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About Body Conscious

Body Conscious: A Woman’s Guide to Holistic Pelvic Health & Feminine Embodiment

Body Conscious is for women who are seeking to connect with, and understand their feminine body on a deeper level. It shares the answers to the questions women have about topics that are often considered too delicate to talk about. This book is for women who want more than the western medical approach that offers a limited scope of wellness. Rooted in an understanding that we are more than our physical body, Body Conscious offers an exploration of how our emotional, energetic and spiritual health impacts our pelvic health and overall wellbeing. Body Conscious respects the multi-layered and dynamic nature of female wellness and the pain that we carry within – offering education, guidance, and practices to help you reveal your unique healing path.

Body Conscious is also an excellent resource for practitioners that work with women, who want to broaden their knowledge of pelvic health and holistic pelvic therapy. Understand evidence-based clinical concepts, whilst embodying practices that will ultimately support you in helping women to improve their feminine wellbeing.

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I love this book! Taryn is truly the wounded healer, a pelvic floor physiotherapist and whole body connection guide, Taryn’s journey to healing and wellness has led to this great book and her extensive body of work that helps women reclaim their body and their healing.

This book is a kind, understanding, gentle call and guide back into our body, helping the reader to re-establish connection and communication with her precious body. It includes reflective practices and questions and is written for both the practitioner and every woman.

It is also an education about the menstrual cycle, holistic pelvic care, prolapse, pregnancy, birth and beyond and sex, sensuality and movement as well as offering various exercises and practices to help everybody on their own healing journey.

This is the work of our time, this is what healing the feminine looks like, returning to our bodies – feminine embodiment – and listening to our body to guide us in every way.

I especially love this quote: “Stop asking others about what’s right for your body – its already told you.”

Thank you so much Taryn for writing this book, I recommend this to every woman.

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A beautiful book that takes you on a journey to become more connected and aware of your body. I love how Taryn shares her own experiences throughout the book making it very relatable and easy to understand concepts.
Must read for all women!

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I am up to chapter 3 and I must say, this book is way more than advice for physical issues. It is for every woman, not only someone with pelvic issues. This book is an experience of spiritual awakening. So eloquently written, Taryn’s narratives and thought provoking questions are a map into remembering the true self. Celebrating Taryn for being able to put into words such an enlightening experience.

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For Australian residence, Body Conscious is available directly through Taryn via the online shop

The purchase price is $39.95 and a standard shipping cost of $11 applies.

For residence outside of Australia Body Conscious is available via Amazon + Booktopia.

 

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR – Feminine Embodiment Guide

TARYN GAUDIN

Taryn Gaudin is a women’s pelvic floor physiotherapist and whole-body connection guide. Taryn helps women to connect to their wholeness through simple embodied practices so that they may experience and express their fullness in all aspects of their lives. Overcoming her own challenges with pelvic pain, she has spent the last 6 years developing an alternative therapeutic approach to women’s wellness – combining clinical evidence-based physiotherapy practices with energy medicine. Reflecting a deep appreciation of the connectedness of the physical, emotional, and spiritual body, her approach has been pivotal in uncovering the core issues of the physical pelvic symptoms that her patients experience.

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What’s within the pages?

Here are the full contents of Body Conscious book by Taryn Gaudin.

