Birth Healing Summit Podcast

In this episode, Lynn explores how a baby’s position in the maternal body can directly influence pain patterns during pregnancy and impact the progression of labor. Through a compelling case study of a client at 39 weeks with a high, mobile fetal head, this conversation highlights how skilled palpation and targeted bodywork can help facilitate engagement into the pelvis. Lynn shares the common areas of tension that may prevent the baby from descending and how to address these restrictions to support more efficient labor mechanics. 

Learn the importance of palpation skills and understand fetal positioning to improve the success of your own work with pregnant clients.

✨ Key Takeaways for Practitioners

• Palpating the fetal head and how it reveals why some labors stall before they even begin.
• Look beyond the pelvis - learn what else can quietly prevent a baby from engaging in the pelvis.
• Learn why the pelvic floor may act like a “stoplight” for the baby’s descent.
• Discover the hands-on treatment that can shift outcomes.

If you work with pregnant clients, this episode offers practical clinical insights into how assessing and addressing fetal positioning can influence both pain presentations and birth outcomes. Learn more in Pregnancy Pain and Beyond.

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In this episode, Lynn explores an intriguing postpartum case that reveals how birth mechanics can influence hip pain decades later. A clinician shares the story of a colleague whose leg was tractioned off the bed during an epidural birth – creating long-term pelvic alignment changes that eventually led her to consider a total hip replacement. The discussion highlights how unresolved pelvic positioning from birth can alter hip mechanics, including internal rotation and load through the acetabulum. This episode encourages pelvic floor and orthopedic practitioners to look beyond symptoms and evaluate how birth and postpartum pelvic alignment may be driving chronic hip dysfunction.

✨ Key Takeaways for Practitioners

• Birth mechanics can have lifelong effects: Traction on the leg during epidural births may contribute to sacral flexion, ischial splay, and ilial outflare that affect hip function years later.
• Pelvic alignment influences hip mobility: Ischial splay and ilial outflare can change acetabular orientation, limiting internal rotation and contributing to chronic hip pain.
• Assess more than the pelvic floor: TFL tension, pelvic bone position, and sacral mechanics can all play a role in postpartum hip symptoms.
• Address both tissue and experience: Combining pelvic mobilization with trauma-informed approaches to unresolved birth experiences may unlock lasting changes for clients.

This episode offers clinical insights that may change how you assess chronic hip pain in postpartum clients – and why evaluating pelvic alignment after birth can be essential for long-term outcomes.

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Are you considering the bone itself (and not just the muscles) when postpartum patients come to you with persistent pelvic pain, adductor tightness, or tailbone symptoms? In today’s podcast episode, Lynn Schulte, PT introduces the concept of osseous lesions in the pelvis, subtle hardening of pelvic bones that can occur during childbirth and continue to drive soft tissue tension long after delivery. She explains how birth mechanics, baby positioning, and prolonged pushing can create trauma in key pelvic structures – and how skilled palpation can help clinicians identify the difference between healthy bone and hardened bone. 

This conversation opens the door to a frequently overlooked contributor to postpartum dysfunction. If you treat postpartum women, this conversation can help enhance your assessment of the pelvis.

✨ Key Takeaways for Practitioners

• Osseous lesions are areas of hardened bone created by trauma or compression during birth, often affecting surrounding muscles, ligaments, and tendons.
• The most common pelvic locations include the lower sacrum (S3–S4), coccyx, pubic rami, and medial ischial tuberosities.
• Persistent muscle tightness - like recurrent adductor tension - may actually be a reaction to a bone lesion rather than a primary soft-tissue problem.
• Skilled palpation can help clinicians differentiate normal bone mobility (“tree”) from hardened bone (“telephone pole”).
• Gentle compression techniques may help restore softness and mobility to affected bone and improve symptoms.

This episode will challenge practitioners to start listening to the bones, not just the muscles, when evaluating postpartum pelvic dysfunction.

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The importance of postpartum care is no longer just an afterthought – and this conversation shows exactly why that matters for your practice. Today, Lynn Schulte is joined by Rachelle Seliga, a Midwife, Educator and the creator of INNATE Postpartum Care. Together, they unpack the dramatic shifts that have occurred in postpartum care over the past decade, the direction this field is going next, and what we can do as practitioners to keep up with the changing tides.

You’ll hear how pelvic health directly impacts mental health, why more moms are seeking care even when they don’t have symptoms, and what it really takes to close the gaps still leaving many women underserved.

From unexpected innovations to powerful collaborations across disciplines, this episode will expand what you believe is possible – and your role in it.

