Clinical Mastery with Tami Lynn Kent: Going Deep Into Practice

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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Transcript

Hello, everybody. Welcome to this episode. And today I am beyond thrilled to introduce you, reintroduce you again to Tammy Lynn Kent.

She is a physical therapist out in Portland, Oregon. She is the founder of Holistic Pelvic Care, which is an amazing educational teaching that she has created.

She is also the author of three. Thank Thank you. She is also the mother of three amazing young men.

Welcome to the podcast, Tammy. Thanks for being here. Well, thank you, Lynn. It's always good to see you and talk to you.

Thank you. Well, I am just so thrilled, Tammy, that you are going to be joining us this year for the Birth Healing Summit, May 2nd and 3rd.

And you are going to be holding a session for everyone, and we'll talk about that in a little bit.

But today, Tammy, I'd like for us to explore this topic of clinical mastery. And to you, what is clinical mastery in your mind?

Well, I actually love the word mastery because I think it harkens back to a time when we learned with a mentor and or mentors and really took the time to deepen.

I think especially in a fast paced world where a lot of online knowledge, people feel like they have knowledge quickly, but that's not really mastery.

And lots of information is not deep and not wisdom to me. Mastery is. Returning to something over time and deepening, kind of like the circle, you know, the spiral, the sacred spiral where you're coming back around, back around, and it's that old thought of 10,000 hours.

Like it really does take 10,000 hours at least to master something where you are deepening. I think it also takes spaciousness so that you can, rather than a linear pathway, which is the more masculine approach of, you know, climbing the mountain, it's a returning and a deepening.

So to me, yeah, I think mastery is very feminine, and I think that when you are able to find something that captures you enough to want to go into mastery with it, you've really found the secret to unlock your joy, because that is, it's an apprenticeship, it's with life, you know, and with your own creative destiny.

And I think it's my greatest joy is finding those pieces that unlocked and created wonder. Curiosity for me. So I think curiosity is a key part of that.

Like what makes you curious? What expands your awe? What brings wonder? Follow that, deepen that, find people doing that in masterful ways, take time with them.

And, you know, that's really the meaning of life to me. Oh my God. I think we could be done with the podcast right there.

Mic drop, boom, we're done. That was so good. I love that. Oh my gosh. And as you were talking there, was like, oh my gosh, that's what I did.

That's what I did. That's what I, you know, I was finding something in the pelvis and like, why is this happening?

And I explored it and yeah, my love really, it came to me. I didn't go find it, you know?

Absolutely. Well, and that's, it's, I think, wonder and curiosity. I think you're successful in life if you can actually find your inner child magic and bring it to your adult life, you know?

And, um, That is something that culturally, especially Western culture, has maybe taken people a little bit away from because it's brought them outside of themselves into intellect and into knowledge that's outside of them.

And I certainly was an academic being that, you know, strived for grades. And so when I found my way to bodywork, that was the first thing that kind of unlocked my curiosity.

Actually, yoga and the body and movement and breath and then holistic medicine and then, you know, bodywork and physical therapy and then the pelvic health.

So it's like following a treasure map where it gets deeper and deeper. And then you tend to find your own piece in it, which I think is what we all crave.

We want to find a way to unlock our own abilities in something. And so when you're following your curiosity, it kind of naturally does tend to guide you to that.

And then it just blossoms. And I hope for that in all of my sons. I wrote Wild Creative as really maybe a roadmap for that, like follow your creativity, follow your curiosity, unlock it.

Look at how anyone who's really done anything really potent has you. And I'm trying in a world that would like to put people on linear paths for myself as a mother with sons to encourage them to find ways to approach their curiosity but then deepen with people so that they really do get to that level of mastery because I've seen that with my oldest son who's working as an artist and while he's feeling frustrated in the commercial realm and, you know, the monetary point, he's meeting a lot of mentors in the craft who are masters.

Those who are teaching him how to unlock his voice, how to unlock his performance, and how to unlock things visually.

And I really think that that is the way to a beautiful and bountiful life. Yeah. Oh, that is so interesting.

