Hello and welcome to the Wellnesswama podcast. I'm Katie from wellnesswama.com and I am back today

with Erica Zeal to go even deeper on fascia and how it relates to our pelvic floor and deep core

and how being aware of our fascia can help resolve some longstanding issues. She's helped

thousands of people with this. She's an expert in deep core fascia and pre and post

needle training with over 20 years of experience. And she's really passionate, as you will hear in

this episode, in helping her clients strengthen their bodies, integrating movement, breathwork,

visualization, and detoxification, and with a particular focus on fascia. She is the owner of Core Athletica and

Core Athletica Pilates Studio and she does this work with many women around the world. I'll link to some

resources in the show notes. But let's jump in and learn about fascia. Erica, welcome back. Thank you

for being here again. Thank you so much, Katie.

Well, if you guys missed our first conversation together, it was such a helpful conversation that really gave some foundational understanding of fascia and ways we can support it and how this might be really a big missing piece for a lot of us when it comes to pain and movement and even our ability to optimally use our strength. And this is something I'm very

excited to work on integrating and keep learning more about. And Erica, in today's episode, I would

love to get even more specific on a couple points we touched on in our last episode, mainly the pelvic

floor and deep core strength, because it seems like for women especially, these can be very relevant. I'm sure relevant for men too, but it seems like for women especially these can be very relevant.

I'm sure relevant for men too, but it seems like things like pregnancy and delivery can be a little

rough on the body, especially to the pelvic floor and that there might be ways we don't yet know

that we could be really supporting our body in a way that would be super beneficial.

So as an intro, can you explain how the fascia relates to the pelvic floor and to our deep core muscles

and what we need to know foundationally about that?

Yes, I love this conversation.

I also want to add, too, for ladies listening that have had C-sections, because I hear a lot of times

questions from C-section moms, well, does this affect me,

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