✨ Key Takeaways for Practitioners:

• Where the gaps in postpartum care still remain.
• The connection between pelvic health and mental health.
• Your role and steps for supporting the full spectrum of postpartum needs.
• Innovation and diversity that is leading the shift beyond traditional postpartum care.
• The keys to thriving as a practitioner in today’s evolving healthcare landscape.

If you want to stay relevant and deliver deeper, more impactful outcomes then this is an episode you do not want to miss.

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About Today’s Speaker

Rachelle Seliga, CPM and Educator

Rachelle Seliga is a mother, midwife, and educator who is dedicated to midwifing a cultural shift through her teachings, trainings, and hands-on experiences. 

She is the creator and director of INNATE Postpartum Care, a globally recognized certification program that has trained thousands of practitioners who now support families around the world.

Her work is rooted in the belief that our physiologic design IS our divine design, which IS our "blueprint," which ARE our "original instructions" as humankind. These different ways to say the SAME thing acknowledge that there is an order, a structure, a map to LIFE that supersedes human will; it is Nature's Design. Through her teachings, Rachelle brings traditional knowledge to modern care practices, offering a deeply integrative approach to postpartum care.

This year marks the 10th anniversary of her INNATE Postpartum Care Training. It is the last year she will be teaching it as she has been, so if you are interested in joining – this is a great year to do so. As a member of the IBH Community, she is extending early-bird pricing to us even past the deadline of May 5th. For 11% off the full-price tuition, use coupon code: BIRTHHEALING

To register and for more information on INNATE Postpartum Care Training: https://www.innatetraditions.com/innate-postpartum-care-certification-training

Rachelle’s website: https://www.innatetraditions.com/

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This episode is our final in the series on clinical mastery and dives deep into what clinical mastery means – it’s likely not what you’ve been taught. Rather than focusing solely on knowledge and techniques, Lynn reframes mastery as how you show up as a whole practitioner, blending presence, intuition, and connection. 

Drawing from conversations with Birth Healing Summit speakers, she shares how mastery is layered, personal, and developed through both ongoing inner work and clinical experience. Lynn shares a powerful breakdown of the five dimensions that influence every session – and why neglecting even one can limit your outcomes. This episode also challenges the idea that therapists must “have all the answers,” instead emphasizing humility, client-led healing, and intuitive guidance. 

✨ Key Takeaways for Practitioners:

• Clinical mastery spans five dimensions: physical, emotional, energetic, spiritual, and mental – and all 5 must be cultivated.
• Your presence and energy can either regulate or amplify your client’s nervous system (be the “biggest pendulum in the room”).
• True mastery involves humility and collaboration, helping clients access their own inner knowing rather than “fixing” them.
• Intuition is built on experience and knowledge, but guided through a deeper connection to self and spirit.
• Doing your own healing work is essential to showing up powerfully and creating better outcomes for your clients.

If you’re ready to elevate not just what you do – but who you are in the room – this conversation is one you don’t want to miss.

Learn with Lynn Schulte during the 2026 Birth Healing Summit – attend live online May 2 - 3, 2026 or catch the sessions after with the VIP Lifetime Access pass that includes session recordings and transcripts.

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Clinical excellence isn’t just about doing more – but about showing up differently. In this episode, Shelly Prosko challenges traditional rehab thinking, revealing why evidence alone isn’t enough, and how the real driver of outcomes may be something far less tangible. She uncovers the hidden power of therapeutic presence and why the connection you build with patients can outweigh the techniques you use. 

But there’s a catch – what most clinicians think is empathy may actually be leading them toward burnout. Listen in to learn a different approach that can unlock better results and resilience. 

✨ Key Takeaways for Practitioners:

• Clinical excellence = integration of research evidence, clinician experience, and evolving patient values
• Therapeutic alliance and presence are critical drivers of patient outcomes
• Compassion (not emotional empathy) supports better care and prevents burnout
• Self-compassion is a trainable skill that enhances clinician resilience and effectiveness

If you’re ready to rethink how you practice while protecting your own well-being, this is the conversation for you.

Learn with Shelly Prosko in the 2026 Birth Healing Summit – attend live online May 2 - 3, 2026 or catch the sessions after with the VIP Lifetime Access pass.

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About Today’s Speaker

Shelly Prosko, PT, CYT, Author and Educator

Shelly Prosko is a Canadian physiotherapist, certified yoga therapist, educator, author, and pioneer of PhysioYoga. Since 1998, she has integrated yoga into physiotherapy, focusing on chronic pain, pelvic health, healthy aging, compassion in healthcare, and professional burnout. 