So I love this idea of that spiral and going deeper and deeper and deeper. And, you know, as physical therapists, Tammy, we all, we have knowledge that the general population doesn't always understand or know about their body.

And so I'm really excited about, you know, in social media, PTs are out there sharing wonderful knowledge for women.

And yet, I think there's also, and I'm curious your take on this, and I want to be careful how I question this or put this out there, is that, yes, we have this knowledge that most people don't.

And yet, to me, I'm seeing these really new therapists out there, stepping into this field, thinking that they're already masters.

That is, you and I have talked about this a little bit. I think that's because we don't really talk about and understand mastery, that it isn't ownership of something or a taking.

That's actually kind of the toxic patriarchy that we're trying to fix, where the toxic patriarchy doesn't respect source, doesn't honor process.

And just thanks. I get this, or I bought it, and so I get to have it. Mastery is really something much deeper.

It's step-by-step. It's acknowledging what you're learning from where you're learning it from, and it's a respectful way to move, and then you really do find your rightful piece in it.

But I think because of social media, things are moving so fast, and they're sound bites. And, you know, I've said this also to my sons, just because you have a lot of information, that isn't wisdom.

Wisdom is much deeper, and it's a more internal process. And so just being aware of that, I think it's something to be mindful of in all the realms, just kind of having discernment, even as we're digesting information.

Who is the person talking to us? What sources are they sharing? Or if they're presenting as an original source, what is their background?

Where are they getting this? And, you know, lots of little information points are not depth. So I think for me, especially on a path of true mastery,

I'm looking for that depth. And you can really sense it if you start to get a radar for this.

You can sense when something is really deep and rich, when something is really a source and kind of a true integrated fountain of wisdom coming from someone that has walked the trail by hand versus someone that is, or footstep by step versus someone who is just kind of spouting information.

And I think it's important to start looking for that, especially if you want to have mastery yourself, it's good to start to discern who am I following and why.

I think this is an important thing to talk about, even in the, as we're talking more holistically, right? We're both tend to be holistically oriented in the field of holistic medicine.

There still are, I guess, false prophets, I would say, that are kind of talking the talk but not walking the walk.

And if you really want mastery, you have to look at how someone has arrived to share the information that they are sharing.

Yeah. And Tammy. I mean, what scares me even more is AI and the information and where we're getting that information because AI can hallucinate, you know?

That's why, too, I think it's important as we talk about mastery to really get grounded in one's own center.

And I feel like because I have walked a more feminine path in the work I've developed, you know, you know that in my work, I did step by step, you know, more than 10,000 hours of development and kind of the body work.

The Holistic Pelvic Care is a body work practice that I created from holes that I saw in the practice I had been taught.

And so I really created it step by step. But to do that, I had to really walk slower and walk in my own path and be patient.

You know, it took me nine years to write Wild Feminine. It just, it required a lot of time and consistent showing up and practice.

Practice is part of mastery. And so in that, it created a process in me that I feel like even when I look at AI, I can feel how the lack of.

I'm going patient. Hallelujah. patient. I'm Thank And I hope I can always keep that, but I can kind of feel in my own body vibration that something feels a little off.

And I think it's important to keep attuning to that in ourselves and to talk about it so we can recognize it because certainly AI will come forward and we'll take up space.

But if we are still attuned in our own center, I think we'll be, we'll recognize it sooner. And I do notice that my oldest son who have talked with us a lot about, we've taught some classes together and he's only, he just turned 26, so he's still quite young.

But because we've talked about this, I can see him also have kind of a clear radar for that. And it's something that I think it's important to give voice to so we don't get carried away.

And especially sometimes if we're in comparison mode and we're like, Oh, but you know, we're kind of outside of our center.

When we're looking at the information, we have to get really clear and back in our own center. And that means rhythmical living and you know, it doesn't have to be perfect, but even just having a practice.

So that we're engaging with the, you know, the sun and the light and the air on a slower basis to keep that foundation clear so that we can recognize this stuff.

Wow. That's so important. And that truly is our focus. This Birth Healing Summit is to help people to come inside themselves and really be with their center and hopefully clear it out so it's easier for them to listen and be with that center.

