Soma Vitality Denise Foster Scott Board Certified Structural Integrator

03/23/2026

✨ Reclaiming the Pelvic Floor is back in Portland this summer! ✨

August 21–23, 2026
Skanner Building, Portland, OR

The pelvic floor is one of the most overlooked keys to full healing, from chronic back and hip pain to birth trauma and psychosomatic patterns. It’s time to remove the silence, misunderstanding, and shame and bring real care and awareness to this vital part of the body.
This intimate 3-day workshop teaches external pelvic floor manual therapy techniques to bodyworkers and movement professionals ready to expand their practice:
🌿 Anatomy & physiology of the pelvis
🌿 Neurobiology, trauma & integrative consciousness
🌿 Myofascial assessment & treatment planning
🌿 Pathologies across all genders
🌿 Osteo-fascial release of the innominate, sacrum & coccyx
🌿 Boundaries, communication & creating a brave space

24 CEU hours including 6 ethics Approved by IASI & NCBTMB

Registration Fee: $200
Total Class Fee: $750

👉 Register now at www.somavitality.com/rpf

Spots fill fast!

Reclaiming the Pelvic Floor is an external pelvic floor manual therapy training. This 3-day workshop contains pelvic floor assessment, treatment, trauma informed care, & empowerment.

01/26/2026

Jay and I did it again!
Our Reclaiming the Pelvic Floor workshop in Portland, Oregon sold out! An absolutely extraordinary experience. We were honored to teach and learn alongside a phenomenal group of practitioners, with participants joining us from Oregon and Washington, and even a few who traveled across the country to be there.

My heart is full. This workshop is truly my baby!! Born from over ten years of research, trial and error, deep emotion, and hope. Seeing it received with such care and enthusiasm is profoundly meaningful.

✨ Join us August 21–23, 2026, for our next adventure. ✨ www.somavitality.com/rpf

01/10/2026

This business exists because I believe in healing, dignity, and belonging.
What we are witnessing in America deeply matters to me, and I want to say clearly: I do not support the Trump administration or the harm caused by its actions and rhetoric.

My work will always align with compassion, justice, and care for the whole human experience.

06/26/2025

Why do I call my external pelvic floor workshop “Reclaiming the Pelvic Floor”, why “Reclaiming? This question gets to the heart of why this workshop is different than just learning technique.

The word “reclaiming” was chosen intentionally. It reflects the deep, often overlooked reality that for many people, their relationship with the pelvic floor has been shaped more by external forces — societal labels, religious beliefs, medical systems, and even personal trauma — than by their own embodied experience.

From an early age, we’re taught how to view this part of our body — whether through silence, shame, control, or idealization. Messages around sexuality, gender, modesty, and worthiness are embedded in our bodies, often unconsciously. In many religions, the pelvic region is loaded with spiritual or moral meaning — considered sacred, sinful, or both — and this can shape how people relate to their own anatomy, often creating a sense of detachment, repression, or guilt.

Culturally, we’re expected to perform — to be tight, toned, or obedient. Childbirth, menstruation, aging, and sexuality are all arenas where the pelvic floor becomes a site of judgment or invisibility. These expectations aren't just social ideas; they become physical habits, internalized beliefs, and sometimes deep-rooted disconnections.

For those of us who have experienced trauma — including sexual abuse, assault, invasive medical procedures, or even chronic shaming — the pelvic floor often becomes a site of pain, numbness, or emotional amnesia. It’s not uncommon for people to describe feeling “cut off” or “not at home” in this area of their body. The body’s natural response to trauma is often to shut down sensation as a survival mechanism. Over time, this disconnection can lead to a loss of agency, identity, or voice in the body.

Reclaiming means coming home.

To “reclaim” the pelvic floor is to return to yourself, your own relationship to and identity of. It’s about gently unwinding what was imposed or taken. It’s a process of listening to the body’s story without judgment, and allowing it to guide you back to sensation, sovereignty, and self-trust. This class isn’t just about muscles or mechanics — it’s about healing relationships: with your body, your story, and your power.

So the word “reclaiming” speaks to something deeper than anatomy. It speaks to liberation. And we work with how to navigate these dynamics in this workshop.
If you’ve made it this far, check out my next workshop offering gs at https://www.somavitality.com/rpf

06/20/2025

01/17/2025

Another most epic pelvic floor adventure complete!! Thank you to each of these fabulous souls for stepping into uncertainty, to be students again, to be vulnerable, and to empower!! Much love to each and every single one!!!

01/11/2025

Mini Cooper packed with 2 massage tables, body cushions, pt balls, pelvic models, workbooks, luggage and a wildly excited teacher headed to Portland for 3 days of pelvic floor reclaiming!!

11/21/2024

I was honored to be interviewed on the podcast “Fascia & Bones” by the phenomenal Dr. Kirstie Bender Segarra. We discussed external pelvic floor manual therapy and the new Structural Integration program I’ve helped create in Portland Oregon. Take a listen!!

Podcast Episode · Fascia & Bones: Unpacking the Mystery · 11/21/2024 · 58m

10/18/2024

Accepting registrations for Reclaiming the Pelvic Floor in Oregon City January 12th-14th, 2025. This may be the only class happening in Oregon and the PNW in 2025. It's starting to fill, and we do have a limit so don't wait to register!

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08/25/2024

Now accepting applications for IDA-SI, a new program for Structural Integration in Portland Oregon!! www.IDA-SI.org. I’m one of the founders of this program and we are now approved by the International Association of Structural Integrators (R) IDA-SI starts in March 2025!!

07/19/2024

Last minute space opened up for my sold out Reclaiming the Pelvic Floor class this August in Warrenton Oregon.

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