Living With Pelvic Pain: Why Rolling Your Feet Can Help

Let’s talk about pelvic pain, and how your pelvis is connected to your feet. Yes… your feet.

If you’ve been around here for a while, you’ve probably heard me say this before: roll your feet.

Foot myofascial release is something I talk about often and teach inside my Pelvic Health Yoga membership, because it can be a surprisingly powerful way to support pelvic tension and pain.

So, let's get to rolling your feet for your pelvic pain!

Why Your Feet Matters

Think about it - as a population, we don’t pay much attention to our feet.

How often are you actually aware of:

• sensations in your feet?

• how you’re standing?

• how your weight is distributed as you move through the day?
  

Not just physically, but energetically too.

I see this all the time in class. When I cue a full-body stretch that includes the toes, many students can’t point or move them easily. Or when I ask people to lift their toes and place them back down in a pose, I often get the look of: “How is this yoga?”

This is yoga.

We’re building body awareness, reconnecting neural pathways, and inviting movement back into places that have been holding tension - sometimes for years.

You stand on your feet most of the day. They carry you, and your beautiful pelvis, through life.

The Fascial Connection Between Your Feet and Pelvis

From a fascial perspective, the feet are connected to the pelvis through the deep front line of fascia, a continuous line of connective tissue that runs from the soles of the feet all the way up through the legs, pelvis, and torso - to the top of your head!

Through this fascial line, the feet are also connected to the psoas and the diaphragm (and we speak a lot of the importance of breathing in pelvic health).

The feet, just like the pelvic floor, is one of those areas where we tend to hold onto stress and that will impact your fascia, making it tight and rigid.

When the feet are restricted, tense, or under-stimulated, that tension can travel upward - therefore influencing:

• pelvic floor tone

• hip tension

• low back discomfort

• posture and weight distribution
  

This is why rolling your feet can support pelvic ease, and low back relief, without you directly “working on” the pelvis.

Benefits of Rolling Your Feet for Pelvic Pain

Foot myofascial release may help:

• Improve posture and balance

• Increase foot and ankle mobility

• Support circulation to the feet

• Regulate your nervous system

• Encourage pelvic floor relaxation through fascial release
  

A tiny thing to do, perhaps, but wide-reaching effects.

How to Start

If you haven’t tried rolling your feet yet, I gently invite you to add it into your pelvic support routine and notice what shifts.

Start slow, stay curious, and there's no need to push for "no pain, no gain", that's not what we're going for here - as we are also working with the nervous system.

Often, the most subtle practices create the biggest changes.

Want Guided Support?

If you’d like to be guided through foot myofascial release - while also learning breathwork, pelvic floor yoga, and nervous system regulation tools - we'd love for you to to join us inside the Pelvic Health Yoga membership.

This is a supportive space for people living with pelvic tension, overactive pelvic floor muscles, and chronic pelvic pain.

Perpahs take a moment to slow down, meet your body where it's at, and watch your relationship to your body transform.

Stay radiant, Penny