Beyond Kegels: A Lifetime of Pelvic Health with Kathe Wallace and Dawn Sandalcidi

Week of June 6, 2026

This presentation series helps you understand your pelvic floor muscles and their role in core stability, bladder, bowel, and sexual health. Includes current information and guided exercise practice.

Beyond Kegels: How Fit is Your Pelvic Floor?
Learn how pelvic floor muscles affect bladder and bowel control, frequency, urgency, and sexual health. Explore anatomy, function, and core connections. Gain tools to identify possible issues.

Beyond Kegels: How Do I Kegel?
Update your knowledge of pelvic floor exercises. Learn correct activation, release, breathing, and positioning. Self-assess your pelvic floor and discover where to begin or progress with training.

Beyond Kegels: Self-Care for Bowel & Bladder
Learn simple techniques to improve bladder and bowel control without relying only on medication or surgery. Explore myths, daily self-care, and how to use pelvic floor strength during exercise and movement.

Navigating Pelvic Health & Pleasure from Midlife On
Understand how pelvic health and sexual wellbeing shift with postpartum recovery, midlife, and menopause. Explore changes in sensation, lubrication, desire, and bladder health. Learn what’s normal, what’s treatable, and practical strategies to support vitality and pleasure.

 

Kathe Wallace, PT – Internationally recognized pelvic health clinician, educator, and author. She wrote Reviving Your Sex Life after Childbirth and numerous pelvic health resources. Since 1988, she has specialized in pelvic health and currently teaches at the University of Washington. Awards include the Washington State PT Association Clinical Excellence Award and the APTA Academy of Pelvic Health Elizabeth Noble Award.

 

Dawn Sandalcidi, PT, RCMT, BCB-PMD – Specialist in pelvic muscle dysfunction and orthopedic manual therapy. She has trained clinicians worldwide since 1992 and practices at Physical Therapy Specialists in Colorado. Board-certified in biofeedback for pelvic muscle dysfunction. Recipient of the APTA Section on Women’s Health Elizabeth Noble Award (2018).