She teaches and presents internationally at medical and yoga conferences, contributes to research and academic writing, and mentors healthcare and yoga professionals. Her professional courses are widely respected and sought after across multiple disciplines. Shelly is a Pain Care Aware Lead Trainer and co-editor/co-author of the textbook Yoga and Science in Pain Care: Treating the Person in Pain. She is also recognized for her TEDx talk on pushing boundaries in physiotherapy. 

She maintains a clinical practice in Sylvan Lake, Alberta, and believes compassion is central to effective healthcare and well-being. Outside of her professional work, she is a former professional figure skater who values connection, creativity, nature, and joy as essential elements of healing. https://physioyoga.ca/about-us 

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How does doing your own inner work help you as a practitioner? 

In this powerful conversation, Nari challenges the traditional, performance-based definition of mastery and reframes it as deep alignment, boundaries, and self-trust. She shares how honoring your unique style, rather than copying others, allows for more authentic and effective patient care. The discussion dives into blending intuition with clinical reasoning, meeting patients where they are, and releasing the pressure to “fix” everything. This episode is a refreshing and thought-provoking invitation to evolve your practice from the inside out.

✨ Key Takeaways for Practitioners:

• Be you, fully: Clinical mastery comes from embodying your unique voice and approach.
• You’re not for everyone: Clear boundaries and aligned clients lead to better outcomes and less burnout.
• Meet patients where they are: Tailor your approach to their readiness – one meaningful step is enough.
• Do your own inner work: Your ability to hold space, stay non-reactive, and create transformation is directly tied to your personal healing.

Join Nari Kaur for the 2026 Birth Healing Summit: Inner Work to Clinical Mastery taking place live online May 2 - 3, 2026 or as a recorded offering when the timing works for you with the VIP Access Pass.

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About Today’s Speaker

Nari Kaur (Clemons), PT and Educator

Nari Kaur has been a pelvic therapist for 18 years. She has been teaching for Herman Wallace Pelvic Rehab for 10 years and loves merging science and anatomy with softer skills. For Herman Wallace, Nari teaches the pelvic floor series, courses she has authored on manually treating the nerves of the lumbar and sacral plexus, and a course on boundaries and self care for health care providers.

Nari’s passion is helping empathic healers to be well as they work. Her interest in this field came from being an unknowing empath, picking up too much from patients, over-functioning and living the archetype of the wounded healer, before finding another way.

She owns Portland Pelvic Therapy, a boutique practice where she combines highly specific visceral, neural and fascial work with the intersection of spirit and held stories in the body. Most of her patients are unknowing empaths who finally heal when they release held stories, often that were never theirs to carry, in their tissues. She also works at a conventional hospital and enjoys the full realm of health care.

Speaker’s Website: https://www.portlandpelvictherapy.com/

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What does it mean to find your true clinical calling? Is this the key to clinical mastery?

In this deeply insightful and heart-opening conversation, Lynn Schulte sits down with Suzanne Scurlock, founder of Healing from the Core®, CST-D, author and educator, to explore these questions and what it truly means to evolve as a pelvic health therapist – not just in skill, but in presence, clarity, and purpose.

With over four decades of experience, Suzanne shares a perspective that many clinicians feel, but have yet to name. Mastery isn’t about doing more. It’s about refining who you are in the treatment room.

This conversation gently challenges the belief that more certifications or techniques will lead to fulfillment. Instead, Suzanne reveals the subtle but powerful shifts that create sustainable, meaningful careers.

✨ Key Takeaways for Practitioners

• The surprising trait that separates skilled clinicians from truly masterful ones
• Why “feeling off” in a session is actually your greatest clinical cue
• How knowing who not to treat elevates your results and prevents burnout
• The grounding practice that transforms how you show up in every session
• What to do when your own triggers disrupt connection

Perhaps most powerful is Suzanne’s invitation to trust that when you align with your gifts, the right clients will find you – and the ones who aren’t meant for you won’t.

What you’ll hear may challenge how you’ve been taught to practice and open the door to results that finally feel aligned and sustainable. 

This episode isn’t just about becoming a better therapist. It’s about stepping fully into your calling to become the practitioner you are meant to be.

Don’t miss Suzanne Scurlock’s session in the 2026 Birth Healing Summit taking place live online May 2 - 3, 2026 and as a recorded offering with the VIP Access Pass.

