Birth Healing Summit Podcast

What if the key to your client's persistent pelvic floor dysfunction isn't just the muscles – but the bones those muscles attach to? In this episode, Lynn Schulte explores the often-overlooked pelvic outlet and why it deserves more attention in pelvic health assessment and treatment. From sacral flexion to splayed ischial tuberosities, Lynn explains how childbirth, falls, and other impacts to the pelvis may influence bony mobility, pelvic floor function, and recovery. Through clinical example...

What happens when the body goes through birth, but tries not to connect with the baby? For pelvic health practitioners, this surrogate's story reveals an often-overlooked side of postpartum recovery – and why supporting the whole person matters just as much as addressing the physical symptoms. Today’s episode offers pelvic health practitioners a deeper understanding of the physical and emotional experiences of surrogacy – and how those experiences can influence pregnancy, birth, and postpartu...

How does the work you do on yourself change the way you show up for the people who trust you with their care? In this episode, Lynn Schulte sits down with two Birth Healing Intensive students, Charlie Watts, OT, and Anne Guist, PT, to explore how integrating somatic awareness, energetic work, and personal development has transformed their clinical practice. Through powerful patient stories, they share how exploring limiting beliefs, creating space for the body's responses, and asking the righ...

What does listening have to do with your pelvic health practice? Today, Lynn Schulte shares what she presented at the Pelvicon conference about bringing intuition and spirituality into manual therapy practice. Through powerful clinical stories, she explores how listening to the body's signals, trusting intuitive insights, and approaching tissues with curiosity rather than force can transform the way we work with clients. From an unexpected discovery during a pelvic floor assessment to helping...

Are we missing a big piece in postpartum rehabilitation by focusing on the pelvic floor muscles? In today’s thought-provoking episode of the Birth Healing Summit Podcast, Lynn Schulte is joined by physical therapist, strength and conditioning coach, and 2026 Strength and Conditioning Association Personal Trainer of the Year, Rachel Selman, to discuss a concept that's beginning to change how clinicians think about postpartum rehabilitation and athletic performance: overcoming isometrics. If yo...