, I will be

doing a Q&A episode we haven't done one in over a year. In case you don't know, I get about

somewhere between 70 and 100 questions per week. And I answered just one of them on the podcast.

So most of these Q&A's I answer privately. Today I'm choosing about a dozen different questions

that I'm choosing from one person, but these are very similar questions I've gotten from many people

in the past two to three months. So I hope that they will be relevant to many of you.

Most of them are in and around yoga, movement, injuries, and nutrition. If none of that is of interest,

feel free to skip to next week's show. Okay, let's get into it. First question is from Josh.

Josh writes, can you explain the mechanism behind relaxing the pelvic floor?

In hatha yoga practices, there is this somewhat elusive esoteric region often referred to as mula

bunda. And it doesn't actually need to be as complex as yoga people make it. But essentially,

if you were to take a cross section of the human body and kind of look down into the pelvic bowl,

like if you imagine your pelvis was a soup bowl, at the base of your pelvis there, there's a group of

muscles that serve as your what's referred to as your pelvic floor, your pelvic diaphragm,

or sometimes, yeah, mula bunda in yoga. And essentially, these are muscles that control things like

urination, your bowels. They serve as kind of the flower pot base for the soft tissue base of your

bony pelvis. And they're really important. What are they important for? Sexual function,

they're important for incontinence, they're important for your posture, and a number of other

things, which Josh is referring to is something called a hypertonic pelvic floor. It's pretty rare.

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