Happy hips - freedom for your Psoas

If the hips or lower back feel stiff, tight or painful in postures, the chances are that you habitually support yourself with a holding pattern of the psoas and/or illio-psoas muscles, and if you do that in an unbalanced way (if you are right- or left-footed), it leads to scoliotic holding patterns to compensate.

Knowing this does nothing to help you, because trying to 'open' or 'stretch' these muscles will simply cause them to resist your efforts. The problem is that they are being given the job of supporting you whatever you are doing (including trying to stretch them).

The solution is simple

Take the job of support away from them by giving yourself other ways of supporting yourself !

Working to support yourself differently will lead to an intense strengthening of muscles you probably don't even know you have (because they are currently not needed), but the good news is that this 'other way' can become effortless, because the muscles I am talking about naturally take part in both support and breathing (IF you are not holding yourself up with the hips and spine).

The Class:

The first part will give you the direct experience of what it actually feels like to let go of the Psoas family of muscles, and what follows will develop the support you need to replace it - support that relates to the breath and the ground beneath you, then we apply the same efforts in a posture or two to experience the difference in action.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNHcdz91A3g

Enjoy! If you would like to get some direct and personal support for whatever is going on for you, you can book a FREE 15 min consultation with me at www.acquaviva.yoga/book