Join Gina Conley, author of Training for Two, for a hands-on workshop designed for professionals who support prenatal and postpartum clients.

In this training, we’ll break down how the pelvis and pelvic floor move asymmetrically through pregnancy and labor, and how targeted movement creates space at each level for baby to descend and rotate:

• Assess natural pelvic and pelvic floor asymmetry (the common right-stance pattern: left hip forward, right hip back) and identify where a client is “stuck” versus simply asymmetrical.
• Break down the three levels of the pelvis — inlet, midpelvis, and outlet — and the specific movement patterns (external/internal rotation, abduction/adduction, anterior/posterior pelvic tilt) that open each one.
• Explore the anterior and posterior portions of the inlet and outlet, and how shifting between them changes engagement and descent.
• Differentiate the upper and lower midpelvis, which open in opposite hip positions (open vs. closed hip), and how this drives rotation through the pelvic cavity.
• Map the four quadrants of the pelvic floor (right/left anterior, right/left posterior) and the asymmetrical release and strengthening work that restores balance across them.
• Practice mobility and strengthening drills — hip flexor/quad release, adductor work, lat release, pelvic tilting — that build the movement capacity each pelvic level requires, rather than defaulting to generic “safe” exercises.
• Apply this to labor: how fetal station corresponds to inlet/midpelvis/outlet, and how to choose positions and counterpressure based on where baby actually is, not just phase of labor.