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Through Yoga U, regular workshops, yoga-centric and pelvic health podcasts, and our own writings: engage with our information, freebies, and more. We’d love to connect.

Yoga U

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Yoga for Pelvic Floor Health
Pelvic Floor Health Yoga Classes in Philly

Yoga for Pelvic Floor Health Parts 1 and 2
with Jessica Reale and Patricia Schmidt

 Podcast Appearances

Click the artwork to listen to Patricia’s guest appearances on podcasts.

Press and Podcast Appearances
Still Becoming with Monica DiCristina
Kumbay’all: The Whole Woman’s Resource

 "I have been taking Patty's Pelvic Health Class since June 2015. It has made a huge difference with my stress incontinence. In fact, the stress incontinence is not happening any longer! Patty is very thoughtful and respectful of her students' privacy. She is very knowledgeable of our bodies and what might be going on with them, and how to help return them to normal. I am so glad that I found her."

– CH

The Journal

Below are entries into our educational journal where you can learn more about pelvic health, yoga for pelvic health, and more.

Journal
A Short Hip-Warming Sequence
A Short Hip-Warming Sequence

This is a great hip-warming sequence for heading into a more vigorous practice, or to take a break from sitting during the day.

Thoughts on Wishing, and How Should it Be?
Thoughts on Wishing, and How Should it Be?

Communicating your unmet expectations as a deep source of your grief is a good way to ask people for more time to foster contentment and equanimity.

A Short Yin Yoga Sequence to Ground in Uncertain Times
A Short Yin Yoga Sequence to Ground in Uncertain Times

This Yin Yoga sequence focuses on the spleen/stomach meridian pair, and combines suggested sequencing from Sarah Powers’ Insight Yoga, Bernie Clark’s books and websites, and the sequencing recommendations of Paul and Suzee Grilley.

New Audio Meditations: The Yamas
New Audio Meditations: The Yamas

The Yamas: Five guiding principles for how we are to be in relationship to others—ahimsa; satya; asteya; brahmacarya; and aparigraha.

An Open Letter to the Yoga Community: Will Theresa Still be There?
An Open Letter to the Yoga Community: Will Theresa Still be There?

Tonight marks the second evening in about a month, where I’ve received news of a beloved local yoga studio closing its doors as a result of the global COVID-19 pandemic and the associated economic downturn.

Metta Meditations for May, with Vista Yoga
Metta Meditations for May, with Vista Yoga

Metta Meditation is a loving-kindness meditation.

A Naming Meditation Practice
A Naming Meditation Practice

This technique, common in mindfulness meditation traditions and discussed at length by meditation teachers such as Pema Chodron and Sarah Powers, can be useful as a way of cultivating equanimity toward ourselves: our own emotions, fears, story-telling, attachments.

The Four-Cornered Breath: A Meditation for Slowing and Easing your Breath
The Four-Cornered Breath: A Meditation for Slowing and Easing your Breath

Monica DiCristina and I talk about yoga’s promise: a resting in our true self, and the tools that yoga gives us (breathwork, meditation, yoga postures) to try to get to that true abiding a little more frequently.

Wrapping the Body: A Meditation on Surrender
Wrapping the Body: A Meditation on Surrender

A meditation on wrapping the body: connecting to your breath energy

Further Thoughts on Black and White Thinking: Aparigraha (The Hardest and Most Subtle of the Yamas)
Further Thoughts on Black and White Thinking: Aparigraha (The Hardest and Most Subtle of the Yamas)

Self-study to come away from black and white thinking; focusing the lens on what unites us…..aparigraha [Sanskrit]: non-possessiveness, or explained as non-hoarding, or living without that which is essential