Sure. Yeah. So I love that your work is just absolutely beautiful, Tammy. I share about your work and I use your work all the time.

And I just absolutely love how beautifully you walk your talk. And, and I'm just so grateful for you as that example to us in what it looks like, you know, I'll never forget reaching out to you early on when I was doing my summit.

Sure. I'm going, Tammy, you want to be a part of it? And you're like, let me check in and let me see if it's right.

You know, you weren't a just, sure, Lynn. It was, no, I'm going to check in and make sure this is right and make sure spirit is guiding me to do this this year.

And there were several times when you said no, you know. And let me say something about that, too, that I think is important.

So with that, in part of mastery, I know that playtime is really important for me. Like playtime with my feminine.

So for me, sometimes that's prayer and ritual. Sometimes it's working out and yoga and things like that. Sometimes it's going out on dates with my partner or going to visit my sons.

Like, and I go thrifting with them. Like, I play in that field. So it's kind of like, seems like it's not, you know, mastery also is not just on the topic that you're working on.

Let's just say whatever we're mastering our physical therapy or all of people here are probably working as healers. Part of being.

Being a deep healer is making sure that that beautiful part of you that is inspired and curious is fed, not even just in the direct line of your work, but in your life.

So I always sense into when my creative fire gets low and it gets low. I mean, I absolutely feel burned out at times, not in my work, because that is so rich with my, and I would say if you're feeling burned out in work, find ways to deepen the creative fire in your work.

But in personal life, just because I tend so many, I tend to three sons, I have a partner, have a rich life, but I will feel my chi getting low.

And so I go, okay, it's time for me to just do things that aren't even really productive, that are kind of nonlinear, so that I can actually put fuel in my creative fire.

And I think that's really important. That's an important part of walking the walk, is that nonlinear nothing time. Absolutely.

I am just so aware of when I do take that time. Thank I'm away from work and just go move my body, whether it's for a walk or a run or playing tennis or whatever it is, the creative fire does get bigger.

Yeah. And the inspiration comes through, you know, when you're like, oh, my gosh, it's so incredible to really honor that.

So thank you for sharing that. What would you say to some newer therapists, younger? Let's talk about younger therapists, new into pelvic health.

And how would you want to what would you want to share with them to help them create their own clinical mastery?

Yeah, I would say focus on hands on skills, like really develop your hands. These things, you know, I think that the hands are like a secret to being a really good healer where and it takes practice.

Again, you don't start there. So some of you might have natural abilities, but everyone can develop it. And I like.

Osteopathic type courses, cranial, sacral, myofascial, any type of work that really works with your hands and teaches you how to sense with your hands.

I think oftentimes, especially because like in physical therapy, for example, it's a it's a hard thing, training to get through.

There's a lot of mental learning and studying. And so we can get pretty cerebral and try to figure out what's wrong.

So if we can come more into the felt sense with the hands and the body, and that means also taking care of your body, you know, doing nourishing things for the body.

Putting lotions on getting rest, like make sure you take care of your body, but then, you know, working with the hands to become your sensors, because it's it's really powerful to do hands on work in the pelvis.

And I think that was that was something my mentor, MJ Straw Hall, taught me, who was a real powerhouse in the pelvic field.

She was one who early on said, I think hands on work is important. And I remember thinking, what is that even, you know, to do hands on work in that?

I mean, I was as a PT, I had. And so really I did develop my hands and worked a lot with fascia, which I think is the secret sauce and so helpful.

I think women's health, I think everyone needs bodywork and the fascia is really the secret part of our women's health.

And we really, there's so much we can do in women's health because there is so much that hasn't been done.

So I would say work on, you know, your hands and your bodywork techniques and then just dive in. Wild Feminine is a great resource if you're someone working in the pelvic field.

There's so much that I've written in there that's even just about our own bodies because I didn't feel like I'd been taught about the power in my body.

I'd been more taught about what things are wrong when they go wrong instead of the beauty, the power, and the spirit that is there, which is why I wrote something about it.

And I think one of my biggest takeaways are all how moments when I was reading that book, Tammy was just kind of understanding my own awareness of like, how I think about women, how I.

