Understanding how to gain and release tension (engage and relax) in your core and pelvic floor muscles is extremely important for supporting your tummy in daily life and when exercising.

Establishing a "core-floor connection" and performing exercises tuned into this connection will challenge you to strengthen your core musculature, but will not cause any harm to your abdominals and pelvic floor. These exercises help to create tension, density, and strength in the linea alba, and are safe to perform while pregnant and while healing diastasis recti.

Watch below as Molly Galbraith coaches one of our favorite "tummy safe" exercises, the side-lying knee abduction!

To read more about the core-floor connection and exercises you can do to heal diastasis recti, click here ==>