Bowen Whitstable

30/03/2026

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29/03/2026

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28/03/2026

✨Neuromuscular Connection (3 minute read)✨

Why you may not be able to feel the muscles of the pelvic floor…. Yet!

All throughout our body we have musculature that is innervated by neurons that send signals to the muscle for different things like engagement, relaxing, lengthening and even sensation.

You have a motor unit --> from it extends motor neurons (think branches of a tree) that innervate the muscle --> these neurons give signals to the muscle that tell it what to do.

In some muscles, these networks of neurons are very developed – especially muscle groups we work and focus on regularly. Think about your bicep – it’s easy to feel that because we have had an awareness of it for a long time. This is called Neuroplasticity – back to my tree scenario – think of a tree that’s filled out with beautiful branches in every direction as opposed to Charlie Brown’s Christmas Tree 😊.

Neuroplasticity is the brains ability to organize information and adapt to what’s needed for function and structure and it responds to experience and learning which helps it develop new neural pathways as needed throughout our lifetime.

Back to Pelvic Floor – when you don’t have the ability to “connect” to the muscles in the pelvis, the perineum, the different sphincters maybe – this is due to the neuroplasticity of the muscle and the brains literal connection to it. If we have NEVER tried to connect then the pathways will be a bit lazy or just not existent.

Through our work on the mat, by consistency showing up and letting our brain know that we WANT to connect to that space, we will strengthen this network of neurons allowing us to have more control and awareness in the muscles.

Keep in mind, this “reprogramming” takes MONTHS. Not days, not a couple of classes – MONTHS. Nerves are super slow. But they are pretty complex so this is to be expected.

Bottom line
- Be intentional with your work
- Be consistent, do not expect to have it down right away
- Give yourself some grace, it’s not a race, we have the rest of our lives to develop stronger pathways
- Even if you don’t have a great connection yet doesn’t mean the work your doing won’t show you positive results and even a significant amount of pain reduction and progress – your brain just has to catch up to “feeling it!”

I’ll see you on the mat yogis!

21/03/2026

20/03/2026

Matriarchy is not patriarchy but with women in charge. Matriarchy is a nonhiearchical society designed in a circular fashion with the most vulnerable in the center.

It's care-centered community, connection to mother earth, gift economy, honoring the Beingness of all life. It's a completely different structure without power-over domination.

The definition of matriarchy is determined by actual matriarchal indigenous societies, not the dictionary. The wealthy, western educated, white dudes who make dictionaries have no clue what actual matriarchy is.

When people attempt to define matriarchy as a society dominated by women, THAT is a culturally biased myth. That is epistemic violence - the erasure of marginalized knowledge by a dominant group of people.

Patriarchy is men at the top. Women at the top of a dominant system of hierarchy is actually still patriarchal supremacy, just gender swapped.

Matriarchy is earth at the center, then mothers and children to the middle. The community circles around to protect them. No one is above anyone else.

I thought this was common-ish knowledge among people who are doing anti-oppression type work, but several comments on my last post assumed that matriarchy is a type of supremacy and nothing could be farther from the truth.

Image credit: https://substack.com/
I did not make this image.

PS. I am not advocating for anything in this post. I am teaching you the broader definition of matriarchy. My last post theorized that matriarchal societies would not produce any people with personality disorders, that those complex trauma syndromes are a product of colonial patriarchal capitalism, and some people seemed confused about what matriarchy is.

If this post makes you think, huh, that's not what I thought it meant.... please keep thinking about it! Don't try to convince me otherwise. I'm adding resources for further reading below.

22/02/2026

Featuring the learned Carla Stecco 👇🏽