Institute for Birth Healing

Our first ever cohort for Advanced Postpartum Techniques will launch next month! Registration opens on June 25th, so keep an eye on our socials if you are interested in this course and some extra support from me.

This cohort is for practitioners who have completed the Holistic Treatment of the Postpartum Body course, and who are ready to deepen their skills. So, if you're interested in joining, now is your chance to get through the Postpartum Body course first.

Throughout the cohort, you'll work with me directly to deepen your understanding of the postpartum body's local, regional, and distant connections, learn advanced techniques to influence the central nervous system, and develop greater confidence treating complex postpartum presentations. We'll meet during scheduled (and recorded) live calls, so we can review the techniques together, dive into Q&As and cases, as well as do some live demos to highlight what you can achieve with this work.

As pelvic health practitioners, we're trained to assess muscles, fascia, joints and organs.

But what about the lymphatic system?

Despite its role in fluid balance, immune function and tissue health, lymphatic function is often overlooked in both training and clinical practice.

Yet impaired lymphatic flow may contribute to symptoms many clinicians see every day, including bloating, pelvic heaviness, tissue congestion and urinary urgency.

In this podcast, Lynn speaks with pelvic health therapist and certified lymphedema specialist Mary Ellen Kramp about why the lymphatic system deserves a place in every pelvic health assessment.

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When preparing a client for a VBAC, where do you start?

Before assessing the pelvis, the pelvic floor, or baby's position, it's worth exploring what happened during the previous birth.

Was labor progressing before the caesarean?

Did baby descend into the pelvis?

Was baby breech or malpositioned?

Were there signs of fetal distress?

These details can provide valuable clues about what may have contributed to the previous birth outcome and help guide your assessment during the current pregnancy.

In this blog, we explore how understanding the birth story can help pelvic health therapists provide more targeted support for clients preparing for a VBAC.

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Have you ever wondered why some labours seem to stall before they've even really begun?

One factor that is often overlooked is the baby's position in the maternal body.

In this podcast, Lynn shares a case study of a client at 39 weeks whose baby's head remained high and mobile despite being at term. Through assessment and targeted bodywork, it became clear that the issue wasn't simply about waiting for labor to start.

Understanding fetal positioning can provide valuable clues about both pregnancy discomfort and potential labor challenges.

If you work with pregnant clients, this episode offers practical insights that could influence how you assess and support them in the final weeks before birth.

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As birth healing professionals, we often focus on symptoms presenting today.

But what if the underlying cause started during the birth itself?

In our latest podcast, we explore a remarkable case where traction on the leg that was paralyzed from an epidural may have contributed to pelvic changes that influenced hip function decades later.

It's a fascinating reminder that birth mechanics can have lifelong consequences for movement, alignment and pain patterns.

If you're working with clients experiencing persistent postpartum hip or pelvic issues, this perspective could change the questions you ask.

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In my 30+ years in pelvic health, I have seen this show up again and again – especially in postpartum clients – and it’s one of the biggest contributors to persistent coccyx pain.

In this episode, I walk you through the sacrum–sphincter–coccyx relationship that creates a functional tug-of-war on the tailbone. It’s a biomechanical chain that many clinicians don’t assess, yet once you discover it, you will find it again and again.

Inside today’s episode:

💜 The three regions you should always evaluate in clients with coccyx pain
💜 The postpartum patterns that reliably change sacral mechanics
💜 Why releasing sphincter-complex knots is a key piece to coccyx treatment

This is a conversation rooted in decades of clinical observation, problem-solving, and listening to the body’s patterns.

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Lynn Schulte | The Pelvic Chain Behind Tailbone Pain: What Clinicians Need to Know - Institute for Birth Healing Courses Today, Lynn breaks down the often-missed biomechanical and myofascial relationships between the sacrum, coccygeus, and sphincter complex that create a functional tug-of-war on the tailbone.

What if pelvic floor work could be more effective, less invasive, and more respectful for the client’s body?

The Schulte Hold uses the pelvic bones to support internal work, helping the muscles melt without applying excessive internal pressure or creating pain.
Our students say the Schulte Hold is a game-changer!

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Benefits of the Schulte Hold - Institute for Birth Healing Courses The Schulte Hold was created to help create a more effective and non-invasive way to work with the pelvic floor. It is wonderful to feel the release in the body and know that what you are doing has made a difference that can often be life-changing for your client. Getting the body's tissues to respo...

As pelvic health practitioners, we teach clients about regulation, nervous system safety, and listening to the body…

…but do we apply the same principles to ourselves?

In this blog, I explore how resistance often isn’t something to fight against, it’s something to get curious about.

Questions like:

💜 What am I actually feeling right now?
💜 What am I avoiding?
💜 What would happen if I honored this instead of overriding it?

That shift alone can change everything.

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Creativity and clinical reasoning don’t thrive in depletion.

They thrive with space.

I want to address something that many practitioners experience but rarely talk about: the constant need to push through fatigue and emotional load, and how that impacts on the quality of what we create.

The insight.
The intuition.
The ability to see nuance with clients.

All of it is impacted when we never pause long enough to let the nervous system reset.

Sometimes stepping away is exactly what allows clarity to return.

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Many pelvic health clinicians were never taught to assess boney changes after childbirth.

But what if the pelvis is holding clues your hands haven’t been trained to feel yet?

In this episode, Lynn Schulte explains how osseous lesions in the sacrum, coccyx, p***c rami, and ischial tuberosities can contribute to:

💜 Persistent pelvic pain
💜 Tailbone symptoms
💜 Chronic soft tissue tension
💜 Recurrent adductor tightness

She also shares how skilled palpation can help clinicians distinguish between healthy, mobile bone and hardened bone that may be driving dysfunction.

Once you hear this conversation, you may never assess the postpartum pelvis the same way again.

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