Soft Body
The female pelvis holds what the world could not allow. An invitation to join me on an intimate exploration into the subtle dimensions of the feminine pelvis.
I want to talk about the pelvis.
Not as a clinical or anatomical “structure” as most will treat it. But instead, as a place. One that most women have spent their lives walking past, managing, or learning very early on not to trust.
This didn’t happen by accident. It happened over a very long time, through forces so layered and so normalised that most of us inherited the wound without ever seeing the knife.
Early religion
Before the Church moved through Europe, women were the keepers of earth medicine, of blood rites, of the sacred cycles of the body. The pelvis was not shameful — it was oracular. The systematic dismantling of the old ways, the burning of the wise women, the replacement of the goddess with a virgin, did not just change theology. It severed women from the ground of their own power. That severance is still in us.
The Church & the body
For centuries, the female body was cast as the site of temptation, of original sin, of something requiring management and containment. Eros was not sacred — it was dangerous. Desire was not intelligence — it was weakness. A woman who lived fully in her body, who trusted her own instincts, who claimed her pleasure, was a problem to be corrected. We have been carrying that correction ever since.
The feminist era
And then came the hard-won fight for equality — which asked women, necessarily and understandably, to prove themselves in a world built by and for men. To lead with the mind. To achieve. To produce. To be taken seriously, women learned to live above the neck. The body, the womb, the erotic intelligence of the lower centres — these became liabilities. We gained so much — and yet, without meaning to, we left something behind.
These are not ancient wounds with no living trace. They are in the nervous system. In the way a woman holds her breath at the base of her belly. In the chronic tightening of the pelvic floor. In the inability to feel pleasure without guilt, or to rest without the sensation of falling behind.
Between 40–50% of women experience at least one form of sexual dysfunction in their lifetime. One in four lives with a diagnosed pelvic disorder. More than half never speak to anyone about it.
These are only the women who show up in the data. They say nothing of the ones who are simply numb. Who have learned to live a little north of their own body.
In fifteen years of clinical and sacred practice — working with women’s bodies as a womens health physiotherapist, as a medical intuitive, through somatic and shamanic lineages — it is my experience that most women arrive in my clinic spaces, disconnected to this internal space. Even those that have done a lot of “feminine work” on themselves. And ironically it is often not more “work” that needs to be done here — but rather, a downward descent of energy and a connection to ones deep well and source of yin.
That teaching lives in the tissue. It passes through bloodlines. And it shows up, eventually, as something in the body that can no longer be ignored.
The loss of connection to the pelvic bowl shows up in ways we often don’t connect back to their source: in exhaustion that has no clear cause, in creative blocks, in fertility challenges, in pelvic pain that medicine cannot explain, in a flatness where aliveness used to be.
The Soft Body Method is four weeks of going there. Directly. Gently. With ceremony, with somatic and shamanic precision and with the kind of attention this part of the body has rarely received — because we work into both the somatic layers, but also the etheric and subtle bodies where lineage tension, karmas and curses are held — those that cannot be seen by ordinary eyes.
The Soft Body Method
4 weeks beginning 8 May with Sigourney Belle
A somatic and shamanic journey into the female pelvis
Working with soul fragmentation and lineage karma held in the pelvic bowl
Reclaiming sexual and creative eros as a living force
12 women only — intimate, unhurried, deeply held
An invitation to the Soft Body Method — 4 weeks, 12 women, beginning 8 May
This container will only be held once this year. No guarantees it will happen again.