I about feminine, like you asking those questions, like everybody listening. And if you haven't read it, Wild Feminine is more than a book.

It's a workbook. It is a, it is, you can go as deep as you want, or you can stay as shallow as you want.

It's up to you. But Tammy really gives you the opportunities to explore and to figure out like, yeah, what does that mean to me?

Like, I had never ever thought about that. Like, what does being a woman mean to me? What does being feminine mean to me?

And, and I just think that like, there are so many gems in, in all your works, but there's so much coding that we don't realize.

I think that we encode and a lot of it is negative that we don't realize. And I think that was a surprising thing for me as I put my hands on the female body is I'm a sensitive and I can feel energy.

And so I would feel all this beauty and power. But then when I would talk with the women, myself included in this, they would kind of have such a limited view of their own body.

It might be anatomic. But also there was a lot of negative language around menstruation around, you know, how they presented.

And I realized we saw it almost more as either a thing, something to birth babies or a problem. Whereas it's so much richer than that.

I mean, the pelvic bowl is a dynamically potent creative space that actually gives us information about our lives, how to, you know, work in our lives in ways that are powerful, creative, it can give us medicine to things that have happened to us.

There's so much chi. You think, you we create humans there. We download humans. So there's so much chi just for living.

So I really learned that that part of the body could be accessed for information. It could be a guide and gauge.

It could be a beautiful. So I started using different language, know, talked about the pelvic bowl and the root and the wild feminine and mirrored more of the poetry and the power that I saw in that space.

So yeah, some people feel like that book also has a, almost like an aliveness to it, like a tarot card.

And they'll ask it a question and open it. I mean, that book really has its own energy, so I would encourage women to read it just so you understand how beautiful and powerful you are.

Right. I mean, I remember getting done with that book, Tammy, and there was so much excitement inside of me, like it awoke that this power that I, you know, don't even think I knew I had.

And I was just like, holy cow, this is incredible. I know. And that's just it is every one of us has it.

So it's not a scarcity. It's not over here. It's not something you have to earn. It's there. And it's really something that maybe through that, my hope was that I would teach each person more how to access it because that is our birthright.

Yes. And oh, my goodness, we need every single woman in this world to be accessing that. Absolutely. Yeah, because we are going to be the change in the world.

You know, the medicine, we are the medicine. And I. think it has medicine for us. It certainly changed my life.

know, accessing that changed my access to my own creativity, my own guidance, my own truth, my own measure of how to be in my own center.

You know, it's just, there's so much there. Oh my gosh, there is you guys. And if you have not explored the wild, I mean, all three of your books are incredible, Tammy.

And I know we're, we're focusing on wild feminine, but wild mothering has its own amazing information as well on us stepping into this role of motherhood and, and the impact and the, the energy of the birth.

And that is what we're going to be discovering and discussing more in the birth healing summit this year. So, um, Tammy's, uh, theme or her title for her talk is birth energy as medicine, healing, pelvic restoration, and reclaiming your power.

So Tammy, do you want to talk a little bit more about what people can expect in our session together?

Sure. I, I like to go into the places where. We haven't maybe fully accessed our medicine, our feminine medicine.

So in Wild Feminine, it's really the medicine of the body. In Wild Mothering, I call that book a love letter to mothers.

It's not a call to do more or be more. It's really an opening of the medicine that we download in our bodies.

And I have a special passion for births that don't go as planned, that may feel traumatic or off, because that's the foundation where sometimes women or a mother, or if we're caring for a mother, will feel like she did something wrong or she's off.

And I want every mother to feel the power in the birth and the power of the medicine of the download of that child.

And that is something that is accessible regardless of the birth. Now, in an undisturbed birth, it's often kind of there and flowing.

There's like an imprint that feeds that mother and child. And so we know what that looks like. And because of the energetic tools and things I work with, I learned a lot about how to work with that pattern when it didn't go as planned or it got a bit interrupted.

And so I work with the birth energy. As a blueprint to restore the flow to every mother, and I've worked a lot with birth trauma, and so I work with providers that work with women and also with women themselves and write about that in Wild Mothers.

