The Lifted Lotus - Holistic Pelvic Floor Therapy

I signed a lease with no idea what I was doing. I taught myself the business side entirely as I went, which is true of almost every clinician who opens a practice and something almost none of us admit out loud. Cash flow was hard. The build outs were expensive. For a long stretch I was the therapist, the scheduler, the biller, and the person doing the laundry.

The move to the ground floor space in 2025 is one I almost said no to. It was expensive, the timing wasn’t perfect, and I knew exactly how stressful a second build out would be. But I also knew I would regret passing on it, and that it would help the business grow. So I went for it.

Now, I still walk in every day and am in awe. I’m so proud of the version of me that took the leap without knowing where I’d land. And I’m so grateful to have landed here with all of you.

We're Growing Our Team! 🌸 We are hiring a Pelvic Floor Occupational Therapist.

Are you compassionate, creative, and enthusiastic about pelvic health? Do you thrive in a small, intimate team environment focused on personalized, holistic care? If so, you might be the perfect fit for The Lifted Lotus!

✨ How to apply: Send your resume to [email protected].

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Plenty of people find out they're hypermobile in their thirties, after being told their whole lives that they were just bendy, or even not very flexible, depending on which joints anyone happened to check.

Flexibility describes muscle length. Hypermobility describes joint range beyond the normal limit, which comes from ligaments and connective tissue rather than muscle. The screening tool most clinicians use is the Beighton score, nine points across the fingers, thumbs, elbows, knees, and spine. It's a useful and reliable screen, and it's also narrow: six of the nine points are in the hands and arms, and it doesn't assess the hips, shoulders, ankles, neck, jaw, or SI joints at all. A 2021 review in Rheumatology International concluded plainly that it shouldn't be used alone to rule hypermobility out. Which matters, because a lot of people get a low score and stop asking questions.

At our clinic in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, we pay attention to hypermobility, and we assess pelvic floor tone before recommending any strengthening, because hypermobile bodies are frequently handed exactly the wrong plan.

Neither a low score nor a high one settles the question. Save this one, and message us if the pelvic floor part sounds familiar.

Most people with chronic constipation have already done the obvious things: more fiber, more water, magnesium in three different forms, and a probiotic that cost too much, yet they're still spending twenty minutes in the bathroom.

The piece that usually goes unexamined is coordination. Emptying requires the pelvic floor and a**l sphincter to relax and lengthen at the same moment abdominal pressure increases. When that sequence is off, the muscles tighten instead of opening and you push against resistance you're generating yourself. Adding fiber to that doesn't help, because the stool was never the obstacle. Sensation matters too: if the signal telling you it's time has gotten quiet, stool sits, hardens, and the straining gets worse. Both of these are assessable, and both respond to retraining rather than another supplement.

At our clinic in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, that means manual therapy to rebuild the coordination, and practical changes to position and breath that increase your mind-body connection.
Years of straining is worth a real assessment. It was never a question of whether you eat enough vegetables.

One of the hardest appointments to have is the one where everything has technically been fixed. The tear healed, the infection cleared, the surgery went well, and you still hurt. At that point most women stop reporting it, because there's nowhere left for the conversation to go.

Pain isn't a direct readout of tissue damage. It's a decision your nervous system makes using information from the body, and that decision-making can change when pain goes on long enough. The alarm threshold drops. Signals that never registered as painful start to. Pain spreads past the original site. This is a documented, measurable change in how the system processes information, and calling it real is not a courtesy, it's accurate. Meanwhile the pelvic floor has usually spent those same years guarding, which produces its own genuine mechanical pain on top.

At our clinic in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, that means hands-on work for the muscles that are actually tight, a graded return to whatever you've been avoiding, breath and sleep as real interventions rather than afterthoughts, and a plain explanation of what your nervous system is doing.

A system that learned to protect you can be taught something else.