22/04/2026
A student asked me yesterday after pelvic floor practice:
“Why after releasing my pelvic floor, my jaw, cheeks and lips felt like not mine?”
The connection between the jaw and the pelvis is much closer than most people realise.
The relationship actually starts before birth.
During the embryological phase, the mouth and the openings of the urinary, reproductive, and digestive systems begin forming in close connection.
As the body develops and the spine grows, they remain connected. So your jaw and your pelvic floor come from the same developmental tissue.
This is why you’ll often see patterns like:
• tight jaw = tight pelvic floor
• clenching teeth = gripping in the pelvis
• holding back words = holding tension below
There’s also a structural connection.
Through fascia.
Fascia is the body’s internal web, a continuous, fibrous network that wraps around everything: muscles, organs, bones, nerves.
So tension in the jaw can literally travel through this fascial system and influence the pelvis, and the other way around.
Now add the nervous system.
When your body experiences stress, emotion, or trauma. It becomes physical.
The most common places we grip?
The jaw.
The shoulders.
The pelvic floor.
The hips.
For example:
Chronic jaw clenching can keep your system in a stress state, which increases pelvic floor tension and can even affect digestion - super common sign in my clients.
So YES, pelvis and jaw are constantly in conversation.
🙌 Kudos to the author of this illustration, which is unknown to me.
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