Acupuncture + Pelvic Floor Therapy · San Diego
Reconnection Session
A 60-minute acupuncture and pelvic floor physical therapy co-treatment in San Diego. Two providers work at the same time, on the same body, in the same appointment.
Your jaw and pelvic floor are connected. When one clenches, the other tenses. This integrative session releases tension at the root and supports your nervous system, hormones, and your body's natural ability to birth, heal, and thrive.
- Length
- 60 minutes
- To book
- Text (760) 874-3309
- Location
- AG Physical Therapy
16885 Via Del Campo Ct, Ste 110
With Nina Jung, L.Ac. of JungWay and Ashlee Gendron, DPT of AG Physical Therapy.
The jaw and the pelvic floor mirror each other.
Fascia does not stop at a joint. The line that runs from the jaw down through the front of the body ties into the pelvic floor. When one is held in tension chronically, the other usually is too.
The nervous-system half is even more direct. Both the jaw and the pelvic floor tighten in response to threat. Real threat, remembered threat, or the low-grade threat of a body that has not been able to fully rest in years. Releasing one without releasing the other rarely holds for long.
Once you start noticing it in patients, it is hard to unsee.
Three connected systems, one appointment.
Jaw and pelvic floor connection
Chronic jaw tension can keep the pelvic floor on high alert. Releasing the jaw helps the pelvic floor soften. Your nervous system feels safe to let go.
Nervous system regulation
The session calms the stress response, supports deep relaxation, and helps you feel safe, grounded, and in your body again.
Pelvic floor release
Manual pelvic floor work softens tension, improves circulation, and supports function. That reduces pain, pressure, and leakage.
Two providers work with you at the same time.
Your session is completely personalized to your body, symptoms, and goals.
We begin with an East Asian Medicine health intake, where Nina learns about your health history, symptoms, lifestyle, stress, and the patterns contributing to your pain or dysfunction. This helps guide your acupuncture treatment so it addresses what's actually driving your pain or dysfunction, not just what's showing up on the surface.
While Ashlee assesses and treats the pelvic floor, Nina uses acupuncture and, when appropriate, buccal massage (an intraoral release of the jaw) to address the jaw-pelvic connection through the nervous system, fascia, and East Asian Medicine.
Buccal massage is typically introduced during your second session, once we've completed your assessment and determined it's the right fit for your treatment plan.
What a first visit includes
- East Asian Medicine Health Intake. Nina reviews your health history, symptoms, lifestyle, stress, and treatment goals to create a personalized acupuncture plan.
- Postural & Movement Assessment. Ashlee evaluates your posture, breathing, pelvis, spine, and movement patterns to identify areas of restriction and imbalance.
- Pelvic Floor Assessment & Treatment. Ashlee performs internal pelvic floor work (with your consent), identifying areas of tension, tenderness, and restriction.
- Personalized Acupuncture Treatment. Nina selects acupuncture points specific to your body, helping calm the nervous system while supporting the jaw, pelvis, and the body's natural healing response.
- Future Sessions. As your body progresses, treatments may include buccal massage, an intraoral release of the jaw muscles that complements acupuncture and pelvic floor therapy for deeper fascial and nervous system release.
Every session is personalized. No two treatments are exactly alike. We continually adapt your care based on how your body responds, ensuring each visit meets you where you are.
Most patients leave feeling calmer, lighter, and more connected to their bodies. Our goal isn't simply to reduce pain. It's to help your nervous system shift into a state where healing can happen.
The Reconnection Session meets you where you are.
Labor prep
Releases tension, opens the pelvis, and prepares your body and mind for an empowered birth.
Postpartum recovery
Supports healing, restores core and pelvic floor connection, and reduces pain and compensation.
Beauty and radiance
Enhances your natural glow, supports collagen and hormonal balance, and can improve intimacy, arousal, and overall sexual wellness for a deeper connection and more pleasure.
Who this session is for.
- Preparing for labor and want to feel more open and calm.
- Recovering from birth and want to heal and reconnect.
- Holding stress in your jaw, neck, or pelvic floor.
- Looking to enhance your glow and support beauty from within.
- Wanting more ease, confidence, and connection in intimacy and sex.
We also see the session help patients with:
- Painful intercourse and vaginismus.
- Endometriosis with a nervous-system driver.
- Chronic pelvic pain, especially when the brain has learned a pain circuit and the tissue keeps signaling.
- Hypertonic pelvic floor.
- Urinary leakage or incontinence, especially postpartum.
- TMJ and chronic jaw clenching that co-occurs with pelvic tension.
A pregnant patient with hip pain that traced back to the pelvic floor.
A pregnant patient came in with what she thought was right hip pain radiating into her glute.
Ashlee found the point internally that was referring pain into the posterior glute. She held pressure until she felt the muscle pulse. Nina found the anterior fascial line of the adductors, which ties into the same connection point as the pelvic floor, and needled it.
Ashlee felt the muscle completely release under her hand. The patient said the pain was gone.
That isn't every session. But it is the mechanism at its clearest.
Some situations we won't proceed with, or introduce more slowly.
In pregnancy, if the OB has flagged any of the following, we hold:
- Insufficient cervix
- Low amniotic fluid
- Placenta previa
We always ask about these before we begin.
Sexual trauma history
This session can be exactly the right work, but not necessarily as the first entry point. Two providers, internal manual work, and needles at the same time can be too much too soon. We start slower, often with just one modality at a time, and move into the co-treatment when your system is ready.
Nina and Ashlee.
Nina Jung, L.Ac.
Licensed acupuncturist and founder of JungWay Acupuncture & Integrative Wellness in Poway, San Diego. Focus areas: fertility, perimenopause, nervous system regulation, and buccal massage. More about Nina →
Ashlee Gendron, DPT
Doctor of physical therapy and founder of AG Physical Therapy. Focus areas: prenatal and postpartum pelvic floor care, chronic pelvic pain, and hypertonic pelvic floor. More about Ashlee →
Text to book.
Sessions are 60 minutes at AG Physical Therapy in San Diego. Because two providers coordinate one appointment, booking is by text so we can confirm a time that works for both Nina and Ashlee.
Move better. Breathe deeper. Birth stronger. Glow naturally.
You are designed to heal. We're here to help you remember.
Reconnection Session FAQ.
How long is a Reconnection Session?
60 minutes.
How do I book?
Text (760) 874-3309. Because two providers coordinate one appointment, booking is by text so we can confirm a time that works for both Nina and Ashlee.
Where does the session happen?
At Ashlee's clinic, AG Physical Therapy, 16885 Via Del Campo Ct, Suite 110, San Diego. That is where the internal pelvic floor work takes place. Nina travels to the AG PT clinic for these sessions.
Do I need to be an existing patient of either provider?
No. If you have never seen a pelvic floor PT before, we walk you through what to expect. If you have never had acupuncture, same.
Written by
Nina Jung, L.Ac.
Licensed Acupuncturist · Women's Health, Fertility, Hormones, Strength Coaching
Last updated
Written with Ashlee Gendron, PT of AG Physical Therapy, who leads the pelvic floor physical therapy side of the Reconnection Session. This page reflects the shared clinical approach both providers use in session.
Read more about Nina →