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The Voice to Pelvic Floor Connection

The Voice to Pelvic Floor Connection

A Great Voice (& Core) Can’t Happen without a Great Pelvic Floor For those of you interested in the voice to pelvic floor connection - or if you are just learning about it, here’s a brief overview, plus lots of resources, on how the voice and pelvic floor are...

The Voice to Pelvic Floor Connection

Find Your Voice, Improve Your Health

Have you ever considered the voice as a biomarker of your health? In this post I'll address how to find your voice to improve your health. For example, when you think of pelvic health, what comes to mind? Maybe obvious things like annual ob/gyn visits or for them,...

Have Vocal and/or Pelvic Pain? You May Be Psoas Speaking

Have Vocal and/or Pelvic Pain? You May Be Psoas Speaking

This pose of the week is all about how to know if you are Psoas Speaking. This pose of the week can help you identify if your vocal problems could be coming from the pelvic floor, or vice versa. One of the chief ways to tell is by taking a closer look at one of the...

Umbrella Breath: Access a Stronger Core, Voice, & Pelvic Floor

Umbrella Breath: Access a Stronger Core, Voice, & Pelvic Floor

What is the Umbrella Breath? The Umbrella Breath is an accessible, if not easier, way to strengthen your core and pelvic floor using the voice and the breath. Building core strength requires that you raise or create intra-abdominal pressure to create spinal stiffness....

A Letter to My Children on Mothers Day

A Letter to My Children on Mothers Day

A Letter to Our Children Pregnant with my first son, Michael In 2012 the National Association of Mothers’ Centers asked me to write a letter to my children in recognition of Mother’s Day, as a way to impart to the world what wisdom I would like to pass on to them....

Medical Therapeutic Yoga & Physical Therapy

Medical Therapeutic Yoga & Physical Therapy

Medical Therapeutic Yoga & Physical Therapy mean better self-care and better patient care. Self-care is more critical than ever - for every individual, for our communities, and particularly for those of us who work in health care. As Audre Lorde said, “Caring for...

Telehealth May be an Option for Physical Therapy during COVID

Telehealth May be an Option for Physical Therapy during COVID

Telehealth may work for you The COVID pandemic has stopped much of the world as we know, creating a "new normal". Once busy streets and shops are empty, activities are cancelled and you may not even be going to work. One thing that the virus has not stopped is pain...

Using Your Big Voice (Part II)

Using Your Big Voice (Part II)

I am a human being first, a woman second, and a mother third. In that order. And yet, according to research, I will be judged (unfairly) and be valued less in society because of that last identity: being a mother. The reality is I will be paid less than a woman...

Dr. Ginger’s Gift to You: 2 Vocal Meditations for Christmas

Dr. Ginger’s Gift to You: 2 Vocal Meditations for Christmas

Gabriel’s Message, A Christmas Meditation A Christmas Meditation, with all parts recorded and sung by Ginger Garner. A gift for the Season. About Gabriel's Message... A Basque Christmas carol, “Gabriel’s Message” is a folk song about the Annunciation,...

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