Contents
WELCOME

MY STORY

EMPOWERED RESPONSIBILITY

PART 1: BECOMING BODY CONSCIOUS

BEING BODY CONSCIOUS

LOVING YOUR WHOLE BODY

BODY REFLECTION JOURNAL PROMPTS AND REFLECTIVE QUESTIONS

BODY CONSCIOUS LIVING

OUR PAIN

FEMALE TRAUMA

BODY DYSMORPHIC DISORDER

BEYOND THE BODY

TAKING PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY

LISTEN INWARD

PRACTICING BODY PRESENCE

BREAKING THE MOULD AND STOPPING THE CYCLE

KNOW HOW YOU REALLY WANT TO FEEL IN YOUR BODY

TRANSITION AND CHANGE IS NATURAL, NORMAL AND HEALTHY

FIND THE FEELING PRACTICE

SOFTEN

CREATING SAFE SPACES TO BE SEEN, HEARD and WITNESSED

TRUST YOUR INTUITION

STOP ASKING OTHERS WHAT IS RIGHT FOR YOUR BODY, IT’S ALREADY TOLD YOU

QUESTION WHAT YOU BELIEVE

BREAK THE RULES

YOU CAN’T GET IT WRONG

OPEN TO POSSIBILITY AND POTENTIAL

BODY LED LIVING

OPENING THE CONVERSATIONS AROUND WOMEN’S BODIES

WHAT IS THE FEMININE

THE FORGOTTEN FEMININE

THE RISE OF THE FEMININE

EMBRACING YOUR FEMININE DOES NOT MEAN SUPPRESSING YOUR MASCULINE

FEMININE CONNECTION REFLECTION PRACTICES

PART 2: MENSTRUAL MAGIC

EMBRACING YOUR CYCLE

SHAMEFUL, DIRTY AND INCONVENIENT

MEDICATION MASKING

WHY TAKE NOTICE OF YOUR CYCLE

THE FEMALE REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM

WHAT DOES A HEALTHY CYCLE LOOK LIKE?

NORMAL MENSTRUAL BLOOD LOSS

HOW TO TUNE INTO YOUR UNIQUE RHYTHM

THE IMPACT OF THE MENSTRUAL CYCLE ON PELVIC ORGAN PROLAPSE AND INCONTINENCE SYMPTOMS

MOVEMENT AND MENSTRUATION

PRODUCT PREFERENCES

CONTRACEPTION CHOICES

REFLECTIVE QUESTIONS

PART 3: HOLISTIC PELVIC HEALTH AND CORE CONNECTION

THE ANATOMICAL AND PHYSIOLOGICAL DEEP CORE

WHAT IS THE DEEP CORE

HOW THE DEEP CORE WORKS

THE PELVIC FLOOR

THE ENERGETIC CORE

THE PELVIC BOWL

PELVIC ENERGY

WOMB ENERGY

HOW CREATION IS DIFFERENT WHEN WE EMBRACE OUR WHOLE BODY

THE BIRTH OF WOMB ENERGY AND THE OPENING OF THE PELVIC PORTAL

THE BELLY

THE BREATH

SENSING WOMB AND PELVIC ENERGY

PELVIC BOWL CONNECTION AND AUTHENTIC VOICE EXPRESSION

COMMON PELVIC HEALTH CONCERNS

CORE IMBALANCE, PELVIC STRESS AND SILENT PELVIS

PELVIC ORGAN PROLAPSE (POP)

WHAT IS POP?

POP SYMPTOMS

HOW IS POP DIAGNOSED

THINGS TO KNOW ABOUT POP DIAGNOSIS

HOW IS POP MANAGED AND TREATED

INCONTINENCE

STRESS URINARY INCONTINENCE

URGE INCONTINENCE

BOWEL INCONTINENCE

LEAKAGE AFTER WATER IMMERSION leakage after water immersion

HEALTHY BLADDER HABITS

HEALTHY BOWEL HABITS

PELVIC PAIN

VAGINAL FLATUS

PELVIC CARE

FINDING A PELVIC HEALTH THERAPIST

PELVIC EXAM ANXIETY

EXERCISING THE PELVIC FLOOR

THE KNACK

PELVIC FLOOR MUSCLE TRAINING TIPS

PELVIC FLOOR RELAXATION

RESTORING THE DEEP CORE THROUGH MOVEMENT

PART 4: PREGNANCY, BIRTH AND BEYOND

EXERCISE DURING PREGNANCY

DEEP CORE AND PELVIC FLOOR CHANGES DURING PREGNANCY

BIRTH RELATED BODY CHANGES

DEFINING THE POSTNATAL PERIOD

POSTNATAL RECOVERY: A JOURNEY NOT A DESTINATION

YOUR BIRTH/ABORTION/MISCARRIAGE EXPERIENCE MATTERS

NATURAL BIRTH MOVEMENT

BREAST IS BEST (UNTIL IT’S NOT)

CORE RESTORATION AND REBUILDING AFTER BIRTH AND BEYOND

CHANGES DURING BIRTH AND BEYOND

WHAT IMPACTS CORE FUNCTION

COMMON REASONS FOR CORE IMBALANCE (PHYSICAL AND ENERGETIC)