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About Today’s Speaker

Suzanne Scurlock, CST-D, Author, Educator, Founder of  Healing from the Core®

Suzanne Scurlock is one of the world’s leading authorities on conscious awareness and its transformational impact on the healing process. She is one of the original instructors personally mentored by the late Dr. John E. Upledger. She also collaborated with the late Emilie Conrad for almost two decades. Together they integrated Emilie’s Continuum Movement with Suzanne’s Full Body Presence® to teach other practitioners how to accelerate and deepen the healing process.

Check out her website at https://healingfromthecore.com/ for more information about her courses, including a class to help teach people embodiment. 

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What is clinical mastery to you? 

Today, we continue the exploration of clinical mastery with another great in pelvic and women’s health, Tami Lynn Kent, PT, Founder of Holistic Pelvic Care™. In today’s conversation, Tami discusses with Lynn what she sees as the essentials for true clinical mastery. 

In this important conversation, Tami Lynn Kent encourages therapists to move beyond quick knowledge and step into the deeper work needed to help clients heal fully. She shares how curiosity, mentorship, and thousands of hours of hands-on experience shape the kind of presence that transforms patient outcomes.

✨ Key Takeaways for Practitioners

• Mastery transforms outcomes – why developing the intelligence of your hands, trusting your embodied awareness, and nurturing your creative energy can dramatically elevate your clinical effectiveness.
• Discern depth in a fast-information world – how social media and AI provide knowledge, but true wisdom comes from lived experience and mentorship.
• Curiosity drives clinical growth – why following what fascinates you in practice leads to deeper insight and innovation.
• Sustaining your creative energy prevents burnout – by nourishing your body, mind, and curiosity you can fuel long-term clinical excellence.

If you want your treatments to go deeper, your confidence to grow, and your clinical results to improve, this conversation will expand how you think about mastery in practice. This is an episode you don’t want to miss. 

Learn with Tami Lynn Kent in the 2026 Birth Healing Summit – attend live online May 2 - 3, 2026 or catch the sessions after with the VIP Lifetime Access pass that includes session recordings and transcripts.

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About Today’s Speaker

Tami Lynn Kent, PT, Founder of Holistic Pelvic Care™

Tami Lynn Kent, MSPT is a women’s health physical therapist, educator, and founder of Holistic Pelvic Care™, the first integrative model combining physical and energetic approaches to the female pelvic bowl. She is the author of the Wild Book Series: Wild Feminine, Wild Creative, and Wild Mothering, and has taught her original methods to thousands of practitioners worldwide.

With a master’s in physical therapy from Pacific University and advanced training in bodywork, birth trauma resolution, and energy-based approaches, Tami bridges modern medicine with women’s innate wisdom to support healing, creativity, and vitality. 

For over 25 years, she has worked with more than 20,000 women, helping practitioners deepen their understanding of pelvic health through both physical and subtle energetic patterns.

Based in Portland, Oregon, Tami continues to teach, write, and guide women’s health practitioners in cultivating the full potential of the female body.

Tami’s Website: https://www.wildfeminine.com/

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What if persistent pelvic floor tension, heaviness, or pain postpartum isn’t primarily a muscle problem – but a stability problem the muscles are trying to solve? In this short but powerful clinical reminder, Lynn Schulte challenges pelvic health therapists to rethink how they assess and treat the postpartum pelvis. She explains why working with pelvic bones and pelvic floor muscles together can dramatically improve outcomes and why releasing muscles alone can sometimes make symptoms worse. This episode highlights a critical but often overlooked relationship that can transform how you treat the postpartum pelvis.

✨ Key Takeaways for Practitioners

• Pelvic floor muscles often compensate for unstable or malpositioned pelvic bones, especially after birth.
• Releasing pelvic floor tension without addressing the pelvic bones first may worsen pain or heaviness.
• Muscle tone patterns can reveal what the pelvic bones are doing biomechanically
• Combining external bone work with internal pelvic floor treatment can rapidly restore strength, function, and symptom relief.

This episode will challenge practitioners to start listening to the bones, not just the muscles, when evaluating postpartum pelvic dysfunction. Learn more at https://instituteforbirthhealing.com/treating-postpartum-pelvis/.

Have a comment or question about today’s episode? Message Lynn on Instagram or Facebook, or Email Lynn.

If you enjoyed today’s podcast and are interested in more topics to support your clinical practice and treating your clients, find us on your favorite podcast app and subscribe so you don’t miss an episode.

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Visit Institute for Birth Healing to learn more about how to care for the pregnant and postpartum body: CLICK HERE