I'll be sharing some of that, just how we can access the medicine in the birth field even to repair birth trauma and then have it be a support because it's meant to be a support for that mother and her child for their whole lives.

And I use it even still with my grown sons now, as children are like in their late 20s, they more and more take their own field, but still it can be so helpful.

We are the source point as a mother and we can help resource mothers to access that. So it's a big passion of mine to set that in a way that feels empowering to every woman.

Yeah, and for those of you that have not given birth yourself to a child, the same work can be done for us in our own birth coming into.

And Tammy, know I've shared this on another podcast or another summit interview or anything, but I will never forget one of, I think it was your second course that I took live and I was born breech.

I was born feet first. And I repatterned that birth in that course, Tammy. And I feel like I connected into the universe of universes.

Yes. I mean, it was so expansive and so beyond anything that I've ever experienced. And that was from my own physical birth.

So people listening in, and if you're thinking about joining the summit and you're not a mother, please don't think that Tammy's session is not for you because it truly is.

And there's that impact of how we came into the birth into the world. It really does impact how we show up.

It does. And that information is in wild creative. If anybody is curious about that. potrzeb at numbers. But yes, there's three kind of distinct bodies of work.

And of course, we all download. And the other thing I have passion for, which may resonate with some, is we're supposed to have a tribe of mothers.

So even one mother is not enough, but also not everyone has a mother who's kind of encouraging or supportive.

And so this work also in doing that download and the birth energy, which I'll do a snippet of when we talk together, is also powerful for really repatterning your relationship with the great mother so that you feel cherished and loved.

And held and supported in whatever way. So there's so much medicine in these energy fields that we can tap into.

Oh, gosh. And so Tammy and I kind of have an idea of what's going to happen. So Tammy and I will be together.

It'll be a 90-minute session live. And whoever shows up on the call with us during that time, there's a potential.

We're going to go with the flow of the feminine and spirit as Tammy and I work together. And we may do a one-on-one session.

Tammy may do a session with someone. In the audience, and so it's a potential for you to experience Tammy's work with her one-on-one, potentially.

We'll see how, right? I love doing live work, though. It's so fun. It is. And just, you know, if you're like, oh, well, why would I want to listen to someone else having a session with Tammy?

Because so many of you may resonate with exactly what's coming up in that person's session with Tammy. So there's group healing that can happen when you just observe.

And everybody, like, to be able to observe Tammy, her mastery just comes through in that group live work. So there's going to be one lucky individual that might be able to get to work with Tammy, and the rest of us are going to benefit from just really observing Tammy's mastery at work.

So, yeah, I think when we observe, too, we get to really see the potency in the field. You know, I think, again, it's hard to find this.

Thank Western culture because we are so head-based and also we don't tend to have collective rituals anymore. think we had more understanding of this when we were in a collective space and we saw the way that healers worked with people and there was this impact that rippled out, but it's pretty powerful and, you know, it's, I mean, power in understanding the power of the field and the ways that we are connected and the ways that we can learn from each other.

So I hope that I can share some things that we'll be able to take away and feel hope and possibility.

And, you know, I know it's a shaky time, so we need all the medicine. Yes. Yes, we do. Oh, my goodness.

Tammy, I'm beyond thrilled that you've said yes to being a part of this birth healing summit because I know the power and the beauty that you're going to bring and share with us all.

So thank you. Is there anything else that you would like to share before we say goodbye here about clinical mastery?

I think the only thing I would say is know that you are a divine and sacred being and part of mastery.

Mastery, sometimes that word brings us into our head, but I would say bring it down into your heart. And let it just unload your sessions, right?

Absolutely. Yeah. Yeah. As the work that we're doing with all the speakers, and I just love how it's all going to unfold, but it truly is about coming within and connecting in with that beauty and that love that we have for ourself and being able to shine that and share that with the clients that come to work with us.

Absolutely. Yeah. Awesome. Oh, this has been amazing. Thank you, Tammy, so much for your time, and we will look forward to seeing you.

You are going to be on Sunday, May 3rd, when we do our session. So, everybody, look forward Yes, I work out of my house now.

All right, everybody. Thanks so much for listening in, and we will see you all in the next episode. Take care, everybody.

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