RETURNING TO EXERCISE

C-SECTION SCAR MANAGEMENT

PERINEAL MASSAGE AFTER TEAR/EPISIOTOMY

PART 5: SEX AND SENSUALITY

SEXUAL AND SENSUAL ENERGY

SEXUAL AND SENSUAL SELF-CONNECTION REFLECTION

EXPLORING YOUR BELIEFS AROUND SEX

INTIMACY DOESN’T HAVE TO LEAD TO SEX

STAYING WITH YOUR BODY DURING SEX

RECOGNISING THE IMPACT OF TRAUMA

KNOWING YOUR FEMININE BODY SEXUALLY

SEX SHOULD NOT BE PAINFUL

ASKING FOR WHAT YOU WANT

BEING WILLING TO RECEIVE

SEX AND SENSUALITY IN MOTHERHOOD

PART 6: MOVEMENT AND MOVEMENT MINDSET

INTUITIVE MOVEMENT

MOVEMENT VERSUS EXERCISE

YOUR MOVEMENT INTENTION

MOVE FOR ENERGETIC NOURISHMENT, NOT PUNISHMENT

LET THE FEELING FUEL YOUR MOVEMENT

HONOUR YOUR BODY & YOUR NATURAL CYCLES

DITCH THE TIMETABLES & MEASUREMENTS

INVITE VARIETY

CONNECT TO YOUR CHILDHOOD PASSION

MOVE TO YOUR RHYTHM

SUPER SIMPLE BODY LED MOVEMENT

RADICAL REST IS REQUIRED

INCORPORATING REST

PART 7: BODY CONNECTION PRACTICES

SETTING SACRED SPACE

CREATING THE TIME

IGNITE YOUR SENSES

BODY SCAN PRACTICE

DEEP CORE CONNECTION PRACTICE

PELVIC BOWL AWARENESS

TUNE INTO YOUR OVARY AND WOMB ENERGY

WOMB MASSAGE

HEART WOMB CONNECTION

GETTING FAMILIAR WITH YOUR FEMININE BODY

PELVIC FLOOR SELF MASSAGE

ALTERNATE NOSTRIL BREATHING AND PELVIC BOWL BALANCING

DEEP CORE BALANCING SELF-MASSAGE

DRAW ON HIGHER CONSCIOUSNESS AND

EARTH ENERGY TO CREATE FROM YOUR CENTRE

SENSUAL SELF-CONNECTION PRACTICE

CLOSING
REFERENCES
“What I love most about Taryn is how multidimensional she is.”

 

Taryn feels like a friend who provides physiotherapy wisdom like an expert & showers you with guidance like a spiritual guru. Taryn is a body positive practitioner which was particularly important to me, she does not recommend or conduct any form of screening that may cause distress. Taryn accepts you as you are wherever you are at and provides absolutely no pressure on you whatsoever to follow a regimen. Taryn & I have completed great work together over multiple sessions & I have taken on & implemented daily actions based on advice from Taryn. I have made great discoveries by working with Taryn and I truly feel she can be of great value to a client wishing to be gently supported on this sometimes challenging journey of life in the human body.

Yolanda

Geelong

“Taryn helped me more than words can explain.”

“She is patient, very present and one of the most supportive practitioners I have ever worked with. I was dissociating from my body during sex as a result of an emotionally abusive relationship. Through working with Taryn, I can now be present in sex and I am working with her on being open and vulnerable to intimacy. I also have an overactive pelvic floor that Taryn is helping me to manage. She is amazing in that she helps to remove the shame I have felt about having a “defective” body part – and she has taught me that there is nothing wrong, just something I need to work on if I choose to do so. I can’t wait to continue to work with Taryn on all things sex, intimacy, and pain management.”

Tessa

Victoria

“I felt truly seen, heard, validated and safe”

“Taryn is a gifted practitioner with the unique ability to blend the physical, emotional and energetic aspects of pelvic health together. I have experienced many pelvic floor assessments over the years and none of them have incorporated the integrated approach that Taryn creates. Her ability to challenge the traditional idea of pelvic health and wellness by incorporating mind-body awareness and connection is invaluable to those she serves. After years of searching for an integrated pelvic health approach, I’m grateful to have finally found it with Taryn. I felt truly seen, heard, validated and safe working with Taryn which helped to create a deep sense of healing. Thank you Taryn for the work you are doing. It is so very needed and appreciated.”

Stefanie

Victoria

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